Wednesday, April 07, 2010
National Stage Management Awards (UK)
Scenography: "The Stage Management Association (UK) are looking for nominations for their annual awards. If you know (and I’m sure we all do) a plucky stage manager who needs fewer batteries than a Duracell Bunny to keep on going then nominate them today!"
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It's nice to see that the UK has a forum for awarding stage managers for their work. It is a perpetual bone of contention between myself and the American Theatre Wing that although the Tony Awards cover producers, directors, designers, performers and writers, it does not award the one set of people who really make the show happen every night. Often the responsibilities of a stage manager are so nebulous that there really isn't a good way of assessing their strength, though. So although the top stage manager in the UK doesn't win an Olivier, I am still encouraged that someone looks through the grey area of the SM's job and recognizes the best.
Well, I'm not sure how to approach this one. In a way I agreewith Brian that it is nice to see that somone is recognizing the efforts of a stage manager. And I can see how awards like the Tonys not having a category for PTM might rubsome the wrong way. But in my mind, in that area as Brian said that makes the show run every night, or in the area of shops building shows how can you judge that? At all? Wow that show was built really well, or that cue or crisis was handled spectacularly. All of these situations are too different. I'm not saying that that work isn't Important or something, just that in my opinion when we work in these specific fields it's known that it's relatively thankless, and one should be okay with helping create the magic.
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