Rehearsal Scheduler
Turn your rehearsal calendar and scene list into an hours-per-scene breakdown you can plan call sheets around.
Rehearsal allocation
| Scene | Share | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Act 1, Scene 1 | 40% | 14 |
| Act 1, Scene 2 | 20% | 7 |
| Act 2, Scene 1 | 40% | 14 |
How the scheduler works
Start with the rehearsals you actually have: weeks until opening times rehearsals per week gives the total, and multiplying by hours per rehearsal gives your total rehearsal hours. Set aside the last few rehearsals for tech and dress — what’s left is your general rehearsal pool for building scenes.
That pool is then split across your scene list in proportion to each scene’s weight, so a scene worth twice the pages of another gets roughly twice the rehearsal time. It’s a starting allocation, not a rigid schedule — use it to sanity-check your calendar before you commit call times to a cast.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the scheduler decide how much time each scene gets?
It takes your general rehearsal hours (the total minus whatever you've reserved for tech and dress) and splits them across your scenes in proportion to a weight you give each one — typically page count, but minutes of stage time works just as well. Leave the weight blank for any scene and it's treated as an equal share of the pool.
Why reserve rehearsals for tech and dress separately?
Tech and dress rehearsals aren't really scene-building time — they're spent running cues, adjusting levels, and running the show start to finish. Pulling them out of the pool before splitting the rest keeps your per-scene hours realistic instead of quietly eating into the last week of general rehearsal.
Should I weight scenes by pages or by something else?
Page count is a reasonable starting proxy for how much material a scene has to block and run, but a short, technically dense scene (a fight, a quick change, a tricky entrance) can need more rehearsal time per page than a long dialogue scene. Bump the weight up for scenes you know will be slow to stage.
What if I don't have enough rehearsal hours for everything?
The tool won't tell you that directly — it just divides what you've got. If the per-scene hours it returns look too thin, that's a sign to add rehearsals, cut your reserved tech/dress block, or accept that some scenes will need to be blocked in fewer, longer sessions rather than many short ones.
Educational planning tool only. Every cast and script is different — use this as a starting allocation and adjust it as your rehearsal process reveals what each scene actually needs.