Scheduling
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Topic: Scheduling
Posted By: Nanette
Subject: Scheduling
Date Posted: 12/01/07 at 8:01am
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A word to the wise ... just a suggestion ... never, never, never schedule any kind of rehearsal or production at the opening of deer season! (No, I shall never live this one down.) ------------- In a world of margarine, be butter! |
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Posted By: jayzehr
Date Posted: 12/01/07 at 12:19pm
Why? Are you rehearsing in the woods?
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Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 12/01/07 at 2:29pm
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I had a similar issue when I discovered a theater group would never rehearse on Tuesdays. Why? It was bowling night and nearly 2/3 of the group were enrolled in the league. Even tech week was no exception. ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |
Posted By: BeJa
Date Posted: 12/01/07 at 6:41pm
| Or Super Bowl Sunday! |
Posted By: eveharrington
Date Posted: 12/02/07 at 3:53am
Heaven forbid! 
We wouldn't want creativity to get in the way of gratuitous killing and woodland beer guzzling. ------------- "If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights." |
Posted By: whitebat
Date Posted: 12/02/07 at 10:18pm
| We did an interactive murder mystery the Saturday before Easter at CSU! Bad planning. We did manage to get some of the international students who live in on-campus housing to attend. |
Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 12/03/07 at 8:47am
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Ohio has a wonderful community theatre association which has its anual conference over Labor Day weekend. A few years ago our theatre did not check the dates of our shows well and scheduled a play for that weekend. We are in Northern Ohio and the conference that year was in southern Ohio. The show we were performing at our state conference was Escanaba in da Moonlight (all about deer camp). Unfortunately most of the cast of Escanaba was also in the current show. We performed our show on Friday night in the north, drove three hours south arriving at the conference at 2:30 AM, slept till six (yes still having to pay full room price) performed at 9 and were back on the road north by lunch.
Theatre boards, please double check your scheduling dates. ------------- Patrick L. Davis Fort Findlay Playhouse |
Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 12/03/07 at 11:26am
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Weren't you in charge of scheduleing that year????? (just kidding) I even tell our family members, "don't even schedule a wedding for conference weekend, cause I won't be there!" ------------- Marty W "Till next we trod the boards.." |
Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 12/03/07 at 12:40pm
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Truth be told yes I was part of the scheduling mishap, which is why I have stepped out of that decision ever since. ------------- Patrick L. Davis Fort Findlay Playhouse |