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A comprehensive text and indispensable reference for all arts managers. This book delivers a broad, comprehensive wide-angle view of theatre and performing arts management, based on the premise that all the performing arts share the same core issues: producing or presenting artistically satisfying works in accord with their missions, finding and keeping an audience, providing for the financial and creative well-being of an organisation or production, and maintaining good personal and public relations. Beyond addressing management issues specific to legitimate theatre, the book also deals with broader issues that affect all of the performing arts: mission statements, legal organisation and structure, not-for-profit organisations, personnel, place of performance, budgeting, box office/ticketing, fundraising, marketing, public relations, advertising, and performance management. In this thorough, informed and informative updating of Stephen Langleys classic Theatre Management in America, Conte addresses the needs and concerns confronting 21st Century managers.

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Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence's comprehensive and definitive "Production Stage Management for Broadway". With this book, Tony Award-winning Peter Lawrence has turned his decades of experience on Broadway into a thoroughly modern approach to the art and business of production stage managing and successfully pursuing a stage manager's career. Written for a wide range of readers -- from the beginning stage manager with high school or college experience to the professional assistant stage manager already working in commercial theatre to seasoned Broadway professional this book is, at its heart, an invaluable map of how to get from the beginning through the end of a production. Filled with industry-savvy advice, including: Who's who on a stage production and how they all interact; Getting the job; The pre-production period, including pre-rehearsal duties and responsibilities; Production meetings -- from early conceptualising through rehearsals and previews: Choosing and organising a stage management team: Handling rehearsals; Running technical rehearsals; Organising your calling scripts; Managing previews; Planning for opening night and the critics' Structuring the running of an ongoing show. Plus, indispensable charts and graph templates and examples that include: Production calendar; Musical pit layout; PSM's casting notes format; Daily rehearsal report; Wardrobe breakdown; Prop list; Tech table layout; Ideal layout of the PSM's calling desk; Cues to begin dry tech; Musical calling script; Dance calling script; Daily performance report; Weekly stage manager's report; Weekly schedule.

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