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Stage Management: Other / first time SMing ballet
« on: May 22, 2012, 02:35 pm »
I got an email yesterday from a director I worked with four or five years ago looking for a replacement SM for a ballet that goes up next weekend! I have never SM'd ballet before and only ASM'd one Irish dance show several years ago (and did not call the show). What do I need to know about SMing ballet?
The director has sent me a scene list plus some links to the ballet on YouTube. I will be meeting him one night this week to pick up a CD of the music. Our first rehearsal is on Saturday, and we have rehearsals nightly until the first performance the following Friday.
I was sort of taking a break from SMing as I sort out my priorities and then suddenly this landed in my lap! They are even paying me more money for a week of work than I made in the entire three plus months SMing the extremely successful show at the community theatre I did earlier this year. In fact, the pay for this one week of ballet is more than a week of take-home pay at my "real" day job! I am really wanting this to go well, so throw any tips/pointers you have my way! In the mean time, I will go read old posts and see what I can find out that way.
The director has sent me a scene list plus some links to the ballet on YouTube. I will be meeting him one night this week to pick up a CD of the music. Our first rehearsal is on Saturday, and we have rehearsals nightly until the first performance the following Friday.
I was sort of taking a break from SMing as I sort out my priorities and then suddenly this landed in my lap! They are even paying me more money for a week of work than I made in the entire three plus months SMing the extremely successful show at the community theatre I did earlier this year. In fact, the pay for this one week of ballet is more than a week of take-home pay at my "real" day job! I am really wanting this to go well, so throw any tips/pointers you have my way! In the mean time, I will go read old posts and see what I can find out that way.