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Prompt Script Templates for Stage Managers

The prompt script is the heart of the prompt book: the script itself, interleaved with backing pages where blocking, cues and notes live. These templates set up the book and the pages you write on every day.

Prompt Script templates

Prompt Book Table of Contents template preview

Prompt Book Table of Contents

A prompt book can run to hundreds of pages, so a clear table of contents matched to numbered tab dividers is what makes it usable by anyone, including the person who takes over the show if you can't be there.

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Prompt Book Page Layout — Right-Handed template preview

Prompt Book Page Layout — Right-Handed

How you arrange each spread of the prompt book matters more than it seems.

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Prompt Book Page Layout — Left-Handed template preview

Prompt Book Page Layout — Left-Handed

Most prompt book advice assumes a right-handed stage manager.

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Blocking / Backing Sheet — Play template preview

Blocking / Backing Sheet — Play

A blocking sheet, also called a backing sheet, faces each script page in the prompt book.

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Blocking / Backing Sheet — Musical template preview

Blocking / Backing Sheet — Musical

Musical numbers move fast and involve a lot of people.

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Formation Sheet — Dance template preview

Formation Sheet — Dance

For dance, positions matter more than words.

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