<div dir="ltr">Hear, hear, Greg and Bill. Too true.<div>Steve Rees</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Bill Conner via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> While I've had to deal with many odd school performance spaces, if the<br>
> space is sufficiently bad to detract from the students'<br>
> appreciation/interest in the arts, there are larger problems with the<br>
> program that cannot likely be addressed by a better/newer facility.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> [Greg Bennett]<br>
<br>
I have trouble imagining that a program change will overcome<br>
unintelligible speech, dry music, poor sight lines, and dim, flat<br>
visuals. Students participating is a different issue but for the<br>
majority of students whose only exposure to live performing arts in a<br>
rural community, it seems pretty detrimental.<br>
<br>
At the end of the day, it's about performing artists telling a story<br>
through word, music, and movement to an audience and seeing and<br>
hearing are essential to that communication. All the loading docks,<br>
wing space, systems and equipment, and so on can't counter a bad<br>
auditorium and stage relationship.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Bill Conner Fellow of the ASTC<br>
<br>
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