Lazy Bee Scripts 
Production Notes   

• The purpose of production notes is to make life easier for the production team by providing useful information to go with a script.  (For example, it will save them from parsing every line to look for essential props) 
• All of the production notes are optional - and some make more sense in some circumstances than in others (for example, there's no point in providing a lighting plot or a stage diagram for a simple sketch.  In our view, the most essential item is the Props list.  Other options include (but are not limited to)...

Character descriptions
Lighting plot
Sound effects plot
Song / music suggestions
Costume suggestions
Set descriptions
Set diagrams

• The Properties list should include every item called for by the script
• This includes portable items set on the stage, items set off-stage and carried on, and "personal props" (such as handkerchiefs)
• It excludes major items of furniture which are part of the set.  (Obviously there is a grey area between set and props.  Make your own mind up where the boundary is for your script!)
• The props list should be set out scene-by-scene and indicate (in brackets after the prop) whether it is set on stage, set offstage, or belongs to a named character...

Example:-
Scene 1
     Grecian Urn (set on stage)
     Scroll (set inside the urn)
     Wheelbarrow (set offstage)
     Sword (Alexander)
     Bow (Philip)
     Quiver of arrows (Philip)

• These are usually separate items (because usually different people operate the controls)
• All cross-references should be by scene and by a text cue.  (Never cross reference to a page.  The script will be repaginated multiple times during the editing process and cross references to pages will not survive.)

• If your script includes suggestions for songs (other than songs written specifically for the show), then the body of the script should contain song numbers, but not titles
• The production notes should have a list giving the title of each numbered song
• The production notes should state the source of each song - ideally the composer and lyricist, but failing that, then the name of the recording artist.  (This is because sometimes a title is used multiple times for different songs, and also because the production team may not know the song and may need clues to track it down.)