Scene

Vol.37. No 12 December 2014

Important Dates for your Diary:

• Information night - "The First" Monday 1st December - 7pm
• McDonalds Promotion / BTG Fundraiser with A-Chord Choir - Tuesday 2nd December 5.30pm - 8pm at Beenleigh - Bring your family
• Auditions - "The First" Tuesday 9th December - 7pm
• Jets Showcase Friday 12th December & Saturday 13th December
• Kaiser Kandles 7pm start - AChord Choir
  Sunday 14th December
  Tuesday 16th December
  Friday 19th December
  Saturday 20th December
  Tuesday 23rd December
  Wednesday 24th December

Hi and welcome to our December edition of Scene. Christmas is fast approaching and that means Kaiser Kandles featuring AChord choir and our wonderful Jets showcase are just around the corner. I would like to wish all our members and their families a joyful, safe and wonderful holiday season and New Year.

Have you got your ticket? http://beenleightheatregroup.com/booking/


BTG Membership 2015:
Is due at the beginning of each calender year. To book your tickets or to pay for membership click here.

Our website is continuing to be updated. BTG members can download audition forms, membership forms, the member's handbook and our constitution.

There are links to information regarding our shows for 2014 including information regarding audition and casting requirements. Check out our website: click here

If you would like to put anything in next month's newsletter, copy needs to be in, if possible before the end of the previous month.
Please email me at secretary@beenleightheatregroup.com 

or Yours in Theatre - Nikki McMahon - Editor

Promotional Email List:

We have launched a new mailing list which already includes everybody who has booked online recently and selected to receive promotional information from BTG.
To see the same info being sent to our loyal patrons, please click here to update your subscription and include "What's On - upcoming shows & promotions". 

Our next meeting will be Monday  8th November at 7pm. 

Please email the Secretary if you wish to include anything on the agenda. secretary@beenleightheatregroup.com 

Member's Noticeboard:

Submissions for 2016: 
Are you interested in a production role for 2016? Did you have a submission idea which didn’t make it into the 2015 calendar?
After a bumper crop of submissions for 2015, our artistic team is looking at an earlier timeline for cementing the following year’s program. Frankly – we just couldn’t fit everything in! Also, it also seems that theatre in our region is quite healthy given the number of refusals we got on rights applications because other groups already had the shows we wanted.
So we have decided to start taking applications/ proposals earlier for 2016. In fact we are happy to have them sent to Roslyn (artistic team coordinator) or Nikki (secretary) at any time during the next nine months!
Contents of proposals -

• Proposals should list a suggested production team and preferably come from the director of the team. The director’s experience should be listed. Traditionally a director of a mainhouse show should have directed at another group, OR been an assistant director at BTG AND have directed a oneact play for the drama festival. This checklist needs to be considered.
• The submission should also identify a demographic that exists in the BTG audience base who the production will connect with, and possible marketing strategies specific to the performance.
• A possible design concept and the identification of specialist items and people to create/source them is also helpful.
•  If the show is a musical we need to know whether you will work to live music or recorded, and whether it is something which needs the BTG orchestra.
• Requests/availabilities for specific timeslots for the FOUR mainhouse production spots (1. Feb/March, 2. April/May, 3. June/July, 4. Oct/Nov)
• An awareness of other times/places the same show will be performed in Qld and in our region by both professional and local companies.
• Any budgetary considerations.

Put your thinking caps on and if there’s a show you want to see/do in 2016 start putting together the info we need in the decision-making process. It’s not easy, but the more information we have, the better our decisions can be for the group’s artistic and financial future.
 
 Auditions - "The First"

Auditions for THE FIRST, The First AIF Remembered, a tribute. Crete Street Theatre. For inquiries or to register your interest for an audition please contact the director Phillipa Bowe at email phillipa.bowe1@gmail.com or Phone (07) 33971543. Information Evening Monday 1 December. Visit www.beenleightheatregroup.com/whats-on for audition requirements and production information. 
For event details click here

Storage Needed:

Choir meets in the green room every Tuesday night at 7.15 pm
Attention - Choir is currently rehearsing songs from Calamity Jane to be performed in November.
Christmas Carols will be rehearsed on Tuesday 25th November with our McDonald's promotion/ fundraiser at Beenleigh on Tuesday 2nd December from 5pm - 7pm singing Christmas carols.
Kaiser Kandles 7pm start - Featuring AChord Choir
Sunday 14th December
Tuesday 16th December
Friday 19th December
Saturday 20th December
Tuesday 23rd December
Wednesday 24th December

Please contact our choral director Lauren laurendavidson@internode.on.net
For more information on A-Chord Community Choir

Beenleigh Orchestra: 
Come one, come all - The orchestra needs you
We rehearse every Thursday night at 7.00pm please contact David Chivers
at conductor@beenleighorchestra.com for more information

Jets: 

Jets Coordinator: Ros Johnson  irnjohno@tpg.com.au

Juniors:
Please contact Briana Thompson for more information 
briana.morgan.thompson@gmail.com
Intermediates:
Please contact Renee Hood for more information
reneehood88@gmail.com
Seniors:
Please contact Ben Bray for more information
benji.bray@hotmail.com 

Around the Traps:

Beenleigh Theatre Group
Ph: 07 3807 3922
"Best Little Whore house in Texas"
February - March 2015
http://beenleightheatregroup.com/ 

Phoenix Ensemble
Ph: 07 3103 1546
"The Adams family"
February - March 2015
http://www.phoenixensemble.com.au/

Gold Coast Little Theatre
Ph: 07 5532 2096
"Abigail's Party" March 2015
www.gclt.com.au

Sunnybank Theatre Group
Ph: 07 3345 3964
"Relatively Speaking" February 2015
www.stg.org.au

Brisbane Arts
Ph: 07 3699 2344
"The Complete works of Willam Shakespeare Abridged " January - March 2014
www.artstheatre.com.au

Spotlight Theatre
Ph: 07 5539 4255
"La Traviata" April 2015
http://spotlighttheatre.com.au

Ipswich Little Theatre
Ph: 07 3812 2389
www.ipswichlittletheatre.com.au

Risk Theatre
Ph:0410195577
www.risktheatre.com 
 

Calling all Volunteers:
We need some wonderful people to help out in Front of House.
Even if you can spare only an hour all help is appreciated.
Please email Jayne  jaynetattam@gmail.com if you are able to lend a hand.

Costume Hire:
Got a party comining up and need a costume?
Phone Sally Daly on 0408 456 620 to hire from
BTG's extensive wardrobe at very reasonable prices