Artistic Director - YOU- Page 2

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 7:06pm

"Are we allowed to commission new work?"

If that's the way you think your theater should go, then sure. But you have to give us the author's name that you are commissioning or if you are planning a contest like the the Humana Festival.

Updated On: 1/13/08 at 07:06 PM

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 7:31pm

She Loves Me
The Waiting Room
Pacific Overtures
The Illusion
St Joan
Bat Boy, The Musical

[Gobstopper]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 7:58pm

Dreamgirls
Eric Bogsian's "subUrbia"
"Little Shop of Horrors
Jonathan Larson's "tick.. tick... BOOM"

[seymour krelborn]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 10:10pm

1) Little Shop of Horrors ( January -March)
2) The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (April-May)
3) Zombie Prom (Jun-August)
4) Assassins (September - Nov)
5) Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Cristmas Binge or The Santaland Diaries ( Dec)

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 10:18pm

A Little Night Music
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Wild Party (Lachiusa)
You Can't Take It With You
110 In The Shade

[bwayboi4life42]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 10:34pm

SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, Michael John LaChiusa
BABY WITH THE BATHWATER, Christopher Durang
HIGH SPIRITS, Timothy Grey & Hugh Martin
RASHOMON, Fay & Michael Kanin
PARADE, Jason Robert Brown & Alfred Uhry

[A Director]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:48am

This is a fun party game, but it is absurd to plan a season in a vacuum. There are some basic things to consider.
1. What is the financial state of the theatre? Was the artistic director brought in to get the theatre out of the red? If so, then the season would probably be small cast, one set shows.
2. Does the theatre depend primarily on ticket sales?
3. What are other financial sources? Grants? Donations? Rentals?
4. Where is the theatre located? Big city? Medium size city?
5. Who makes up the audience?
6. Where do the actors come from? Does the theatre use local actors? Does the theatre have a resident company?
7. What is the size of the stage? If it is small, there a good chance that large cast plays and musicals won't be on the season.
8. What is the size of the house?
9. What are the ticket prices?
10. What is the size of the production staff? Set, Costumes, Lights, Props, Sound?
Doing two large cast period shows back to back will kill the staff.
11. What is the theatre's budget?

Once these questions are answered, plus some I might have left out, then and ONLY then should a season bill be selected!

Someone said their theatre would have a color blind casting policy. Great, then the actors would be invisible. I think a better term is Diversity. A theatre should be made up of diverse people, ideas, cultures, and traditions.

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:04am

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Noises Off!
The Drowsy Chaperone
Souvenir
High School Musical

HSM would assure that we made money for the season, regardless of the situation of the theatre.

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:25am

A Director said: "...but it is absurd to plan a season in a vacuum."

Yeah, we all know that. But BroadwayWorld is a vacuum. Maybe you can start your own, "Set aside a weekend, get out the spreadsheets, invite Uncle Louis, the accountant, over and plan a season!" thread.

[DaneSaw]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:20am

I think the point of the thread was to see what shows people would put on if given the choice. Kind of like the "If you could play any role..." thread...I doubt the point was to start a whole to-do about the theater and the length of the run and the actors and the financial state of the theater....yeesh.

[Flaunt It]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:24am

Then call the thread "Name 5 shows you like" because being "Artistic Director" one needs to know certain things before programming a season.

[ohjustjake]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:30am

1) Jekyl and Hyde
2) The Cover of LIfe
3) Songs for a New World
4) Richard Corey
5) The Secret Garden

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:58am

pssst! It's pretend, Flaunt it.

We're not really "being Artistic Director." It's a game. Kind of like, "what would you do if you were President?" Doesn't mean you have to take a course in government and assemble a cabinet before you answer. You just say, "world peace" or "fund AIDS research"

I second Dane's yeesh!

Updated On: 1/14/08 at 10:58 AM

[Flaunt It]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:53am

I "yeesh" you right back... but then again... I get to help play this game for real every year so I have a different perspective than "let's make pretend"

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:23pm

Denver Center Theater Company:

1. August: Osage County
2. A new work from the new works festival we do
3. Taboo
4. A new work from the new works festival we do
5. Stuff Happens

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:12pm

1) Company
2) Godspell
3) Fantastiks
4) The Wedding Singer
5) Into the Woods

[lildogs]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:40pm

"But BroadwayWorld is a vacuum"

Especially when Jaily's logged on...so to speak...

My season:

RAGTIME
LOOT
AMERICAN BUFFALO
OTHELLO
JELLY'S LAST JAM

Basically I'm just trying to "cast" Norm Lewis.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:52pm

I "yeesh" you right back... but then again... I get to help play this game for real every year so I have a different perspective than "let's make pretend"


---- Bragging, bragging, bragging. We don't care. Now can we continue our game?

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:39pm

SOUTH PACIFIC
VANITIES
MACK & MABEL
BLACKBIRD
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:40pm

So how do you help, by getting the artistic director his coffee?

[Elphie3]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:45pm

All Musicals:

Children of Eden
Side Show
Urinetown
She Loves Me
Damn Yankees

All Plays:
Cymbeline
St. Joan
Our Town
The Maids
The Pillowman

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:11pm

Some of you are a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiitle bit too serious. The point of the thread is just to see what shows would make interesting combinations and in what order. Some people have theme seasons and some people have an all musical season. As a theatergoer, I would subscribe to some of the seasons that people have chosen. I looked at my original choices and realized that I had a bit too much "Southern" in my season. The point is to see what combinations people come up with and what order they think would be interesting to an audience.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:25pm

Dog Sees God
Come Back Little Sheba
Boy Gets Girl
Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage
Hairspray

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:26pm

1. EVITA
2. The Water Children
3. Oliver!
4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5. RAGTIME

[roseaddams]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:46pm

Little Shop of Horrors
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Company
The Shape of Things
Assassins