prompt book

The stage manager will place all of this information into the prompt book.

He took the prompt book back from Zach and began his old job again.

He usually sat with the prompt book, next to Miss Thorne.

Willie crept nervously on stage with the prompt book in his hand and was joined by the others.

Thompson took the job and the article, published about a month later, prompted book offers from several publishers interested in the topic.

Types of items displayed include costumes, set models, prompt books, and posters.

He maintains the prompt book and the call board, to which rehearsal schedule notes are affixed for the cast.

Officials say the police-backed crackdown has since inspired more prompt book returns among library patrons.

In situations where there are multiple stage managers or assistants, it is not uncommon for many copies of the prompt book to exist.

Working from source materials, including production prompt books, Mr. Martin refashioned a libretto.

The Tree Collection is especially rich in prompt books, the most important of which are those for his elaborate Shakespearian productions.

The copy of the play that served as the production's prompt book has survived, in the collection of Sion College.

Prompt book is originally used by a prompter to much the same effect that they are today used by deputy stage managers.

When the 5-foot-6, 145-pound McElwain scored a quick 20 points, those shots seen around the world on video prompted book and motion-picture deals for him.

On this particular afternoon Willie sat as usual with the prompt book resting on his knees, his forehead frowned into a tense concentration.

As audience expectations for spectacle evolved in the 19th century, prompt books were published to describe the techniques involved in constructing complex scenery and special effects.

The Billy Rose Theater Collection contains more than 34,000 prompt books and typescripts, in which stage directions for productions are noted.

Some of the most exquisitely stylized Korans basically functioned as prompt books for recitations by users who knew the sacred text by heart.

Elements of the text, such as the uncommonly detailed stage directions, lead some Shakespeare scholars to believe the text was prepared from a theatrical prompt book.

They rehearsed, he recalled, in the bar of the Ritz Hotel while the international hostess Elsa Maxwell held the prompt book.

Nowadays, many of the earlier duties of the prompter are undertaken by the stage manager, who will have a copy of the script called the prompt book.

Original scores and prompt books in the Tams-Witmark Collection in the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

One extant quarto of A Looking Glass possesses markings and notes that equipped the text for service as a prompt book for an early production.

However, the cast "questioned Arthur relentlessly about...the scenes", and he "tossed the old prompt book out and freed" the actors to explore.

Online versions of the digitised prompt books from the company archive and the Henry V script and storyboards are also part of the University's collection.