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Stage Management: Other / Re: What's the most unusual job you've had?
« on: Aug 04, 2006, 03:13 pm »
When I went to USITT a couple years back in one of the stage manager forum thingys we were talking about how things like weddings and funeral are starting to become bigger productions that could easily use a stage manager. The one thing i remember was a few of the comments that went around about SMing a wedding compared to a show. If you SM a show and something gets called wrong or doesnt go as it was rehearsed it get chalked up to the whole "well thats live theatre for you, we'll have it right next time, the audience probably didnt notice anyway." Now say the same thing happens at the calling of a wedding and the cue comes late or not according to rehearsal, you better believe you will probably have one angry mother of the bride screaming at you for messing it up, or in cases of a real screw up an angry bride as you just ruined the supposed best day of her life. But then how marriage is treated these days they'll have another chance to get it right with a different cast.
But ultimately if you look at all the skills it takes to be a stage manager you can easily adapt yourself into any type of manegerial role doing pretty much anything. Which is why one day we will all band together as one and take over the world.
But ultimately if you look at all the skills it takes to be a stage manager you can easily adapt yourself into any type of manegerial role doing pretty much anything. Which is why one day we will all band together as one and take over the world.