Artistic Director - YOU- Page 2

[Gothampc]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#25

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.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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

[artscallion]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#26

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

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

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

[Gobstopper]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#27

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

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

[seymour krelborn]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#28

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#29

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#30

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

"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth." - Barbra Streisand

[A Director]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#31

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#32

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#33

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.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

[DaneSaw]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#34

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#35

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#36

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#37

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!

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

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

[Flaunt It]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#38

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#39

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

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[BroadwayBound062]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#40

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

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

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

[lildogs]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#41

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#42

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#43

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

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

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[LuPonatic]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#44

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

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

[Elphie3]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#45

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

Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken

[Gothampc]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#46

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.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[sidneybruhl]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#47

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]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#48

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

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

that's a really big mic...

[roseaddams]

re: Artistic Director - YOU#49

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

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

"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite