andrea johnson--stage management
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There’s No Business
Like Show Business
Like No Business
I know . . .
How to Put on a Play
My former life as a stage manager
Three Take-Aways
I. Have a VisionII. Choose the Right Team
III.Satisfy Your Stake Holders
Have a Vision . . . the Goodman is committed to producing both classic
and contemporary works, giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. . . . By dedicating itself to three
guiding principles—quality, diversity, and community—Goodman Theatre seeks to be the premier cultural organization in Chicago, providing productions and programs that make an essential contribution to the quality of life in our city.
Have a Vision The Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildly productive writer/director/performers who create:
•Theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry, and living-newspaper.•Non-illusory, interactive performance that conveys our experiences and ideas as directly and honestly as possible.•Immediate, unreproducable events at headslappingly affordable prices.
We embrace those unreached or unmoved by conventional theater-inspiring them to thought, feeling, and action.
Have a Vision
Choose a play
Romeo & Juliet Contemporary Piece
Musical
Improv
Situational Comedy
Develop Vision for the PlayClassic set in modern
times
Slapstick HumorPeriod Piece
Minimalist
Choose the Right Team
Pre-ProductionBefore auditions and rehearsal, the director works with designers, possibly
the music director & choreographer to develop the vision of the show.
Set Designer Lighting Designer
Pre-ProductionCostume Designer Wigs & Makeup Designer
Sound Designer
CastingWhat
Posting auditions
Hosting auditions
Call-backs
Final casting
Who
Director
Casting Director
Choreographer
Musical Director
Hopeful Actors
The right people for the part to build a good ensemble
Rehearsal
RehearsalWho?Director
Actors
Designers
Stage Managers
Voice Coach
Rehearsal Pianist
Musical Director
Fight & Dance Choreographers
What?
Read through & table work
Design Presentation
Blocking
Acting
Dancing
Singing
Mean While . . . Set is getting built
Props are getting found and/or made
Costumes are getting bought, rented, or sewn
Lights are getting planned, prepped, hung, and circuited
Sound is getting designed
And hopefully Tickets are getting sold!
And back at rehearsal . . . Director is asking for more . . .
Props are getting added . . .
Questions about how the set will work . . .
More Singing, Dancing, Blocking . . .
Actors learning lines . . .
Actors forgetting lines . . .
Actors are remembering their lines but getting them wrong . . .
There are notes about props, sound cues, lights, the way costumes work
Someone’s got to be tracking and communicating all of this, right?!?!
Technical Rehearsal“the costumes, the scenery, the make-up, the props . . . “
All elements come together at once for the first time on stage.
Technical Rehearsal
Dress Rehearsal
Confident no one will dieAnd Open . . .
Satisfy Stake Holders
Everyone!!
Satisfy Stake HoldersDirector
AudienceActors
ProducerDesigners
Technical People
People do theatre because they love it.It sure ain’t for the $$.
No Business Like Show Business
Except maybe software development?
I. Have a VisionII. Choose the Right Team
III.Satisfy Your Stake Holders
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