I am off to a Program Committee Meeting and then a run-thru with tech....whew!
We shall see.
The list they keep giving us has shows that I have OBJECTED to for years and years and they stay on the list. This show or that show that I like gets taken off because someone in the grocery store told the Chairperson they didn't like the show.....
SO - this is the last year of my three year term.....so they can do whatever they want next year. Everything I like is NEVER even considered - since I don't know anything.....and with the poor ensemble we have in THE MUSIC MAN - you would think they would realize that we can't do THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE or BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.....but someone wants them....so one or the other or BOTH will likely show up for 2012.
I like working in the box office.
DR JRand, not that I don't agree with you, because I do... however, don't you think you would get a better turn out for an ensemble for newer shows like
Millie and
Beast? People tend to flock to the newer shows and good people tend to want to be in the ensemble because it's a new show to them. If it's an issue of space, tech constraints, etc... I understand that too. BatB is a HUGE technical undertaking where
Millie just requires fabulous dancing. But they are newer shows and people want to do them.