| About the Authors |
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| Prologue |
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| ``Welcome to the Theater'' |
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| What You Can Expect from This Resource |
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| ACT ONE: PLAY SELECTION |
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``Magic to Do'' Understanding Your Role as Director |
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``One Brick at a Time'' How to Get Started |
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Proposed Organizational Structure for Theater Directors |
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A Director's Checklist of Responsibilities |
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Operators, Crews, and Volunteers |
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Checklist to Help You Determine Where Best to Present Your Play |
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Checklist for Assessing Your Situation |
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``Open a New Window'' Other Options |
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Checklist for Selecting a Children's Play |
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Stage Manager's Checklist for Touring Productions |
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Stage Manager's Checklist for Loading a Touring Production |
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Checklist for Study Guides |
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``Something Sort of Grandish'' How to Select the Right Play |
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Checklist for Selecting a Play |
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| ACT TWO: PRE-PRODUCTION CONSIDERATIONS |
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``A Puzzlement'' How to Unravel a Play's Meaning |
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So What Is My Play All About? |
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Modified French Scenes for the Play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
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``Putting It Together'' How to Lay Out a Rehearsal Schedule |
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Rehearsal for The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Layout for a Typical Rehearsal Schedule |
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``Pick-a-little; Talk-a-little'' How to Work With a Set Designer |
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Facts Your Set Designer Needs to Know |
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Your Impression of the Play or Musical You Are Directing |
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``Pretty Little Picture'' What You Need to Know About Stage Properties |
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Property List for Your Production |
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``Let the Sunshine In'' What You Need to Know About Stage Lighting |
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Inventory of Lighting Equipment |
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``The Sound of Music'' What You Need to Know About Sound and Special Effects |
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``Put on Your Sunday Clothes'' What You Need to Know About Costuming |
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``Put on a Happy Face'' What You Need to Know About Makeup |
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Director's Notes on Makeup |
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``A Little Brains, A Little Talent'' What Your Stage Manager Needs to Know |
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Stage Manager's Checklist During Rehearsals |
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Stage Manager's Checklist During Dress Rehearsals and Performances |
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``I Hope I Get It'' How to Conduct Auditions |
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Sample Audition Notice for The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Sample of Audition Scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Sample Audition Announcement |
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Layout Form for Callbacks |
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``Matchmaker, Matchmaker'' How to Make Intelligent Casting Decisions |
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Casting Decisions Checklist |
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| ACT THREE: REHEARSALS AND PERFORMANCES |
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``It's a Simple Little System'' How to Get the Most Out of Rehearsals |
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A Standard List of Rehearsal Expectations |
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A Standard Set of Warm-up Exercises |
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``Every Little Movement'' How to Stage, or Block, Your Play |
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Checklist for Blocking Your Play |
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``Happy to Make Your Acquaintance'' How to Help Actors Develop Characters |
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Understanding the Period of Your Play |
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``You've Got to Have Heart'' How to Work with Actors |
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``Agony'' How to Direct Period Plays |
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A Selected List of Standard Period Plays |
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``With a Little Bit of Luck'' How to Direct Your First Musical |
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A Suggested List of Musicals to Cut Your Teeth On |
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Where to Obtain the Rights for Musicals |
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``Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat'' How to Run a Smooth Production |
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| ACT FOUR: AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT |
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``Who Will Buy?'' What You Need to Know About Tickets |
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Checklist for What to Print on Tickets |
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``You've Got to Have a Gimmick'' What You Need to Know to Sell Your Production |
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Checklist for What to Print on Posters |
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Sample Poster-Into the Woods |
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Postcard Layout-Example 1 |
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Postcard Layout-Example 2 |
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``You've Got to Be Carefully Taught'' What You Need to Know About the Media |
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Checklist for Preparing a Press Release |
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``Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee'' What You Need to Know About Programs |
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Checklist for Program Copy |
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Sample Program Layout-Under Milkwood |
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Sample Program Layout-Deathtrap |
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Sample Program Layout-Ties that Bind |
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Sample Program Layout-We Bombed in New Haven |
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Sample Program Layout-A Winnie-The-Pooh Christmas Tail |
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Sample Program Layout (8 1/2'' x 14'')-Into the Woods (Outside) |
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Sample Program Layout (8 1/2'' x 14'')-Into the Woods (Inside) |
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``Bea-u-ti-ful People of Denver'' What You Need to Know About Audiences |
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| EPILOGUE: DIRECTORY |
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``Life on the Wicked Stage'' Acting/Directing Terms |
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251 | (4) |
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``Drop That Name'' Odd Names for Technical Things |
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255 | (6) |
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``There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This'' Theater Spaces |
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261 | (4) |
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``Perpetual Anticipation'' Stages of the Production Process |
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265 | (4) |
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``Try to Remember'' A List of Theatrical Forms |
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269 | (4) |
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``Let Me Entertain You'' A List of Contemporary Plays for Beginning Directors |
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273 | (4) |
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``Losing My Mind'' More Terms About Parts of Plays |
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277 | (2) |
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``The Little Things We Do Together'' Players in a Commercial Theater Organization |
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Players in a Commercial Theater Organization (chart) |
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``Who Can I Turn To?'' A Selected Reading List for Beginning Directors |
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