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Posted By Rodney James 04-16-2021 16:52
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I had good houses for "The Boys Next Door" by Tom Griffin.  Caveats: it is a male-weighted cast, and your community standards may have to deal with some brief, very brief profanity.  Opening night was pretty lean, but when word got out about the content and quality of the play, the house fattened up ...
Posted By Rodney James 08-26-2020 09:41
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I noticed a glaring lack of amplification in your system.  That's okay, if you are buying powered speakers, but you CANNOT get decent powered speakers for $300 a pair.  In speakers at a price affordable by mere mortals, I would lean toward EV or Yamaha.  JBL is another option, but wouldn't be my first ...
Posted By Rodney James 08-17-2020 18:36
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You may get some help by examining your district's or state's essential skills/requirements for you curriculum.  Look for the verbs that may apply to different levels of the same subject/content..."the student will..."  For instance, the first level of essentials in my state uses the verbs "recognize," ...
Posted By Rodney James 08-07-2020 09:50
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I'm not sure it will meet your needs, but FlipGrid is another platform you might try. ------------------------------ Rodney James Technical Theatre Director Forney Independent School district Forney TX ------------------------------
Posted By Rodney James 07-16-2020 18:41
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You might explore composing your program as a LOCKED .pdf file and making that available to ticketed patrons.  Although the file can be shared (and certainly hacked), it will be shared as an entire document.  I speculate that the hacking hazard is no greater than the danger of someone scanning and manipulating ...
Posted By Rodney James 06-16-2020 22:07
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Just use "crack" and be done with it. It scans, is synonymous, and offers more obvious and potentially vulgar connotations. -- Rod JamesTheatre Technical DirectorNorth Forney High School
Posted By Rodney James 06-14-2020 22:19
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Points all well taken, however - my grandfather loved to go coon hunting. "God save the Queen" is still an innocuous blessing. There are other examples, and as our slang shifts and morphs there will inevitably be more and different opportunities to offend someone with a word that has historically been ...
Posted By Rodney James 02-28-2020 14:38
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Check out the "I'm sorry" monolog from "A Thousand Clowns."