So, the Quill and the Sword is gone… until August, at least. 
In the meantime, we have friends across the country and even across the globe (I think Snorri’s still in Europe right now?).
I don’t know about everyone else, but I usually find around this time of the year that I start to think about the beginning of Fall Semester and seeing friends again. Then I start to think about lectures, fire-lit bardics, feasts (kinda), Corpus Christi, Club Week, and all sorts of other stuff.
So I think it would be fun to sit back and daydream a little about what we might hope to expect in the Fall. Feel free to respond, but please keep it civil. I’m just wondering what you all would like to do; please no dull axes to grind.
See you all at the end of August!
This year I’m feeling good about Corpus Christi. Last year most of us had WAY too much going on outside of club (graduation, weddings, babies, stuff, etc). I think it’d be cool (just an idea, obviously) to have the plays we’d perform decided before Fall Semester even ends. It’d give us a lot more time for things. Maybe, if possible (though it’s probably not), we could even have auditions before Winter, too.
Also, it’d be fun to have more bardics. They tend to be a good source of informal fun.
By: NoCoolName_Tom on June 22, 2007
at 10:51 pm
I think it is an excelent idea to start thinking about what we want to do for plays during fall semester. that would take a lot of pressure off everyone if we start doing thinks early. thanks for taking the Initiative Tom. I appreciate your enthusiasm and I live your ideas.
Lord Charles the Blue of Derbyshire.
By: Charles the blue on June 23, 2007
at 10:24 am
I think it is a good idea to have the plays chosen before Fall term ends: that way, the directors have at least an idea of what they want to do and what their needs are.
However I don’t think it’s necessary to have auditions before Winter semester starts. Remember that at whoever auditions needs to be able to commit to the day of CC, and before January or so it would be too soon for people to be able know what their plans are.
Knowing a little something about how to run rehearsals, I’ll provide some insight. The ideal amount of time a show should be rehearsed before either performance or technical rehearsals should be an hour for every minute of stage time. That means that before auditions take place, the directors need to actually *read* the plays, time them, and plan their rehearsals accordingly. It sounds like a lot but when you consider that most of the cycle plays are in fact quite short (15-20 min) and that a good evening rehearsal can be 2-3 hours, that’s just a few rehearsals a week for a few weeks.
At the beginning of Winter Semester there is a big Audition push. The later mainstage shows, and the advanced directing classes all start doing their auditions in January or February for shows that will go up from February to May. It would be expedient to lump the CC auditions with those, and if AT ALL possible to have them in the HFAC or at least the Wilk.
Remember that DEADLINES ARE IMPORTANT. DEADLINES WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE. Make a calendar, pick a date for CC (preferably not the saturday right before Easter as people tend to be out of town). Make the date PERMANENT and UNCHANGING. If for some reason BYUSA hates you and won’t give you the JFSB courtyard plan a backup (the castle, anyone?), but EVERYTHING, from auditions to costumes to advertisements, will be easier if there is a definite date to work towards. Plan backwards from that blessed immovable date, and create deadlines based on what is needed. Have a deadline for directors to give scenic needs, costume needs, etc, pretty early on, then have deadlines for when those needs should be filled, when ads should start going out, when products to sell should be finished, etc. This prevents the mad late-night dash to get everything done by CC, and divides the work to make everything far less stressful on everyone involved.
Remember: All the ideas in the world will only be implemented if you actually put in the work and preparation to accomplish them.
By: Marguerite Fileresse de saie on August 4, 2007
at 4:21 pm