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We are two aspiring British DSM'S, This blog will be everything and anything stage management. From rehearsal anecdotes, tech week victories to opening night disasters; we'll even try and give advice and knowledge of stage management.

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Only Tech Week has no END. Tech Week will always be here. There is no escape.

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You guys are opera singers. Your voices project even when you’re whispering.

Ray (stage manager) creatively telling us to shut up in the green room.

[mondays-off]

I said what I said

[jammy-badger]

Sidenote: i shouldnt have to say this but like? Dont ask us to ‘pop off and buy you a coffee’! The production is not all about you! We are not your workers! We are technicians!

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I said what I said

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Sometimes you gotta time lapse making your prompt. Try to make it interesting or smthn

[auditionwtf-blog]

and onstage in 3…2…1—OMG HOW WAS YOUR DATE LAST NIGHT?!!!

[yupthatexists]

Extreme Post-It Notes are a thing! GET ONE HERE: https://goo.gl/39mKxY

[angiefsutton]

Hey, techblr - this sounds like something you might find of interest. 

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Dude, where are the friggin’ tech specs of this stuff?! I wanna know if I can stick it on a hot light or not!

Not that I’d ever USE it on a hot light, because it seems superfluous, but I AM curious.

[weirdnessisgood]

[disposablebicycle]

Freelancing in technical theater means you’re on a lot of different email lists. People need a crew, they send out an email, you respond with your availability. Now, most people start these with things like “hey folks” or “hi everyone”. Neal is not most people.

His openers started off innocent enough.

Then, he started to push boundaries.

And as you can see, it has spiraled out of control since then.

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Tag yourselves. I’m the anteater in a suit who thinks he can pass.

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THEY JUST KEEP COMING

He’s even witty in real time.

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Neal is a hecking gift.

[sabertoothwalrus]

Neal needs to write white cards for cards against humanity

[thoughts-of-a-stagemanager]

How to be a good Audience member:

1. Show up ON TIME

2. Be seated at a maximum of 5 minutes before the show. (With your dang phones OFF)

3. Don’t play games on your phone during the show (I have actually seen this from the booth)

4. If the intermission is 15 minutes. Be back in your seat in 12

5. After the show LEAVE. Don’t stay seated in your seat talking for 15 minutes. Crew is waiting on you to clean up.

6. Thank your ushers and your crew.

7. Appreciate that for about every 1 person on stage there is about 3 or 4 back stage working on the production in one way or another. Even if they aren’t crew theres designers, production managers, Technical directors, Master electricians etc. To make the show you saw work beautifully and make it a positive experience

8. Be nice to the Theatre. Don’t leave trash behind (including your play bill) and don’t stick gum under the seats! 

9. Respect that other people are there to see the show too so don’t talk during the show!

10. Oh Yeah, you see that casual set of windows in the back of the theatre? That is the booth where the Stage Manager lives. We see everything. Every nose pick. Every time you start to fall asleep. We see you. We’re always watching.

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When you join a company and you honestly get on with everyone

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You know what I love.... confetti cannons during the opening.

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Fish cuffs! 🐟 #aliceinwonderland #ousod (at OU University Theatre)

[stagemanagerssaygo]

File under Satisfying Things to Watch.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

admittedly I don’t normally like modern shakespeare adaptations but once I went to see my cousin in a midsummer night’s dream and it opened with a high schooler saying “I don’t wanna read this play” so he sits down and eats an entire chipotle burrito on stage and then immediately falls asleep and the play begins but instead of the forest the faeries all hang out in a rainforest cafe TM and at one point in the middle of a scene the guy from the beginning just slowly drifts across the back of the stage on a skateboard, staring at all the characters as the events of the play transpire in the form of some sort of chipotle-induced coma lucid dream

[northisnotup]

THAT is EXACTLY what Shakespeare would have wanted

[relevantlyrambling]

I swear if this isn’t floating around on the internet I’m gonna cry

[cyanideending]

Oh buddy IT’S ABOUT TO BE. I am like, 98% sure this was my high school’s production and I’ve got photos and video clips like craaaazy…

Here are some fun additions… the Mechanicals were also based on the characters of The Breakfast Club (here I am below, eating an actual Captain Crunch and Pixie Stix sandwich on stage.)

…and the one on the longboard was actually our Puck - he rode it through the whole play in the background. Please note his “Forest Cafe” shirt… which we also had logos for on the cups.

…and we had both a flash mob at the end AND an interlude where myself and one of the other Fairies danced to “Sexy and I Know It” while we were cleaning up the tables at the cafe.

I will post more of this later. I have a DVD at my house and will endure cringing at myself to bring you some quality clips… there’s probably one of K eating the burrito before the start of the play, too.

@hullaballoons Here is more Ktown Lore for you 

@cupcakelirry 

[cyanideending]

Here ya go kids… all 2h20m. if you make it through the whole thing once, that’s probably more times than any of the cast watched this DVD. You can probably see why. Tbh if you watch this, I am sorry in advance.

Important notes:

- Chipotle burrito makes a cameo about 30 min in,

- the end has a flash mob and a “commercial” for the Forest Cafe, 

- unfortunately, the lunch scene where all the mechanicals whistle like the Breakfast Club got mostly cut for some reason?

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@vampireapologist in case you have any interest in reliving this… at the very least you can prove to any doubters that there was, in fact, a Chipotle burrito onstage.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I cannot even fully conceptualize, much less put into words, how wild this chain of events has been.

I have dozens of posts going around that have broken 50,000 notes, and plenty that have broken 100,000.

On every single one of these posts, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of comments and tags calling me a liar and the story fake, but none so much as this post.

This post was my most doubted of all.

And you came in………

with a Two and a Half Hour Long video.

I’ll never forget this.

We have a bond forged in fire and spirit now.

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Any news on a techblr meet up at USITT?

There will be one! @backstageleft​ and I will be there! 

4PM Thursday 3/15 at the Marlin Fountain right outside of the conference hall. 

Meet a bunch of us tech theatre nerds form the internet! Stand around! Be awkward! “Network”! Labor over what to do with your hands! It’s great!

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DAT TECHBLR MEET-UP DOH. 

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I sure as heck HOPE they are considering I’m the stage manager

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me realizing my experiences with sewing have been a lie this whole goddamn time: