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th8rguykc
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Posted: 10/26/05 at 4:32pm

NOTES???? Backstage??? DURING a show?? Oh, dear-

I think we have found the root of the problem: the director!

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Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:25am

You mean other directors don't come backstage during the run and give notes? This director ALWAYS does. I thought it was normal. She is everywhere - in the dressing rooms, green room, backstage - pre-show and during intermission every night. Of course, I've never Stage managed for another director, so perhaps she is taking advantage of my inexperience.

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Posted: 10/31/05 at 3:05pm

Originally posted by k8tt

You mean other directors don't come backstage during the run and give notes? This director ALWAYS does. I thought it was normal. She is everywhere - in the dressing rooms, green room, backstage - pre-show and during intermission every night. Of course, I've never Stage managed for another director, so perhaps she is taking advantage of my inexperience.

Either that, or she's just pushy in general.

The show is YOURS after it opens. It should start being yours during tech week, but by long standing tradition, the SM is in charge from opening night on. When I direct, I tend to announce at the last rehearsal, "I now have no responsibilities here whatsoever." (Quoting Sam from A Few Good Men.)

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Posted: 10/31/05 at 3:13pm

Originally posted by Gaafa

I regard it as a courtesy to advise & ask the SM, as the director, before I attempt to go backstage during or before the show.

Much as in the case of a ship's captain. My understanding is, even a superior officer -- even an Admiral -- even the Commander in Chief -- requests "permission to come aboard" before boarding a ship. A matter of protocol. The SM won't refuse the director (although some probably should, and as an actor I've sometimes wished they had), but it's polite to ask.

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