Arts Project Support

Strong attendance (60-100 percent seating capacity) and the applause following each reading will indicate the audience's engagement with the material. We will solicit more specific information through the participation of at least 60% of audience members in after-show discussion and/or written evaluations. All of the actors, musicians and directors who have contributed to the development process will provide oral and/or written evaluations to assess where they believe the pieces have strengths and weaknesses. All performers indicate in "post-mortem" discussions that they will use the performance experience on their resumes to help them get hired for future readings and full productions of musical theater. The writers will feel that their shows have reached the point that they are ready to be pitched to producing theaters. The number of audience members and the relative number of responses, both oral and written following the public readings. We first assess the audience''s engagement via applause and response to the material in live performance, and then encourage their oral feedback following each reading. Audience members and performer participants will be given a feedback form, if they prefer to provide written comments, or choose to offer more detail in their written comments, beyond the live discussion. One question will be posed to all participants: "Would you like to see a full production of this musical?".