Instructions for completing a PRS form (all plays)
Eash production MUST have a PRS form completed if any copyrighted music is used at all, no matter how short a section is played or how few times.
The Front page is for Curtain or Chatter Music. This is music that is heard by the audience but not by the characters in the play. An example of this is music playing while the audience arrives and before the curtain up or during any applause at the end of the show
The Back page is for Interpolated Music. This is music that the characters in the play hear and interact with. An example of this could be music played as a gramophone record that the characters in the play can obviously hear (e.g. Irving Berlin’s “Always” in Blithe Spirit)
The form, when completed and signed, should be filed in the plastic wall holder in the Green Room
