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  • 1.  Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-10-2015 12:52

    Does anyone use any specific apps that they feel are useful for their students during production or class? I am looking at getting an iPad to use during productions and class for costume and prop inventory as well as assorted production lists. I have found a couple but don't know if they are worth the purchase. Students will learn how to use these programs so I'm looking for some good ones. We are in the age of technology so they might as well use it.

    Ones i I have found but have no experience or feedback on are ShowTool, Theatre Blocking (which is for android only), pocket Call Sheet

    Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? 


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    Candice Corcoran
    Kennesaw GA
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  • 2.  RE: Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-10-2015 13:17

    Well I think an easy program for the ipad and for tech use is Google Docs, it can do a lot and I use it for paperwork and rehearsal reports and such things. But I am a stage manager so the apps I use are stage management one's. I like to use Virtual Stage Manager. A lot of my friends in the choreography world and directing world use Stage-Write. 

    Hope this gets you started! 

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    Clare Jaymes
    Executive Assistant to the Executive Director
    Educational Theatre Association
    Cincinnati OH
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  • 3.  RE:Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-10-2015 13:47
    I have heard of stage manager and I thought of using to train my stage managers...assuming they may use it later on in university. Do you like it? What are its advantages and disadvantages in your opinion.

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    Kennesaw GA
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  • 4.  RE:Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-10-2015 13:51
    And isn't virtual stage ,anger a computer program not an app?

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    Kennesaw GA
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  • 5.  RE: Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-11-2015 06:55

    Clare - do you have any experience with or thoughts about StageWrite? 

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    John Friedenberg
    Director Of Theatre
    Wake Forest University Dept of Theatre & Dance
    Winston-salem NC
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  • 6.  RE: Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-11-2015 13:57
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    Attaching an Excel spreadsheet of varies Apps for Theatre.

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    Krista Carson Elhai
    California
    Claremont CA
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  • 7.  RE: Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-12-2015 08:19


    I'm a fan of The Amazing Improv Generator App.
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    Matt Ludlam
    Instructor
    Flower Mound TX
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  • 8.  RE: Best Apps for use during productions/class

    Posted 07-13-2015 11:59

    Hi,

    A very successful stage manager I know uses StageWrite and loves it. This stage manager first used the app at her university and continues to use it professionally. There are also apps that are meant to help students learn music for a given musical, but those are contracted for on a show by show basis.

    Thank you,
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    Jameson McDougal
    Right On Cue Services
    Provo UT
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