When in comes to the making of the world of a play there are stage elements to consider such as the lighting design and stage design . After watching the Stage managent , lighting plot and the design concept these are some of the important elements in the making of a play . The stage manager is responsible in maintaining the artistic integrity and overseeing departments to be able to guarantee that everything is running as smooth as possible and to maintain all the standards created the designers have made . According to Marybeth Abel , on a nightly basis it takes three stage managers to run wicked smoothly there are two stage manager on deck one placed to the right and the other stage manager to the left and the other state manager goes up and calls the show . The lighting designers cooperate with the artisitic team to make an artistic and technical development to turn ideas into stunning productions . According to Kenneth posher the lighting designer for wicked , The lighting design of wikcked is based of old school craft and technology which is focused on story telling in which it tell the audience where to