THEA 3561 Notes
THEA 3561 Notes
THEA 3561 Notes
meetings w/ team
auditions
read script
conflicts
sched/cal
tool kit
rehearsal
blocking
communicate needs
scheduling
maintain breaks
reports
tech
call sheet
notes
cueing
props presets
scene shifts
costume change plot
previews
foh coord
timing/calling
extra rehearsal
fight/int/lift calls
performances
running/maintaining
understudies
Hierarchy
Production SM (mostly for bigger productions)
Stage Manager(s) (multiple if big production)
Assistant SM(s) (typically one on a play, two on a musical, might have up to 3 for
large chaotic productions) (in charge of Everything backstage)
Production Assistant (could do anything an ASM does, just depends on where
hands are needed)
Interns
Production Manager
- budgets
- hiring (sm) - your direct supervisor
- designers (sometimes), crew (aja)
- scheduling
- setup auditions
- book the space
- copyright information
- hypothetically does everything if your company is teeny tiny
Technical Director
- shops (scenic, costumes, props)
- designers
- safety
Company Manager
- marketing
- hospitality
- housing
- company referring to actor people company not business company
- transportation
- luggage
- box office/foh
- payroll/contracts
General Manager
- hiring (creative team)
- budgets
- scripts (securing/costs)
- operations (venue, electricity, security, etc)
call board items
- daily sign-in
- updates to schedule + added rehearsals
- show schedule
- emergency contact info (+ production team)
- equity rules
- general notes (changes list, set your clocks back, memorization, clothing,
etc)
- rehearsal itinerary
- name of production
- dramaturgy resources
- safety policies
- mental/physical resources
- anonymous comment box?
- fun aspects: dumb holiday of the day, specific tactile element related to
production, quote of the day, etc
pre-production
- read the script
- challenges/concerns
- research
- history
- show
- venue/space info
- sm team - assemble
- contact info
- distribution list
- meetings/intel
- director
- producer
- paperwork templates
- rehearsal schedule
- production calendar
- cover sheet
- script (printing?)
- reports template
- prompt book/blocking
- props list (asm)
- costume change sheet (asm)
- character/scene breakdown
- script breakdown
rehearsal calendar
- cast
- sm team
- creative team
- off book
- weekly rehearsal blocks
- fittings (esp groups or before rehearsal starts)
- tech/dress
- publicity
- designer runs
- performance run
props list
- what props needed
- tracking
- quantity
- source
- consumable
- character(s)
- notes
- rehearsal/actual version
- organize by props or scene
contact sheet
- contact/communicate
- name
- phone number
- email
- role
- pronouns
- equity
prompt book
- single sided
- script could change, blocking could change- need it on separate
pages so you can replace easier
- cut corners so you grab the next blocking page instead of a blank
page when you flip
- when things are really solidified, tape stuff together
- increase margins
- photocopying (run two copies so you have a clean one)
- digital scans
- re-type it
- put page breaks at ends of pages so if you add lines, it creates
a whole new page in between
- lines
- blocking box/diagrams
- page number
- show title
- notes section
rehearsals
- reh schedule
- daily/weekly
- run the room
- pacing
- tracking time
- run times
- breaks
- communication
- tech reports
- call board (notes + schedule)
- fittings
- schedule needs (spacing, sitzprobe)
- note taking
- props
- blocking
- attendance
- scene changes
- costume tracking
- lighting changes
- sound cues
- script changes
- safety
- injury reports
- trainings
- covid protocols
first day
- meet n greet
- team introductions
- design presentations
- protocols/rules/expectations
- read-through/script handout
- cast deputy voting
table work
- familiarity with the script
- overall theme/vision
- getting on the same page
- why this play now?
- character development
- superobjectives
- plot points
- questions?
blocking/staging
- traffic/movement
- blocking notes!
- props tracking/how used
- costume tracking
- entrance/exit plot
intimacy coordination is not to make the room a safe space- you cannot make a
room a completely safe space for everyone and that’s okay
fries - consent
freely given
reversible
informed
enthusiastic
specific
prod meetings
- require a conversation
- if it can be an email, make it an email
- multi-department elements
- big ticket items/reminders
- budget
- schedules
- pressing decisions/answers
tech
- adjustments for actors (reh -> theatre)
- groundplan- taped out -> actual set
- safety walkthrough
- props
- costumes
- volume/mics
- time/schedule
- lights
- adjust blocking
- glow tape
- plan out backstage
- everything needs a place
- prop tables
- costume storage
- set pieces
- where do actors stand
- cue lights + running lights
- sm positions
- revise paperwork for tech elements
- physical elements
- train crew
- cues
- preshow/setup
- write cues in prompt script/learn to call the show
- buttons -> sq, lx, proj, auto
- scene shifts
- people -> cue lights
- rail cues -> curtains, anything that flies
- delegate to asms
- you’re in the sky!! can’t move that chair anymore!
- manage the needs of Everybody
- communicating to whoever needs to know whatever
tech rehearsals
- dry tech
- cue to cue
- tech rehearsal
- quick change rehearsal
- dress rehearsal
- invited dress rehearsal
- sitzprobe
- wandelprobe
- spacing rehearsal
introductions
- name
- job/title/studying
- area of specialty/why you are studying what you are studying
- why you are here
- objective/goal for being here