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WOW! WHAT A GREAT SHOW! I HAVE HAD MANY PEOPLE SAY IT'S THE BEST ONE YET :D EVERYONE DID A WONDERFUL JOB AND OVERALL HAD A WONDERFUL TIME!


THIS SHOW TOOK A HUGE AMOUNT OF SEWING AND WE ARE SO SO SO APPRECIATIVE OF ALL THOSE WHO HELPED WITH COSTUMES!! THE KIDS LOOKED FABULOUS ON STAGE!


EVERYONE WHO VOLUNTEERED CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS OF THIS PRODUCTION AND THE TERRIFIC EXPERIENCE THAT WE OFFERED EVERY CHILD IN THE SHOW. YOU ARE AWESOME!


THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT! THIS IS A COMMUNITY EFFORT AND IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT YOU!

REMEMBER:


IT'S NOT ABOUT THE SHOW, IT'S ABOUT THE CHILDREN


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Sunday, March 7, 2010

VOLUNTEER JOB DESCRIPTIONS

VOLUNTEER JOB DESCRIPTIONS



Once you sign up, that job is your responsibility. If you have a conflict arise, you need to find a substitute or trade.


NOTE: GROUP HELPERS ON SHOW NIGHTS SHOULD ONLY SIGN UP FOR ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS SO EVERYONE SEES THE SHOW ONCE.



• Group Leader: Be at all rehearsals, or at least 80% of them. Help the group directors and choreographers teach the song and dance to your group along with your helpers. Take roll, help keep your group organized. Coordinate the backstage activities, make-up (if applicable), costumes, and cues w/the aid of your group helpers.



• Group Helper: Be at your assigned rehearsal times. Help teach the song and dance to your group. Take roll. Write down the order the kids need to be in for their line up. Help the kids know which is their right hand, or left foot, etc. If at SVHS, help the group mom coordinate and organize the kids for backstage (waiting and getting on and off stage) ‘crowd control’ for your group.


•Group Costume coordinator: Make sure the parents know what your group needs for costumes. Oversee that all kids have their entire costumes. Receive your group costumes from the head costume coordinator. Hand out costume parts and collect and account for all of them after the last show. Give to costume washers.


  • Head Costume Coordinator: Work with theater leadership to hand out costumes to each group costume coordinator. Keep a written account of who has which costumes so we can account for all costume pieces after show.


  • Costume Final Inventory: Work with theater leadership to inventory all costumes which have been cleaned and returned. Help put in storage.

• Sets: Go to the assigned location for your day and time and help the set designer with building, painting and any other set design project.



• Data Entry: Take the information gathered for your assigned group and type it into a list which you can then email to us. We will give you the form online.




  • Data Entry - program: Using group lists and cast lists along with art from the kids ...design the program, then print at city offices.



• Email input: Take the entire cast list and input all the email addresses into the SYT email.



• Clean up: Help clean the venue at your assigned time. Depending on location and date, basic sweeping, vacuuming, emptying trash, picking up any lost and found, washing glass doors. At SVHS we have to leave the school clean after the last show.



• Load in and out: Help carry in and set up (or take down and carry out) the sets at SVHS.



• Wireless Microphone Supervisor: Supervise and coordinate the best way to transfer the head mics for the different scenes .





• Stage hand: Help the Stage Manager with props, making sure groups are lined up to come onstage, help w/mic exchanges as needed and help w/traffic flow backstage, etc….






  • ***Stage hands must work at least one full SkyView rehearsal and one show!***


  • Props: Collect and/or buy props as directed. Organize them and distribute them at the theater. Be sure all props are collected and returned to storage after last show.


  • Asst. Props: Help Props manager collect/buy props as directed and manage them backstage and after the last show.


  • Runner: Follow along the script and go get each group in time for them to line up off stage for their entrance. Must be able to attend the dress rehearsals and shows. If we have 2 runners, you can share the job, but each must attend minimum 1 rehearsal at SVHS and 1 show.


  • Crowd Control: At group rehearsals be sure no one who is not in the group practicing at any given time is playing around the venue. Keep siblings etc. from running around halls.


  • Washing costumes: Two people go will go together to the laundrymat with all the costumes. We will pay for this and provide soap and dryer sheets. Then return all bins of costumes to the Costume Inventory Lead. It will take about 4 hours to do this job.


  • Cookie/Award coordinator: Order and pick up cookies from Lee's. (we pay)Give to group leaders for their kids after the last show. Also print awards and give them to group leaders to fill out and give kids after last show.


  • Parade coordinator: communicate with the Health Days Parade Committee to sign up and get 2 spaces in the parade. Find 2 trucks w/trailers that the kids can ride on in the parade. Get a few parents to come along in the parade. Go along w/the cast in the parade.


  • T-shirt coordinator: Take orders and money for t-shirts. Turn money in to the Smithfield City SYT account. Pick up shirts at Badger Printing when ready. Hand out shirts to cast members.


  • Information distribution: Make copies at the city offices. Cut as appropriate and distribute announcements/sign-ups to schools and put up posters.
  • Sewing coordinator:  hand out, keep track of and collect sewing projects from sewing team and deliver to head costume coordinator for distribution.
Sewing: Sew costume parts as needed at your home, or possibly in sewing groups as organized by the sewing lead.
  • SIGN UP HELPER - Help facilitate ‘in person’ sign ups
  • Audition Helper - Help facilitate auditions, keep the waiting kids organized, etc.
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