The person that holds together all of the production elements of theatre work is the stage manager. This is the person responsible for the form and discipline of rehearsal and performance, for maintaining working script, cue sheets and daily records. They are also responsible for the supervision of the technical and artistic aspects of production. In this book, an experienced stage manager discusses his craft from the standpoint of technical nuts and bolts information and insights drawn from his career in Broadway, Regional and Summer Stock. Various chapters discuss pre-production, the rehearsal period, technical rehearsals and mounting the show, maintaining a show, as well as offering detailed guidelines on how to get work. The text is supported by sample documents, diagrams, and charts showing the relationship of the stage manager to others in the theatrical chain of command.
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Thomas Kelly has been a professional stage manager for more than thirty years, calling shows on Broadway and at Lincoln Center, at the Lyric Opera in Chicago and at the Houston Grand Opera, at the New York City and Milwaukee ballets, and at major media and cultural events around the country. He is the General/Production Manager for Center Line Studios, a production services company, and teaches stage management at Rutgers University. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
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The best book on stage management ever written.,
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This review is from: The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management: Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
I am an AEA stage manager and I teach stage management at two colleges. Kelly's stage management book is the only one I will use. Over the years I have purchased, and have been sent perusal copies of other books and none of them are even in the same league. If you want a geat resource book on stage management forget all others and buy this one. I'm so greatful it is back in print with a second edition.
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Very thorough!!,
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This review is from: The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management: Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
An excellent book for anyone interested in stage management. Very thorough from pre-production, to rehearsals, to strike, to finding jobs long after. Good intermediate/advanced level, not necessarily for someone totally new to theatre work.
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don't leave home without it,
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This review is from: The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management: Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
From the minute I picked this book up it has become my "bible". Chock full of helpful tips and funny stories of the author's experiences as a stage manager. Not overly technical - with lots of helpful forms to smooth the way for a production (and the stage manager's nerves)! Have it with you through every show - before, during, after. Bravo! Encore!
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Defining exactly what a stage manager does is difficult because the definition must include so many tasks and responsibilities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first paid public performance, cueing script, production electrician, page curtain, rehearsal props, dry tech, production carpenter, good stage manager, tech week, scene breakdown, rehearsal hours, technical rehearsals, cue sheets, fly floor, cue light, prop list, fight director, running crew, production stage manager, first preview, assistant stage manager Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lincoln Center, Sugar Babies, Tubular Bell, High Spike, Piano Pallet, The Merchant of Venice, Low Spike, Equity Association, Theatrical Index, Tommy Tune, Train Platform, Dustin Hoffman, I-Beam Trolley, Mirror Stairs New!
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Defining exactly what a stage manager does is difficult because the definition must include so many tasks and responsibilities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first paid public performance, cueing script, production electrician, page curtain, rehearsal props, dry tech, production carpenter, good stage manager, tech week, scene breakdown, rehearsal hours, technical rehearsals, cue sheets, fly floor, cue light, prop list, fight director, running crew, production stage manager, first preview, assistant stage manager Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lincoln Center, Sugar Babies, Tubular Bell, High Spike, Piano Pallet, The Merchant of Venice, Low Spike, Equity Association, Theatrical Index, Tommy Tune, Train Platform, Dustin Hoffman, I-Beam Trolley, Mirror Stairs New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on page 139, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Merchant of Venice (Saddleback Classics) by Emily Hutchinson on page 139, and Back Matter
- The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare on page 139, and Back Matter
- Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart in Back Matter
- The Technique of Acting by Stella Adler in Back Matter
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- Essentials of Stage Management by Peter Maccoy in Back Matter
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