Show Check-Ins:

F&F Weekend: Grease
- Director: Ellie
  - Rehearsals are great. Right on track.
  - Attendance at rehearsals has been an issue, but working it out with Ariana.
- Asst Director: Lara
  - Emphasis on scheduling problems-- there have been some injuries and illnesses. Working around it.
  - Acted as the understudy this week.
  - Have 4 numbers left to choreograph.
  - Songs are going well.
  - Communication between some of the creative members has been difficult because of scheduling conflicts.
- SM: Ariana
  - Finished blocking the entire show.
  - Working on music and choreography today and tomorrow.
  - Tuesday-Friday are full runs.
  - Added two people to show: Nolan and Maeve.
  - Attendance has been hit and miss with people not coming to rehearsal.
  - Met with Alicia and Caitlin to go over Tsai scheduling.
  - Sent Alicia notes we've been taking about additional costumes and props.
  - Hard off book is pushed to Wednesday. Alleviated a lot of stress with actors.
- TD: Alicia
  - Had all department meetings. Everyone seemed to be on schedule today during tech meeting.
  - Went to Emerson to pull costumes.
  - Placed the paint order through Home Depot. Will get picked up tomorrow. Cheaper than expected. A little difficulty with department communication, but it was managed.
  - Wood order was delivered. Shoutout to Carter for helping with it.
  - Confusion with SAO over U-Haul this week. Needs to be done through a reimbursement.
  - Tsai's on board with everything. Set up Columbus Day with them.
  - Some trouble with attendance in tech meetings.
- Producer: Sam
  - Flyers are printed and should be up in residence halls tomorrow.
  - Wood order made it.
  - Met with Andy this week to go over updates on promo material.
  - Emailed Tsai to get lobby plans approved.
  - Met with all assistants this week, so everyone has their assignments. Brainstormed some new promo material.
  - Went over program stuff. Talked to new cast members for their bios.
  - Went to rehearsal to take headshots. In process of editing. All footage for promo videos has been taken.
Speech and Debate
- Director: Sarah
  - Rehearsals are going really well.
  - About 2/3 of the show is blocked.
  - Waiting on getting the sheet music from SAO to block the music scenes. Talking to Andy about that.
- SM: Lauren
  - Cast has been working on learning their lines. Really happy with it so far.
  - About 75% of the show is blocked.
  - Had to make some schedule changes because of conflicts, but shouldn't be too much of a problem.
  - ASM Lena is fantastic. Covered some rehearsals on her own.
  - Hashing out the rest of the rehearsal schedule soon.
- TD: Francis
  - Had department meetings.
  - Having a couple of issues with set design, but working it out soon.
  - Everything else going well.
- Producers: HwaYoun and Elle
  - Met with assistants on Friday and assigned their roles.
  - Elle made a Warren Poster design and it looks great.
  - All set to start promos once Grease is over.
The Flick
- Director: Lucy
  - Rehearsals are going really well. Most of Act 1 is blocked. Should finish up and block Act 2 this week.
  - Cast is doing great. Already learning lines, thinking about character.
  - David found chairs- yay! Hyped about set design.
  - Met with producers. Also very excited about their ideas.
  - Very on track with our schedule so far.
- SM: Abby
  - Will meet early this week to plan rehearsals moving forward.
  - Don't have the best rehearsal room, but Evan is working on it.
  - Has 1 ASM, but she's really great. Should be fine with just one.
  - Basically in the clear with schedule issues for show week.
- TD: David
  - Bulk of department meetings this coming week.
  - Set design is finished and beautiful. HwaYoun did an amazing job. Will do cut list sometime soon.
  - Getting FREE seats from Coolidge Corner Theatre and West Newton Cinema, which is amazing.
- Producers: Angelica and Tori
  - Met with assistants and Lucy. Got communications systems ready.
  - Making a Google calendar that has all the really important dates for deadlines.
  - Talked about promotional materials and have ideas for poster and promo videos.
  - Allocated different jobs for the assistants.
  - Making quick scripts for the videos this week.

E-Board Check-Ins:

President: Chris
- Participated in COMBAT. Loved it.
- Met with some Board members individually to talk about communication.
- Contacted Shiney about iPads for F&F.
VP: Evan
- Helped out with some Grease related stuff.
- Working on getting rooms for The Flick on 25 Live.
- Need to contact Facilities to paint the theater.
VPSP: Abby
- COMBAT happened. Went really well. All the other groups were so great to work with. Really communicative. Board was super supportive.
- In the future, let's avoid having COMBAT on Yom Kippur if possible.
- Kickball is happening on Saturday. Boston Common, probably 1:30.
- There are still tie-dyed t-shirts in the workshop. Will make a post for people to go pick them up.
Treasurer: Andy
- Need to contact SAO about music for Speech and Debate.
- Had awesome meeting with Sam this week about Grease.
- Will contact Home Depot about possibly waterlogged wood if necessary.
- Had Chris contact Shiney about iPads.
- Loves producers. Very proud.
- Lots of tech hasn't paid dues yet. Will post in the FB group.
Secretary: Lucy
- Made Grease Facebook event. Will finish submitting show to various calendars today.
- Will make Kickball event as soon as details are finalized.
- Will send out email about next GMs tomorrow if there are no objections.
- Emailed the Opening our Doors festival person to request a table to sell Grease tickets at the event for a few hours.
- Got rehearsal videos from Ariana to use for Instagram promotion.
- Wrote for COMBAT. Tons of fun.
TA: Caitlin
- Helped Abby with COMBAT tech. Next year, it might be good to have a universal strike talk with all the groups for expediency.
- Having a universal computer for sound would also be good for next year's COMBAT.
- Will work on striking the lights.
- Moved some things from Summer Show in the workshop back to the Space.
- Going to reach out to Playwrights because they have a show during Grease build week.
- Space Cleaning tentatively will be December 9. Will reach out to friend in facilities about dumpster. Sent Andy a list of things to buy.
- Attended SAO hazing training today.
- Moved a few tech people around.
- Need to buy more fireproofing.