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I run a community children’s theatre. We normally do our shows in our HS mini-theatre and I always end up directing, running the lights and sound. It is very difficult because I have a hard time not watching the show with a director’s eye when I should be watching it with a stage manager/ tech director’s eye. We just finished our first production in the main theatre (High School Musical – cast of 50). The district required we used their technical director, but I ended up being the stage manager. It was still very hard to separate my director’s responsibility. In another thread someone asked how a SM should call a show. I decided to fall back on my TV roots. Instead of calling ready camera/take camera I called ready light/take light etc. seemed to work just fine. In a perfect world I would never SM or TD any show I was directing.