Hey all,

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. In this post we have some fun things coming up, some necessary postponements, and some guidelines for getting a play you’d like to see us do produced.

Starting with the fun things, I will be discussing when we will hold auditions for K2 and Birth and Afterbirth with Wally and Dee. Since we won’t be in our own space as soon as we had planned, we will most likely run these as fundraisers offsite, just like Reggie and Justin’s shows. Stay tuned!

At 7pm on Wednesday the 30th of December we will be meeting at the church to discuss the fundraiser. This will be our major fundraiser for the year, so we need to pull out all the stops. We will need people to canvas businesses to get donations and invite them to the event. We need folks to act in the murder mystery. And we will need workers for the event – ticket takers, greeters, schmoozers, etc. At this meeting we will be assigning folks to all these positions. Please invite anyone who is interested in getting the theater back up and running!

This brings us to the postponements. As mentioned in the last post, due to delays in getting the building opened up we will be waiting until we have a firmer date on having all the utilities turned on before we set the date for the fundraiser (above). This also pushes back the first season show, Rugburns. Please show up for the meeting on the 30th to help us decide how and when we want the fundraiser to take place. I know that some of you are chafing at the bit to get started producing shows, but the timing for the rest of the season depends on when we get the doors open, not on an exact date. We need to put together the timeline from ‘D-Day’ on.

Now for submitting a play for consideration. I met with Drew and Glen to put together a list of questions that need to be answered for any show you would like to propose for production. You can submit this worksheet to me by any method (paper, electronic, etc). Please be as complete as you can, and feel free to add any info that you might think will make it easier to decide on the play. (if you want this in electronic format, let me know and I will email it to you).

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Montana Actor’s Theater – Center Stage

Production Proposal worksheet

1. Name of play:

2. Author:

3. Type (comedy, tragedy, musical):

4. Rights Holder:

5. Royalties:

6. Length of show (one-act? full length?):

7. Last time performed locally: by whom?:

8. Proposed director:

9. Size of cast (M/F):

10. Set description (blackbox, interior, etc):

11. Will this coincide well with any holidays or events?:

12. Does the play “fit” with our mission and vision and with our community?:

13. Do we have the personnel to put this show on?:

14. Estimate of budget for show:

15. Target audience:

16. Language concerns (accents, coarseness, etc):

17. Sponsorship tie-ins?:

18. Costuming concerns:

19. Tech concerns:

20. Portability to other stages:

21. What location do you think work best for this show?:

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Thanks for reading this, and I hope to see ALL of you on Wednesday!

BC