Perfect Stage Crew: The Complete Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
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Here is a must-have book for anyone producing a stage show without a Broadway-sized budget. Written by a technical theater veteran, The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most commonยand the most complexยstage performance problems, even for theaters with a lack of resources. An invaluable guide for middle and high school theaters, college theaters, and community theaters, The Perfect Stage Crew teaches readers how to: Stock, organize, and store the essential backstage supplies Conceptualize, design, and build sets Manage a stage crew effectively Paint scenery and backdrops Test, design, and hang lighting Operate and repair sound equipment Set cues Promote your show This expanded second edition covers up-to-date technology, including for use with recording, sound, and lighting. Chapters also cover such crucial topics as running technical rehearsals, gathering props, and creating and selling tickets. Theater groups that need to learn the nuts and bolts of putting a show together will discover how to turn backstage workers into The Perfect Stage Crew . Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers. Review: Great resource - Highly recommend Review: Amazing information and direction - I really like the author's writing style and honesty. It makes me feel I can grasp the concepts and achieve what I am looking for as I read the book. The information and direction seems genuine and sounds about like what we experience! Very good book and really points out things I would have only figured out through trial and error!
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 64 Reviews |
C**S
Great resource
Highly recommend
N**D
Amazing information and direction
I really like the author's writing style and honesty. It makes me feel I can grasp the concepts and achieve what I am looking for as I read the book. The information and direction seems genuine and sounds about like what we experience! Very good book and really points out things I would have only figured out through trial and error!
E**H
High School stage managers must read this book!
As a band director that will be managing the Stage Crew for our brand new high school auditorium, I have started reading a lot of tech books on the subject. This book is by far, the best I've read up until now. First, if you work with kids you will be nodding your head all the way through book as the author very accurately (and humorously) describes situations we encounter with teens (or other teachers, or administrators, or architects, etc. etc. etc.). This is not an academic that is describing situations the plebes will encounter in their future career - this is a guy that's in the trenches every single day and knows that we have to be able to do things efficiently, effectively, safely, and our "employees" are humans that have be managed very differently than adults. Second, if you have lived in this world for awhile but haven't actually been on the non-performing side of the headset, this book will give you the confidence to take the plunge. You may have heard all of the terminology and have a layman's familiarity with the equipment, but the author explains in a clear step-by-step manner exactly what equipment you may encounter and how to maintain and operate it. Most importantly, he assumes you will be walking into a complete mess and tells you how to organize for long term operation and diagnose problems. Admittedly, I skipped all set building chapters because they do not apply to me. But the Lighting, Audio, and Rigging chapters were excellent. I'm still a little nervous about the rigging, but I'm pretty confident I won't kill anyone with the lights or audio.
M**M
Good overview
Book provides a good overview and introduction to theater elements. It wasn't quite what I was looking for in my case, but a good resource none-the-less that I will keep and reference either way.
D**Y
Great book for community theatre
Tremendous book. Tons of great information.
A**R
Good source for learning the basics
Good book for taking this amateur to the next level.
N**N
Tech Theatre advise.
Loaded with practical advise with a good dose of humor. Highly recommend!
C**C
My wife loves it !
A gift for my wife who is advid reader! She loves romantic mystery and historical novels.
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