Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board http://www.communitytheater.org/forum This is an XML content feed of; Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board : Last 10 Posts Copyright (c) 2006 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:41:20 +0000 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:15:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 8.05 30 www.communitytheater.org/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_images/CTGRlogo.gif http://www.communitytheater.org/forum Lights and Sound : using itunes on a pc to run sound http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4511&PID=23514#23514 Author: TimmyP1955
Subject: using itunes on a pc to run sound
Posted: 3/09/10 at 11:15pm

Better to use a cue software, as you don't have to put files in individual playlists in order to have the playback stop at the end of a file, insert a pause of a given duration between files, play multiple files simultaneously, etc.  Also, you can assign different cues to different PC outputs, allowing you to have different sounds come from different speakers if needed.

If you have money and want something really good, get ShowCueSystem.  If you want something free that does a decent job, get MultiPlay.
]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:15:31 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4511&PID=23514#23514 Play Suggestions : Play selection http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4513&PID=23513#23513 Author: Elwood
Subject: Play selection
Posted: 3/09/10 at 7:30pm

I'd like to hear comments on how Sweeny Todd has done at the box office of those CT's that have produced the show.Many thanks]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:56 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4513&PID=23513#23513 Other Topics : Play selection "Urinetown" http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4512&PID=23512#23512 Author: Elwood
Subject: Play selection "Urinetown"
Posted: 3/09/10 at 7:06pm

Our play selection committe is currently in the process of making recommendations for the 2011 season.They have been charged to come up with a season that will produce strong sales. A new concept.A feeble attempt at humor.Has anyone had experience in producing the musical "Urinetown?"We understand its a great show,but are concerned if it it will appeal  to our season ticket base which is made up largely of older audience members.Comments?]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:06:43 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4512&PID=23512#23512 Other Topics : Meet and Greet http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4505&PID=23511#23511 Author: jayzehr
Subject: Meet and Greet
Posted: 3/09/10 at 7:00pm

I like what Elwood's theater does!

As far as the "meet and greet" I echo what others have said. I hate it as an actor and audience member and am glad we don't do it anymore. One theater I worked at once it almost felt like a race with all the actors rushing up front to line up at the doors before the audience could bolt. 
As an audience member, I don't always want to wait in a wedding like reception line to glad hand everyone even if I liked the show. And if the show is bad, it's awful for everyone involved.  As an audience member you have go through the line and essentially lie to everyone and as an actor you have to stand there and listen to people lie to you--"Gosh! That was very interesting. You must have had a good time with that part!"


Edited by jayzehr - Yesterday at 7:01pm]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:00:31 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4505&PID=23511#23511 Other Topics : Meet and Greet http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4505&PID=23510#23510 Author: Elwood
Subject: Meet and Greet
Posted: 3/09/10 at 6:43pm

On opening night following the play we offer refreshments in the lobby.The cast  is encouraged to join those who stay to enjoy the food and comments.The theatre,by the way,adds an extra $1 per opening night ticket to help pay the food expense.This tradition has been in existence for at leasr 40 years and is quite popular.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4505&PID=23510#23510 Other Topics : Meet and Greet http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4505&PID=23509#23509 Author: Carol
Subject: Meet and Greet
Posted: 3/09/10 at 5:29pm

At our theatre it is a tradition for those cast members that wish to to come out of the door near the stage after a performance(in costume) to speak with family and friends.
 
The audience is leaving from the back, so it is pretty easy to escape unscathed if you wish.    :)
]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:29:51 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4505&PID=23509#23509 Lights and Sound : using itunes on a pc to run sound http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4511&PID=23508#23508 Author: SamPilo
Subject: using itunes on a pc to run sound
Posted: 3/09/10 at 3:01pm

Anyone have any luck with itunes on a PC laptop to run their sound?  any issues you have stumbled upon???

Thanks in advance....
]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:01:17 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4511&PID=23508#23508 Play Suggestions : Need a funny murder mystery http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4510&PID=23507#23507 Author: edh915
Subject: Need a funny murder mystery
Posted: 3/09/10 at 2:26pm

What a coincidence!  Just reading "Murdered to Death" by Peter Gordon.  It's a spoof of Miss Marple mysteries.  (She shows up in this as Miss Maple.)  I've only read the first few pages, but it looks very promising.

Description from the script cover:
This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christietraditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with anassembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight –Bunting the butler;an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shadyFrench art dealer and his moll; the bumbling police inspector and awell-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes– they're all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting anticswhich follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomesclear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murderer beunmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will audiences dielaughing first?

]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:26:16 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4510&PID=23507#23507 Play Suggestions : Need a funny murder mystery http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4510&PID=23506#23506 Author: tristanrobin
Subject: Need a funny murder mystery
Posted: 3/09/10 at 1:04pm

Moose Murders- renowned for being one of the worst - and shortest-lived - Broadway plays ever - and absolutely hysterical - so bad, it's fab!


Edited by tristanrobin - Yesterday at 1:05pm]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:04:51 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4510&PID=23506#23506 Other Topics : Thanksgiving Week - Good/Bad? http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4269&PID=23505#23505 Author: DownStageRight
Subject: Thanksgiving Week - Good/Bad?
Posted: 3/09/10 at 12:30pm

I did a production of Steel Magnolias and the schedule fell over Mother's Day.  We thought this might be a good thing..to take your mother to see this show for MD.  Well it turned out to be a bomb for our box office.  We rarely did shows over holidays after that]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:30:31 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4269&PID=23505#23505