Hello again to all of my fellow blog readers! I have some news to share with all of you, and each of you might react differently to this news…
At the start of this evening’s rehearsal, we had a theatre company meeting that lasted approximately an hour long. During this meeting, we discussed what we were going to do about our financial problems that we have been dealing with.
There were numerous possibilities and/or solutions to this little dilemma of ours, and we made the executive decision not to go down south for our Alabama tour. This is what we chose to do simply because we weren’t able to raise enough money to go on this trip.
What this is showing all of us is the level of difficulty that it takes to be in an actual theatre company. Funding normally tends to be an issue, but we now have a better understanding of just how much work it takes to actually run a successful theatre company.
Just to clarify: the tour to Alabama was only going to happen if we raised enough money (and therefore was always “up in the air” if we would be going). The significance of this is the fact that we weren’t exactly hurt/crushed because we never were sure if we were even going to make this trip.
Afterwards, we decided to have a “line through” of the show, and this was somewhat of a struggle because it had been a three-day weekend. Therefore, some people were a little “rusty” with lines, and the fact that we didn’t have props, entrances, and exits being acted out didn’t help the situation, either.
But, at any rate, we have another performance tomorrow at the Lund Pond (on the Waldorf College campus at 6:00), and I’m hoping that we will have another good turnout because the first performance at this location had a fairly large crowd.
Well, I look forward to blogging again with another update J Take care!
-Nell
