Stage manager

Also called: SM, Production stage manager (PSM).

The stage manager runs the production from the first rehearsal to the last performance: scheduling and running rehearsals, keeping the prompt book, writing the rehearsal reports, coordinating the departments, and calling every cue of every performance. Once the show opens, the stage manager is in charge of it.

In CueCall

The Stage Manager role holds the show's editing permissions by default, and the stage manager's paperwork — the schedule, the prompt-book notes and cues, the cue sheet, the run sheets, the rehearsal reports — is what the Tech, Schedule and Reports tabs carry.

Features

  • Rehearsal Reports — Rehearsal reports drafted automatically from the day's notes and timeline, reviewed by the stage manager, then published and emailed to the team.
  • Tech Cues — Light, sound, deck and other cues recorded against scenes, with a master cue view and filtering by type.
  • Production Calendar — A rehearsal and performance calendar with recurring events, scene links and subscription feeds the team can add to their own calendars.
  • Collaborators & Role-Based Access — Invite the production team and each role sees a view of the same data suited to their job, with contact details, budget and measurements gated separately.

Related terms

  • Assistant stage manager — The assistant stage manager supports the stage manager in rehearsal — taking blocking, tracking props, setting up the room — and runs the deck during…
  • Prompt book — The prompt book is the stage manager's master copy of the script, with every blocking move, cue and standby written against the line or moment it happens on…
  • Rehearsal report — A rehearsal report is the stage manager's written account of a rehearsal, sent to the whole production team the same night: who was there and who was late…
  • Standby and GO — Calling the show is the stage manager speaking each cue to the operators over headset. A warning comes some way ahead; a standby ("Standby LX 12") comes…

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