DCU DRAMA COMMITTEE MEETING
Agenda: Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Absent: Megan
Meet with producer and director:
- John and Steve sat in on the beginning of this meeting
- they're very excited about the musical
- Week 9 is provisionally booked in the Helix for Fame
- four shows: three evenings (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) and one matinee (Wednesday)
- Monday is the get-in day, with get-out on Thursday night
- their preference would be Sunday get-in and four evening shows, with get-out on Thursday night
- but this would have to go back to Josef Weinberger first
- Pauric to email Steve and John with exact dates of the Helix booking
- Fiona to give John all correspondence with Weinberger about rights to Fame
- Steve is going to try and get Fame into the Helix brochure
- ticket prices still need to be agreed upon
- Pauric and John to meet Molly Manning from the Helix later in the week
- Alan to give Steve and John the dcu.musical@gmail.com password
- proposal from Steve to have himself or John as one of the signatories for drama cheques, as there will be a lot of cheques to sign for the musical
- suggestion from Steve that we get a separate cheque book just for the musical
- the only money they're asking for is funding to cover costs of phone calls
- the tech is booked and will cost €3,000, €700 less than last year
- they want to have their entire team together by the end of next week
- they want to have a production team to support the producer, and plan to approach people other than the committee, so that the committee will be there as a back-up
- they want to bring back some alumni for certain jobs, they won't be getting paid either
- they want to get Roisin Cooper to be backstage manager and Lyndsey Fay to be cast manager, who will train in current students as well
- they may be approaching some outside people for the band, but it will be mainly DCU students
- they have a fourth year music student in mind for MD/vocal director, but if that falls through they plan to bring in a professional for the job
- they want to have one main choreographer, hopefully a student, with assistant choreographers to look after individual dance scenes
- Pauric to give Steve and John Aoife Kearney's details
- they are going to advertise certain jobs in the allsoc mail
- Steve and John will run everything by committee and keep us informed
- they are going to advertise Fame as the DCU musical, as opposed to the DCU Drama musical, make it a student-wide event rather than just a student drama event
Arts Week:
- well done to everyone
- every event went very smoothly
Panto:
- panto is going okay
- tech is costing €1,320
- Alan to make tickets and programme tonight
- the kids for the matinee may be double booked, Laura Power needs to let Pauric know what the story is
Christmas party:
- Thursday night after the last performance of the panto
- Bob is going to be Santa
- there will be a small charge in
- costs are being shared between the three societies
- we have been granted €100 for the party, not itemised
- the party reps are meeting up on Wednesday to finalise everything
Broadway:
- only waiting for two names to be confirmed with exact spellings
- Susan to send on the names to Pauric and Jenni once the list is complete
- Pauric to sort out tickets for the shows
Twelve Days of Christmas:
- Karen Howley and Shea McNelis are organising a performance of the song
- want drama to do five golden rings, have five guys dressed up as Gollum from Lord of the Rings
- need five guys: Conor, Micheál, Cian, Adam and Brian?
- Pauric and Declan to approach these five guys
- Susan to contact Karen Howley to let her know we're doing it
Second semester:
- Pauric and Jenni to sign a contract with the Helix on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week
- dates of events for next semester need to be decided
- Week 2 or 3: Joey's and Brendan's plays may be on together in the Space
- Week 4: Romeo and Juliet (3 nights) and Vagina Monologues (1 night)
- Conor's play needs to be before Week 9, as early as possible, maybe Week 6
- Week 9: the musical
- Robin wants to put his play on in Week 10 (except Thursday) or Week 11, it will be in the Venue
- Week 11: variety show
- Alan Flanagan may have a play as well
- Brendan, Conor and Robin want to audition their plays in Week 12 of Semester One
Campus blurb:
- Karen is going to put in a review of the panto
- also include thanking everyone for coming to the Christmas party, auditions for Week 12, and the fact that next semester will be fun-filled
AOB:
- equipment room clean out didn't happen last Friday because there were only two people there
- just needs to be done before the end of semester
- can throw out anything that we don't think we need for next semester
- everyone to clean it out next Monday morning, December 10th, at 10am
- Declan to make sure we have a key
- we won money for Open Day, we may be winning money for Arts Week, maybe we could have a committee night out
- choose a date at the next meeting
Next meeting: 6pm , Monday, December 10th, 2007