The Stage Manager Simulator has a window frame that changes color as you perform well (or not well) at calling a show.  We wanted to give immediate feedback without being too distracting.  The booth window frame will start white and glow green if you are doing well, yellow if you are hit-and-miss, and red if you are doing poorly.

But sometimes a little hint of color isn't enough.  So we built some audio error messages if you make mistakes on several cues in a row.  We had a lot of fun coming up with potential feedback from disgruntled crew members and 'too helpful' ASMs.  We even processed the error messages so there is that familiar headset tinny-ness and the smart remarks come through just the right ear  (an informal survey of the office yielded that most of us place our headset over our right ear).  Thanks go to Leigh'Ann Andrews for the audio work.  Featured on the clip below is LeeAnn Yeckley (and, yes, we have a lot of stage managers named Leigh'Ann/LeeAnn at the University of Iowa).

We are still optimizing a few images for faster load times, but the new website is live!  We hope you like the new look, but most of the changes were 'backstage' - we laid the foundation for  e-commerce and the show module server connections.  As we prepare to launch the Stage Manager Simulator later this summer, check back as we add features such as memberships in the coming weeks.  We will announce these new features on our Twitter feed and ask questions of our stage management friends on Facebook.

Future work with one or more live entertainment corporations looks very promising, but the timeline is such that it won't impact our summer launch for academic programs and single users.

We also received our first royalty reports on STANDBY CUE 101 and we seem to be quite popular in Australia!  If you are reading this from Australia, please send us an e-mail or post a comment.  We would love to know if any Australian schools or training programs are using our work.  If we have enough interest, it is possible to release an Australian vocabulary for the Stage Manager Simulator.  It is not so much the accent as the different cue terminology that would make an Australian or British module useful.  But it takes about two full days to prepare a module's vocabulary, so we want to make sure there is enough interest.