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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: ESCRIPTS: Post your requests for electronic scripts here!

« on: Jul 17, 2012, 01:14 am »

I am looking for Legally Blonde. Thanks!

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Self-Promotion / Re: Little Mermaid, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Legally Blonde

« on: Apr 25, 2012, 07:21 pm »

Sounds like a fun time. 

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Self-Promotion / Re: Little Mermaid, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Legally Blonde

« on: Apr 24, 2012, 06:29 pm »

Have fun with Legally Blonde, it's an undertaking.

Haha, how so?

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Self-Promotion / Little Mermaid, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Legally Blonde

« on: Apr 15, 2012, 11:51 am »

I'm starting an internship at the beginning of May with Theatre Under The Stars in Houston. On Mermaid and Blonde, I'm an ASM, and for Yankee Doodle (My first union show!) I'm a PA. I'm so excited! 

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The Green Room / Re: Things Stage Managers Say

« on: Jan 05, 2012, 08:54 pm »

"How broken is it? Like... 'hold please' broken?"

-Lion King LV ASM

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Tools of the Trade / The Motion Labs cue light system?

« on: Dec 20, 2011, 03:47 pm »

I've seen the same system used at Memphis, Mamma Mia, Lion King and Phantom of The Opera, but I can't find it on Motion Labs' website. I can find something like it in their "remotes" section, but it was a tabletop panel with switches across the top with a blue "master" button on the bottom... Where can I find this?

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: As a student, have you shadowed any SMs? Any cool stories?

« on: Dec 18, 2011, 05:04 pm »

I shadowed shows that were National Tours or sitting in Chicago. My parents were close to a PSM who got me a copy of the Vegas Phantom and the touring Dreamgirls scripts to refer to when attempting to recreate it.

Was it by chance Ray or JD?

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: As a student, have you shadowed any SMs? Any cool stories?

« on: Dec 15, 2011, 04:05 pm »

I don't really know if there were any cool stories but I'm always entertained at how often I'm told, "yeah... pretty boring... this is all we do" as they sit in their offices until places.

Haha, I know what you mean. So did you shadow in Vegas, or just used their calling script?

And an update, I'm going to Vegas tomorrow as soon as I finish my last midterm to shadow the Phantom SMs, Blue Man Group, and Lion King one last time before they close... sad :/

On tuesday I shadowed the SM of A Tuna Christmas...

And next week I'm going to meet the SM of Trans-Siberian Orchestra... I've got a busy week ahead of me!

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Backstage Calling Station/Console

« on: Dec 07, 2011, 07:41 am »

A clear-com panel with channel selection. (if you use clear-com)

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Tools of the Trade / Re: So our theatre is poor, but I'm trying to make a cue light system.

« on: Nov 27, 2011, 12:18 pm »

Some people on Reddit have recommended x10: http://www.smarthome.com/_/X10_USA/_/1yN/nav.aspx
I'm not sure how easy this would be to implement, since I'm not allowed to actually install anything into the theatre.

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Tools of the Trade / So our theatre is poor, but I'm trying to make a cue light system.

« on: Nov 27, 2011, 01:03 am »

So I ask my fellow SMs for advice: How do you think I could make an after-market cue light system? I'm thinking of using those remote controlled outlets along with a coloured nightlight plugged into them, but the distance between my booth and the stage is too far. What do you guys think?
Is there a cheap solution that I'm overlooking?

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College and Graduate Studies / Re: Grad schools with affiliates abroad

« on: Nov 16, 2011, 12:01 am »

Stephen F Austin University in Texas has a program with a theatre in London where they give them a student stage manager for 2 semesters.

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Self-Promotion / Shadowed the PSM of Memphis over the weekend....

« on: Nov 01, 2011, 10:16 pm »

It was really freaking awesome, and come to find out he hired the SMs at Lion King: LV and Phantom: LV who I'm friends with. It's interesting how my world keeps getting smaller as I shadow more stage managers.

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The Green Room / Re: One of those days.

« on: Nov 01, 2011, 10:03 pm »

Follow up: We had a full house every night and kicked some Zombie-Butt. (We did Night of The Living Dead)
I got a full 24 hours of a break, and today we started auditions for our production of Footloose!

(Edited for mild profanity ~T_G)

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The Green Room / Re: One of those days.

« on: Oct 30, 2011, 12:52 am »

Another good mantra that has gotten me through a bad day or two:

I love what I do
I have a job

I like that. I like that a lot. I may steal that I like it so much.