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Board Meeting

11/27/2012

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I-Show
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged]
  • Auditions Dec 9 and 10. Or 10 and 11?
  • Talked about assembling the pro-team.
  • Ordering rights/scripts tonight or tomorrow night.

Spring Musical
  • Grant for choreography? Not up to $2000 to pay a choreographer.
  • Board is meeting on December 10 at 6:30pm to pick the musical.
  • Producer, Tech Exec, and Business Manager are meeting on December 2 at 3pm to come up with rough budget breakdowns for each musical on the short list.

Ideas for Arts Meeting with President Daniels in February
  • Will meet with Eric Beatty this Friday to plan the meeting.
  • We don’t have problems filling a cast; we have problems filling an audience. The arts aren’t a priority for Hopkins (for staff or students).
  • Arts not on the 10 for 20 list?
  • No Theater Major
  • Arellano Theater turned into a classroom.
  • Arts budgets keeps getting reduced.

Discussed Witness Theater sharing storage space with us.


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GA Meeting to pick Spring Musical short list

11/17/2012

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Here is the short list we decided on
  • Spring Awakening 
  • Bat Boy: The Musical 
  • Legally Blonde 
  • 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 
  • Sweeney Todd 
  • A Chorus Line 
Thank you to all those who came out to vote!

The Executive Board will be pick the Spring Musical on December 10.
Please send in opinion letters to jhubarnstormers@gmail.com before then.

Attached below our notes from the meeting, which includes number of votes for each musical at each round of voting.
Below it is a document compiling the musical submissions we received.
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Board Meeting

11/13/2012

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Arellano Scheduling
  • Feb 1-3: I-Show
  • April 26-28: Shakespeare (clashes with Homecoming events? will found out in the next week)

Mainstage

  • Final numbers
  • Poster locations – elevators
 
Film Making Club to film our shows
  • Video recording
  • Video blog/publicity
  • Need more info
 
I-Show Production Team
  • Waiting to see if all 3 tech positions will be here for Intersession
  • Pro-Team meeting before Winter Break
Picking the Musical on Saturday.  Mattin 160 at 2pm.
  • The Constitution says:
  1. At the scheduled GA meeting, active members will be given an opportunity to speak in favor of or against each show. At this stage, shows will be discussed for five minutes each, maximum.
  2. After shows have been discussed, there will be a preliminary vote to narrow the list to the top 10 shows. 
  3. After final remarks, there will be a secondary vote. The six shows with most votes will proceed to the short list.
  4. After the short list has been selected, members of the GA can submit “opinion” letters of each show detailing additional considerations. These letters should be sent to the Barnstormers email account to the attention of the VP of professional productions.
  • Secret written vote
  • First round: write down your bottom plays (up to 3). Three plays with most votes will be cut.
  • Second round: write down your top plays (up to 3). Six plays with most votes will be chosen.
  • No absentee voting
  • Update GA about I-Show, Shakespeare, tech assistants, Holiday Party on Dec 1

Publicity for future shows
  • See Board Meeting on Sep 11
  • Grants from high schools
  • Earlier ticket reservations and facebook event
  • Banners in Mattin Center. Move from Breezeway to Mattin Center
  • Fun Guide & Baltimore Sun
  • Contact more departments on campus to forward emails for us
  • Cut one of the matinee shows

No Board Meeting next Tuesday because of Thanksgiving.


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Board Meeting

11/6/2012

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Money saved from FOAs was reallocated
  • $100 to Spring Shakespeare
  • $424 to Spring Musical
  • Updated overall budget by Thursday

Dates for Spring Arellano. Which dates do we want for Shakespeare?
  • Scheduling on Friday
  • I-Show: Feb 1-3, Feb 8-10
  • Shakespeare: April 26-28, April 19-21

The way tech cuts are made for musical submissions
  • Tech Director is putting bulleted concerns under each Mainstage title, and cutting the show when she cannot find a way around these concerns or when the list gets excessively long. 
  • Shows are also being cut if they’ve been done in the past 7 years.

Changes in tech structure going forward
  • Tech Director would like to have Tech Assistants for each show (Assistant Lighting Designer, Assistant Sound Designer, Assistant Set Designer, Assistant Stage Manager, etc.)
  • In order to train underclassmen in tech and try to keep them involved
  • In order to get more help for Techie Board Members in tech-heavy shows

Mainstage
  • Budget
  • More publicity for this weekend

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