I am feeling for you DR MISS KAREN. I think being a Stage Manager taught me to be a more thoughtful actor.
I usually don't express my opinions about too many things unless it's necessary. And if I'm in the dark, I figure it's my fault for not following my blocking.
I think about that while I run offstage after Act Two Scene One and pull up the Doctor Drop & Skeleton before changing.
AND....remind them that on BROADWAY at the Music Box Theatre, I saw Miss Petula Clark standing stage left waiting for an entrance holding something in her arms.
She got her GO light, came out onstage unrolled a rug, stood on it, sang a solo, rolled it up and carried it off.
If she can do it.....we can do it.