Author Topic: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!  (Read 36160 times)

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2012, 05:24 pm »
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    The building's heat, cooling, plumbing and electrical systems work perfectly and as designed, requiring only standard repairs.

I assume there's also separate control for the stage, auditorium and dressing rooms?

...and booth?!

Opening night will include special thank you gifts for stage management and crew.

Actors will remember lines, blocking and concept shifts, and all blocking, prop, set and costume issues will be resolved and locked before tech.

The stage managers will be able to take lunch and appropriate breaks.

When places is called, actors will come to places.

 

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2012, 05:52 pm »
Essential stationery supplies for the rehearsal and show process (blu-tac for sticking up actor research on the rehearsal room walls, post-its for the book, highlighters for the book, paper and card for paper props) will be paid for out of the company/show budget, and not the SM team's pocket.

Ditto painkillers for actors ('have you got anything in your kit ?'), first aid supplies, tampax, hairbands ...

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2012, 06:11 pm »
There will be windows in the rehearsal room to provide natural light, and functional blinds/shades that are easily operable and never get stuck!
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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2012, 06:25 pm »
The company will be exactly the same for every show - thereby eliminating the 'I'm not available then, I have an audition' statement.....

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2012, 09:01 pm »
Interns are paid, do intern-appropriate work, are adequately fed, housed and watered, and have enough background knowledge when they join the company that they don't end up creating more work than they actually do.

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2012, 10:03 pm »
Interns are paid, do intern-appropriate work, are adequately fed, housed and watered, and have enough background knowledge when they join the company that they don't end up creating more work than they actually do.

If you water the interns, do they grow? Or are they like Gremlins and if they get wet they multiply??
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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2012, 11:12 pm »
Everyone involved in the production has a perfect temperament. No one yells, brags, pulls a diva moment, talks ill of another, spreads rumors, etc. Essentially, everyone gets along swimmingly.

Every department has a large enough staff (skilled in the tasks in that department) so that no one ever has to overwork themselves.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2012, 12:21 am »
Every lock in the building works, without needing massages, hip-pops, extra force or handle-jiggling.

There are sufficient keys in circulation that you never have to hunt one down, but so few keys in circulation that the locks are actually useful.

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2012, 01:53 am »
There is an endless supply of honey.

A special barrier will cause audience member's phones to automatically turn off upon entering the theatre.

Everyone is always in a great mood.


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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2012, 07:50 am »
The actors, crew, and SM never get sick BUT we have an adequate number of understudies/ASMs/crew swings who have had lots of rehearsal time just in case.

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2012, 08:22 am »
The rehearsal room floor will be made of a material that takes well to spike tape, withstands abuse by tap shoes, and most importantly, is laid down in 1 foot by 1 foot squares.



why the small squares?
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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2012, 10:20 am »
The rehearsal room floor will be made of a material that takes well to spike tape, withstands abuse by tap shoes, and most importantly, is laid down in 1 foot by 1 foot squares.



why the small squares?

If your floor is a grid, that's way less measuring to spike out the set!

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2012, 10:44 am »
Ricola and the Theater have a unique relationship providing an unending supply of their original cough drops and as payment just get an advertisement in the Playbill. (They stopped doing this when the economy crashed a few years ago but hopefully we can get this going again!)

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2012, 11:02 am »
A special barrier will cause audience member's phones to automatically turn off upon entering the theatre.

Yes!  I love this!   :D

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Re: Introducing the Unicorn Rainbow Sparkly Theatre Company!
« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2012, 12:52 pm »
Patrons are ALWAYS on time, so we never have to hold the house for so-and-so's mom/the mayor/c-list celeb who mentioned they *might* come in a radio interview last month.

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