American | English |
Bells, Chimes | Barbells (chimes that play in the lobby five minutes before show comes down to alert front of house staff) |
Blackout curtain, full stage black | Full Black |
Board, Console | Desk |
Booth | Box |
Building the set onstage | Fit Up |
Call the half-hour at 30 minutes to curtain | Call the half-hour at 35 mins to curtain |
Calls include Half, Fifteen, Five, Places | Calls include Half, Quarter, Five, Beginners |
Consumables, Perishables | Comestibles |
Cueing | Plotting |
Curtain Warmers | Tab warmers (lights on the house curtain before it rises) |
Flashlight | Torch |
Gaff | Gaffa |
Headsets, radios, walkie-talkies | Comms, Cans |
House closed | Clearance (front of house gives to stage manager when lobby clear and ready to start show) |
House Curtain | Tabs |
Intermission | Interval |
Load-In | Load-In (or simply In) |
Masking Softgoods | Blacks |
Monitors in dressing rooms | Show Relay |
Monitors in dressing rooms, God mic | Tannoy (speaker system in dressing rooms used by stage manager to communicate backstage) |
Opening Night | First Night |
Paper Tech | Cue Synopsis |
Performance Report | Show Report |
Places | Beginners |
Plaster Line | Setting Line |
Preshow Checklist | Checks |
Production Calendar | Provisional Schedule |
Promptbook | Book, Prompt Copy |
Props Checklist | Tick Check |
Raised platform of any shape or size | Rostra |
Reset | Reset (at end of show before next) |
Reset (props, set, costumes, lighting, etc.) | Setting Back |
Run Sheets | Running Plot |
Scrim | Gauze |
Special Thanks | Credits |
Spikes | Marks |
Stage Left / Right | Prompt Side / Off Prompt (P and OP, usually P is SR but this can vary) |
Stage Manager's Podium (Down Stage Left) | Corner, Prompt Corner |
Stage Right | Opposite Prompt |
Strike | Get Out |
Tapeout | Mark Out / Mark Up |
Tech (Tech rehearsal) | Technical |
Tech Week | Pre-Production W eek |
To forget a line | To dry |
Theatrical Housing | Digs |
Traveler | Split Curtain |
Turntable | Revolve |
Wagon | Truck |
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