STAGE MOM INSTRUCTIONS (Ages 4 -5, 4-6, 6-7, 7-9)
Carol Stein – Head Stage Mom
727-643-3805
** She will be in the back by the exit doors.  Please feel free to reach out to her if you have any needs during the show.  You can also text her**


Here are the highlights of what to know:

• • First and foremost THANK YOU for volunteering to be a stage mom. We could not do this without you!
  • Please be at your dance row by 2:00PM
  • At your row you will find a pencil box and clipboard. The box contains your stage   mom ID along with pens and other things you may need. The clipboard contains a list of your dancers, copy of this information, a program, and a show list that is marked with the song you need to start getting your dancers back stage.

• CHECK IN
  • Parents will check in their dancer in the lobby from 2:00-2:30  There will be tables for their age group where they check in.
  • When the dancer is checked in, the parent will receive a security card and the child will receive a lanyard. These are identical with matching security numbers. They will need to show you that security card to pick up their child. They will also have to show that card in order to get backstage at intermission to change their dancer.
  • Once they have checked in they will have until 2:45pm to bring their dancer to your row.
  • As they arrive at your row, please check their name off the sheet on your clipboard.  You do not need to see the security card at this time. This is just a quick way to know if a dancer has not arrived. Have the dancer sit down in a seat.

    ❖    Performances

• You are given a schedule of all the dances.  Every dance is numbered. Your Dances are highlighted. Find the highlighted dance(s) you are in charge of, you will see I have advised what song you need to gather your dancers up and start walking to the stage door (4 songs before their dance).
• During a “black out” you will walk the girls down the aisle and back stage. Once the dancers have been lined up correctly backstage, you can remove the lanyards and hold them until they are finished with their performance. You can sit in the designated stage mom seats to watch their performance. After the performance please pick up your dancers backstage.
• Before returning to your seats please return the lanyards around the girls and quietly proceed back into the auditorium. This routine will be repeated for each performance that your dancers are in.
• If a child is in more than one dance they will need to switch rows after each of their performances. Their dances are located on their ID lanyard . If you have a dancer in multiple dances, they are highlighted on your check out form.
• Dancers who are in Jazz/Hip-hop as well as a ballet/tap combo class may have a costume change during the show. As soon as their dance is over, a parent will wait in the lobby for their dancer. Please have a stage mom take that dancer to the lobby. The parent will need to show you their Dancer security card to compare with the lanyard. The parent will take them to the bathroom in the lobby to change. The parent will return the dancer to the proper row in student section for their next dance. Compare ID and lanyard

• INTERMISSION
  • Please take your dancers to the dressing room.  I will come by and let you know when to go back, this will be 2 – 3 songs before intermission.
  • Parents will meet their dancers backstage during intermission for their costume change. They will need their dancer ID card to enter backstage. *Only females will be allowed in the dressing rooms. Parents should return their dancer back to the student section after they have changed costumes.
• Checking out Early
  • Although we have asked that children not be checked out until the end of the show, there may be parents who insist on getting their child early. Should this occur, please get their ID card, compare it with the Childs lanyard ID, take the card and the lanyard and sign them out on your sheet.  Please do not argue with the parent.

    ❖    Dismissal

• You will check Children out from your row.
• Please compare the lanyard to security ID card. Take the ID and the lanyard and check them out on your sheet.
• When all the children from your class have been “claimed”, place your stage mom lanyard in the pencil box and leave the box and clipboard at your row. Please do not leave one stage mom to take care of signing out dancers. Please look around your area to see if anyone left anything behind.  If you find an item please leave it at the end of the row with the pencil box and clipboard.

STAGE MOM INSTRUCTIONS (Ages 8-13)
Carol Stein – Head Stage Mom
727-643-3805
** She will be in the back by the exit doors.  Please feel free to reach out to her if you have any needs during the show.  You can also text her **


Here are the highlights of what to know:

• • First and foremost THANK YOU for volunteering to be a stage mom. We could not do this without you!
  • Please be in the 8-10 dressing room by 2:00PM.  Your designated seating area is Orchestra 1, Rows BB through HH
  • At your section you will find a pencil box and clipboard. The box contains your stage mom ID along with pens and other things you may need. The clipboard contains a list of your dancers, copy of this information, a program, and a show list that is marked with the song you need to start getting your dancers back stage.

• CHECK IN
  • Parents will check in their dancer with you in the dressing room from 2:00-2:30
  • Please have 2 stage moms in the dressing room and 2 in the 8 to 10 section.
  • When you check in the dancer you will ask for their name, Lanyards and id cards are together in alphabetical order by first name. Give the parent the id card tucked inside the lanyard and give the dancer the lanyard to wear around their neck. Please make sure to tell the parent that they must have that security card in order to pick up their child.
  • Once they have checked in they will have until 2:45pm to bring their dancer to your section.
  • I suggest sitting girls in the same costume together.

    ❖    Performances

• You were given a schedule of all the dances.  Every dance is numbered.  Find the dance(s) that are highlighted, you will see I have advised at what song you need to gather your dancers up and start walking to stage door (4 songs before their dance).
• The girls will go backstage on their own during a “black out”.  Girls who are in another dance can go ahead and change into their costumes for the next dance and come back to their designated row(s).  After their dance is over please please have 1-2 stage moms go to the dressing room to make sure the girls are doing what they are supposed to and getting back to their seats.
• Make sure the girls have put their lanyards back on. This routine will be repeated for each performance that your dancers are in.

• INTERMISSION
  • Please take your dancers to their dressing room
  • Parents will not be allowed back during intermission for this age group.  Please make sure the dancers change and get back to their seats before intermission is over.
• Checking out Early
  • Although we have asked that children not be checked out until the end of the show, there may be parents who insist on getting their child early. Should this occur, please get their ID card, compare it with the Childs lanyard ID, take the card and the lanyard and sign them out on your sheet.  Please do not argue with the parent.
• Dismissal
  • You will check Children out from the stage
  • Before the last song of the night is over please have your dancers quietly exit to their dressing room. They should go ahead and gather up all of their belongings. Once the show is over you can walk the dancers onto the stage and check them out.
  • Please compare the lanyard to security ID card. Take the ID and the lanyard and check them out on your sheet.
  • When all the children from your class have been “claimed”, place your stage mom lanyard in the pencil box and leave the box and clipboard at your row. Please do not leave one stage mom to take care of signing out dancers. Please look around your area to see if anyone left anything behind.  If you find an item please leave it at the end of the row with the pencil box and clipboard.