pw board meeting minutes 16 september 2007

in attendance: albert, alexio, kaya, alexa, justin, jessie, mazer, daria, paul, charly, allison, alana
missing: tara, andrew
visiting: max
passing through: james – with a dagger

1st slot:

• people are coming! squeezing people in behind the cactus and everything.
• we got a $2 bill in the cash box. it might be fake.
• strike on monday!

strike jobs:

• running strike: alexio and allison
• electrics in the space: justin
• electrics room: alana
• upspace: paul
• shop: andrew
• stair chacker: mazer
• costume/greenroom/dressing rooms: alexa
• booth: paul
• box office: daria
• props: tara
• furniture: albert
• paint: kaya

2nd slot:

• auditions went well, the show is cast!
• the rights woman asked for “whatever we can spare” so we decide on $125
• waiting for the official letter to arrive but she said it’s ok
• open readthrough tuesday at 7:30 - all are welcome (put in email)
• cast and crew will be there for strike
• still looking for: sound designer, props designer, stage manager
• we have someone who will either stage manage or do props, probably
• if it’s not set by the end of the day tomorrow, board should fill spots
• allison, paul willing to mentor
• daria will email the tech list and talk to some people
• allison will talk to the mf board
• production meeting on Wednesday

3c2c:

• 2 submissions already, scripts are due tomorrow
• some professors even made a submission mandatory. some kids hate us.
• committee decision meeting thursday night
• still looking for directors – applications due september 26th
• still need lighting designer and stage manager

interlude:

• we think mazer might be dealing drugs in the middle of the meeting but he’s actually just picking up a wobble board from james which he proceeds to play with for the duration of the meeting

3rd slot:

• dan, rachel, brendan and mazer are proposing
• people are having trouble filling staff positions, try to help
• decision meeting on saturday – we won’t even have to break for lunch!

upspace:

• matt’s show is on thursday
• tara and jd will use the space to rehearse this week most likely
• charly will reserve 112 for saturday’s decision meeting
• mf might do a cabaret on friday night
• 7 people wanted the upspace, there were 5 slots
• the week after 3c2c is open, wait list will be contacted
• upspace orientation after the meeting at 3:00

space maintenance:

• first we think there’s nothing.
• albert says: “there is that door.” thanks albert.
• someone’s supposed to be fixing it but nothing’s happening?
• albert says: “it’s still pretty uncool...can we talk about it?”
• albert and jessie will try to fix it
• don’t leave stage weights and boom bases in front of doors
• we should make sure people stop propping the front door to tf green

grants:

• emily is doing the real inspector hound in the upspace, applying for grant to get rights

new members:

• applications due october 31st
• decision meeting november 3rd
• we’ll keep the board buddy system because it was awesome
• albert and alana are new mems people
• we’ll email past show staff and cast people
• alana is the only person against the word “schmooze”
• alana is writing the minutes and can write whatever she wants
• albert sucks
• haha
• wednesday the 24th will be the schmooze. we’ll get pizza and wine

interlude

• allison has a magical calendar with all the theater dates in the world

seating platforms:

• shapes were made for the show and we’ll keep them in the hot room
• we’ll hold off on new seating platforms for now

dimmers:

• we bought a dimmer rack for about $500
• it’s super-heavy
• probably $1500-$2500 to install
• we’ll go to ufb to ask for money for the installation since we paid for a lot already
• hopefully they’ll be put in before 2nd slot but if not it’ll be over winter break

piano:

• check!
• mazer is probably the piano person
• we’re working on selling a piano

soundproofing:

• albert

meeting next week:

• same time same place

interlude:

• james returns his keys

business:

allison:

• tells the house manager speech story from friday night
• vibo the clown makes an appearance on the pw stage! and $5 does too
• “now THAT’S karma”
• we got a big contribution but now vibo is missing
• albert: “maybe they karma-ed themselves”
• !

alexio:

• a plea for the old calendar system
• 1st slot rushed, 3c2c rushed, proposals for 3rd slot are really soon
• harder to get freshmen involved in 1st slot this way

allison:

• “references” was supposed to have blue christmas lights but they came too late
• if they won’t refund them, might try to sell them. there’s like, a lot of them.
• alana wants to buy a strand!
• mazer and kaya might decorate their house with them
• pw could use them too

justin:

• lots of posters getting ripped down if they’re not on official poster spots
• got a copy of our constitution from the sao
• 1978 was the last time it was updated so we should fix that
• alana wants to wait until january so we can celebrate 30 years of...inaccuracy?
• we decide to update it at our next vision meeting

paul:

• we’re going to challenge brownbrokers (et al.?) to laser tag in december

mazer:

• forgot to bring the fun.
• kaya and mazer will “joint”ly bring the fun next week

allison:

• the consortium wants to play capture the flag with us

alexa:

• mf is giving us a money order

the end.