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Viva Mexico Stage Manager – 4th & 5th Night
Ok, ok, I forgot to Blog the last couple of nights. It’s all been quite hectic. Thursday night went, as the graph predicted, reasonably well. Last night went brilliant. Except for the stage curtain ripping at the end of the show (it’s now repaired thanks to a ladder, reel of cotton, some string and a…
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Viva Mexico Stage Manager – 3rd Night
Last night could have gone better. One of the stage-hands called in sick, so we had a replacement. Without any practice things just didn’t “gel” as well, so it was all a bit slow. Anyway, this is at least consistent with how performances should go. I refer you to my chart on the right. Monday…
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Viva Mexico Stage Manager – 2nd Night
Last night – the second show night – went well. Damn well. 100% well in fact. Not a sausage went wrong. Doubt it will last though – random issues tend to pop up, so getting away with such a perfect back-stage experience is unlikely to ask. Best of all, there was a ripple of applause…
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Viva Mexico Stage Manager – Opening Night
Wow. First night is over and it went… great. Well, for us backstage it did. The odd niggle here and there, but nothing major. I am very releaved. The performance looked good to me, but I am watching it from the wings. Everything just came together – the stage plans, the preparation, the rehearsing of…
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Viva Mexico Stage Manager – The Dress Rehearsal
If you’re up to date on my Blogs you’ll know that I volunteered to be Stage Manager for our next show – Viva Mexico – only a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t been a Stage Manager before. In fact I’ve never worked backstage before. So “being thrown in at the deep end” is a…