| TIME UNTIL OPENING NIGHT |
GOALS |
| 12 to 8 months |
- Create a budget
- Select show & purchase rights
- Reserve performance and rehearsal space
- Handle any fundraising
|
| 3 months |
- Line-up a full production team
- Have tickets printed
- Confirm delivery date for scripts & scores
|
| 2 months |
- Announce show & hold auditions
- Select musicians and all production teams
- Initiate Publicity (press releases, etc.)
- Begin program ad sales
- Order raw supplies (fabric, lumber, paint, etc.)
|
| 8 weeks |
- Begin rehearsals
- Begin design and construction of sets & costumes
|
| 3 weeks |
Make sure all cast is "off
book" - no more scripts |
| 2 weeks |
- Complete sets and costumes
- Have costumes fittings
- Run through Act I twice in one rehearsal
- Run through Act II twice in one rehearsal
|
| 1 week |
- Hold Tech rehearsal
- Hold preliminary dress rehearsals
|
| 2 days |
Final dress rehearsal |
| 1 day |
Break Day |