Seperate part of the concept but similar, I just spent around $500.00 for the cheapest picture fames I could get so as to remove from my overly large portfolio I no longer use and instead put some of them on the walls.
Guess I'm one step further in moving in, I have stuff hanging off the walls. None the less in my parents making their non-too frequent visits today, my step father in debate about what to do about the need for a entire wall of book shelves had a good observation. Do I really need that many books? This being a 30 year library in collection, perhaps stuff like the 1987 Central Door vendor catalog might not in my not using it in the past ten years be much to keep around still. This in addition to say the
stage manager script for the 1986 high school production of "Amadaus." Can't say especially in this thing that I have ever once gone back to it either by way of doing the show again wish for should I going back to it or in looking at the past again, any having a use for just what is my stage manager script in a highschool production over 20 years ago.
Some thinning out or at least making that stuff I might save become part of storage in another room might be a really valid observation on his part. This in addition to perhaps thinning the books out some.
The stage manager scripts along with scripts in general will be very limited to the stage manager in even a future production of the show. While you could pull cue placement out of it, each show is different and similar cues will quickly become evident even without the cue book.
What I would recommend with stage manager scripts is to save them at the theater itself. If anything, such notes in it - and all production notes as collected up by the stage manager inserted into it, will only be of use to a future production of the show at the same space. Should the stage manager wish, they would no doubt have later access to such a thing, but for the most part, as a reference, only this text at best will be of use to a future stage manager in the especially notes for the production at that theater and of use in getting a heads up in perhaps calling a cue sooner years later.
The stage manager scripts and all notes associated with the production, it's design drawings and all other details should if anything be saved at the theater itself. If your theater is a member of the Thespian Society, the historian should find as part of their duties, some corner of the basement space to catalog, compile and store such past and future productions in a library. It would tend to supplement the rest of their duties and make what they do more sustantial. Same with Theata Alpha Phi on the college level.
As would be nice, if I do go thru and weed out my books, amongst many books and just plain stuff I collected, perhaps a better end result for my stage manager's script on this show would be in donating it back to the school. While it would be quite the collection for the stage manager to save and book shelve the stage manager scripts over a period of years in perhaps a similar way to me tonight hanging a bunch of my show designs on the walls, a book shelf full of show notes is a shelf full of them that will be impressive but most normally something never used again by the stage manager.
The stage manager has no use for the script and notes after the show. Organize them up and compile script, design and even model into one final day of show presentation to the theater. Good work would often be saved and be available should the stage manager ever need them again. The theater on the other hand might have potential use for such a thing for reference only or at least if they don't save scrips to compile a number of them that's available to read notes or not. Consider 20 years or more of plays done, that's a lot of scripts. While I was the historian both in high school and college, I found my job fascinating by way of even simple records I now had in who did what all the way back to the 1930's. Fleshing out beyond a log book and origional blue print to the stage will have been even more interesting.
August 28th, 2006, 02:34 AM
Re: What to do with old scripts???
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