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RE: Livestreaming with something other than Zoom

Posted By Hope Love 08-28-2020 09:10
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Our athletic department has been using Streamyard to produce their signing day celebrations virtually.    It has a backstage feature---it's a platform that creates a talk show host ./variety show paradigm.  I'm sure it could be tweeked to support live theater.   We are looking into it later for virtually ...

RE: Female Jesus in Godspell

Posted By Hope Love 03-18-2019 08:30
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Conceptually---I love this idea. I've seen two productions with a female Jesus and the only caveat is that you lose the lovely tenor, light sound that is the main vehicle in the show to make us connect with Jesus and is a metaphor for his spirit. The alto sound makes Jesus sound dark and intellectual ...

RE: Budgeting Lesson Plan?

Posted By Hope Love 10-13-2018 09:17
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We make a copy of our entire season's expenses and incomes (provided from the bookkeeper) and have our classes figure out the profit margins for our season and each show. If they are contracted positions, we redact the actual names of people and fill in their job (MUSICAL CHOREOGRAPHER). We also publish ...

RE: Inclusive audition packets

Posted By Hope Love 08-17-2018 17:37
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Here is a link to a copy of one our audition forms, which students have carefully crafted the wording of these questions in conjunction with continued discussions about inclusion and making the assumption of diversity from the get go---It's a copy, so feel free to make own for yourself and edit it to ...

RE: GREASE - Keeping Theatre Educators in the Loop

Posted By Hope Love 05-27-2018 09:46
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I would like to say that I have had several interactions, specifically, with Rosemary, since the restructuring and her department and their customer service is a marked improvement. If you've had a previous experience that was bad, I suggest you give them a second shot at developing a more positive relationship ...

RE: Getting ready for fall

Posted By Hope Love 02-08-2018 09:29
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Anne Carson's new translation of Antigone is very, very accessible. -- Hope Hynes Love Theater Teacher East Chapel Hill High School 500 Weaver Dairy Road Chapel Hill, NC 27514 work-919-969-2482 x 27500 (before 1:00 p.m) fax-919-969-2491 cell-919-308-3133 (after 1:00 p.m.) "I've done some ...

RE: Student with disabilities

Posted By Hope Love 10-26-2017 09:40
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I had a student with similar disabilities and it also affected their stamina - so backstage after school hours were out too.  We used her as our box office manager because we use an online service for pre-sales (Seatyourself.biz---I have to give them a shout out because this company has been so supportive ...

RE: Scripts for Visually Impaired Students

Posted By Hope Love 10-20-2017 08:22
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If you are trying to build skills for her that she can use forever for memorization, I might try to circumvent the translation of the scripts to braille as the sole coping mechanism, which would costly to her personally as a working or amateur actress and might be a hurdle to her lifelong participation ...

RE: Sketch Up versus VectorWorks

Posted By Hope Love 10-18-2017 09:04
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For an initial skills project, (and my directing students), I use Sketch up, old school pen and paper, and Pinterest for examplary details and/or color pallette.  For any level beyond that, Vectorworks because it requires more of a time investment to learn how to clearly and accurately represent your ...

RE: Aslan Lion Puppet

Posted By Hope Love 10-16-2017 13:14
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Try getting in touch with Paper Hand Puppet Intervention---they may rent and ship one to you.   http://paperhand.org/ ------------------------------ Hope Love ------------------------------

RE: National boards

Posted By Hope Love 09-22-2017 09:29
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In answer to Ryan Moore's inquiry about why they aren't specific standards for Theater (and Dance, by the way) the most honest, off the record, answer I got after repeated calls with the same inquiry to the NC National Boards office was this---there aren't enough numbers of theatrical and dance secondary ...

RE: National boards

Posted By Hope Love 09-18-2017 11:24
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I received my board certification in Theater through CTE Arts & Communications last year. Since then, they have tweaked the standards, but one of the struggles I had (like Scott) was finding someone like myself that was already NBTS certified because we were nestled under CTE. Most of the people I reached ...

RE: Plays about honor and duty

Posted By Hope Love 09-04-2017 15:20
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Grounded by George Brant & That Championship Season by Jason Miller are both interesting and complex takes on the grey area between duty to the tribe and personal honor and the costs when you cross those lines that will seem very accessible to teenagers.  Also, the new Anne Carson translation of Antigone ...

RE: Chicago

Posted By Hope Love 08-31-2017 09:01
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We did it in 2011 and the only push back I got was from my new principal worried about breaking the commandment of taking the Lord's name in vain.  When I pointed out to her that the only time that happens is when the lawyer is trying to get the Hungarian girl  who is innocent to lie to save her life, ...

RE: Mission Statements

Posted By Hope Love 02-22-2017 13:53
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We developed the original with student, parent organization and curricular input. What it does in action is make sure that our seasons (over a four year time span) have a variety of styles, processes and themes. It keeps us honest about (and offers a defense against) not doing the same old thing year ...

RE: Theatre Management practices input requested

Posted By Hope Love 01-03-2017 08:21
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I suggest a unit on calendar management and rental / booking policies--how to establish, communicate and execute them efficiently. In my experience, this was the most difficult part of being both theater manager (like an athletic director) and teaching colleague. My principal, my boss, would tell outside ...

RE: URGENT- Need Two Person One Act (1M, 1F) ASAP

Posted By Hope Love 12-09-2016 09:35
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If it is your Business of Theater class, why not attempt the solution that you would have to employ if you were a LORT theater?....hire a professional actor to fill in, even with book in hand. (Or a local college student from an acting program---someone who has the experience to be able to get up to ...

RE: Hiring An Assistant

Posted By Hope Love 09-19-2016 13:07
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You definitely need to cut your season or hire an assistant. I was in this same position at my last school (minus the no drama program) and it nearly burnt me out. When we were told there was no money to fund the position (I requested a technical director for at least the musicals) we raised it ourselves ...

RE: Scene help

Posted By Hope Love 08-30-2016 06:24
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Contemporary Authors with strong duo scenes for young women: Crooked by Catherine Trieschman Published by Samuel French Jail Bait by Deidre O'Connor Dream of a Burning Boy by David West Read Published By Dramatists Language of Angels by Naomi Iizuka Good Kids by Naomi ...

RE: good mystery/thriller

Posted By Hope Love 05-25-2016 10:20
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It may be too adult, but Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom is fabulous and mixes reality and video game reality. Super modern thriller with great roles for young actors. ------------------------------ Hope Love