Our ballet company has it's own school, and once a year the school puts on two different performances in one day, and we only have the day before to tech 29 different pieces.
For my SM staff that have been working with me during the regular season and know what paperwork is created for a resident ballet company show, the amount of paperwork for this school performance may seem gratuitous to them.
While the school director gives me her idea of how long each piece should be teched and when we need to have warm-up classes, etc, as well as the casting (which can be as long as an 18 page word document - without columns) I have to rebuild this information into a format that other people can understand.
Once I create a character/scene breakdown for 293 students, I may never reference it again, but it has helped point out quick change issues between pieces - and it helped the school director figure out how to re-order the program to prevent lagging. I also create a Quick Ref document that lists every piece, in order, with a running time down the side, that lists the basics of each piece (number of bodies per sex - for dressing rooms, what costumes are used, what the hair and makeup design is, backdrop, spotlight use, special lighting requests, etc). I don't create this kind of paperwork for any other show, but making it is a necessity to get everyone on the same page - and if I didn't, I wouldn't know the show as well.
There are several other bits of paperwork once made for the school show, that may never be referenced again, but help my team learn the show before we ever get our 8 hours in theater, as there is no chance for a do-over when you only get 1 tech per piece, 1 dress and 1 performance.