Board Meeting

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