how to start my own theatre company?- Page 2

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 5:13pm

Oh, and I almost forgot, CO, how do you QUIT something you never started?

[children&art]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 5:14pm

ooh, sueleen "cock-o" would work "good-o" with my nekid theatre idear.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 5:18pm

I called the school and told them I wasn't going to do it anymore.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:08pm

My friends and I started a critically successful theatre company (though not financially, but that is a really long story) in Houston years ago. It actually started when we collaborated on writing a new musical review based on collection of unpublished poems utilizing the individual talents of each of the actors involved. Most importantly, we had our own space. It started in a one-car garage behind a house and had a total of thirteen seats with a tiny apartment above used for tech. Thus, The Little Room Downstairs was born. With word of mouth and effective marketing (too bad they couldn't carry through the marketing, but another long story), we played two full seasons there and earned enough money to move to a larger space, and then add a second space, form a board, create a mission statement, and earn our non-profit status. And that was the first GLBT theatre company in Houston. We won numerous awards and became pretty well-known (in Houston) for a while leading a trend of GLBT theatre companies in Houston, but it all came to a bitter end, which leads me to this word of advice...

COLLABORATION is the key. One person cannot (and should not) do it alone. If you can assemble a group of people who share a single vision (your mission or concept), yet have the individual talents to make each aspect of a production happen, you're good to go.

Oh, and it helps if you can all work for free for a few years. It takes a long time to earn anything from it, so you all must be completely devoted to be rewarded artistically, not financially.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:27pm

"I called the school and told them I wasn't going to do it anymore."

Did they cry and BEG you to stay? I mean, we all remember how you said it was your DREAM to go there and nothing could stand in your way.

How sad.

How many acts IS your novel?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:29pm

I thought it was because after you got accepted you found out how much it cost and told them thanks, but they would have to find someone else to make their spaghetti. So I wouldn't say you "quit" you just never started.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:33pm

Perhaps you two could start a Dinner Theatre for Children and call it Capn' O's Children and Arts Kindertheatre.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:43pm

That's fantastic. C&A knows how to use BWW to demonstrate modern communications, so he can do tech!

[children&art]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:44pm

namo, oh namo - eat it, i'm sick don't piss me off bitch.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:46pm

I take it you won't be showing your students THIS thread?

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:47pm

namo, oh namo - eat it, i'm sick don't piss me off bitch.

temper, temper.......or we'll have to resurrect your entire apology thread again........which some have said would never last..... (I, of course, was not one of them). Second chances are often given here...third and fourth...rarely

Updated On: 4/4/06 at 10:47 PM

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:48pm

::intently watches thread::

[children&art]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:49pm

watch all ya want, i just want to know about starting my own theatre company.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:51pm

I do hope that children&farts writes his own press releases for the theater. We'll all have a grand time reading them. A lapse of syntax here. A misplaced modifier there. Oh, it will be grand, grand, grand!!!!!!!!

[children&art]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:54pm

dollypop, how is it that people can not exist one day in your world and then magically be resurrected for you to comment on.

consistency is key old man.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:57pm

I said that YOU don't exist. However your postings do.

Now, back to your "vision"...

[children&art]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:58pm

silly old man, making up the rules as you go along...pathetic.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 11:00pm

children&farts, I'm enjoying this thread enormously. It's entertaining to see you make a fool of yourself.

[alterego]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:04am

Why does everyone want to rubbish children&art? Obviously he wants to establish some sort of theatre company and is looking guidance/ideas. Why so much negativity? I wish him well!

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:16am

I want to start a theatre company too! My vision, is to allow all the compulsive liars on this board to write their own scripts and act out all their fantasies. My first project would be to adapt Captain O's novel into a play. I mean afterall, it's already written in Acts...so how hard could it be to adapt? C&A would of course direct.

Updated On: 4/5/06 at 12:16 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:59am

Oh I get it, the show will be like the Into the Woods revival with a giant book on stage with the author credit being "Captain_Obvious!" That is a unique vision.

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:06am

Namo...would you like to invest? I'm positive that this is a can't miss opportunity. It'll be bigger than TABOO.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:12am

Bigger than TABOO, you say? That'll really shake some action!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:20am

nothing's bigger than taboo.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:27am

Stop trashing Taboo.