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RE: RAT Collaborations question
Do you have a small theater list-serve specifically for the boston area? I
highly recommend doing that. Go to egroups.com or someother similar thing
like that. It has worked miracles in Los Angeles.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Kells [SMTP:coyote403@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:05 AM
> To: Rat-List@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject: RAT Collaborations question
>
> Hi all:
>
> Daniel here, from Boston's Coyote Theatre.
>
> I've been producing "fringe" theatre in Boston for
> about 5 years. We've won awards, gotten great press,
> have the admiration of an outstanding core of
> supporters, and have received some wonderful grants.
> Then we put on a production of Ken Lonergan's This Is
> Our Youth, that is so universally hailed it shocks
> everyone, and still we play to audiences of 20-25
> people. WHERE ARE THE AUDIENCES?
>
> In Boston, the Lyric Opera (huge!), the Boston Ballet
> (huge!), the Museum of Fine Arts (huge!) and the
> Science Museum (huge!) formed a collaboration to
> cross-pollinate their audiences, all around the theme
> of Egypt. The ballet audiences, after seeing
> Cleopatra, would get to look at an IMAX movie on the
> Pyramids at the Science Museum, all the while knowing
> that they have tickets to Aida at the opera and the
> opportunity to see artifacts at the museum. The four
> of them have gone from huge to HUGER!
>
> Taking that model, and shrinking it down considerably,
> but keeping the same principles, Coyote is considering
> a collaboration with several other small theatres in
> town, unifying ourselves around a common subscription
> of some sort, at least as a start.
>
> The question is: have any of you tried something like
> this? Do you know of successes? failures? fledgling
> collaborations?
>
> Any ideas you might have, advice you could provide,
> folks you could put me in touch with, would go so far
> towards bringing the work we do to greater audiences
> all the while subsidizing our temp-job ridden lives.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
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