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Uploaded Forms / Re: Dance Notation and Cue Sheets

« on: Jul 25, 2015, 10:08 am »

I just created this Dance Notation form for "Comedy of Errors" here at Shake&Co, because our Choreographer didn't have an Assistant and he was creating most things in the room with feedback from the director. I wanted our Dance Captain, PSM and LD to have common language, so I created this template and then edited it according to the counts of the dance and whether or not there were lyrics. You can see how I handled multiple tracks in both examples, and how I used lyrics not counts for Whitney Houston.

Let me know your thoughts/questions!

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Employment / Re: "...interviewing locals only..."?!

« on: Sep 10, 2014, 02:54 pm »

Thank you all for the advice! I ended up writing a very gracious thank you note, and next time I'll consider incorporating some of your clever tactics. I am also on the hunt for a new home to relocate to (Houston? Seattle? Denver?), while making the best use of my network to find work thats more local and accessible.

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Employment / Re: "...interviewing locals only..."?!

« on: Sep 08, 2014, 04:13 pm »

Thanks. I suppose I knew all that, but had hoped that we had managed as an industry to overcome that old exclusivity.

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Employment / "...interviewing locals only..."?!

« on: Sep 08, 2014, 02:53 pm »

Hi All,

I recently applied for a season-long gig with a ballet company on the West Coast and worked really hard on the application. I knew this company would get a lot of applications, as I had applied last year, so I made sure to send my materials on the same day they posted the job.

I just heard back that due to the number of applicants, they are only interviewing locals.   What's most upsetting about this to me is that they did not include this little detail in the job posting. I did make sure to include in my cover letter that I'd be willing to relocate to their town ASAP and that I had sufficient resources to do so.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? How did you respond? Unfortunately, I was trying to use this job as an opportunity to gain experience in ballet, so I can't exactly send them an exhaustive list of how well-suited I am to the job due to prior experience.

Would love some advice if anyone has some to spare.
~Norah

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Job Postings / Non-Eq SM for Hudson Theatre Works, NJ

« on: Mar 06, 2014, 10:50 am »

Hudson Theatre Works is looking for non-equity stage manager for production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Equity Theatre (special appearance contract)

Weehawken, NJ
Rehearsals start April 14
Run dates May 9 thru May 24
Compensation $500
Evening and Weekend rehearsals

Contact - Frank Licato, Artistic Director
frank@franklicato.com
hudsontheatreworks.org

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Self-Promotion / The Recommendation: Extended to 10/7 - Flea Theatre, NYC

« on: Sep 14, 2013, 11:54 am »

Now Extended Due to Critical Acclaim through October 8!
http://www.theflea.org/show_detail.php?page_type=0&page_id=3&show_id=138

Current SM: Jackie Filer from North Carolina School of the Arts
I'll be SM'ing the extension, hooray!

It’s an excellent evening. First-rate acting and a powerful, complicated script. It’s good to see a play so specifically about something, and done so well. -A.R. Gurney

Aaron Feldman is popular and connected. He is everything his best friend Iskinder Iudoku is not, but when Feldman gets pulled over for a broken taillight, he is introduced to a world where privilege means nothing and Iskinder has the advantage. A play about friendship, class and where loyalty has its limits.

The 2012 production at The Old Globe in San Diego won the Craig Noel Outstanding New Play Award.

Featuring The Bats:
Barron Bass, James Fouhey, Alex J. Gould, Donaldo Prescod, Orlando Rivera, and Austin Trow.
Written by Jonathan Caren
Directed by Kel Haney
Set Design Caite Hevner Kemp
Lighting Design Nick Solyom
Costume Design Sydney Maresca
Sound Design Elisheba Ittoop
Fight Director Mark Olsen

Hope to see you there!
Norah Scheinman
www.norahjanescheinman.com

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Desperately Seeking Advice

« on: Jun 24, 2009, 01:13 am »

Although that sounds like a pretty hellish situation - DON'T LOSE HOPE.

I stepped into a stage management position at my college my freshman year and had no real mentoring except for the stage management manuals that I found on Amazon. They had never had a stage manager who attended to anything more than making sure that people arrived and just barely covered the backstage with a stage hand or two. Now I'm doing summer stock at Santa Fe Opera and going to grad school at Rutgers in the fall.

Definitely learn your own blocking notation technique if you want to move towards a major. You don't have to change everything, but you should definitely create the culture at your school of the SM being at rehearsals (even if you get an ASM). Building should not be your problem - it should be your technical directors/carps problem. If you get notes about it, pass it off immediately, you clearly have bigger things to worry about.

You didn't go into many details so I don't know what else to say, but feel free to PM me and we can continue this conversation.

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Employment / Re: Moving for a Career

« on: May 26, 2009, 06:43 pm »

The craziest thing I've ever read has been Santa Fe Opera's Housing Procedure: "You must move in {to their leased apartments} only the day before the date stated on your contract"

There was no way in hell I was moving to Santa Fe from Connecticut one day before I started work, so I smoozed up to the housing manager and managed to get approval for moving over a few days early instead.

Has anyone had to fulfill a crazy obligation like that?

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Rutgers - facilities?

« on: May 10, 2009, 07:14 pm »

I just got accepted to Rutgers and accepted their offer - we might be classmates!

Anyway, I went to Rutgers and interviewed with Carol Thompson and got a tour of their facilities. They have a ginormous personal stock (they don't rent, everything their students make they save), a flexible black box space, a permanent procenium, a SM student office (with computer, fridge, large table and shelves), a great costume shop, a decent metal and wood shop. If you have some specific questions, please PM me, because otherwise I'll just ramble...

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Holiday SM Gifts

« on: Jan 02, 2009, 02:58 pm »

I got 4 set models!  One of them was the original and signed set model of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  I was so happy I cried!