DCU DRAMA COMMITTEE MEETING

Agenda: Friday, September 7 ^th, 2007

• Ratification of last meeting's minutes

• Any matters arising from the minutes

• Broadway

• Orientation Week

• Sponsorship update

• Web update

• Finalise calendar

• Musical

• Panto script

• Workshops/Play in a Day

• Possible trip to the West End

• AOB

Apologies: Megan

Broadway:

- possible shows

- Wicked

- Spelling Bee or Legally Blonde: Spelling Bee wins

- Phantom or Les Mis

Orientation Week:

- Lisa Muldowney is a lovely woman :)

- possible songs to perform from Avenue Q: I Wish I Could Go Back To College, For Now, Purpose

- get three performers: Alan, Brendan and Fiona

- presenter type person to fill in the bits between the songs: Pauric

- dress rehearsal this Friday coming at 2pm

- Full Monty for sexual orientation week?

- the guys don't really want to do it again

- we're not allowed to put leaflets into the packs because it might start a precedent

- but we do it every year because we pack the packs

- hand out leaflets outside the Mahony Hall, or leave them on chairs

- the orientation performance is happening on Monday (10:30am) and Wednesday (3pm)

- have a stall in the Hub for two days: Tuesday and Wednesday

- have two workshops: Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon

- we may get money for doing the orientation piece

- need to book the Venue for Tuesday and Wednesday for workshops

- Pauric to ask Lisa what time orientation stuff finishes

Sponsorship update:

- AIB is to get back to Fiona

- she's been in contact with BOI but they haven't got back to her yet

- waiting for Major Tom's and Rírá to get back too

- plans to get in contact with Homebase

Web update:

- the banner is the only thing left to do

- Six Semesters went up this morning

- DADAs winners to go up, as well as the new drama video

Finalise calendar:

- Semester One

- Week 0: orientation piece

- Week 1: one night at the NuBar for karaoke, probably not Tuesday because of €3 Tuesdays

- Pauric to get on to Jay

- Week 2: Clubs and Socs Day, another workshop in the Venue

- better to leave the professional workshops until we've got the mailing list so we can contact the membership

- Week 3: EGM

- Weeks 5, 6, 7: workshops

- Shea doesn't want us to do Rocky Horror for Halloween Ball

- maybe do it in T101, but it wouldn't have the same atmosphere, no drink and is distanced from the Halloween Ball

- Week 8/Arts Week: Play in a Day, Loafs, Stars, Comedy Night

- we mightn't get the Venue for four nights

- but putting Play in a Day in Arts Week guarantees an audience

- maybe move comedy night to another week

- is the Clubs and Socs Ball in Week 8 or 9??

- Week 10: One Act Wonder Festival

- Week 11: panto, Christmas party

- Semester Two

- Week 0: Broadway

- Week 1: musical auditions

- Week 2: Drown Drama

- Week 3: film shorts festival, in association with MPS

- Week 4: Shakespeare and Vagina Monologues

- Week 5: intercollege film festival, in association with MPS

Musical:

- couldn't find the rights to The Wiz, Weinberger doesn't have them

- Fame and West Side Story are available

- West Side Story has a really complicated band, Fame might be easier

- Pauric and Jenni to talk about putting the musical on the grant ap

Panto script:

- Aladdin 3 looks pretty good, Aladdin 6 is a bit shite

- Aladdin is a definite

Workshops/Play in a Day:

- Yvonne had a meeting with Liam Halligan

- Play in a Day on Tuesday, 13^th November: eeep, Clubs and Socs Ball!!

- two workshops with Liam Halligan organized for 30^th October and 6^th November

Possible trip to the West End:

- open to people who didn't go to Broadway before people who did?

- possibly Semester Two

- Semester One might be better, to separate the two trips abroad

- but then we would have to offer both Broadway and West End at the EGM

- we might only sell it in Semester Two, but could we fit it in?

- mid Semester Two is out because of rehearsing for the musical

- after the musical people would be too tired and studying for exams

- what about the weekend that the musical actually ends?

- possible amount going: 25?

- what about a day trip, leave early in the morning, catch a matinee and come back late at night

- some people would like to explore London a bit though

- places can be kind of cheap, about €15 a night

- we mightn't get enough numbers, because people don't have the money

- the whole committee doesn't have to go

- we'll say yes for now, but we'll review it again in Semester Two

AOB:

- can't book the Venue until Orientation Week

- the SPC got an email from Buildings saying that Drama dumped stuff behind the Hub and Buildings billed the SPC for a skip to take the stuff away

- the SPC are fully behind Drama

- we're not going to pay because they didn't ask us to move it, we didn't even know they wanted it moved

- Alan suggests renting a shed on Shanowen Road

- but renting for a year would be expensive, and distance would be a problem

- sets for different shows, put them on the Art Soc grant ap?

- maybe about 30%, because Drama will get more money than Art Soc

- put in association with Art Soc on the poster

- no new hoodies until we sell the old ones, still about twenty left

- Disney themed film night the week before the panto, in association with Film Soc

- make it fancy dress, maybe perform a song from the panto

- Style Soc are planning to put on the fashion show in Week 5 of Semester Two

- Next meeting: Monday, September 17^th