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22 articles. Each one is a screen you open, why you would open it, and the steps in order. Start at the top if you are new; use the search if you are not.
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The week
- AdvanceEverything that goes wrong on a load-in morning was decided three weeks earlier by somebody who did not write it down.
- PrepThe week before the trucks roll is when a show is actually won or lost.
- Load-inFour vendors each think they are first on the dock.
- ShowThe rundown you call from is the same record the deck, the shop and the producer are reading.
- StrikeThe show is over and the expensive part is starting.
Jobs
- OwnerYou read the whole company rather than one show.
- ProducerYou sold the week and you answer for it — to the client in the room and to the number afterwards.
- Tour ManagerYou move people for a living, and every one of them will ask you personally what time the lobby call is.
- DesignerWeeks out, the drawing is the product.
- Event ManagerOne date, one building, and about two hundred details that are each individually trivial and collectively the show.
- Production ManagerThe advance is somebody else's and the call is somebody else's.
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That is the whole manual, and it is the product as it stands today. If you want it for your company, ask us — a person reads it.