[rochem]

Personally, I don't like it. The SM and Director are two almost totally opposite positions. The director needs the freedom and space to be creative and work with the actors to make his vision appear on the stage. The SM needs to be taking care of everything that could interfere with this to allow the director to be able to do his job. Besides that, tech rehearsals and the run of the show could turn out very badly depending on which way he is leaning more towards. Unless he has a really good ASM, I personally wouldn't recommend it. But is there really much you can do about it? You may end up just having to live with it and make it work the best you can.