Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night & Beyond - Softcover

Lawrence, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896762939 ISBN 13: 9780896762930

Publisher: Quite Specific Media Group, 2015

Synopsis

Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence s comprehensive and definitive Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night and Beyond.
With this book, Tony Award-winning Peter Lawrence has turned his decades of experience on Broadway into a thoroughly modern approach to the art and business of production stage managing and successfully pursuing a stage manager s career.
Written for a wide range of readers from the beginning stage manager with high school or college experience to the professional assistant stage manager already working in commercial theatre to seasoned Broadway professional Production Stage Management for Broadway is, at its heart, an invaluable map of how to get from the beginning through the end of a production.
Filled with industry-savvy advice, including: Who s who on a stage production and how they all interact; Getting the job; The pre-production period, including pre-rehearsal duties and responsibilities; Production meetings from early conceptualizing through rehearsals and previews: Choosing and organizing a stage management team: Handling rehearsals; Running technical rehearsals; Organizing your calling scripts; Managing previews; Planning for opening night and the critics Structuring the running of an ongoing show.
Plus, indispensable charts and graph templates and examples that include: Production calendar; Musical pit layout; PSM s casting notes format; Daily rehearsal report; Wardrobe breakdown; Prop list; Tech table layout; Ideal layout of the PSM s calling desk; Cues to begin dry tech; Musical calling script; Dance calling script; Daily performance report; Weekly stage manager s report; Weekly schedule

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From the Inside Flap:

Filled with industry-savvy advice, Production Stage Management clearly details everything the seasoned professional, the young professional looking to amp up his or her skills, or the wet-behind-the-ears trainee needs to know, including

Who's who on a stage production and how they all interact

Getting the job

The pre-production period, including pre-rehearsal duties and responsibilities

Production meetings from early conceptualizing through rehearsals and previews

Choosing and organizing a stage management team

Handling rehearsals

Running technical rehearsals

Organizing your calling scripts

Managing previews

Planning for opening night and the critics

Structuring the running of an ongoing show

Indispensable Charts and Graph templates and examples include:

Production calendar

Musical pit layout

PSM's casting notes format

Daily rehearsal report

Wardrobe breakdown

Prop list

Tech table layout

Ideal layout of the PSM's calling desk

Cues to begin dry tech

Dry tech goals

Tech rehearsal goals

Musical calling script

Dance calling script

Daily performance report

Weekly stage manager's report

Weekly schedule

Cast history forms

Commercial shoot schedule

About the Author:

Peter Lawrence is a stage manager with over 40 years of experience in the commercial theatre. Working as production stage manager, he originated over 25 Broadway productions, among them Spamalot, Hurlyburly, Sunset Boulevard, Shrek The Musical, and five new plays by Neil Simon. Production stage manager assignments have seen him working in dinner theatre, stock, regional theatres, Broadway, off-Broadway, and national tours. Lawrence has and continues to work with many of the great directors of our time including Mike Nichols, Gene Saks, James Lapine, Sam Mendes, Trevor Nunn, Joe Layton, John Doyle, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Michael Kidd, Jonathan Kent, and many more. Scenic designers Tony Walton, Santo Loquasto, John Napier, Tim Hatley, David Korins, Rob Howell, and Derek McLane, and lighting designers Tharon Musser, Ken Billington, Jennifer Tipton, Jules Fisher, Peggy Eisenhauer, Don Holder, Hugh Vanstone, and Andrew Bridge have all been part of the design teams of Lawrence s shows. He has also worked with costume designers Theoni V. Aldredge, Susan Hilferty, Tim Hatley, Anthony Powell, William Ivey Long, and Ann Roth, and with sound designers Otts Munderloh, Peter Hylenski, Acme Sound Partners, Abe Jacob, Scott Lehrer, Dan Moses Schreier, and Ken Travis.

Lawrence has managed shows for producers Cameron Mackintosh, Emanuel Azenberg, Fran and Barry Weissler, Kevin McCollum, Ariel Tepper Madover, Bill Haber, Bob Boyett, Robert Whitehead, Robert Fox, and many others. He is the first stage manager ever to have been honored by the Tony Awards and is a recipient of the Del Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stage Managers Association.

And when there s time, Peter Lawrence enjoys teaching and giving seminars in production stage management at drama departments around the country including Columbia University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii. He lives in New York City and has four children only one of whom has gone into the theatre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quite Specific Media Group
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0896762939
• ISBN 13: 9780896762930
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214