Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night & Beyond - Paperback

by Peter Lawrence (Author)

Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence's comprehensive and definitive Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night and Beyond.

With this book, Tony Award-winning Peter Lawrence has turned his decades of experience on Broadway into a thoroughly modern approach to the art and business of production stage managing and successfully pursuing a stage manager's career.

Written for a wide range of readers from the beginning stage manager with high school or college experience to the professional assistant stage manager already working in commercial theatre Production Stage Management for Broadway is, at its heart, an invaluable map of how to get from the beginning through the end of a production.

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Filled with industry-savvy advice, Production Stage Management clearly details everything the seasoned professional, the young professional looking to amp up his or her skills, or the wet-behind-the-ears trainee needs to know, including

Who's who on a stage production and how they all interact

Getting the job

The pre-production period, including pre-rehearsal duties and responsibilities

Production meetings from early conceptualizing through rehearsals and previews

Choosing and organizing a stage management team

Handling rehearsals

Running technical rehearsals

Organizing your calling scripts

Managing previews

Planning for opening night and the critics

Structuring the running of an ongoing show

Indispensable Charts and Graph templates and examples include:

Production calendar

Musical pit layout

PSM's casting notes format

Daily rehearsal report

Wardrobe breakdown

Prop list

Tech table layout

Ideal layout of the PSM's calling desk

Cues to begin dry tech

Dry tech goals

Tech rehearsal goals

Musical calling script

Dance calling script

Daily performance report

Weekly stage manager's report

Weekly schedule

Cast history forms

Commercial shoot schedule