Wednesday, 31 August 2005

It's the show that never was.

As you may know, I'm the Production Director for our local Theatre group. And we've been experiencing alot of problems over the last year.

The theatre in town has been undergoing massive renovations for the past year. It was supposed to have been completed by Spring. Of course, as with all construction, that didn't happen. This meant finding new venues for all of our shows last season except for one.

Our final show of the season...our musical. Our musicals are rather large with a cast of around 40. With sets and the type of choreography we do, there's no way we could hold the musical in any location in town.

So, being the executive, we decided to hold off until the fall. We rescheduled the show for the last two weeks of October. The theatre was scheduled to have its grand opening in September so this was a reasonable choice. Or so we thought.

On Monday, we held our final executive meeting for the year before we have our Annual General Meeting for all the members. It was discovered that the theatre isn't finished. The seats are currently in customs in China. Which means that by the time they get here and get installed, we're looking into 2006. A decision was then made to hold off the show until May 2006.

Due to other commitments, I had already decided not to run for the executive committee this year. I  have too many other things that are occupying my time.  Now I have to gracefully bow out of the show as well.  It was a tough decision, but one that I think is in my best interest.

I've decided to try theatre in the city. I'll be getting more experience and exposure. Which is important if you want to get your name out there.

I wished them the best of luck with the production and thanked them for everything they've done for me. It was great to be part of the local community theatre.

B.

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