Executive Board Notes 9/10/17

Show Check-Ins:

  • Summer Show Check-Out: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    • Director: BK
      • Overall, fun time. Got a lot of interested students.
      • Hard for graduates to direct because of time commitments/post-grad stuff.
      • Some issues with scheduling. For the future, maybe tell everyone the dates way in advance to keep free.
      • Great producers and TD and shout out to Evan for SMing when Erin left. 
    • TD: David
      • Had a good last show. Everyone loved the set and tech.
      • Strike was super fast. 
      • Need a dustpan in the workshop. 
      • Had a lot of fun TDing Summer Show. E-Board made it easy.
      • Make sure that build people are actually going to be in Boston for move-in. Lots of work right up front, but once it's all straightened out, you can sit back and watch it happen. 
    • Producers: HwaYoun and Kobi
      • Great overall; most everything went smoothly.
      • Enjoyed working together. Assistant Abby was phenomenal.
      • Shouldn't start a show at 7:45 PM because there was a lot of confusion. 
    • SM: Evan
      • Good to get experience as a stage manager. Nice perspective for talking to stage managers in the future.
      • The cast was a little tough to manage at times, but overall it was a good experience. 
      • Advice for the future: make sure ASMs know what they're signing on to.  
  • F&F Weekend: Grease
    • Director: Ellie
      • Met with Ariana today and set a rough schedule. 
      • Excited for auditions. 
    • Asst Director: Lara
      • Loved Sam's designs. 
      • Super excited. 
    • TD: Alicia
      • Waiting on the set design to be finalized. 
      • Making cut list on Monday with Cait. 
      • Got the key for the Space. 
      • Working on opening up line of communication with Tsai.
    • Producer: Sam
      • Met with Ellie and Lara to get their vision for the show. Ran through promotional ideas.
      • Working on finalizing some logos for Andy to get copyright approval. 
      • Looking into using a car museum for photoshoot spot. 
      • Wood order deadline is this week. 
    • SM: Ariana
      • Have idea of when we want everything choreographed and blocked.
      • Hard off book will be October 3.
  • Speech and Debate
    • Director: Sarah
      • Looking forward to the GM and auditions.
      • Finalizing audition sides and director questions.
  • The Flick
    • Director: Lucy 
      • Picked out audition sides.

E-Board Check-Ins:

  • President: Chris
    • Met with mediators for casting negotiations. 
    • SPLASH was really successful. Great turnout. Handed out all of our stickers. 
  • VP: Evan
    • Booked a room for this meeting. 
    • Reserved Student Theater for all rehearsals, performances throughout the year. 
    • Has SM keys for Ariana.
    • Worked on a census report.
  • VPSP: Abby
    • Would like to have Ice Cream Social before COMBAT. Interested in combining it with tie-dyeing the old Troupe shirts. Looking at 22 or 23 for that. 
    • Need to pick a date for kickball, so will reach out to Rachel in OB.
    • Need room res for day of COMBAT. 
  • Treasurer: Andy
    • Made the dues Eventbrite. 
    • Filled out a form for Grease on Eventbrite, so that will be set up soon. 
    • Did receive a disk with everything for Speech and Debate except some projections. Those should be at SAO. 
    • Still need to fill out a few reimbursements. 
    • Ready to mediate this week.
    • Treasurer training tomorrow from 6:30 to 8.
  • Secretary: Lucy
    • Made the FB event for auditions. Will make tech meeting one tomorrow.
    • Sent out GM reminder emails and emails to SPLASH and Orientation signups.
    • 148 people signed up for email list at SPLASH.
  • TA: Caitlin
    • Sat down with Chris and Alicia at the set meeting for Grease
    • Going to start pushing tech forms. 
    • Need to chop down door frame from Summer Show.
    • There is a wash up in the theater for COMBAT. 
    • Need to talk to Sarah and Lucy about tech meeting.
    • Hyped about mediating.
  • Steve
    • Tom is the name of the new Tsai person. 
    • Looking forward to the casting meeting on Thursday.