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Stage Manager: the Professional Experience-Refreshed takes the reader through all aspects of the craft of stage management in theatre, from prompt books and technology to relationships and people management. Using interviews with other professional stage managers, the author provides a practical, experience-based guide for students and aspiring professionals alike, offering an extensive discussion of what makes a good stage manager and working through the life of a production.
List of contents
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE ANATOMY OF A GOOD SM
3. The SM’s CHAIN OF COMMAND LIST – Profiles and Working Relationships
4. STAGE MANAGER FOR HIRE: Seeking Work, Getting the Job, Being Hired Again and Again
5. THE ELECTRONIC SM - Tools, Supplies, and Equipment
6. HARD COPY – Transitioning Into Electronic Files: Charts, Plots, Plans, Lists, Schedules, Signs, and Reports
7. PRPOFILES and WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
8. RUNNING EQUITY AUDITIONS
9. THE SM’s Pre-PRODUCITON TIME
10. REHEARSALS
11. THE REHEARSAL/BLOCKING SCRIPT
12. THE LAST DAYS of REHEARSALS
13. The CUE/CALLING/PROMPT SCRIPT
14. Moving Lights, Light Emitting Diodes, Lasers, Haze Makers, Scenic Projections,
and Automated Scenery
15. TECHNICAL REHEARSALS
16. THE OPENING PERFORMANCE (Opening Night)
17. RUN of the SHOW
18. THE TOURING SHOW
19. CLOSING THE SHOW
Glossary: The SM’s Working Vocabulary
About the author
Larry Fazio was born in Providence, Rhode Island and lives with his wife in Southern California. While serving in the United States Army, he trained as a motion-picture photographer. As fate would have it, he became part of the Department of the Army Entertainment—Special Services. While with this group, he was awarded the Army Oscar, the Irving Berlin Trophy, and the Gold Key Award—a three-year full scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse in California. On the merits of his grades there, he was then given another scholarship to attend California State University, Fullerton, to finish his bachelor’s degree, where he won the Best Director Award.
His first big break came with a musical production of Gone With the Wind as the second assistant stage manager. Since that time, he has worked professionally in theatre, managing star productions of musicals, dramas, comedies, and magic shows throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe. His purpose in writing this book is to bring to the student and beginning stage manager the world of professional stage managing as he worked it and experienced it.
