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[Drama-committee] The musical
by Elaine 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

hi all when will everyone be back in the country? It's just that we'll need a meeting as soon as you all are. Number one on the agenda has to be the Musical. What one are we doing, where and when (NB) it's going to be held (see below) and what our budget will be (sponsorship). I have been looking into the possibility of getting the Theatre for us for the musical. The venue itself is ideal, perfect, glorious, awesome etc... I've just been in the Helix with a lovely woman by the name of Denise. She was kind enough to go through the official financial side of things as the boss is away but without him we dont get a quote for dcu associates / societies. The other problem is that every Thursday and Friday between now and the end of may is gone due to the new Eamon Dunphy show (yes, I did say Eamon Dunphy. Tv3 have hired him). This means that if we were to take the Theatre it would have to be from a Sat-Wed incl. So far the official fee for hiring out the theatre is 10,000 yoyos That's lots! We on the other hand would probably got it for 5,000 due to missing out on the two best nights of the week. If we throw in a percentage of the ticket sales (optional but I dont think it's needed) we could get it for 3,000 (these are all rough figures that myself and Denise have worked out). This venue would hugely cut the technical bill by about 2 grand (which will be about 3,500 if we put it on in the hub) so it's not really going to cost us that much more to have a better venue, proper stage, bigger audience and a wider scope for advertisement (brochure and posters in the helix as well as their mailing lists). I think that it would be of great advantage to us to put the musical on in the helix this year. This is the next step for us and I'd like you all to have a think on it. We would also get the use of one of their technical staff for 8 hours (setting up and stuff) which will help out the tech crew and they have their own guy for hanging sets and what not so that also rules out some of the manual labour from our point of view. we would also be able to set up in a day and not have the problems of all night rigging and design that goes on in the hub before every major show. That is all. You can see that I am obviously sold on this and I would really like it to go ahead in the helix but it is true that we would be loosing out on our two best nights of the week. We could have previews on the sat. and concessions on the Sunday to get people in but and I can see us selling out Monday-wednesday. but that's a whole other story. As for rehearsals, provided that there's nothing else on in the Hub the week before we can rehearse in there or we can book a few hours during specific days to go in a practice. It would have to be a tightly run show and as yet we dont have a show or a director. Hope you're all enjoying your holidays. I'm off to do some shopping. Elaine

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[Drama-committee] Site, Shite
by Paul May 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

Hello there. The drama site is down while I work on the new one, so that's why it's looking the way it does. Breifne, can you contact me as soon as possible about getting the domain name sorted. I'll need a cheque and a letter from the bank manager, so we'll need to sort that out. Elaine, thanks for the run through on the lights and sound in the Venue with Colin today, twas deadly :) (I'm off sick from work today...I'm sick...honestly...cough) Anyway, hope you're all doing well, I'll talk to you soon. Paul -- p a u l m a y www.paulmay.org

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[Drama-committee] hiiiiiii
by Medb Riordan. 18 Jul '03

18 Jul '03

Hey you guys!! How are yis! everythings cool here. sorryy i havent been more in touch but im having too much fun. i had no reply to the mail about gerard so i didnt say anything. im still not happy about the way its going but as long as he doesnt expect the committee to produce it and he works within a SMAAAALLLL budget then thats fine. mags and riona have also agreed to that. ive just had a mail about the brochure asking for info. i told her that we had no definate info and does she have any suggestions as to what we can do. anypoo hope youre having a great summer! n ill tlk to yis soon!! medb. Medb

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[Drama-committee] phone numbers
by drama 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

howaya, i'll stop annoying you after this last mail. Can everybody send me their mobile phone numbers please, i only have a few of them. thanks Paul

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[Drama-committee] Does anybody get these?
by drama 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Hello! Haven't heard from anybody in ages. How is everybody doing. I'm starting work on the site soon, just the bare bones of it to begin with. Should have something to show you soon. Did anybody get the rough draft of the t-shirt design? have a look at it. http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~paulmay/tshirt/tshirt.htm Riona, if you get this, let me know if this is close to what you had imagined. Anyway, just wanted to see how everybody was doing, hope you're all well. Paul

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[Drama-committee] Accounts & au revoir
by drama＠Redbrick.DCU.ie 03 Jul '03

03 Jul '03

hey all first of all hope you are all having a fab summer especially those reading this stateside. as always im doing my best to keep everyone up to date with accounts. at the agm i qouted an expected balance of ?7200 aprox. this was unfortunaltely an unrealistic amount as many things were not taken into consideration. the balance now stands at ?5384.03. the additional expenses werre as follows: the generator hostel which i believed to have been paid at the time but was in fact on the spc credit card and therefore had to be paid back at a cost of ?1278.51 Additional royalites to joseph weinberger for WSS at a cost of ?572.44 federal express for the delivery of scripts at ?93.60 Additional lighting expenses from WSS to liam fotzgerald lights at ?296.91 as you can clearly see this brings the balance to the figure outlined below. what i must stress and cannot do so enough is that this still makes us the wealthiest society or club on campus with a profit of over ?1000 on last year in a year when tickets sales and participation throughout the college was down. drama is also in a unique position of being able to charge an entry fee and has the potential to generate huge sums of money in a short space of time. anyhow its time for me to say goodbye as treasurer. it was a pleasure to work with such a dedicated team over the years and i wish only the best to the incoming committee and should you have any queries dont hesitate to ask. Thanks for all the laughs and tears. John. Winner of the Inaugural John Sullivan Make a Scene Award 2003. as i dont have breifnes no id appreciate if someone could pass it onto to me so i could pass the gauntlet. Treasurer DCU Drama National Society of the Year 2002 and again in 2003 "The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic." Patsy, Ab Fab.

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[Drama-committee] T-Shirt Design
by Paul May 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Hello, just s quick note. Work is fucking mental, so I haven't really been keeping up to speed with everything. Anyway, I've made up a print version of the proposed t-shirt design, and it's here http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~paulmay/tshirt/tshirt.htm I've made it as a vector graphic, so we can blow it up to whatever size we want and it won't lose any quality. Anyway, gotta go. More domain, logo, tshirt, membership card, website news when I have time to fucking breathe :) Paul p a u l m a y www.paulmay.org

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[Drama-committee] Woah there nellies
by Riona 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

I agree strongly with Paul. The Word Documnet logos that Martin sent are definitely not what I would go for, at all. Sorry Martin, but they're just not right. And I must state that I _really_ do not agree with an e-mail vote, especially when a proper debate is impossible at the moment. I also think a point needs to be made here about how a committee should work together. Each of us were voted in to deal with specific areas, and we are each both responsible for that area and an authority in that area. There has been a tendency so far to make all descisions as a group. This is actually quite counter-productive. We do not need to disucss and pass every single point that comes up. People should be free to go off and work on making progress in their own areas without constantly consulting with the whole group. We should trust each-others judgement and ability. And a majority vote is not the right way to go on most issues - as I said, some of us have more authority than others about specific areas, and have more of a right to make the decision. So if Paul is designing the website, his judgement on what will work should overrule even the other eight of us being unhappy about it. And I think that in terms of the visual identity of Drama, some of us have more authority about visual matters. Or if it comes to choosing the musical, those of us with a strong interest and understanding of staging musicals should have more weight than a non-dramatic person like myself. That's not to say that everyone can't have an input, but in the vast majority of of cases it should be feedback from the other committee members, not the right to pass/ veto. Votes should only really be taken on very important matters. There are courses for committee training that maybe the SPC should let us all take. Anyway, wanted to say that for a while so got it off my chest :) Paul could be right, give it a few months til we make a final decision. Riona. ________________________________________________________ "Everyone knows that art is not truth. Art is a lie which makes us realise truth." The new CS1 website - http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~nabi/cs1 New and super improved artHAUS website - http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~artsoc What is Hybrid? Find out! - http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~mps/hybrid ____________________________________________________________

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[Drama-committee] REPLY TO THIS..
by martin 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

with yer pics and bio's for da brochure or else i'll be forced to make an artists of each of ye and make up stuff about who ye are. SO SERIOUSLY SEND ME A PIC AND BIO NOW

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[Drama-committee] Re: Logo
by martin 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

the logo is not being solely designed for the website its to create a versatile image of the society which can be applied consistently to posters, t-shirts, flyers, brochures, membership cards etc and its better when we work together as a group to make decisions because through shared heartship comes intimacy!

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