Collaboration In Theater Analysis

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Collaboration is a critical component of the music theater program. What I learned from the book “Collaboration in Theater” is that the performance of an excellent musical cannot work without the cooperation between the actors and the back stage crew. The perfect collaboration includes time, schedules, stage design and other projects plagued many steps in the collaborative chain. What is more, there are always some aspects of successes and frustrations when people cooperate, not to mention the collaboration in theatre. In the beginning of the process to create the show “The Life”, there were some frustrations between the Department of Theater and the College of Music need to be considered. For example, the difference in vocabulary, rehearsal times and logistical finger-pointing were all elements in the frustration between the two departments. Since the Department of Theater wanted to showcase their actors while the College of Music focused on the voice of their students appeared in the showcase. In addition, the first production meeting with director and designers was terrible. “The lighting designer was in another state working on a show. The scene and costume designers seemed shell-shocked from their hectic summer schedules. Unsympathetically, the director plowed ahead, as he would be leaving town for three weeks. The timing was disastrous.” Pg. 2040 It shows that it is not an …show more content…

Each team members need to be involved positively and willing to communicate effectively to make the collaboration successfully. It is the ability that extremely important and useful for everyone to learn and utilize whenever at school for group paper or at work for team project. Especially, I am in the finance major. I definitely sure that I will face lots of team work in the

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