Check-ins
Siena
Emailed crystal the spring student dates
Emailed willing suspension about theater usage
Setting up a meeting regarding rehearsal space
Saw hand to god
Gavin
one acts reservation stuff
Still waiting on OB reservation to be cancelled - hopefully tomorrow
Did GM
Went to Clueneral
Emma
One acts rehearsals
Working with creative teams
Figuring out promo
GM
Talked with Will about Theatre in Action stuff
Planning holiday hits!
Liv
Rehearsals for one acts
Risk manager at Clueneral
Emailing various one acts licensing companies
Julia
Sent GM recap email
Posted GM recap insta
Saw hand to god
Some future member correspondence via insta and facebook
On the lookout for new pitches
Katie
Got one acts WWN lists, starting to work with Claire on that
Officially brought Gavin onto tech show!
Planning space cleaning
Steve
Met with Eric on Tuesday and was finally able to give him the light checker to return to the Booth.
Eric is happy to help with light repair if Katie or whomever wants to reach out to him (jacobsen@bu.edu) to figure out a time.
Happy Thanksgiving! I wish you all safe travels and good food!
One Acts Check-ins
Directors
Hadysha - Blind Date
Met 3 times!
Read through and blocking
Already off-book mostly!
Excited for after break rehearsals
Jack - Boise, Idaho
We've had our first few rehearsals and they've gone very well.
The cast is very engaged in the process and have made it a lot of fun so far.
Filled out the WWN sheet for Katie
Goal is to be off book for tomorrow's rehearsal (fingers crossed)
Priya - Lucky Misfortunes
Rehearsals are going great so far.
Earlier this week I filled out the WWN list
had our first read through on Wednesday.
We finished blocking the entire thing on Saturday
tonight we are doing 2 complete runs of it!
Ishika - Lady Killers
Julia - The Letter
Had 2 of our 3 rehearsals, it’s going well!
Did a read through, blocked the scene
Filled out the WWN list
Cast is nearly off book as of Friday's rehearsal, hard off book is tomorrow night so hopefully that works out well!
Carrie - La Mouche
Blocked and ran the whole one act!
One actor emailed and said there was a conflict for the friday performance
Carrie will fill the role for friday!
Natalie - skits and monologues
Will probably have to do some zoom rehearsals, has only been to rehearse with one skit so far - but that rehearsal went very well!
In person the week of hopefully!
Creative Team
Nhi - stage manager
Sending a lot of scheduling rehearsals
Going to email directors and actors regarding tech week and post-thanksgiving
Tina - stage manager
Attended 2 rehearsals: Boise, Idaho and the saga of lucky misfortunes.
Went through WWN list
Claire - tech director
Got keys to space
Looking forward to pulling things!
Sent email to departments to schedule meetings
Build/tech: Nov 29th-Dec 2nd
Move in on the 2nd!
Emma - producing
Made the graphic!
J&G Check-outs
Natalie
This whole semester felt under-supported as a whole - new board fresh off covid, little support from SAO, new creative team members who could have used clearer guidelines
This semester was a bit of a struggle but hey we made it
Natalie is hopeful for next semester being cleaner and better!
Everyone as a whole has had a hard semester
Those last 3 weeks, people usually get worn down - the show switch definitely didn’t help that endeavor
Tried to keep positive!
Hopes no one is ever in this position ever again
Without this specific team, cast, and crew, this would not have worked out the way it did.
Despite the loss, being able to perform an original work of hers was a pretty cool experience
Meant more to her than Clue likely would have
Happy she got to do a show at all
This whole team was AMAZING. Had a great time working with all of them. Really grateful.
Gavin
What happened really sucked, was very difficult
Clue means a lot to him, and it was really unfortunate that it couldn’t happen
No one was really sure what to do when this news first came up
A bit frustrated with himself for not sticking up for the team and the show more than he did
Discussion of fairness - but this isn’t fair either.
There is zero precedent to a thing like this
If it had to be axed, wish it would have been sooner than 3 weeks out
If we were to have the chance to do it again, Gavin would have kept the same team for sure.
Frustrated that he never had the chance to voice concerns and stick up for everyone
Would feel wrong for him to be the only CT member who did it again
Jeff and Geoff:
Everyone involved was absolutely incredible for sticking through with the process!
The creative team was a joy to work with
Cast - 2 people had to drop for understandable reasons, but they were mostly eager and willing to stick it through!
We still put on a good, fun show!
Wish he interacted more with the crew, but very thankful for their amazing work!
Felt very bittersweet at the end of the process
Can’t help but wonder what Clue would have been
This wasn’t Clue, it will never be
But it was still fun and he’s glad he did it!
In summary, understandably frustrating and rough, but it was also very fun and impressive to see what was pulled together in 3 weeks! Cannot overstate the incredible capabilities of everyone involved
Chris
This was a tough process, but had fun with it nonetheless
While it’s been the most stressful troupe show, it’s also been the most fun
Because of a very good team, so appreciative
Never felt like he had to complain about anyone - really good team chemistry for sure.
Can sense the passion from everyone involved
Would not have been able to do this without his crew!
Big thanks to all of them!!!
Putting a mainstage together in 3 weeks was incredibly difficult
The amount of work put into a regular mainstage is already a lot, to compress it to 3 weeks was very very hard
Couldn't help but feel like he was falling behind
Doesn’t know what would have happened if a new TD was in this position
A lot of techies dropped
Kinda frustrating on top of the already difficult situations
To touch on the first meeting like Gavin did, switching the creative team would have been messy
Felt like tech wasn’t fully thought of in that meeting
Tried to bring up a tech concern, conversation kinda plowed over it
Without techies, shows don’t happen
Is there a lot to learn about this experience? This just shouldn’t have happened, and hopefully won’t ever happen again.
For future situations, the concerns of the tech team should be addressed more often
Kelly
Everyone is awesome, once again
Appreciates their patience and guidance so much!
Glad everything came together as it did
Wish she had access to the producer guide a bit sooner in the process
Wish she could have been involved more pre-tech week
APs were awesome!!!
Didn’t want to push them to over-involvement, afraid of drops. Very specific involvement threshold, and it seemed to work out!
Final thing to do - reimbursements
Show switch was very tough, sort of had to start over
Glad she got to be a part of this!!
Ian
Jeff & Geoff was such an amazing experience!!! I am so so thankful that I got to be part of this play, even if it wasn’t the play we originally set out to put on. I definitely want to echo the comments from She Kills about not totally knowing what my position as stage manager entailed until tech week pretty much. I was fortunate enough to have a super patient and helpful team to work with, but I think that having a clearer indication of what a stage manager does would have been helpful as well. Not only to outline the requirements but also to collect all the tips and tricks stage managers have developed over the years. Other than that, I loved my time as stage manager! It was such an incredible time, especially as my first time stage managing or doing anything behind the scenes for a show, and I’ll never forget it. Everyone was super helpful, I loved getting to know the cast and crew, and it makes me so happy that I got to help put together Jeff & Geoff. My final note is that I would strongly urge the Troupe eboard to reevaluate their relationship with SAO and consider taking action to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again. Even if it’s just a strongly worded email, I believe that Stage Troupe should do something to let SAO know just how unacceptable their inaction was. I would hate to see this happen again to another show or to other directors, and I’d also be more than happy to help out in any way with whatever action may be taken against SAO. Anyways, I’d hate to end this checkout on a downer, so thank you all again so so much for making this such a great experience, y’all are amazing, and I hope you all have a tremendous break <3333
GM 4 Planning!
Take a photo! - promote this too, get more people to come
Meet at 4:30 for board, gm at 6
Gavin will book a room
BUSTies voting - google form
Nom-com - how to include one acts before one acts has happened?
Have people see it friday night and then do it before sunday
Will we meet next weekend?
8pm EST on zoom
New pitches, voting on those pitches, busties voting, tech show promo, assassins, holiday hits, frog pong? Fenway rink? On the 11th. So fun. And a photo.