<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">$3,500 CDN is what the  local community theatre in a smaller city outside Toronto uses for plays with another $2,500 per show (averaged over a 5-show season) for promotion and marketing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Small department budgets are on top of this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">250-seat theatre, all volunteer, big costume and props inventories, been around for 80+ years, with most revenue going into maintaining the building.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Increasing rights costs and changes in audience demographics, along with variable production quality, led to a reduction in the number of performances per show to 8 from 11.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Your show budgets seem thin to me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Bruce</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:50 PM Riter, Andrew via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi Dan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I’m not in the same boat you are, so I can’t compare numbers.  (I’m in a rental house on Campus)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">However, another way to read your budget is that you are given $18,000 for your entire department (including office supplies, not including faculty or staff wages?).  How you spend that money
 is up to you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">(cut office supplies, don’t bring in bottled water to the office . . . .   that sort of cost cutting).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">As a sign to your Powers That Be, start producing smaller shows (less set, less actors/costumes; change the musical out for another play).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Have someone (since you already do everything) do a Go Fund Me drive / bake sale to raise funds.  Sometimes “shaming” can work (but consider all possible negative outcomes).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Contact the creative writing department on campus (?), see if they want to go in on a play development workshop (a night of 1 acts:  no rights to pay for).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Other than showing the PTB the excel sheet that Rights have increased by x; lumber increased by y; fabric/costume rentals increased by z; labour costs outside of TAs or free student labour has
 increased by zz; and comparing that to other similar sized programs, offering to start cutting portions of the program is the next (drastic) method of getting their attention.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Good luck.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Andrew M. Riter</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft-bounces@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft-bounces@theatrical.net</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Miller, Daniel via Stagecraft<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 20, 2021 10:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stagecraft Mailing List <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Miller, Daniel <<a href="mailto:Daniel.Miller@dwu.edu" target="_blank">Daniel.Miller@dwu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SML] Show Budgets Question<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Good morning!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">I am a university professor running a one-person theatre department. I produce three plays a year including a musical. I have had the privilege of doing this at this university for 15 years now. As we all know the costs for royalties
 and the costs for building materials has increased a great deal over the last couple of years. However, my budget has remained the same for a decade. I have asked for increases to the budgets, but administration believes the budgets I have for each production
 is sufficient. I need your help. Can I get your feedback? Are my budgets sufficient?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">These budgets are for ALL aspects of a show from royalties, to props, sets, publicity, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Here is my budget……..<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Fall Show………$3500.00<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Winter Show……….$3500.00<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Musical……….$11,000.00<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">BTW – Any items needed for the department such as office supplies or equipment repair/replacement, etc. also has to come from these budgets as well.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Is this typical?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">I look forward to your replies on this matter.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Daniel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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