So I know that when I became president of my cast I was clueless.  I was simply handed the binder that had everything in it.  Where do you go from there?? is what I thought to myself.  Well I just pulled it all out of the air and made it up as i went along.  I was lucky enough to have had a cast that has been searching for more from AYW.  So I figured out away in which I and my other officers could do that.  Let me tell you what a job that has been....However, we have had great turnouts.  Here is a general list of what my cast has done this year:

Fall semester
Produced Much Ado about Nothing ( Shakespeare in the Park student directed)
Show Posters for each Show of our Mainstage season
$500 for equipment for out Studio Theatre
sent 3(well only 2 went) to the Notheast Regional Conference FOR FREE.
purchased $300 worth of scripts for our script library.
Paid for cast shirts.
Grooming Workshop for Actor ( a how to get a job workshop, had the pros come in and give workshops.)
The budget for Fall Semester was about $4000.00

Spring Semester
Produced James and the Giant Peach (Off campus student directed)
Sent 11 people to the USITT ConFerence in New Orleans for FREE.
Produce the Annual Theatre Formal (Pledge Class Project)
Show Posters
Theatre Department Season Shirts
OUR NEW PLEDGE PROGRAM(what a task!)
Budget for the Spring $6382.00

What is interesting is all of the amounts that are stated above are from our student allocations committee.  All of this money comes from the student government.  NONE of that is from fundraising.  I think that we are very lucky to be able to get at this kind of money.  If you have any questions please feel free to email me.  I love putting budget proposal presentations together.

Randy

I think it's amazing that you in the Omega Xi cast are so dedicated to doing things.  I find it difficult to motivate my fellow cast members (Beta Iota at Valparaiso University) because everyone "is so busy."  While we are a small cast, I feel that sometimes they are in it for the honor and nothing else.  We have only a couple hundred dollars in our account, and we always propose fundraisers, but no one is willing to follow through.  We have a formal at Christmas that brings in about $500 but that's basically it.  We try undergrounds, but again, "no one has time."  Does anyone have any suggestions to motivate these people?  Please?

Thanks!

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I think it's amazing that you in the Omega Xi cast are so dedicated to doing things.  I find it difficult to motivate my fellow cast members (Beta Iota at Valparaiso University) because everyone "is so busy."  While we are a small cast, I feel that sometimes they are in it for the honor and nothing else.  We have only a couple hundred dollars in our account, and we always propose fundraisers, but no one is willing to follow through.  We have a formal at Christmas that brings in about $500 but that's basically it.  We try undergrounds, but again, "no one has time."  Does anyone have any suggestions to motivate these people?  Please?

Thanks!
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Iota Tau from Longwood....we have the same problem.  People talk big but don't follow through.  The one thing that always happens is Ball which also brings in about 500 for us which goes to a scholarship to the department.

We're getting better though.

On Oktoberfest and Spring Weekend with a "Alpha-sassinations" which takes barely any preparation but is a LOT of fun.  We charge about $2 per assasination and people pay for us to take two waterballoons and go "assasinate" their friends.  Sometimes all we have to do is hand them the waterballoons and they'll do the assasination for us

We've also started weekly workshops (Tuesdays at 3:30) and made it part of pledge requirements to attend one workshop outside their strength areas and assist with one workshop that is in their strength areas.
We don't have the greatest turnout but at least we're doing something.

We also just put on an Improv Night which was a pretty decent success.  Outside of reserving the space and advertizing, it takes about 15 minutes to put together but it's fun, easy, you get audience participation, etc.  And if it gets done in a cafe or someplace that people are walking by, they stop to see what's going on.  This is important for us because there is a VERY high rate of apathy no students go to ANYTHING.

We also set up a 'campus-wide tag' during exam week last year, and this year I'm pushing for a 'campus-wide pillowfight'  It's mostly theatre people that show up so campus-wide is kind of a stretch but anyone is invited.

We also put together cast parties for every show and on opening night we put up a congrats poster to cast and crew.

Anyone else, share what your cast does!!  I'm really curious to get new ideas for things we can do.