In the application please include:
1. Name, e-mail and phone?
2. Theatrical experience (although no experience is required)?
3. Major and other interests?
4. Preference order of jobs?
5. Why you want to help produce the show?
6. When are you available the week of October 12 - October 15 between
7-10 pm?
7. Time commitments for this quarter and winter quarter?
Then asked at interview
1. What experience they had:
1. Stanford
2. Professional
3. High school/other
2. How much time they had?
Explained how much time might be required.
3. What the show was about· had they ever heard of it? Then gave my brief explanation.
4. What were there major time commitments, again?
5. Why did they want the job?
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Name, e-mail and phone?
What position are you applying for?
Theatrical experience - although no experience is required ö (First list Stanford experience, then professional experience, then high school experience)?
Why do you want to be on staff for Pippin?
When are you free during the weeks of Nov. 1- Nov 23?
What are all of your time commitments?· What are you doing in November,
December, January, February, March and April? Where will you be over new
yearâs:
The show goes up April 6 ö 16!!! Five shows maybe six· how would you insure that we could sell a sixth show? What would you do as and above the role of Director?
What other positions are you interested in? And Why?
How do you want to carry out auditions? What is your goal for auditions? Dance, Singing, Organization, acting?
I am only going to allow the Director, Choreographer, Vocal Director and their assistants to accompany the Stage Manager and producer at the Auditions!!! The Vocal Director, Choreographer and Director have final say on the hiring of the cast. Auditions are on January 10, 11, 12, and call backs are on the 13th. Can you be there? For that whole time and the time it will take to make decisions?
How do you see this show being cast?
Pippin?
Fastrada?
Charlemagne?
Ensemble?
Lewis?
Child (Theo)?
Grandmother (Berthe)?
Lead Player?
Catherine?
Head?
Marshall?
Beggar?
Noble?
Peasant?
I donât want to exclude anyone from the cast!!!
How many people in the ensemble? What do they need to be able to do.
I want 15 ensemble and the leads.
I want six dancers, 3 boys and 3 girls to complete and comprise the
ădancing playersä who do the dancing?
How do you see fire being used? What do you use instead of fire if it
isnât allowed?
Animals? What replaces them?
Orgy scene? Dance? Nudity?
Music?
What is the meaning of the show? What is the focus? What is the message?
What is your artistic vision of the show?
How do you see the dance? How important is dance?
We are going to be hitting up the dance department. We need dancers!!!
Lead player!!! How??? Sexy or great singer, or great dancer? Presence?
How many people· boy or girl? How do you feel about castng with regards to gender? Is gender a important casting criteria?
How do we do transitions?
Choreography experience, what is you dance experience??
Singing experience?
How do we deal with the campiness of the show?
How do you get through the first three scenes? How do they relate to rest of the show?
The book?
ăBabyä
How do we get the best singers?
Are you okay with the policy of letting people know that they must be
here over break?
Actors and staff must stay here for build or make big public arrangements
to put in an equitable amount of work in advance?·
Will you meet with the staff weekly for an update? Can you?
Will you confirm all design decisions in advance? Will you cooperate with the designers to make sure that all deadlines are met and that designs are approved before the implementation of those designs goes into effect?
Will you sign the ăcontractä addendum.
Role Play: ăI am the costume designer ö I turn in the costume design, it isnât what we agreed upon originally, but I say that it was· what do you do?ä
If you get to a point in the production during the tech where an actor is standing 3 feet over from where the light is focused who moves? The actor or the light?
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Will you let the staff contribute and control their field and department?
How will you work with the staff?
The problem that I have is that I know that many people will not work on staff for this show if they feel that they will not be doing something that have some control over· You have not yet expressed your ability to deal with this situation.
How much of a role should the staff have in the creation of the vision of the show?
How do you plan to work with me?
How do you plan to incorporate different visions?
How are you going to incorporate the movement of the show; the dance?
How are you going to deal with a Choreographer co-equally responsible for the vision of the show?
Are you completely comfortable with the elevation of the choreographer to the position of covisionary of the show?
(How are you going to show respect to someone aiding in the vision of the show, the hiring of the staff, the creation of the design, the casting of the actors?)
The Choreographer will be as involved in aiding in staff hiring and in being at all design meetings and designing the show. The Director does have final say in the case of a conflict. The director will also be in charge of running rehearsals once they begin, but up until and even through that point the vision of the show will be dictated by the Choreographer and the Director together.
What bothered me on Monday night was when you said that the ăchoreographerä
would come in to design ă1 element of the showä in terms of dance? Is this
what you meant to say? Can you justify your answer from Monday night. The
problem is the Choreographer is a very important and elevated position·
***Where else does the choreographer come in?***
Will you want an assistant director and an assistant choreographer? Will you allow there to be people in these positions?
Underlying meaning· Gay. Homosexual and sexually ambiguous theme. It tricks people and runs throughout the show. Also the true meaning is ăYou are F-edä the final meaning is that striving for an extraordinary life is blah·
What is your artistic vision of the show?
Time commitments winter quarter·
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Name, e-mail and phone?
What position are you applying for?
Theatrical experience - although no experience is required ö (First list Stanford experience, then professional experience, then high school experience)?
Why do you want to be on staff for Pippin?
When are you NOT available for interviews between November 1 and November 15?
Time commitments by quarter? (What are you doing this quarter, next quarter and spring quarter? The show goes up on April 6 and runs until April 15, we will start working at the end of November)
What other positions are you interested in?
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