Updates, requests, time/date/location and attendance are just a few things that need to be included.
What goes in a rehearsal report?
True/False: There is only one correct way for a stage manager to take blocking, note cues, and organize their promptbook.
What is false?
Joining Actor's Equity (3 ways).
What is working a equity contract?
What is a sister union?
What is open access?
An off-stage cast member who covers multiple roles in a show.
What is a full swing?
In chapter 3, Maccoy makes a list of 7 things to track in a technical analysis.
What is setting, characters, costumes, furniture and props, lighting, sound, and special effects?
2 ways to help actors learn lines.
What are line notes and prompting (being on book) actors?
4 essential items that should be in the first aid kit.
What are bandaids, ice packs, gauze, various ointments?
I'm officially hired according to AEA.
What is signing the contract (both Actor/SM & Producer)?
A partial swing is a cast member who performs nightly in the show as well as covering some other tracks they do not usually perform.
What is true?
The three types of ethical frameworks (from the Ethics reading).
What is utilitarianism, ethics of care, and servant leadership?
Running transitions and other technical elements without the actors present.
What is a dry tech?
True/False: During production meetings the expectation is for folks to take their own notes for review.
What is false? The SM will take and distribute notes for the team.
According to Equity, the actors have clocked into work.
What is signing the sign in sheet?
The stage manager had to give notes to actors because *list 4*.
What are changes to blocking, lines, pacing, and character changes (that impact the director's vision)?
In chapter 5, Maccoy lists things to keep in mind when assigning dressing rooms. List at least 4.
What are dressing room assignment factors?
Meeting with the design team and clarifying any questions about cues prior to tech rehearsals.
What is a paper tech?
True/False: During auditions the SM should keep an eye out for possible understudies.
What is false?
An audition required by the union for AEA members for principal and featured roles in a season.
What is a Equity Principal Audition?
Before opening house, I need to check that these 4 things are completed.
What is a final stage check, auditorium check, lighting check, and presets?
In our Ethics reading, the chapter lists 6 types of ethical dilemmas.
What is identity, safety, confidentiality, language, incivility, and intimacy?
List 4 topics you'll need to discuss with your director prior to rehearsals starting.
What are crucial topics to cover with the director?
This person must sign the union contract first for it to be valid.
What is the producer?
True/False: Equity requires a 1 hr break after 5 hours of work, unless it's a straight 6.
What is true?
These 4 things are common duties of an ASM.
What is updating the run sheet, supervising transitions, tracking props/costumes, and prompting actors?
In chapter 2, Maccoy states the 4 phases a production must go through.
What is forming, storming, norming, and performance?