Dear Treehouse Board of Directors and to whomever else it might concern. Before I begin, I would like to give the assembled group of individuals a great round of applause. I thank you for the dedication and effort each of you has personally put into this theater to insure it’s survival for a great number of years. As a former student performing member of Treehouse Theaters JTF performing team, I wish to bring to the attention of the board an issue that I have personally been concerned about every year within the team: the lack of student commitment concerning rehearsal attendance. I would like to propose that a policy be implemented that if a student auditions for the JTF performing team with more than eight hours conflicting with the already
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It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to perform with actors that you do not trust. Speaking as a former team performer, I know that it is hard to learn a sequence or a dance number when an actor who you are supposed to be working with is absent. Attempting to imagine them there is arduous and only beneficial for a very limited amount of time. Therefore, only physical attendance is entirely advantageous for trusting your teammates and learning to work cohesively. Additionally, when a student performer is absent from rehearsal they, usually unintentionally, set a tone of disrespect for their fellow teammates and their directors. When students are permitted, or tolerated, to miss rehearsals regularly the tone of disrespect grows. Within the team for JTF 2016, twelve different students missed a total rehearsal time of twenty-eight hours when all compiled together. However, a few students missed more time proportionally than those other twelve students; in fact, a few students only missed one hour out of the entire rehearsal process, whereas two students missed six hours each and one student missed an estimated twelve hours of rehearsal. This type of lack of commitment is what I wish to remedy in coming years for Treehouse Theaters JTF performing
It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to perform with actors that you do not trust. Speaking as a former team performer, I know that it is hard to learn a sequence or a dance number when an actor who you are supposed to be working with is absent. Attempting to imagine them there is arduous and only beneficial for a very limited amount of time. Therefore, only physical attendance is entirely advantageous for trusting your teammates and learning to work cohesively. Additionally, when a student performer is absent from rehearsal they, usually unintentionally, set a tone of disrespect for their fellow teammates and their directors. When students are permitted, or tolerated, to miss rehearsals regularly the tone of disrespect grows. Within the team for JTF 2016, twelve different students missed a total rehearsal time of twenty-eight hours when all compiled together. However, a few students missed more time proportionally than those other twelve students; in fact, a few students only missed one hour out of the entire rehearsal process, whereas two students missed six hours each and one student missed an estimated twelve hours of rehearsal. This type of lack of commitment is what I wish to remedy in coming years for Treehouse Theaters JTF performing