FOA Update: Posters & looking for a Board Op

Mainstage Update: auditions happened today, audition sheets will go to Lien

Oct 6 GA: We have Gilman 50 from 5pm to 7:30pm. Need the movie + food. Start advertising after auditions.

Decide between Monologue Competition & Spring Shakespeare

• Tech will be similar to FOAs for Spring Shakespeare
• 4 people said they were interested
• Maybe an abridged version?
• More time for rehearsal this semester. Inside?

Pick deadlines for agenda times

• Time for Board members to send agenda items to Lien by: Sunday at midnight
• Time for Agenda to get sent out by: Monday at midnight

Budget re-allocation

• O-Show $327.01 under budget.
• Donations $401.1
• $38.09 spent on 9-10-12 GA
• $100 to food
• $263.01 go to musical

FOA Logistics

• Gilman rooms for Auditions. Need to make signs. 
  
• Front of House: Steph for Sat 1pm-2:30pm. Ben for Sat 2:30pm-4pm. Matt for Sunday. 
  
• Steph to send audition email to Mike Vincent.
  
• Victoria to meet with Eve about tech week schedule. Paper tech/dry tech/wet tech. 
  
• Stage Manager: Eve
  
• Light/Sound Board Op: Eve? (will be talked about at tech interest meeting tomorrow).
  
• Victoria will meet Tory to come up with a FOA publicity timeline.
  
• Table talkers in FFC for this weekend.
  

Ideas to market Barnstormers Theater to Hopkins

• Publicize off-campus! Victoria to make a list of places that will say yes to flyers (B&N Starbucks, Eddie’s, One World, Maxie’s). Newspapers.
• Reach out to faculty. Send more show announcements to Mike Vincent.
• Send show announcements to English department.
• Put up posters in the Barn. Announcements at start of Barn classes. Extra Credit.
• Personal invitations to Theater Faculty to come to shows. JHU Affiliates pay student rates.
• Place quarter sheet flyers in classrooms?
• 2,000 mini-posters for Mainstage. Order a set at the end of September.
• Reminder email to Buttered Niblets & Throat Culture & Witness & DBH to publicize for us as well.
• Matt to meet with Presidents of Niblets, TC, Witness, and DBH.
• Tent on Freshmen Quad for T-shirts. Federal Credit Union.
• Fundraisers. Bake sales not near show-time.
• Publicize on JHMI Buses.
• Show announcements on JHU Class of 2014, etc. Today’s Announcements.
• Posters to have taglines or 2-sentence summaries.
• Make a bigger deal about opening nights. Dinner? Mandatory Board Member Attendance.
• Tell RAs to bring their residents to come see FOAs.

Picking a FOA 
*please notes that the following are comments that were said, not necessarily comments that all Board members agreed upon, or sole reasons why a FOA was picked or not picked* 
1. The Philadelphia by David Ives

• Funny. Fun for Freshmen to be in.
  
• Overdone. DBH did it last year. Always done in theater classes.
  

2. Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett

• Submission obviously thought-out
  
• 4 may be too big, only Luke can really be double cast 
  
• Would a Freshman be okay with not having any lines? It’s their first theater experience with Hopkins. Their parents might come, etc.
  
• Director has other major time commitments.
  

3. The Red Coat by John Patrick Shanley

• Very cute
• A little sappy, Freshmen actors may not have the experience needed to make it not so sappy.

4. Beer Girl by Walter Wykes

• Funny, good for college-age actors/audience
  
• Beer can structure?
  
• Beer can costume?
  

5. Fourteen by Alice Gerstenberg

• Need 14 matching chairs? Also huge scene transition needed.
  
• Need extensive costumes?
  
• Very funny 
  

6. A Matter of Husbands by Ferenc Molnar

• Pretty funny
  
• Costume issues.
  
• Inexperienced director?
  

7. Fiddle and Faddle by Tom Gliatto

• Lots of monologues that may get boring.
  
• Very hard to read the copy of the script.
  

8. Cindy and Julie by Bruce Kane

• Pretty funny
  
• Freshmen would probably enjoy being in it
  
• Possibly just cute, would all the jokes land or just be clever?
  

9. Surprise by Mark Harvey Levine

• Funny
  
• Fun for actors to be in
  

10.  Sorry by Timothy Mason

• Run time listed on rights website is longer than cap
  

• Exec Board Introductions.
  
• Invitation to come onto Exec Board.
  
• Freshmen introduce themselves + favorite play.
  
• Matt: Intro to Barnstormers.
  
• Matt: Announce Mainstage. 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose. Auditions in late September.
  
• Victoria: FOA Auditions this weekend. Board Members cannot vote on their own FOA Submissions.
  
• Steph: Announce Tech Interest Meeting (Wednesday at 6:30pm)
  
• Matt: Quorum
  
• Ideas for upcoming year
  

1. Secretary

• Upload Meeting Minutes to website. Suggestion box. thejhubarnstormers.org
  
• Keep Barnstormers Members List on excel. Membership consists of having been involved with a show (auditions & builds count).
  

2. Publicity Manager

• Show banners on the breezeway
  
• Rehearsal pictures to facebook and website
  
• Show blog
  

3. Business Manager

• Grants and Fundraisers 
  
• Working budget
  

4. VP Studio

• Googledocs to keep track of budget
  
• More pro-team meetingPresident

5. President

Pick date/time for weekly board meetings: Sundays at 5:30pm or Tuesdays at 8:30pm.

New mailing list = “Barnstormers Members.” Send BCC.

FOAs

• Make Facebook event for FOA Auditions on September 9.
• Talk about Tech next week.

O-Show

• Reimbursements given to Business Manager.
• Sign ups for Breezway.
• Sign ups for Front of House.
• Come to Final Dress with notes.
•  Advertise! 

First GA Meeting

1. Icebreakers. Freshmen introduce themselves + best theater-related experience.
2. Order pizza. Potluck.
3. Agenda Items 

• Intro to Barnstormers
• Intro to Exec Board. New ideas for upcoming year.
• Invitation to come onto Exec Board.
• Announce Mainstage
• Discuss new website (Meeting Minutes, Suggestion Box)
• FOA Auditions. Board Members could not vote on their own FOAs.
• Membership consists of having been involved with a show (auditions & builds count).
• Quorum
• Suggestions?
• Announce Tech Interest Meeting
• Sign up for Mailing List!

SAC Fair

1. Costumes
2. Sign ups to man the table for Board and Members.
3. Push O-Show, FOAs, 1st GA Meeting. Sign-up sheets for Acting/Tech. Give out Candy.
4. Tory will make a Banner.

New ideas

• Monologue Competition in late Spring. Sykes to meet with DBH and Witness. To be further discussed on September 18 meeting.

• Monthly movie nights. Combine with GA.
• Trip to Centerstage or Hippodrome. Sykes will look into it.
• Barnstormers-specific calendar on website.

Things we talked about in the past to keep up with for this upcoming year
1. Secretary

• Upload Meeting Minutes to website
• Keep Barnstormers Members List on excel file. New Mailing List. Please give Lien audition sheets and names of people who come to builds
• Homewood Arts calendar to avoid conflicts

2. Publicity Manager

• Look into advertising with Baltimore Newspaper and Centerstage
  
• Show banners on the breezeway
  
• Rehearsal pictures to facebook and website
  
• Show blog
  
• Poster design competition
  
• Look into ordering a banner. Logo competition.
  

3. Business Manager

• Grants and Fundraisers 
  
• Keep a working budget
  

4. VP Studio

• Googledocs to keep track of budget
  
• More pro-team meetings
  
• Next year’s O-Show: auditions before school ends? So elections have to be early.