Project Grant

Great opportunity to enjoy free music on beautiful nights!; Best thing about Thursday nights in summer!; Great music û need more of it!!; I enjoyed every concert. I like the music selections, especially the lively stuff! I like the short introductions for each piece; Keep up the wonderful concerts! I love them! I like the explanation and background of the songs and writers. They do a great job of this. I love good music and the band is the tops.Evaluation Plan and Methods are as follows: Outcome 1 is measured by delivering live theater to Elk River and surrounding areas: by auditioning, rehearsals, and the presentation of a series of live performances for the region at the end of July. The extensive rehearsal process and a series of performances before local audiences will facilitate evaluation of outcomes 1, 2, 3. This will occur by training and refining skill sets of performers and stage management, by giving artists an opportunity to perform live theater, and by having a local, affordable option for audiences to view a unique theater offering. Have the actors, directors, and stage crew mastered the material and given competent performances? This is no small feat as exquisite timing is involved to pull this particular production off well. The staging, sets, props acquisition and management, and timing and delivery of lines, entrances and exits, are more complex than the average stage production- The artistic directors evaluate performers and production crew verbally and/or in writing for outcome. 2. Audiences will be offered an optional stage tour by an experienced cast or board member during one of the two intermissions in each performance. Outcome 3: We will conduct verbal and written surveys after the tour to ascertain audience opinion and whether the organization is meeting the goals we set for this production. We believe this tour/survey combination will be effective for outcome 3 because the audience members who choose to participate will be able to shift perspective briefly to see theater art in a way that few ever do...from behind the scenes. This invites them to move to a more intimate level of participation beyond the passive observer and into the role of active participant. We will perform an end of production survey of the cast/crew, and board to evaluate outcomes 1, 2, 3.