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Blue light on your face
You are not very sneaky
Put your phone away

Dishes in the sink
You ate/drank it, not me
I am not your maid

Spill soup in the fridge
Don't tell anyone, it sits
Guess who cleans it up.

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I am still young, with not a ton of experience, but I have a few:

-A show with 12 actors that spent most of the show naked (it was not erotic nudity).  There were a few moments where I did prop passes/held out costume pieces, and had to be extremely aware of my hands and where my eyes were trained.  It was a little awkward at times.  I was newly 18.  But at the time, I could officially say that I had seen more naked guys than all my friends combined.

-I got to "be" the trick arrow target on a production of Robin Hood.  ie- hit slam pads to push the arrows through the back of the target.  Creating theatre magic is fun.

-Same production, we had 3 days of archery practice, that ended with a tournament.

-On one show, I got to clean a large amount of toothpaste out of a diaphragm (the contraceptive) every day.
 

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I am totally a nodding dog.  I need to work o fixing that.

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The Green Room / Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« on: Mar 20, 2012, 03:43 am »
Are we still doing a video?  I would like to film some stuff.  I seriously thought about doing one myself before I saw this post.  I am also available to edit, should we find a place to post footage.

I have a few to add, I don't remember if someone has said any of these:

"Of course I have a key to that"

Them: Do you have any tape?
SM: You'll have to be more specific.

And similarly:
Them: Do you have any post-its?
SM: You'll have to be more specific

"Who wants to do the talkback?"

"That's a design choice"

"Are you doing alright?"

"Do you need a band-aid?"

"Do you need an ice pack?"

"Do you need a hug?"  (This one might be just me.  What can I say?  I'm a hugger)

"It's in my kit"

"That's 15 minutes, one five" "That's 30 minutes, three zero"

"Good two!"

"Can everyone please wash their own dishes?  I'm not a maid." (I've never actually said this, but have I ever wanted to)

"Did you check your pockets?"

"On it!"

"Can you please not stick your gum/ricola/cough drop to the wall?  Much appreciated"

"We're out of honey.  Again."

"While vitamin water is technically "water", I'd still prefer if you wouldn't drink it in costume."

"Noted."

"Copy that."

"If you don't know what it is/does, please don't touch it."

"We're out of mic tape"

"Can you please take your shirt off so I can check your mic?" 

"The goal here is to get you out of your clothes as fast as possible without injuring ourselves or the costumes"



...Apparently I have hit a dirty patch... Whoops.  Oh well, I have actually said those things.


Can I just say that I love this thread?

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Stage Managing for Disney
« on: Mar 06, 2012, 03:43 pm »
Hello all,

Let's get this out of the way: I'm a Disneyaholic.  I have been one my whole life. 

I was recently at Disneyland, and I saw the "booth" for Fantasmic, and I instantly thought "dream job!"

It seems as if there are not a ton of Disney fans on this forum, but I am interested to know: Has anyone worked for Disney (in theme park shows or otherwise)?  What was it like?  How did you get there?

I am so curious!

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The Green Room / Re: Favorite Playwright
« on: Mar 06, 2012, 03:27 pm »
I love Martin McDonagh.  I am a huge fan of his pitch black humor and the great characters he creates. 

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I am still learning the line.  It's more difficult for me in my current situation, as I am working quite a ways away from home in a small town, a lot of hanging out and doing things together socially occurs.  Most of the company lives on the mainland, which is a fairly expensive two hour ferry ride away.  Because of this, a lot of them stay here for the weekend.  Generally, if we are not hanging out together, I am at home on the couch watching movies and spending time on facebook. All day. By myself.

Normally, I completely get the "separating work and social life as much as possible" thing, which is something I practice at home.  But here, I think it's a different sort of situation.  I'm still young, and away from my friends and family for three months, so it's much harder to not be friends with the company.

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I ASMed a show with a walk on role a few years ago.  Basically from what I understood, people could win said role in local silent auctions.  We had about 10 of them over our two month run (10 in 2 months.  Guess who did the role at all the other performances.  If you guessed me, you would be right), ranging from a 10 year old boy to a 70 year old long time donor.

We asked them to wear black pants and shoes, and we had a top we would give them, with a hood, that was more or less one size fits all (the show was Robin Hood.  They were a peasant).  They arrived at the one hour call, and would get a quick walk through with one of the actors.  They were to enter, hand a wine goblet to the sheriff of Nottingham, exit, and then cross the stage carrying a platter less than a page later.  They would sit in the dressing room hallway until I came and got them, and showed them where to standby and wait for their actor companion, who would guide them through the part.  We would then have them change and take a seat in the house for act two.

It was a little silly, but many of the walk ons were super psyched about wearing a costume and "being in the show". Some even had a large entourage of family and friends cheering them on in the house.  It was cute.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: University of Alberta
« on: Jun 19, 2011, 12:33 am »
I'm seriously considering applying next year.

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Just as a few other people are saying, I'm not at all organized in real life, but extremely organized in the theatre. However, even though my room is a mess, I still know where everything is; it's just on my floor or under my bed, not in the drawers that I have for it.

Haha, That's totally me!  I am a mess outside the theatre when it comes to organizing my room and things like that.  However, I have my own system of knowing where everything is.

Though SMing has done things to my brain that surface in the real world: I am chronically early for everything (at least 20 minutes).  I definitely think of a red light as a standby and a green light as a go... I can't help it. When I painted my bedroom, I spiked all my furniture to ensure that it went back to precisely the right place.  I constantly check the time.  I always have a pen, a time-telling device and a flashlight on my person.

A couple of times, I have "just happened" to have things in my trunk that a normal person would not have: A T-square, a bulletin board, 2 sewing kits, an emergency shovel and broom, countless other things.  These things listed have come in handy in non-theatre situations.  How cool am I?

In other words, life imitates art in a big way in my life...

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Mentorship Program
« on: Dec 27, 2010, 03:36 pm »
This is a super cool idea.  I am game!  I would love to have someone I can e-mail any question I may have to.  Sometimes, I am not super comfortable asking questions to my professors.  Also, I am curious about differences between Canada and the US, as I am interested in working in the states someday.

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I have wanted to be a stage manager since I was in 10th grade.  I did a year long generalized apprenticeship at a professional company in my city for my first year out of high school before beginning post-secondary.  In this apprenticeship, students work in all departments, including: props, marketing, play development and stage management.  I wanted to be an SM going into the apprenticeship, and I had heard that most apprentices changed their minds during the season.  Not me, if anything, I am more committed to being an SM for the rest of my life.  I am now a second year university student and SMing a school tour.

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