Check-ins
Siena:
Approved God’s Favorite Event
Went to God’s Favorite
Went to the Tsai workshop
Gavin:
Booked rooms as usual
Worked on God’s Favorite
Got the SM keys back from Zoe
Emma:
Worked on God’s Favorite
Offered Family Aid tickets - no one responded :(
Met w/Liv about Auction payments
Liv:
Did God’s Favorite
Working on Auction payments
Had some “fun” conversations with SAO about the Event Request and the Eventbrite, eventually fixed both
Julia:
Lots of God’s Favorite promo
Sent the big email at the start of the week
Made a graphic for SM workshop and posted it
Katie:
Talked through furniture rentals w/Wandering Minds
Lights Workshop
Talked about sound issues in the theater
SM Workshop planning meeting
Did the Tsai workshop
Did God’s Favorite
The Wolves:
Julia:
No rehearsals this week, actors working on memorization - hopefully 1 read through before spring break
Leela:
Same as Julia
Bill:
Met with APs, designed program and planned graphics
Priya:
Finished up department meetings
Getting settled on purchase orders
Rayna:
Working on memorizations
Push to submit costume forms
Anne of Green Gables:
Emma:
Almost done blocking Act 2 - 2 positive COVID cases so slightly behind
Creative Team meeting today
Guin enthusiastically agreed to take on more of an AD role, along with Dance rehearsal next week
Claire:
God’s Favorite strike
Made a set design
Made up a rough purchase order
Hair/Makeup submitted forms by the deadline, costumes has been a bit wonky but will get done soon
Carly:
COVID cases slowed down blocking, but should be able to wrap it up by spring break
Met with Brian to talk about ASM stuff
Natalie:
No big developments - went to creative team meeting today
Will submit orders
Starting to plan photoshoot
God’s Favorite Check-Outs:
Will:
Excellent process
The goal was to foster some younger talent in Troupe - both in the creative team (Zoe/Sarah) and in the cast
A lot of kids coming into Troupe have a school-based mindset, so they had to work on thinking about something and THEN executing it - intention driven, no hard blocking. Very important in a 4 week process
Essential that creative teams get on the same page for such a short timeline - director MUST have their vision in place and know how it’s gonna be run in addition to rules/responsibilities
Decentralized work should be improved upon for everyone in the group - giving people the ability and power to make their own decisions within the guidelines is extremely important - tried not to give direct commands. Short form processes are especially reliant on this - put the newer actors in the earlier shows so they can work on planning something and then executing it
Needed to work on showing up on time - a bunch of people didn’t do that consistently
Individual sessions for inexperienced actors was very helpful - character development as well as ability and confidence increased - Arpita is a good example, having never stage acted before - eventually really came into her own
Off-book methods were pretty efficient - stressed that dropping lines is not as impactful as dropping the energy - make sure to focus on keeping that energy up! They were able to recover very well when things went wrong with lines in shows
Put the lines up on a screen - helped them with keeping that energy up rather than having to look down all the time
Allow creative team to bring on other people if they want - takes stress off of everyone
Everything is a teachable moment
Scheduling was very difficult - very few instances to get the whole cast together
Creative team with a strong acting background helped - get an AD in particular who has an acting background, allows the director’s vision to get on the stage better
Colin wasn’t able to do it for one night - double casting works! Try to do it if you can - gets more underclassmen involved - don’t take them out of the process completely, because then they lose interest in the club
Know when you HAVE to demand something! Save it for tech week, you’ll probably need it then
Creative team debriefs after rehearsals - better than setting up separate creative team meetings
“Nothing illegal, unethical, or immoral” - worked well, never had any problems - no drama or anything like that. Started as a joke but ended up being helpful
Touch base with your actors after act 1, and let them adapt - turned it into a drama on Friday to match the energy in the room
Integrating with tech was easy because Chris knows what he’s doing
Having the creative team in the rehearsal room is a good idea
Zoe:
Working with actors for scheduling was a struggle - all of them were busy, but had to be supportive of that so that they continued to enjoy the process
Communicating with tech was very important, make sure everything was running smoothly
Getting tech involved earlier in the process helps them stay engaged
Really enjoyed doing the show!
Chris:
The show happened
He is exhausted
Process was very quick - not abnormal for TiA, but a lot of people dropped as well which made it harder
By the end of it a lot of departments just didn’t have assistants, or had assistants that were injured
Had three major assignments due so that did not help
That being said, the whole tech team was amazing
Lots of Troupe veterans helping out the new Troupe people, a lot of people stepped up
Tried to make it a good process, Will and John’s philosophy was very helpful for fostering new Troupe people, and it was a success - lots of new Troupies were excited to work on more shows
Got a tip? Ok cool I guess
Very fun process overall, creative team was fantastic all around
Good mix of old people and new people
Recommendations: Build new flats because they are old, and need some new people who could step up to be TD in the future - promising options thus far
Show only worked because the techies were very good - allowed a lot more stuff to be done
Theater sound issues update:
Talked to Lex about it - one of the speakers is crunchy, Lex knows how the board works
They’re gonna come look at it on Friday
Liz Smith is gonna come by so she can relearn lights