#stage manager problems

[mandatorywhimsy]

I’ve never worked on a show that used a projector where the projector worked the way it was supposed to 100% of the time all the way though the run. Those bastards always cause trouble.

#theatre #stage manager problems

[dad-cahoon]

the moment I start referring to asking if I can leave rehearsal early to work on things for the show at home as "asking for the day off" you know I should be getting paid

#theatre kid #im insane #theatre #theatre kid problems #stage manager #stage manager problems

[mbrainspaz]

I used to be the starry eyed 21 year old millennial who bragged about having a 50's work ethic and a strict moral code and loving my job and working unpaid overtime and skipping lunch and surviving on pickle sandwiches because I couldn't afford meat that week.

I've become the 31 year old jaded manager (making the same pay as I did when I was 21) who tells the high schooler employees to "go ahead and leave work an hour early, who cares? Yeah I'll clock you out at 8pm don't worry about it. Have fun at the house party. Don't drink and drive. I'm gonna quit early too and go have a pickle sandwich."

#millennial problems #millennial manager #go ahead and have fun with it #there's no reward for working hard #pickle sandwich #hustle culture #late stage capitalism #corporate american hellscape

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

ASM: How many technicians does it take to put together a stage floor? One, because there is one functioning drill in the entire theatre!

#we have the same problem except with the socket bit specifically so strike becomes one person undoing pretty much all the bolts on set #and one person undoing one bolt on set with a hand wrench and swearing #submission #theater tech #theater #theatre #behind the scenes #techblr #stage management #smblr

[georgies-ftts]

Doing sound within theatre is really just a game of:

“How illegal can I make it without being sent to prison for an uncountable amount of copyright infringements?”

#theatre #theatre tech #technical theatre #sound tech #stage manager #sound #lighting #production #theatre problems #sound design #live theatre

[akkivee]

it is time. stage bat time 😌:

hirono ryouta

hirONO RYOUTA

HIRONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RYOUTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that’s it that’s the post lmao /j

i’ve btched plenty about kuukou’s writing in the stage but had hirono-san not been at the helm i highly doubt i would have cared for stage bat as much as i do lmao

i’ve fairly recently talked about how he defined the way kuukou moves in auxiliary media and how it brought to life how i envisioned he moved but it bears repeating hirono-san gave me everything and more lmao

like i still think about kuukou stalking up on some guy in track 3, twirling his mic and actually using it as a bludgeoning weapon with utter glee lol he’s so violent 💜

i love love love the feedback loop that quietly goes on behind the scenes with kuukou’s actors lmao

hirono-san mentioned in their cross talk that hayama-san’s 5th live performance was a frame of reference for the kuukou audition iirc, hayama-san a few years later during the 9th live imitated the way hirono-san used to bow as kuukou after nurusara’s division rep battle, and the bat actors took the bat seiyuu’s very cute 9th live blunder, missing their cue to introduce themselves in sync, and owned bat’s chaos by introducing themselves with their individual quirks in their rep live lol

lol during that cross talk, hirono-san mentioned he was endlessly amused by kuukou being tied up and angrily trying to talk in bat’s first drama track and i’m very happy he got to live it for himself after being tied up by dohifu in bat vs mtr lmao

still cracks me up dohifu had their very gay my home duet and kuukou literally went ‘REALLY???? IN FRONT OF MY SALAD?????’ lmao

i’ve been trying my hardest to talk around stage kuukou’s writing but personal bangers despite are!!!!!

him trying to fight jakurai and when the man passed out without kuukou even doing anything he went, ‘bruh🧍‍♂️’!!!!!!!! him getting in hifumi’s face after being called out for his shitty attitude!!!!! him playing the bad guy to bring hitoya and jakurai together!!!!!!

kuukou: *points* HITOYA!!!!!!

kuukou: *points again* JYOOSH!!!!!!

i wish i was normal about bat’s rep live lol like while we may suspect that performance was borne out of his looming graduation, hirono-san snapped off that last remaining chain of sanity and went crazy lol

i think about him butting heads and screaming at kenta-san, one of the ddb guys who is probably the only one who could match that energy lmao, the roaring growing in frequency until he held up his jacket, nagoya side out, and yelling, ‘NAGOYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!’ until he blacked out on stage all the time 😭😭😭

other moments from the rep live i think about lol is that skit where hitoya totally scams kuukou and jyushi lmao but when hitoya told them the statue they ‘broke’ cost like 1000000¥ or some outrageous amount, kuukou started retching and that’s so relatable LOL

and that moment during the host club invasion where he walks in and goes ‘sup btches it’s been a while 😈’ and proceeds to destroy fragrance LOL

and him stuffing like four marshmallows at once in his mouth, expecting to be able to continue being able to speak lmao

and him going so hard his rings flew off and an unplanned mini encore happened as he tried to look for them LOL

saw a report that they were going stoopid one day during their rep live run the crowd was unwilling to let them go so hirono-san convinced the producers to let them do another encore on top of the several they already had 😭😭😭

and can you believe the hype never stopped even when bat wasn’t the focal point lol i heard that man at one point needed to be dragged off the stage during bop2023 bc he staunchly said they’d have to dim the lights on him for him to stop😭😭😭😭

there’s so so many bop2023 moments i think about like his redux rock paper scissors game, or him lifting up sasara only to drop him a second later lmao, him bullying stage posse LOL, the way they let him bring the hype whenever music lulled

and ofc the nb duet lol if the stage doesn’t want to do much by way of ichiro and kuukou’s relationship, thank fck hirono-san was there to carry lmao

crying over that one day when neither ichiro nor kuukou could catch their shared coke bottle to save their lives and kept laughing at each other while performing 😭😭😭😭😭

thank you hirono-san for establishing into stage canon kuukou dropped his bandana at ichiro’s feet after their breakup and that ichiro still has kuukou’s red bandana somewhere. it may not stick but that’s such an amazing take on that bandana’s whereabouts

daigo-san’s jyushi is so BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

THE top line i always think about is him joyfully walking into hitoya’s office in bat’s rep live and going, ‘hitoya-san!!!!! i’ve come to play!!!!! 😃😃😃’

previously that had been me crying anytime i thought about him skipping into hitoya’s office in track 3, cheerfully calling for him only to switch mid sentence into vkei mode once he noticed hitoya has guests lmao

his kuukou impersonation is legendary no joke lmao

AND SO IS ANY MOMENT WHERE HE PICKS KUUKOU UP LONG CAT STYLE SHOUT OUT TO BOP2023 SPECIFICALLY WHEN HE SWUNG HIM AROUND A LITTLE BIT TOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

that’s the second most bat moment i think about lol

i like how sometimes daigo-san’s default jyushi expression is the equivalent of this lol

another top moment i think about is him yelling how much he loves kuukou and hitoya during bop2023 😭��😭

especially when you think about those early days of bat???? his first stage role ever was track 3 and he talked about learning the ropes from ruito-san, late night train rides with hirono-san after rehearsals and sharing his insecurities, bonding with them both despite the two of them being shy and UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

like I COULD CRY about daigo-san incessantly commenting under hirono-san’s posts after track 3 and finally hirono-san went, ‘bro what gives???’ and daigo-san went, ‘i’m trying to be your friend lol’ 😭😭😭😭😭😭

all that bonding culminated to a point daigo-san can make fun hirono-san in his most trying hours lol (he lost a lot of money gambling LOL)

forever haunted by him commenting he and sakakihara-san had an in depth conversation about jyushi after track 3 and we never had them in the same room 😭😭😭😭

i also think about this one report i read where hitoya and kuukou were beefing as they usually do so he sat himself aside and lol when kuukou asked him why’s he sitting over there he responded, ‘well i didn’t want to get in the way of your flirting 😒’ LOL

jyushi being hitoya’s (current) number one fanboy is my canon lol so i’m happy he got a whole solo about hitoya lol

another top moment i think about is jyushi dramatically crying he’s going to die alone in shinjuku because he got separated from kuukou lmao

will forever and always be bitter the mtc rep live with bat as guests wasn’t available for stream so we missed kuukou bullying samatoki by repeating everything he said, kuukou and jyushi getting chased around by juto and rio while samatoki and hitoya waffled (and samatoki oogled hitoya’s body lmao) and jyushi got arrested by juto so he started crying for kuukou who came out asking what was wrong as he piggybacked rio LOL

idk if you can tell but i like stage jyushi lol he’s very funny

both hirono-san and daigo-san are so down bad for ruito-san it’s so funny but i don’t blame them LIKE HAVE YOU SEEN HIM LOL

it’s so funny to see it bleed into their kuukou and jyushi like we ain’t ever getting over them essentially grinding up on him during one of bat’s songs in track 3 LOL

ruito-san is too peak for hitoya frfr lol ain’t no way we’ll get another hitoya who can do synchronised backflips with kuukou 😭😭😭😭😭😭

i almost forgot lol hirono-san commented that after track 3, he got stuck calling himself ‘sessou,’ kuukou’s personal pronoun lol, and similarly, ruito-san has a hard time not touching his chin like hitoya does LOL

stage hitoya is fascinating, simply bc of how much more adjusted he is than canon hitoya lol

like i cannot stress enough how the best morally grey hitoya was written when he scammed kuukou and jyushi into doing good deeds and favours for him lmao

since he’s so well adjusted, some of his and kuukou’s heart to heart changed in execution, but it was neat seeing him call out kuukou for assuming people can be effortlessly strong like him, and have that thought come back when he’s facing jakurai

idk if i have a preference between the stage vs canon on how they resolved hitoya’s and sensei’s relationship but i still think the stage absolutely cooked lol

will always be crying over kuukou’s jakurai impersonation lol and how he revealed it by teasing hitoya for having a date but kuukou apparently got the details wrong so he confidently corrected him that they had gone out for strawberry milkshakes

and fanboy jyushi fell to his knees crying how cute that was, he gets it LOL

there’s this motion stage hitoya does in his courtroom solo i think, where he stands with perfect posture and tilts his arms that makes him look like a scale ⚖️ and it’s so good lol symbolism in DANCING

so more on hirono-san and daigo-san loving ruito-san lol i always think about them gassing up the role he landed in a drag production 😭😭😭 hirono-san didn’t want to miss it and daigo-san eloquently used 🔥🔥🔥 in his hype, amongst other borderline thirst tweet shenanigans LOL

was that their last interview together……….???? but that video of them painting walls together where ruito spills paint all over hirono-san, daigo-san gently caresses paint onto ruito-san’s face, and hirono-san crushes daigo-san’s balls truly lives rent free i’m going to miss the three of them as bat so much 😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💔😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜

#vee queued to fill the void #BUT THERES STILL SO MUCH I WANT TO TALK ABOUT #KUUKOU AND JYUSHI PLAY CATCH WITH MARSHMALLOWS WITH THEIR MOUTHS #HITOYA (RUITO-SAN LOL) EXHAUSTED FROM THEIR REP LIVE RUN AND BEING PULLED AND GOADED BY HIS TEAM #DAIGO-SAN SHOWING OFF RUITO-SANS LIKE 1% BODY FAT ACHIEVEMENT WHILE HIRONO-SAN WAS ABSOLUTELY GOING BALLISTIC IN THE BG #THE THREE OF THEM PLAYING DARTS ON DAIGO-SANS WEB SHOW #THEY DIDNT DO IT TO EACH OTHER BUT HIRONO-SAN AND DAIGO-SAN GETTING THEIR NAILS DONE #I CAN KEEP GOING I DONT WANT THEM TO GO DONT TAKE THEIR BAT AWAY FROM ME 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i will say the new jyushi seems to have the vkei spirit bred within their very soul which is hype for him lol #what makes me nervous ig is the new kuukou based on the new encounter mv moves practically like hirono-san #technically that’s good lol i’ll appreciate visages of hirono-san as i sit thru kuukou’s stage interpretation lmao #but what else is he bringing to the table???? just that???? copycat hirono????? hm #i may not agree with management giving us cross talks before we’ve seen the actors do anything but it will help get a general vibe ig #(also here’s to hoping the vision with kuukou was long form character development rather than a more static character approach pls lol) #i also promise to learn their names by each cross talk lol i can’t continue being part of the problem lol #anyway i hope the length of this explains why it’s late lol

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Also went looking for something through my notes and remembered that Roxy's entire existence before Ruin was just a huge middle finger to Fazbear Ent. I should bring that energy back lmao she wasn't always trapped in a pit of MXES network flavoured angst.

#the specific note was about her being programmed for acoustic and drums #and management saying to the band 'yeah yeah just incorporate the new member into the set however the preprogramming should sort it' #and then she shows up with a fucking keytar she found in the basement and spray painted green. #being told to put it down and go back to her normal instruments shes SUPPOSED to have where did she even get that from #and she concedes like fine fine whatever #then rocks up on stage with it anyway and her debut show is a huge fucking hit for it #cause she quite literally stole the show with it #literally she fit into what the band was doing yeah but at some point when it came to her official intro #she just fucking went for it #all improv baby she had a blast out of spite!!! #literally steamrolled at least one entire song to fuck around and find out and everyone had to improvise around her #freddy offered backup vocals but literally sang 'i dont have an instrument' at some point #to kind of clue her in that he doesn't know what the fuck she's expecting #and she just 'well thats a shame not my problem' in perfect tune right back at him lmao #then carried on like it never happened!! #freddy chica and monty wanted to fucking throttle her for this. the FUCK is she doing?! #but they expected management to do it enough for all of them... then they just didn't. #she got a slap on the wrist because the audience had loved it #like a very half-assed lecture and she very clearly didn't care #and they're so fucking mad about it dndnkd #that was the notes! roxy is an asshole and gets away with it! and when she doesn't it doesn't stop her anyway! #and it drives the others nuts for ages! #for good reason of course #but yeah that's that lmao

[dykefaggotry]

lots of talk rn about how fucked up the US education system is rn (like "8th graders not knowing the first 7 letters of the alphabet regardless of income/ability" fucked up) w lots of reasons given like covid, lack of parent engagement, "kids these days being lazy", etc. and while i definitely think at least the first two have impact on the situation

mostly i'm just like....... all of these things people are pointing out is problems that low SES teachers & students have been pointing out for decades. these are problems that students have been struggling with for decades in low SES schools. and now that it's applying to rich white kids too people are talking about it. but it has always been a fundamental flaw and issue in our schooling system. and the biggest issue here is, imo, that we are living in late stage capitalism & our school system was NOT built to handle a single thing going on rn. just like it wasn't built for lower-class students to thrive. the problem is now most households and schools are facing the same issues these lower SES households and schools have always faced.

but it's just a little wild bc for years the concerns and problems that teachers and students in lower SES schools have brought up have been routinely ignored and brushed aside and these students just got pushed along and the schools kept getting less funding and no one bothered to try and fix it so now we have a crisis bc it's happening everywhere

#like unfortunately this is what happens when you have large class sizes to a single teacher #when you lack funding #when you stop teaching phonics and only rely on teaching kids sight words #when you do not offer enough parental education and support/after school programs #when you rely on 'no child left behind' and do not bother to catch students up and just push them to the next grade #when no one stops and catches learning deficits early so now you have middle/hs teachers having to teach basics they were not trained to #when you do not pay teachers enough and overwork them and also do not train them on diversity or classroom management #and these are aaaall problems that have been present for decades now. but covid and late stage capitalism have made them everyone's problem #so it's harder to ignore now

[wabblebees]

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#have been attempting to make a self-tape for this audition for DAYS #after a whole helluva lotta bullshit having to do with hunting down a time+space+camera to film with i Finally managed to get some takes #then some weird bullshit with the camera's sd card happened where i wasnt able to pull the files off onto my laptop #FINALLY able to copy the files to my laptop. FINALLY able to access playback (the video camera i borrowed wouldnt let me access its gallery #FINALLY watching them... they all kinda suck so far but thats Fine at least i Have Them yk #get to take 7 and its actually not nearly as terrible as the previous 6!! feelin pretty good abt this one!! dont get hopes too high ofc but #i mean hey this ones acceptable if the last few arent any good either & just in case i cant go thru with my plans for tmrw to do a reshoot #so yk i start to rename the file so i can tell which clip it is! #Whole Laptop Crashes #WAHOO #typed this up to avoid freakin out while carefully rebooting her. bbg dont do this to me #luckily i already saved multiple contingency copies just in case (bc ive already had so many issues i was feelin Extra Cautious) #so i at least dont have to worry about dealing with the sd card bullshit Again. ugh #EDITING TO SAY: SHE LIVES!! laptop is fine after powering back up & files are unscathed!! was able to retitle & keep on truckin no problem #god i hate dealing with video as a medium #*this* is why im a stage performer not a screen actor lmao #fuck this shit. juust gimme a floor and an audience and ill make it worrk #cameras are fickle creatures on-par with printer machines #im rly excitednervous abt this audition tho; only submitted my resume+headshot on a whim & didnt rly think anything would come of it #but they contacted me and asked for a tape!! so im like !!!!! okayy sure id love to send that !!! i just have to face The Horrors first #if i dont get it then thats not the end of the world or anyth; but itd be SO FUCKING COOL if my v first submission landed me my first gig!! #so uhh. pls put out a good thought to the universe for my self-tape landing me the chance to perform in this queer play festival !! #bee speaks #🤞🤞🤞

[timelord-of-the-moon]

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#okay so this may look like a vent post but its not everything is fune #fine #well actually ive been working 65 hour work weeks the past few weeks and have another one coming up so not realy but im well adjusted #but anyways #my actors on my current show are hilarious #the show is lehman trilogy which is a 3 hour long show about capitalism that makes no points and is very pretentious #anyways this would have been a terrible experience if my actors werent so fucking great to be around #and also i had to actually take over the assistant stage manager position of this show from someone #and she was kind of a brat when she was teaching me stuff and didnt tell me everything so #anyways #this is kind of vulgar but one of my actors is sick and the others were like asking him what he can and cant do #and hes like i cant have sex and idk how they got to this but he was like but i do still have myself from time to time #as in masterb*tion #that started this whole thing where they keep on saying having myself / have yourself #and its the fucking funnest goddamn thing to me honestly #i aint never heard someone reffer to masterb*tion as having yourself #during our intermissions they kept on saying lines from the show but chaging things to having youself #like one line is now if you'll excuse me i must take my leave #now if you'll excuse me I'll go have myself #and i have this problem where when im alone i say a lot of things under my breath and i keep on saying varations of phrase with have youself #it's an earworm honestly i cant stop thinking about it #so fucking funny to me

[barbieaiden]

scene built now all that's left to do is spend 5 more days posing rendering and editing

#it's a little dark again i'll fix it sometime lmao #oh also haven't added specular maps to everything that needs it but i'll figure it out as i go i think that works better for me #i somehow managed to break my dialogue into only 10 parts in my notes but. i seriously doubt i'll fit it on 10 images #for some reason i thought that i had 18 images worth of dialogue #which i do not #i think i'm mixing it up with my 1000 word argument. which is future me's problem #but that's a pretty pivotal moment so i think it's actually fine if it's a bit longer and maybe i can figure out #some visually nice way to fit more dialogue into each image until then #we're still at the setting up the story stage so i feel like it's not really necessary to have so so many renders and so so much dialogue #maybe

[icedteaandoldlace]

Where's that post that's like "when an au isn't canon compliant, but it doesn't contradict canon either, so it's canon compatible"? Because it didn't make a lick of sense the first time I saw it ("anything that doesn't directly contradict canon is canon compliant???") but HOOOOOOOOO BOY I get it now!!

#writer problems #writer the opposite of problems #I've done something very very fun #because it's NOT canon compliant #not really #but it also doesn't exactly contradict canon #y'know *Obi Wan voice* from a ~certain point of view~ #vague post is vague #this fic is in the pre-edits simmering stage right now but I don't think it'll need too much work #the ones I manage to write this fast seldom do #YKMASMFS

[dad-cahoon]

me, holding up the pile of garbage I picked up from the auditorium: I'm going to commit a crime

M: ok

M: as long as I don't see it, it didn't happen

#my friends are insane #theatre kid #im insane #incorrect quotes #irl conversation #theatre kid problems #theatre #stage manager #stage manager problems

[bread-and-roses-too]

sorry I haven't been on top of sharing news about what's going on in Palestine I've been going through a lot personally (I'm ok my brain is just full)

#I'm back in college and also in the late stages of getting a court hearing for SSI #I'm also working with OVR and insurance to try to secure a better wheelchair #both my OVR agent and SSI lawyer are frighteningly incompetent so I have to pick up a lot of slack for them too #and pretty soon I'm going to have a case worker which will be awesome /gen #but it also means I have another person to manage #and on top of it I've been having increased autism symptoms and GI problems that I've been trying to see people for #it's a lot

[beck-a-la]

First day of prep at a new (to me but long-established, Equity) theater. Lunch in the staff kitchen.

20-something Carpenter: Oh hey, you’re new, what do you do here?

Me: I’m the stage manager for *show*

Carp: Oh cool. Are you Equity?

Me: Uh, yeah? (Subtext: why would I not be Equity, this is an Equity theater…)

Carp: Cool. Do you have an ASM on this one?

Me: Yeah? (Subtext: why would I not have an ASM, there’s an ASM on every show here…)

Carp: Well that’s good then.

There’s a certain type of young theater person who tries to make smalltalk in a way that makes them seem like they know what they’re talking about, but actually just makes it really obvious that they don’t know what they’re talking about. And I find that *particularly* obnoxious.

#bex is a stage manager #stage managers #sm problems

[missewoodhouse]

I’ve got to say, the whole “let’s just send the new guy to appease the strange whims of the wealthy Hungarian count in the mountains” thing we’ve got going on in Dracula here gives off really similar energy to the “oh, we just pay the murderer in the theatre’s basement a monthly retainer not to murder us” thing in Phantom of the Opera.

Is this solution OSHA approved? No. But will it get the problem off my desk in the short term? Probably.

And Jonathan ‘there-are-lots-of-red-flags-here-but-I-guess-that’s-all-just-part-of-being-a-newly-minted-solicitor’ ‘I-enthusiastically-scoped-out-a-definitely-haunted-mansion-for-the-real-estate-client’ Harker would absolutely cut a check to the Phantom if his boss told him that’s the way that things are done.

#safety third! #if you couldn’t already tell that Stoker was a theatre person #if you can’t throw money at the problem just throw your underlings as cannon fodder #or maybe that should be the other way around? #dracula daily #shakespearean / stage manager reading dracula