[Drama-committee] The musical

1 Aug 2003

      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

Elaine

Medb Riordan.

Riona

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