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Thursday, September 10, 2020
The Stage Managers' Association Will Present the 2020 Del Hughes Awards For Lifetime Achievement In The Art Of Stage Management
www.broadwayworld.com: On Monday, September 21, 2020, the Stage Managers' Association (SMA) will present its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management to two distinguished honourees, Philadelphia based stage manager Patreshettarlini (Pat) Adams and Chicago based stage manager Alden J. Vasquez.
It's really great to see people who have really worked their entire lives and careers toward this goal of being a stage manager and have sacrificed so much to do so. It's wonderful to see them get rewarded with the leastest. Go Stage Managers! I was talking to my boyfriend over the summer who was under the impression that stage managers got tony's- and an award like this is the only one I could name as being a proper award for stage managers. I think that institutions like Drama Desk and the American TheAtre Wing should really invest in creating these types of awards for stage managers- who just like the actors have been working 8 shows a week with absolutely no recognition. I think that for some people- this does make stage management the short end of the stick. In a business that awards everyone else but us- you could give me a little bit more than a paycheck.
Hot take, I had no idea this award existed before reading this article, so rock on for me, I guess. So I do like the idea of awards, but also I do not know if I think it is necessary for a Tony award for stage management. it is not like our award would get televised anyways! But in all seriousness, the idea of recognition is funny among stage managers. Some stage managers strongly believe that they do not need recognition. Rather, they do not WANT to be recognized. They love the idea of being ‘behind the scenes’ and not being noticed or called out when they do amazing work. Other stage managers want there to be more recognition and even think a Tony award category should be added. I personally do not care for that sort of recognition, but just because I do not care for it, does that mean an award should not exist? I don’t really know what the steps are for adding a new category in the Tony awards, but it could be something worth exploring if Broadway stage managers were serious about it.
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It's really great to see people who have really worked their entire lives and careers toward this goal of being a stage manager and have sacrificed so much to do so. It's wonderful to see them get rewarded with the leastest. Go Stage Managers! I was talking to my boyfriend over the summer who was under the impression that stage managers got tony's- and an award like this is the only one I could name as being a proper award for stage managers. I think that institutions like Drama Desk and the American TheAtre Wing should really invest in creating these types of awards for stage managers- who just like the actors have been working 8 shows a week with absolutely no recognition. I think that for some people- this does make stage management the short end of the stick. In a business that awards everyone else but us- you could give me a little bit more than a paycheck.
Hot take, I had no idea this award existed before reading this article, so rock on for me, I guess. So I do like the idea of awards, but also I do not know if I think it is necessary for a Tony award for stage management. it is not like our award would get televised anyways! But in all seriousness, the idea of recognition is funny among stage managers. Some stage managers strongly believe that they do not need recognition. Rather, they do not WANT to be recognized. They love the idea of being ‘behind the scenes’ and not being noticed or called out when they do amazing work. Other stage managers want there to be more recognition and even think a Tony award category should be added. I personally do not care for that sort of recognition, but just because I do not care for it, does that mean an award should not exist? I don’t really know what the steps are for adding a new category in the Tony awards, but it could be something worth exploring if Broadway stage managers were serious about it.
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