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Shatcher
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Joined: 2/21/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 251 |
 Posted: 9/09/05 at 11:24am |
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I'm sure your MFA means the same thing as mine does!!! I know I don't know everything, but I'm close!!!!LOL I |
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Gaafa
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Joined: 3/21/04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1181 |
Posted: 9/09/05 at 12:44pm |
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I don't know what you guys mean?
Mines a BA & I know BA! Along with all about NOWT! |
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Joe
Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
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POB14
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Joined: 7/01/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 349 |
Posted: 9/09/05 at 2:55pm |
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Gaafa, do they not have MFAs in Australia, or am I missing a joke in the translation? (Babelfish doesn't have a 'Straine setting!) MFA = Master of Fine Arts, a degree on a level with an MA, but (in theory at least) performance/production-oriented, as opposed to being a stepping stone to an acacemic career. Occasionally an individual with an MFA will come into a community theatre setting and announce that he has a Theatre Degree and he is going to fix your crappy little theatre by showing you How It's Really Supposed To Be Done. (Said theatre generally has a strong membership and has sold out 90% of its seats for ten years, but isn't Doing It Right.) This person generally leaves after two seasons, with a large number of footprints on his backside. His version, of course, is that he Can't Work Under These Conditions. None of this applies to any of the fine people on this forum who have MFAs and are perfectly wonderful people, like Tristan and Shatcher, who do, in fact, know everything. |
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POB
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tristanrobin
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Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704 |
Posted: 9/09/05 at 4:40pm |
...if this involves maternal activity or body parts, we should let it alone... 
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MoonlightFlame
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Joined: 7/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 26 |
Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:39am |
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I think that is one thing that worries us. The director is VERY experienced? I was speaking with one of the actors and he said, ?Well, the director does know what he wants? and I said ?No, he know what he wants right NOW, not what he wants in the end.? We found out that the director probably does not even like techies?he told our light tech he NEVER did any tech work because it just didn?t interest him?Uhh, okay? Our director came backstage before we got there and lift us a note of encouragement? he asked about our usual traditions and we told him?typically you give the cast a pep talk and go mingle with the audience during wine tasting? Well, he gave literally a 10 second ?Break-a-Leg? to the cast and sat in the light booth the entire performance? it?s SOOO nerve racking and annoying. Oh, and if the prop gun was loaded, someone probably WOULD have shot him. Oh, and sadly I must work tomorrow morning so I was unable to go to the after party? I was kind of sad?but my SM made sure to tell me she?d drink some for me, haha. Anyway, we had to be an hour before our call today to fix some MORE things... the director even said he wanted some other things changed for tomarrow.... Uh, hello! We've already opened... If the changes we directly affecting me I would have said no more after opening or I walk...but their not.... I just don't understand why he would change things so dramatically after final dress. Opening night went smoothly... at least our actors did not break any more glass...we have this set piece that rolls on and actors moving in...and they knocked off a glass lamp and I spent 1/2 the 1st scene trying to clean it up.... I HATE having actors move sets..I avoid it at ALLLLL costs...the SM and I were going to do it all ourselves, but it would take WAY too long... Smit |
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Gaafa
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Joined: 3/21/04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1181 |
Posted: 9/10/05 at 9:01am |
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I doubt your babble fish needss to got to Zaphod Beeblebrox to be tuned!
Ta for the clarification! I wanted to be sure of the correct meaning of the acronym! Some of the meanings I came up with my self - well! We don?t designate the degree the same here, but I?m sure the ?Gallahs? are no different  |
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Joe
Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
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Gaafa
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Posted: 9/10/05 at 11:34am |
G?d one! Stick to your gun! Write him off, carry on enjoying to do "IT? As POB suggested, get the Committee to read him the Riot Act! If they don?t! Let it wash past you like a wave! Ignorance is shear bliss & can make for great memories! That's 'what we are about' in the end! |
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Joe
Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
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Tom_Rylex
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Joined: 5/07/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 60 |
Posted: 9/10/05 at 1:25pm |
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MoonlightFlame -
I have a much longer thought on this topic, hopefully I'll get to it later. It sounds like your director has overstepped his bounds as a director. Your producer or board (if the producer doesn't) should have clamped down on this person much earlier. They still should, if you have any shows left. If they do or don't, your stage manager is in charge of the show now, not the director. (If the director were 'experienced', he'd know that.) If there's a tactful way to let him know that, do so. If there's not, and the stage manager can successfully run the show without any of the new changes, do it without the changes. You've got a job to do, and a show to run. I'd go so far as locking the door to the lighting booth to keep him out if I couldn't get cooperation from the director/producer/board. But that's only based on my perception of your situation. I might offer different advice if I were actually there. Put the best face on things, be as professional as you can, make the show look as good as possible for the audience, and make sure you attend the post-production beating, er, meeting. -Tom |
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Gaafa
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Posted: 9/10/05 at 10:15pm |
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Bewdy Tom
You just gave me an idea! Moonlight Flame - print out a copy of this thread or email it to this Gallah! Give it to him &/or the Committee. { A Gallah is a pink & white Cockatoo;- [that does nothing but constantly preen themselves, sit in trees, squawk, & ground feed the left overs of the hard working Black Cocky?s pruning work] Similar to some Directors, Producers & warm props} |
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Joe
Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
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MoonlightFlame
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Joined: 7/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 26 |
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:26pm |
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I have only worked on one other show in community theatre and the other show we had 2 cast members and 4 tech...(so we had tech parties and invited the cast) Anyway, I only needed one person to help and he skipped out of the last few shows so the director, who was at every show, (first time she had directed) came back to help me. It was very hard for he to not be backstage because she has been an SM so around 20 years..... But anyhow, the director wanted a spot light to run with curtain call, but at the rate he wanted it to go the light guy could not get to it fast enough, so I have to run up to the booth after my last scene change to run it....after the show last night the director came up and informed us that he would not be attending tomarrow and we were on our own... Awesome! We are more than capable of running the show by ourselves... I am the only rookie techie... Lights and the SM (husband and wife) have been doing theatre for around 20 years and our sound tech has done numerous show.... A few of the actors were talking one night and I found out that they nicknamed me Smit... (Stage Manager In Training) because I am working under such an experienced SM who is also a family friend. Anyway, things last night went fine with the director at least... though we did loose power to the booth, lobby, bathrooms and box office....yet the backstage and stage lights stayed up...though when our light tech re-booted the board they did go off and he had to hit a random, (luckly a general) cue... Why is it that techies typically tell stories of things going wrong more than going right....? Smit |
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