Choose Your Own Career Adventure on Broadway

Choose Your Own Career Adventure on Broadway — page 3
From Script to Broadway Hit As director of a Broadway play your work begins months before the premiere as you read through the script nearly a million times OK maybe not quite that many but a lot Each time you read it you make notes of creative ideas for how to stage it This preparation is a big help to you when actors come in to audition You know exactly what you’re looking for and assemble the perfect cast You also spend a lot of time sharing ideas with a producer and the stage manager Success depends on all the cast and crew sharing the same vision for the play Once any kinks are worked out the set and costume designers get busy creating the spectacular onstage world where your play will take place Lighting designers and other theater technicians also add their creative spark to the production Everything they do must meet with your approval since you’re the play’s director Now finally it is time for rehearsals to begin How Stars Are Born As you follow the rehearsal from your spot in the third row you notice the male lead is having trouble with an important monologue You ask him to try it again but this time you have him move diagonally across the stage when he’s midway 6