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Originally Posted by allthingstheatre
however if a board operator working for me had missed a lamp blowing while playing a game and left an actor in the dark when he could easily have filled in with another circuit, would certainly get a 'go' from me, permanently.
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All of the places that I work/have worked in college, in summer stock, and on work calls, even these sorts of things are at the discretion of the SM. The SM tells you when or when not fo fix something. Many places that I've been, it's the board op that has the craptastic view, and the SM who is staring out the window from the booth or looking right onstage and at a video monitor from an
FOH feed and sitting off stage left or right.
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Originally Posted by icewolf08
for live theatre the SM is the law. If the SM isn't doing his or her job then I would take it up with their supervisor, no questions asked. The SM is in charge of making sure the show happens the way the director and designers envisioned it and if they are not doing that then you have big problems.
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Exactly. The SM is the person that is in control. If the SM is not in control, dozens of things could go wrong. Say that there are a few critical cues in different departments that happen during a line messup on stage. If board ops were to fix the cues on their own, some might take the cue and some might not. This is a huge error. This is why the SM should correct all cues and not the board ops.