Give an actor a prop and they'll break it. Doesn't matter how sturdy you make it. Backstage, that's not a crisis — it's Tuesday. Managing risk and failure isn't a skill for stage managers. It's an art form: understudies who can step into any role without missing a beat, cue-to-cue rehearsals that catch failure points before they happen, and a crew that can fix a problem before the audience ever spots it. Companies spend fortunes on enterprise risk management systems trying to reinvent what theater already perfected. This session cuts out the consultants and goes straight to the source. "The show must go on" is a nice sentiment. This is the playbook behind it.