Best Gift to Give a Director
Best Gift to Give a Director
#0Best Gift to Give a Director
Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:47pm
What is the ebst gift you've ever given your director (or received if you were the director)?
Last year my high school put on Grease. On closing night we gave our director a Grease poster from the revival that we had all signed, flowers (duh), my mom made a collage of all words centered around a picture of the cast. It was related to the play, including the names of the cast members and some funny incidents at rehearsals. The cast also rewrote "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" and sang it to the director in closing night. It was changed to inclkude the funny things hapening in the cast with secific solos. (The two girls who made there way through the T-Birds sang we DID flirt with all the guys, our lead sang about the day his pants split, etc.) The director loved it.
So what have you guys done?
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#1re: Best Gift to Give a Director
Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:52pmOur director was getting married, so we gave her something old,new, borrowed, and blue.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#2re: Best Gift to Give a Director
Posted: 12/25/05 at 2:16pmWell, I haven't been totally a part of this one but it's sweet. One director who has been working with my theatre company for about forever has been given a charm for almost every show she's directed. For Bat Boy we gave her a Bat charm. But the truely awesome present we gave for that show was when we adopted the musical director a Giraffe (he loves giraffes and it became a running joke amoungst the cast)... I think the giraffe lives in Africa and is named Balah (long story). His face was PRICELESS!
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
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Posted: 12/25/05 at 2:43pmI took one of our show's posters and decorated some of the words/ pictures in glitter. It was pretty simple but it looked nice : )
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Posted: 12/26/05 at 1:37pmFor The Sound of Music we gave our director a brown paper package containing some of the "favorite things" - white silk roses with "raindrops" (glue-gun drops), ect, as well as a purse with a scene from the movie on it. It was very well-thought and turned out nicely.
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Posted: 12/26/05 at 1:41pmMy company once made the director a scrapbook of everything from auditions to strike! It was sweet and we all signed it and wrote notes on various pages!
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us..
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Posted: 12/26/05 at 1:45pm
during 'cinderella' our director was given a crystal glass slipper.
Our director in highschoo was the sweetest old man you could ever meet, he worked at the school for over 50 years and was retiring.
for his last show called 'just so'- which has a treasure chest in it as part of the story line, we bought a treasure chest and the whole cast and crew wrote a small note about how the director has changed us for the better
this is a good thread
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
AngelofAvenueB
Understudy Joined: 3/1/05
#8re: Best Gift to Give a Director
Posted: 12/26/05 at 1:46pmLast year was our director's 25th year doing shows and the show was Oklahoma! So we made him a "Wanted: Alive" poster, a la the Old West, and gave him a director's chair with his name on it. And of course, flowers and cards signed by the entire cast. We filmed giving him it and he cried. It was so awesome.
forget regret...
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Posted: 12/26/05 at 2:26pm
I wrote my high school director a really heartfelt card my senior year. I can't remember all the gifts we gave her as a cast, normally we all got together and got her a certificate for a massage, or for a free dinner somewhere.
The gift wasn't so much of the big deal as was the process of giving it to her. Every closing night, we announce to the audience how we appreciate the creative team's work and the cast each picks the best person to award each director their gift, and everyone's all crying and stuff. Senior year, we did Once Upon a Mattress and it was all sad, the girl who played Queen Aggravain, who was a senior, gave the gift to the Tech Director and Costume Designer, who happened to be her parents, and yeah, that was all sad. I was last to announce the director's gift and I was a freaking wreck (but then again, so was she, thanks to that card muahahahah so we were both embarassed).
ok i'm done prattling.
i like this thread.
dancinfan
Broadway Star Joined: 8/9/04
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Posted: 12/26/05 at 3:05pmI once received a beautifully made scrapbook full of pictures of the cast and crew (some were taken with me without me knowing what they were going to be used for), all captioned, signed, personalized with anecdotes, etc. It was really special, and anytime I look at it, it brings back great memories. There are a ton of "in-jokes" included in the artwork/scrapbooking, some of which are new to me even now. (The book is probably 10 years old.)
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