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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: House is Open or Closed?
« on: May 05, 2011, 03:58 am »
"Half Hour: House is open."
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Re: ESCRIPTS: Post your requests for electronic scripts here!
« on: Apr 19, 2011, 04:04 am »
Okay -
Easy Breezy, Lemon Squeezey...
MUSIC MAN
vernonwillet@yahoo.com
Easy Breezy, Lemon Squeezey...
MUSIC MAN
vernonwillet@yahoo.com
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The Hardline / Re: Theatres That Have Closed--Can You Say "Emergency?"
« on: Apr 17, 2011, 09:44 pm »
Found this today...
Intiman Theater Cancels Season
By KATE TAYLOR
The board of the financially embattled Intiman Theater in Seattle voted on Saturday to cancel the rest of the 2011 season and lay off the theater’s staff, said Susan Trapnell, a consultant that the board hired late last month to lead a financial turnaround.
Ms. Trapnell said that she had advised the board to take the step because it was not clear the theater could meet its obligations for the rest of the season.
“I just thought we need to stop and regroup and figure out what it’s going to take to do next year and raise the money to do that, rather than kill ourselves to be back at zero in January,” Ms. Trapnell said.
Some employees will be given two weeks’ notice, and some will be laid off immediately, with severance. The theater’s current production, of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” will close on Sunday as scheduled.
In mid-February, Intiman announced an emergency fund-raising campaign and said that it needed to raise $500,000 by the end of March and another $500,000 by September to stay open. On March 31, it said that, even though it had only raised $450,000 so far, it would continue the season.
But only after that, apparently, did Ms. Trapnell have a chance to look closely at the theater’s revenue projections, which she decided were unrealistic. She said she made the recommendation to cancel the season now because actors were about to start arriving to begin rehearsals for Intiman’s next production, and she was not sure the theater could pay them through the length of the run.
Ms. Trapnell has experience in a similar situation. She led another Seattle company, A Contemporary Theater, out of a similar crisis in 2003. In that case, too, the board decided to close the theater temporarily, and she said that made her task easier. The theater ultimately reopened.
“I think the only hope is, you stop and you focus — otherwise, you just never get your head up far enough to think, and it just gets worse and worse,” she said. “You start using a lot of well-intentioned money, and then you can’t get it when you really have your head clear because you’ve broken promises too many times.”
Intiman Theater Cancels Season
By KATE TAYLOR
The board of the financially embattled Intiman Theater in Seattle voted on Saturday to cancel the rest of the 2011 season and lay off the theater’s staff, said Susan Trapnell, a consultant that the board hired late last month to lead a financial turnaround.
Ms. Trapnell said that she had advised the board to take the step because it was not clear the theater could meet its obligations for the rest of the season.
“I just thought we need to stop and regroup and figure out what it’s going to take to do next year and raise the money to do that, rather than kill ourselves to be back at zero in January,” Ms. Trapnell said.
Some employees will be given two weeks’ notice, and some will be laid off immediately, with severance. The theater’s current production, of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” will close on Sunday as scheduled.
In mid-February, Intiman announced an emergency fund-raising campaign and said that it needed to raise $500,000 by the end of March and another $500,000 by September to stay open. On March 31, it said that, even though it had only raised $450,000 so far, it would continue the season.
But only after that, apparently, did Ms. Trapnell have a chance to look closely at the theater’s revenue projections, which she decided were unrealistic. She said she made the recommendation to cancel the season now because actors were about to start arriving to begin rehearsals for Intiman’s next production, and she was not sure the theater could pay them through the length of the run.
Ms. Trapnell has experience in a similar situation. She led another Seattle company, A Contemporary Theater, out of a similar crisis in 2003. In that case, too, the board decided to close the theater temporarily, and she said that made her task easier. The theater ultimately reopened.
“I think the only hope is, you stop and you focus — otherwise, you just never get your head up far enough to think, and it just gets worse and worse,” she said. “You start using a lot of well-intentioned money, and then you can’t get it when you really have your head clear because you’ve broken promises too many times.”
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The Hardline / Re: Prompt Script Etiquette
« on: Apr 07, 2011, 05:21 am »
My calling script is the same as the script created during tech. I don't want to turn a page and see something "clean" or unfamiliar in the middle of a show.
This original, pencil version of my calling script belongs to the producer.
Any other cleaned up version is an additional endeavor and deserves to be paid for at the contract's aforementioned price.
This original, pencil version of my calling script belongs to the producer.
Any other cleaned up version is an additional endeavor and deserves to be paid for at the contract's aforementioned price.
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The Hardline / Re: Reports
« on: Apr 07, 2011, 05:14 am »
I keep a copy of everything.
Just to CMA (cover my ass)...
Just to CMA (cover my ass)...
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The Hardline / Re: More on the attacks on unions
« on: Apr 01, 2011, 04:32 pm »
Wow.
Talk about one-sided information.
Seems grossly unfair of the studio to not have a rebuttal.
Talk about one-sided information.
Seems grossly unfair of the studio to not have a rebuttal.
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The Hardline / Re: SUPPORT UNIONS - MARCH W AEA in Los Angeles on March 26
« on: Mar 25, 2011, 02:37 am »
Well spoken...
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The Hardline / Re: EMC points question
« on: Mar 24, 2011, 03:03 am »
And my thoughts are the Theatre could ask AEA for a waiver of that last qualifying week and any new contracts, like Matthew said, would be AEA. When in doubt, ask Equity!
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The Green Room / Re: Do you add a personal touch to your booth?
« on: Feb 28, 2011, 09:31 pm »
Stolichinaya makes tequila?
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The Green Room / Re: Do you add a personal touch to your booth?
« on: Feb 26, 2011, 01:32 am »
wow...
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The Green Room / Re: \"Have you thought about accounting . . . ?\"
« on: Feb 09, 2011, 01:50 pm »
I, too, have been doing this for some time. I have never had the "you just aren't cutting it" speech. Rather, I have said these are the specific things I need from you. Here are sample templates and ideas from when I did these things. Questions? If so, then a conversation about specifics ensued. If not, then immediately after a shortcoming in an area of need, we had a conversation about what happened, why it happened and why it didn't do what I needed it to do. Not necessarily the "person" was insufficient, the "outcome" was.
This has worked more times than not...
This has worked more times than not...
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The Green Room / Re: Trivia Tournament III - 2.0.11
« on: Feb 03, 2011, 11:30 pm »
Really !?!
I pick the topics !?!
No pressure, V...
I pick the topics !?!
No pressure, V...
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The Hardline / Re: Equity Crossroads
« on: Feb 02, 2011, 12:20 am »
The Chicago AEA office closed at 1:00 pm today due to the storms...