Do you do things for your casts?

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 2:40am

In shows I've been in previously, I've received notes and cards and small tokens from cast and crew. For the show I'm in currently (The Mikado), our choreographer brought rice crispie sushi. (With fruit by the foot "seaweed" and with twizzlers in the center. Very cute.) And since I'm working with the greatest cast ever, I've finally decided to do something myself. Making tea and crumpets for cast and crew for tomorrow night's performance.


What has been done for you, or what have you done?

[DG]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 3:14am

My favorite gift, from an actress that I was introduced to on the project in question (and has since become one of my life mates) was a lovely little Buddha head sculpture.

It had a note attached that said, "I just couldn't let this experience go by without knowing that I hadn't at least given you a little head."

[shira467]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 3:20am

Ooooh, saucy!

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 3:24am

That's so cute!

[DG]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 3:25am

To be honest, I never really do anything for the cast - but am always very moved by thank-you notes, gifts or other gestures.

I guess that makes me a Selfish Prick.

[shira467]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 3:28am

Gee...I took you for the "baskets filled with gourmet jams and treats covered with raffia" kind of guy.

[DG]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 3:41am

I'm not THAT gay!

OK, maybe I am.

But I still don't do anything for other cast members.

So I'm a Selfish Gay Prick.

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 8:21am

I give gold boxed Godivas to casts of my 'special' ballets.
The four dancers in PAS DES DEESSES received Godivas on Thursday night. :)
Have a good day all!

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:15am

I've baked cookies and written thank you cards. Frankly, I don't have enough money to go wild with gifts. I'd really like to with some casts though.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:28am

I write up hand written cards for each person and write funny memories I have of them, what I've learned from them, or what they've meant to me throughout the production process.

But, I don't know if I'll do that with this current production. The cast is huge, and we've been fairly isolated into specific subsects during rehearsalso, so I have never even had a conversation with 75% of the rest of the cast.

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:31am

I gave all my dancers little goody bags and a little personalized note when I choreographed "Oklahoma" this year.

I love getting gifts for shows. I think its nice to do with/for your friends.

[forni-kate]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 11:56am

I know what you mean Colleen! I just finished a procution of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream", and pretty much the faeries and the lovers and the mechanicals were all seperate groups, rarely mingled. So in cases like that, I just get gifts for those people I worked with directly.

[M J R]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:45pm

Instead of an opening night gift for everyone, sometimes I'll wait until the end of the run and give little gifts to the people I can still stand....:)

I think the most well received gift I ever gave was when I got some of our publicity stills that featured each one of the leads and had publicity post cards made specifically for each one of them that they could send to agents or friends or whatever to get them to come to the show...Good souvenier too.

[lilprima2b]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 4:31pm

For my dance class this year (there's 16 of us and we get pretty close throughout the year), I wrote a letter with an individual message to each person in the class and taped it on the dressing room wall at our last show.

One of the nicest things I've seen was this year during our production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. A girl that was ASM (I think; something like that at least) had taken a lot of pictures backstage during the run and on the last night, she printed out one for each person (that they were in - mine was a picture of the ensemble girls, Millie and Miss Flannery doing our Forget About the Boy "angry" faces) with a note on the back that she had personalized for everyone. It was just really nice.

Another one during Millie... one of the girls who played Mrs. Meers (it was double-cast) gave everyone a bag of green tea with a note that said "Dis was rear good show!" or something horrible and politically incorrect like that. It was hilarious.

[Freckles1329]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 5:37pm

My cast of Godspell and Pippin got notes from the choreographer. And in Pippin, one of the cast members gave us all candles.. it was sweet!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 5:43pm

When we did Evita, one of the gals in the cast (who has since become a good friend) gave us all DiscoEvita.

The cast party was way fun that evening!

[harris007]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 10:49pm

i usually give flowers


things i have gotten- lil wodden coffin, and cap gun for getting away with murder.

egypt looking poster from music director in joesph

bottle of white wine and jasmine candle for shirley valentine

and my fav a stuffed cow from build a bear in purple robe and hat from my best friend when i was the wizard in once upon a mattress, the best part and my best friend didnt know it at the time, but the cow robe and mine MATCHED