"Yesterday and Today"The title of my blog post means "yesterday and today," which was also the theme of the annual culture night held by the Filipino American Student Association (FASA) at Old Dominion University. The show was on April 18th inside the North Cafeteria of Webb Center. The students started their day at 11am and ended it around 2 or 3am on Sunday morning. The show was put together at the very last minute, but somehow they pulled it together and had a successful night.
The students started putting the show together in the beginning of this semester with practices at least 4 times a week for the traditional dances, writing the script, making/decorating props, etc.
Instead of writing a re-cap of the show, I've decided to write about what went into making the show a success and what we could've done differently because many people don't know how much stress goes into putting a show together.
To be completely honest, I don't think a lot of people cared about this show compared to last year's. We didn't have many committed or dedicated people and the practices were unproductive until the very last week and a half before the show. I was actually really surprised to see how well we pulled everything together at the very last minute, I guess people DO work better under pressure. I feel that we should've had complete run-throughs of the show a week before the show or at least a few day
s, but we didn't until the day OF, and it wasn't a good one either. And of course, what's a show without DRAMA? That was one thing that we DID have and A LOT of it. I tried to stay away from the drama, but when you're working with a group of people it's a little hard to. There were conflicts over unproductive practices, not having enough (committed & reliable) people, and time management. We had a lot of frustrated people who wanted to give up and quit at the last minute because they felt others didn't care about the show as much as they did.The main thing we need to work on for next year is our transitions and communicating with the tech crew. I would also advise that we have the show a bit earlier because towards the end of the semester is when our workload is upped and it just stresses people out even more. Also, the practices need to be made MANDATORY and not highly advised to come to. On a positive note though, when it was time, everyone came together and worked as a team. Now we know what we need to do to make the show even better next year.
Below is a slide show of pictures from the show. Enjoy =)
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