Re: Director acting as Stage Manager?
I agree with the no headset for the director, if its somthing crucial, he can get a message to us. But if not, then he can sit and watch. [rant]Nothing is more distracting than when he is in the booth during a run through and asks you to change somthing, and says "I'll do it where is the slider for that light" and you explain to him, that on a Strand 300, you have to key in the channels and you cant just push it up so stop trying, and then somthing is said by the the SM and you miss what was said.[/rant]
So as for a director stage manager, I say bad idea. Our director watches each run through making notes, allways noting, that way he can hand me a list of things and he comes up to the booth and I fix them. He can't be making directors notes and watching the show as he throws props at actors before shoving them onstage. I think its a bad idea.
Nick
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