List of Contributions

At my previous school, I held a 6 hour-ish retreat with a lunch break. We used the morning to identify areas of priority and the rest of the time drafting strategies, timelines, and other such things. ------------------------------ Roger Winn Theatre Director J.K. Mullen High School CO ----------- ...

We did the whole show. I made sure they kept the pace up--I do that regardless of the show anyway so they were used to that. It really depends on what your audience expects. We normally do 2+ hour shows, depending on the script so our audience was used to that. Most of the complaints came from the orchestra ...

On going problem with varying degrees of success in mitigating it. Different solutions provide different results in different years. When I had a larger percentage who were considering theatre as a career path, the "3 strikes and you're out rule" was effective.  We also do contracts and have a parent ...

I'm in CO. It has come students at another school which did not have a drama program. The students were allowed to participate in the afterschool program at our HS and even hold an Officer position. I have had homeschoolers attend Thescon with our HS and I have mentioned to those students that they ...

Our school was planning on producing South Pacific but we had to abandon that because we couldn't get any response from R&H in a reasonable amount of time. Repeated emails were unanswered and there was another discussion thread that documented many others going through the same issues. Perhaps in the ...

My old theatre company, we didn't use a lot of "meat" props. We made a few with Florist's foam (the green stuff). It looked pretty good. We also had bloody rags everywhere. ------------------------------ Roger Winn Theatre Director Golden CO ------------------------------

We applied for South Pacific as well. A couple of weeks later I checked in and was given an email reply that "this was a restricted title" and we may have to wait 15 days or more. I checked another thread on this website and found the looooong thread of replies lamenting about the poor customer service.  ...

I echo what has been said already. We serve the students first, so the stories that excite them are the stories we should be bringing to life. Miller, Wilder, and so on are still relevant but the students really connect with this script. Sorry, retirees, you need to listen to the stories the kids want ...