Hey guys, Here are the minutes from last night's meeting, slightly shorter than usual, yay! Susan :-) DCU DRAMA COMMITTEE MEETING * * *Agenda: **Monday, December 3rd, 2007*** * * * * - Ratification of last meeting's minutes - Any matters arising from the minutes - Meet with producer and director - Arts Week - Panto - Christmas party - Broadway - Twelve Days of Christmas - Second semester - Campus blurb - AOB *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***