Show Check-Ins
- The Addams Family
- Directors: Lauren and Paulina
- Read-through yesterday; rehearsal today
- Finding out future rehearsal schedule
- Looking to make a cast feedback Google form
- Music Director: Daniel
- Has been having pit rehearsals. Four songs away form finishing the show
- Rehearsed two big group numbers with the cast
- SAO needs a W9 from the drummer before funding
- TD: Caitlin
- Went to read-through and made notes of tech elements
- Finalized set design
- Needs to email tech crew the second tech lists come out
- Wants to order wood ASAP
- Producers: Kobi and Zoe
- Has photoshoot planned for the first weekend of October
- Zoe is working on t-shirt design
- Funding approval in the works
- Directors: Lauren and Paulina
- Stupid F%&king Bird
- Director: Conner Reed
- Talked to old directors and got a lot of really good guidance regarding the auditions process
- Recommends having directors discuss who will be called back at the end of each rehearsal
- Has first read-through tonight
- Playing around with a rough rehearsal schedule
- Producer: Danielle and Evan
- Recently assigned! Will sit down with Conner this week to discuss the producer vision and plans
- Talked to old directors and got a lot of really good guidance regarding the auditions process
- Director: Conner Reed
- Come Back, Little Sheba
- Directors: Christy and Taylor
- It worked well to have individual sides at auditions, followed by paired sides with assigned partners at callbacks
- Reached out to past directors for help. Make spreadsheets that helped organization. Decided to take pictures of the auditionees in order to remember them well
- In the future, we need to avoid squatting rooms for callbacks. For something so pertinent, it really hurts us
- Really excited for the cast! First read-through will be later this week
- Will be meeting with Anything Goes’ creative team to make sure the lead is shared efficiently
- Producers: Paulina and Lauren
- Got assigned recently. Will schedule with Taylor and Christy to talk about the show’s vision
- Directors: Christy and Taylor
E-Board Check-Ins
- President: Danielle
- Congrats on casting!
- Auditions happened. We had so many new members come in to audition; thrilled about the turnout
- Vice President: Erin
- Working on getting rooms for rehearsals. Got rooms for Bird for most days (but not on Tuesdays). Addams has the Student Theater for two weeks.
- Squatting for callbacks was difficult. The problem with room reservations shouldn’t happen again
- VPSP: Sydney
- Ice Cream Social went extremely well. Made a poll for preferred flavors, and many new freshmen came and stuck around for a while
- The CSC contacted us and offered free leftover costumes for the taking
- Had coffee with Maria from OB. Kickball is October 8th. Talked about formal, and has a really good plan going
- COMBAT had plenty of sign-ups
- Treasurer: Andy
- Dues went really well this year. Made sure that people paid dues before being allowed to audition at callbacks – Nathan emailed those who hadn’t paid with a reminder and did not permit them to check in to auditions before paying
- Wants to do a similar thing with techies
- Did SAO training through OrgSync
- Assigned head producers for all shows. Will be able to assign a good amount of assistants for each show
- Eventbrite for Addams is up and ready to go
- Wants to make producer tutorial videos for future producers
- Will meet with head producers soon to discuss the season’s themes
- Dues went really well this year. Made sure that people paid dues before being allowed to audition at callbacks – Nathan emailed those who hadn’t paid with a reminder and did not permit them to check in to auditions before paying
- Secretary: Nathan
- Wrote callbacks and cast list blurbs and published the posts as quickly as possible
- Updated “Current Season” pages with cast lists and posted the link to Addams’ Eventbrite on its page
- Made tech meeting and ice cream social event. Social media has been active and responsive. Has drafts started for COMBAT and Techstravaganza
- In order to complete the email list, needs the emails of everyone who paid their dues as well as everyone assigned to a tech position
- TA: Taylor
- The tech meeting with really successful. Over 50 new people have applied, along with 15 new potential ATDs.
- Has to communicate with OB so as not to conflict Anything Goes’ crew with Bird
- Has potential TD for COMBAT
- Hopes the tech lists will be out by Wednesday at the latest. Wants to get TDs and SMs by Monday night or Tuesday morning at the earliest
- Planning Techstravaganza. We have a lot of new people but not too many returning tech, so we’re on the lookout for event leaders