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Tools of the Trade / Re: Stinky Booth
« on: Sep 04, 2010, 02:40 am »
Sorry to hear about your cat problem. It took me right back to the days when I was boarded for Summer Stock at a local resident's house who had 8 cats and all of them used every surface as their litter box....thankfully my room was exempt from that as it had a door.

Are you in an open air booth right near the audience or are you closed off? If you're in the open, it's harder to recommend any cover up solutions because some people have nasty reactions to scents that are that saturated.

However, if you're closed off, To cover the odor in the immediate: I would suggest an air wick fan (the tiny ones you plug into an outlet that use scented oils). They can sort of cover up the smell of cat urine. Any Oust spray product should work out ok too, however you can still sometimes smell the cat pee through the cover ups making a nauseating ocean breeze smelling cat pee...But you could certainly do much worse than those two products. 

To Eliminate: I use Nature's Miracle (Advanced Just for Cats) for everything our cats do (hairballs, puke, pee etc etc) and with two cats in our tiny one bedroom apartment, you can't smell them at all except when you stand in front of their litter box. Has a lighter smell than most cleaning supplies I've used, and so long as you can find the spot the cat has decided to use as its bathroom, you should be able to eliminate the smell eventually. It's not exactly the fastest working solution, but I've had cats for my entire life and the fact that this works at all, is a wonder. You can get it at most pet supply stores and a 24oz bottle is about $12. (Here's the link to it at Petsmart: http://tinyurl.com/2vco5nl)

The elimination is obviously much easier if the booth isn't carpeted....just as simple as making sure you get into the cracks of the tile or hardwood floor. If you are carpeted, make sure you let the spray penetrate deep enough before you try to wipe it clean. Good luck!

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The Green Room / Re: SM Joke
« on: Sep 04, 2010, 02:01 am »
My fiance bought me this poster that I have framed among some of my show postcards because it's just so damned outlandishly amusing:

Stage Manager's Prayer
God Grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change
The Courage to change
the things that I can
And the Wisdom to
hide the bodies of those actors I had to kill
because they pissed me off.

Here's the link to cafe press where you can get the poster if you so desire:http://www.cafepress.com/+stage_managers_prayer_large_framed_print,86540789

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The Green Room / Re: Best one-liner from a performance report
« on: Sep 04, 2010, 01:54 am »
From performance Report of farce....that didn't go so well one night:

"Audience was declared dead at 8:37pm EST. House Management is still trying to contact next of kin."

Also from a performance report:

"The audience was very warm today.... not in the "kind reception" way, but in the "Miami in the middle of July" way.


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Tools of the Trade / Re: Useful iPhone apps?
« on: Aug 25, 2010, 12:09 am »
One of the most useful Time related apps I've found is Time Calculator. For those of you who may not use a stop watch and go by the analog time on your computer or watch, simply subtract your end time from your start time and voila: Instant Run Time. Yes, not entirely necessary if you use a stop watch, but nice tool for the alternative SM time keeper.

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I remember when I first moved to New York everyone asked me if I was using Stage Management to vault myself into directing, or if I was a career SM...

...It wasn't until then that I actually realized how much of the job actually revolves around directing. Hard to get to that part with a 14 performance Summer stock gig where the director never leaves town, or in college.

But to the topic at hand: I can safely say I have never been able to focus 100% on any performance of any show. Each show has at least one sequence of cues that requires my attention to go to the book and not to the stage.

The shows where I had just lights up and lights down cues at the beginning and end of the acts, I was focused for that brief moment of running the board/calling the cue to make the cue happen correctly. 

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