PRINCESS IDA CREW MEETING MINUTES – Tuesday 8 th October 2019

IN ATTENDANCE
 Niamh 1
 Niamh 2
 James
 Keely
 Imogen
 Sam even though she's in Canada
 
MINUTES
 Plot Explained
 9 Microphones NEEDED but 12 ideally
Show Vibe
 Upper Class women transformed into radical feminists
 1910s
 Suffragettes
 MARY POPPINS ON A BUDGET
 ENO's production of The Mikado - inspiration for staging
 ENO's Iolanthe THEY HAD A UNICORN APPARENTLY OH JEEZ - The Characterisation is
amazing and inspiration from there
 Funny and Silly
RECORDING
 Gilbert and Sullivan society of Houeston - 'quite good for americans' - Niamh 2019
Rehearsal Schedule
 Likely to be quite intensive
 Run Time: 2 1/2 to 3 hours
 Lizzie and Niamh 17 will sit down and do this in the future
 cutting a few songs because Niamh 72 hates them and they're boring
 Little bit of improvising but that will be worked on with the actors
 1 night singing, 1 acting, 1 dancing/blocking, 1 for everything else/interchangeable
Choreo things
 Keely does things Niamh doesn't want to/know how to do
 We shall do half each
Cast Sharing
 Not willing to share Cyril, Hilarion and Floreon
 Ida ideally not but depends on the show, not if she has another lead
Bid Pack
 A bunch of appendices
 Split between Niamh 124 and Keely
 Rehearsal Schedule
 Sam and Niamh about Publicity Schedule - everything hopefully done before the thing itself
 
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Colour Scheme is Purple, Green, White (Suffragette colours)
 
Hoodies
 Sam is doing Hoodies
 Purple hoodies
 logo has recently been in the colour
MD
 G&S is copyright freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
  Orchestration may have to be paid for
 few songs cut
Budget
 James is lovely
 Biggest expense is renting of the SU
 Worst case SU renting £1100?
 We think we're in the SU but could be in Medicine
 Very similar to pinafore staging
 Sorrel has budget template - Keely sent these to James
 printed and bound scripts and scores or print them and ask people to provide folders
Set
 Staging easy to replicate in rehearsal room with chairs
 Bring stuff on and off eg beginning act 2 womens college peeps bring things on and
beginning act 3 zoe + asms turn tables on sides in order to hide behind
Props
 not a long props list
 mainly set dressing
Costume
 Cast provide majority
 Men in suits
 Zoe and Niamh talk about female chorus - something to change quickly for act 1 and 2
INTERVAL
 end of act 2
 none between act 1 and 2
CHOREOGRAPHY
 dance section in auditions now
 choreography concept
Fundraising
 Eleanor has some good ideas
 Bake sales (yay)
 movie night
 MURDER MYSTERY NIGHT!!!!!!!! Get Will involved hehe to compare the evening to keep it in
focus
 Pub crawl: logistical issues here, could do a treasure hunt between pubs? pay for the
treasure hunt thing?
 Launch Night - themed cocktails/mocktails
 Foresters - £80 deposit now
 Plenty of other places
 Packhorse room 3 or Armstrong Gunn?
AUDITIONS AND RECALLS
 5 min slots
 verse and chorus of song, monologue that you decide
 4 options from the show to choose from
 4 peeps on panel: Tom (POLO), Niamh 235 (Director), Keely (Choreographer) and Boris (MD)
 Recall schedule is drawn up, split into 4 parts
 45 mins character work/warmup games (I AM A WHISK)
 45 mins for dance including warm ups
 45 mins for singing including warm ups
Acting
 assign people the things
 blanche and melissa - 3 men dressing as women soo
Welfare
 We'll work in conjunction with the POLO
 check ins at the start of every rehearsal
 safe word, time out
 Niamh is going to have 'office hours' to pop in and chat with her about anything, whether
thats running lines or ranting about the milk carton your flatmate left out
Charity
 list of charities we can support
 all to do with womens education
 top is faucet society - suffragist
 plan international
 young womens trust
 refugee women
 some more which Niamh 345 said too fast
 10% profits minimum to charity
Publicity
 woohoo from Sam
 Sharing between Niamh 398 and Sam
 Sam's designing everything and Niamh 456 is handling day to day social media running and
photography
 Old Doily Carte posters in early 1900s is the idea
 Between them they've done over 20 shows on campus
 Sit down and talk about a schedule for Publicity
 Two sundays/saturdays for publicity days, one for photos and ONE FOR TRAILER, 1910
newsreel thing
Eleanor have a chat with Lizzie about dates and things for if they get the bid
Fun names for everything
Almighty Will Davidson
 Will will (haha) be in the trailer announcing it narrating and things
 Also will will (hahahahaha) be telling everyone to turn off their phones
shadow
 everyone whos done it before
 Niamh 567, Keely, Lizzie potentially but now Imogen so maybe general stage managing
shadow, James & Eleanor, etc?
 
 
 
WE ALL NEED TO
 send bios, 3rd person, to Niamh 672 by the end of November, Niamh 782 will send an
examplary one
 Send Niamh 963 your phone number and email
 
Crew Meeting Minutes by Keely. Lizzie we missed you because now we have the most terrible
minutes haha
love you all <3