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Registrations for Conference 2010 are now closed,
however ball tickets are still available

19 - 21 March 2010 - Auckland - our 50th Anniversary

Hosted by Zone One at the newly refurbished Rydges Harbour View Auckland

Win an Avenue Q price pack which includes double pass to the Preview on Thursday 13 May and Avenue Q merchandise – put your name into the draw when you pick up your documents at the registration desk – prize sponsored by the Edge and will be drawn at the AGM.

Conference 2010 - Programme

Friday 19 March
9am	MTNZ Executive Meeting
9am	Trade Show set up
11am	Registration desk opens at the Rydges Harbour View Auckland
4pm	Trade Show opens
6pm	Pre-dinner drinks
7.15pm	Welcome by MTNZ President and Zone One Representative, roll call, cutting of the 50^th Anniversary Cake
7.45pm	The Dominie Drama World Cuisine Dinner (dress: smart/casual)
10pm	Registration Desk closes

Saturday 20 March
8am	Registration desk re-opens
8.45am	50^th Annual General Meeting of Musical Theatre New Zealand (agenda will be advised with conference papers in February
10am	Morning Tea - registration desk will reopen for seminar only registrations and ticket pick up for the John Herber Masquerade Ball for those who are only attending this function
10.45am	Forum Session
Midday	The Hal Leonard AGM Lunch
1pm	Registration desk closes
1.15pm	Seminar Session and Trade Show will begin to close
3.15pm	Seminar Session concludes
3.30pm	Merit Awards and other awards
4.30pm approx	AGM closes
6pm - 7.30pm	The Origin Theatrical Champagne & Canapé Hour at the Rydges Harbour View Auckland accompanied by the Ambiance String Quartet kindly sponsored by Redd Acoustics Sales
8pm	MTNZ 50^th Anniversary Gala Dinner & the John Herber Masquerade Ball at the Sky City Convention Centre – please note the Sky City is a five minute walk from Rydges and transport will be available if the weather is adverse or if you have mobility issues. We will also have people directing you. Formal dress - please come dressed for a ball – traditional or modern – anything goes, and don’t forget your mask.
12.30am	Masquerade Ball concludes
11pm onwards	The bar will be open (and coffee and tea will also be available) at the Rydges Harbour View Auckland till the small hours

Sunday 21 March
From 9am	Farewell breakfast at the Rydges Harbour View Auckland
10.30am	Tour of the Civic Theatre (downtown Auckland)

Forums and Seminars
We have some fantastic seminars and forums on offer as well and huge thanks to our presenters, panellists for giving
up their time and sharing their knowledge and expertise. All the detail for the seminars and forums can be found in
the conference registration packs.

Forum One – The Name of the Game – Marketing Musicals
Presenter: Steve Spiegel, President and CEO, Theatrical Rights Worldwide – New York

Forum Two – Sound Design and Equipment Q&A
Panel: Glen Ruske (Bounce NZ), Callum Brieske (ML Consultants)

Forum Three – Auditioning for a show
Facilitator: John Antony (Director and MTNZ Executive)
Panel: Grant Meese (Director); Val Hemphill (Choreographer);Campbell Downie (Musical Director); Jane Keller (professional singer & actor & voice tutor) Neville Scelly (Performer); Sherrin Scelly (Performer)

Forum Four – Set Design for the Smaller Venue
Facilitator: Helen Horsnell (MTNZ Executive and Stage Manager)
Panel: Basil Mahan (Porirua Little Theatre) Bruce McDowell (Tairei Musical Theatre)
Chris Green (Theatre Hawkes Bay/Napier Operatic)

Forum Five – Capital Expenditure – what should you hire and what should you buy?
Facilitator: Lesley Reid (MTNZ Executive & former President of Napier Operatic)
Panel: Chris McKenzie (Kenderdine Electrical); Terry Molloy (Redd Sales); Deane Philip (NZ Fire Shield), David Bosworth (The Light Site), Diane Brodie (Current President of Showbiz Christchurch with over 30 years experience in wardrobe both in Christchurch and nationally)

Forum Six - Financial Planning for a Show
Facilitators: Allan Nagy (MTNZ Executive, Production Manager for Miss Saigon for Abbey Musical Theatre and current President of Abbey – 25 years of board work for Abbey); Kevin Murphy (Executive Business Advisor and previous President and Life Member of MTNZ, Deputy Chief Executive of TSB; board management and involvement with New Plymouth Operatic for over 20 years

Forum Seven – Health and Safety – A Guide for Safe Practices in the New Zealand Theatre and Entertainment Industries http://www.etnz.org/files/Guide-Draft11-April07.pdf
Facilitator: Ian Reid (Manager, Napier Municipal Theatre & MTNZ President)
Panel: Rob Peters (Theatre Systems and Design and President of ETNZ); Kathryn Osborne (Places Please Limited; professional Stage Manager, and Vice President of ETNZ); Dale Henderson (President of EVANZ and Venue Manager – Baycourt Theatre, Tauranga) Graeme Philip (John Herber)

Forum Eight – Society Websites and the Internet – How to make “modern technology” work for you
Panel: Andrew Comrie (North Shore Music Theatre website); Chris Zampese (Musikmakers/HMT Productions and Rotorua Musical Theatre websites); Reece Preston (iTICKET)

Forum Nine – Venues - The “Gore Experience” - The Gore Operatic theatre rebuild – how was it achieved, what was done and why.
Facilitator: Ross Benbow (MTNZ Executive and President of Nelson Musical Theatre)
Presenter: Phil Conroy (Shand Shelton, ETNZ, Metro Productions)

Forum Ten – Fund Raising
Facilitator: Ngaire Holmes (MTNZ Executive and Chief Fund Raiser for Musikmakers)
Presenter: Ken Williamson QSM, JP, MInstD

Forum Eleven – The “MDs” (musical director’s) Forum
Presenter: Richard Marrett (NASDA and professional musical director)
This forum will cover all the aspects connected with putting together the musical aspects of performance of interest to those present - topics concerning teaching, coaching, working with vocalists, conducting, repetiteurs, orchestras, ensemble parts, using tracks, clicks and monitors.

Seminar One: Directing and Shaping the Drama of a Performance
Presenter: Christian Penny (Associate Director – Toi Whakaari, NZ Drama School)
Content Covered: In a musical, as in a drama, each moment is a progression and extension of the core theme of the work. Knowing this can help us "shape" and bring to "life" the scenes and singers we direct. We will explore this in theory and in action. Come prepared to move your bodies. Drama like singing, exists in action!

Seminar Two: Marketing Success For Local Theatres
Presenters: Rachael Wiseman & Terry O’Connor (Amici Productions)
Content Covered: This seminar will focus on creating and implementing practical, effective marketing campaigns for local theatrical productions. Aspects covered will include:

· Understanding and developing the ‘brand’ and ‘point of difference’

· Defining and accessing the target market of a show

· Selecting and implementing marketing channels, with some creative twists

· Understanding and working to maximise skill sets and resources available within our voluntary groups

Seminar Three: Stage Management

Presenter: Kathryn Osborne (Places Please Limited)

Content Covered: A session on what a Stage Manager should be concerned with during rehearsals and the performance. Emphasis on paperwork and setting up scripts & scores

Seminar Four: Sound Design
Presenter: Terry Molloy (Redd Acoustics Sales & Redd Acoustics Consultancy)
Content Covered: This seminar will be split into two parts – the first hour will be an interactive discussion on overall production planning and execution from the sound designers perspective and working with other production departments (ie: directors, musical directors, lighting designers, props & costumes) and how to make the best utilisation of a busy and sometimes stressful time, leading up to opening night. Ideas and suggestions from a sound designer’s perspective, when looking at the overall production from initial planning meetings to opening night. The second part (hour and a half) will be an advanced audio system design solutions, using analog and digital equipment.

Seminar Five: Costume Workshop Management
Presenter: Kaarin Macaulay (Head of Costume Construction Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School)
Content Covered: Kaarin will present a session on Costume Workshop Management - from looking at the play to understanding wardrobe requirements from pre-production through to storing the costumes after the production. Discussion on the basics you need, i.e. most used items that you should have in the wardrobe without having to hire, what fabrics needed in stock if making regularly. Kaarin will also look at sourcing your costume needs and discussing suppliers and common wardrobe issues.

Seminar Six: Vocal Techniques for Musical Theatre Performance
Presenter: Jane Keller (freelance singing and musical theatre performer, tutor and professional singer/performer) accompanied by Campbell Downie (professional musical director/musician)
Content Covered: The seminar will look at "twang" which is a sound that sounds like a high belt and a totally different technique from belting, but has the same vocal quality and "speech quality" - a wonderful technique for high voices to make good sound in the lower register. A masterclass situation with selected participants and overall observer participation, learning these wonderful vocal techniques and necessities for musical theatre performance

Seminar Seven: Production Management
Presenter: Rob Peters (Theatresystems & Design, ETNZ PresidentProduction Manager for Southern Opera)
Content Covered: The Production Managers Role; The Team Structure / Job descriptions; Planning; The people factor in a production - how to bring departments together, communication, conflict resolution; Budgets / Marketing / Advertising/ Contracts; Health & Safety Implementation

Seminar Eight: Copyright Holders Forum
Facilitator: John Antony (MTNZ Executive)
The format of this forum will be as follows: Advice and the law on the use of photographs and videos of shows and rehearsals on internet sites like Facebook and Youtube and who is actually responsible for content posted to the internet – Society or the individual who posts the content. The new copyright law with regard to on line copyright infringement and the encouragement of a digital economy for content creators – APRA. New show development and licencing –Steve Spiegel, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, New York Each copyright holder will talk about their company and catalogue for approx ten minutes Q&A session.

The forum panel will have representation from the following companies: APRA, Auckland; David Spicer Productions, Sydney, Dominie Drama, Sydney; Hal Leonard Australia, Melbourne; Origin Theatrical, Sydney; Play Bureau, New Plymouth, Playmarket, Wellington/Auckland; Theatrical Rights Worldwide, New York

Seminar Nine: Small Societies Discussion
Presenter: Irene Mosley (Results Consulting – strategies for not for profits & small businesses)
Content Covered: This forum will provide that opportunity and attendees should come away with a whole list of practical suggestions for issues that most societies face and solve over time. Topics for discussion (and please note this seminar will be valuable for members from smaller and medium sized societies)
Ideas for growing societies; Funding; Running the organisation; Dealing with conflict

Seminar Ten: New Venues - the new facilities they provide and overzealous users and their expectations and undertakings
Presenter: Phil Conroy (Shand Shelton Limited)
Content Covered: Case Study: This seminar idea has come about as a result of completing a theatre where a theatre group had great expectations of what they were going to do in their opening show, had made commitments to sponsors and had no idea of the implications and dangers in what they were wanting to achieve. They didn’t want to listen to their own technical people and went to the experts who gave them the same advice and then started to use the issue of undertakings to sponsors as a means to attempt to get a solution. In a new venue, you have to change the ways you have worked in the past and first you must learn to crawl before you try to run.

Biographies of seminar presenters, forum facilitators and panel members, and conference speakers

Dress Codes For Functions -
Friday Night – Dominie Drama World Cuisine Dinner –smart/casual
John Herber Masquerade Ball – formal dress and come dressed for a ball – traditional or modern –
anything goes, and don’t forget your mask.

Masquerade Ball Wardrobe Hire - Daphne Abbott of North Shore Music Theatre will have dinner suits, shirts and
bow ties available for hire, but you will need to bring your own shoes. You will need to advise your size before
coming to the conference to ensure availability. The cost will be $35 to cover dry cleaning.
Please contact Daphne via email info@nsmt.org.nz

Masquerade Masks - Diane Philip from John Herber will be selling masquerade masks at the John Herber
trade stand on Friday night and during Saturday.

Tour of the Civic Theatre - There will be a tour of the Civic Theatre on Sunday 21 March leaving Rydges
at 10.30am for a 10.45am start. The Civic Theatre is in walking distance from Rydges and it is a stunning
theatre and certainly worth a visit. Thanks to Kerry from the Edge for his assistance with this.

A big thanks from MTNZ to the following individuals and companies, for their assistance with the
planning for the 50^th Anniversary MTNZ conference and AGM – Auckland 2010
(as at 26 August 2009):

Sponsorship:
John Herber Limited & NZ Fire Shield Limited – major sponsors of MTNZ and showbill competition
Association of Community Theatre – sponsorship of the 50^th Anniversary Cake
BOUNCE NZ - sound design and sponsored supply
David Spicer Productions – awards for Saturday night
Dominie Drama Sydney - Friday night dinner
Hal Leonard Australia - AGM lunch
Kenderdine Electrical - lighting design and sponsored supply
Origin Theatrical Sydney - poster competition and champagne and canape hour
Redd Acoustics Sales - Ambiance String Quartet
The Light Site - star cloths

Guest Speakers and Entertainment
Grant Meese – Saturday night entertainment
Helen Medlyn – opening speaker
Jane Keller & Richard Marrett – Friday night entertainment
Steve Spiegel – Theatrical Rights Worldwide – keynote speaker
Verity Burgess & Ben Fernandez – Saturday night entertainment
Zone One entertainment group

Individuals and Companies for seminars/forums:
Greer Davies/Emma Blake - APRA
Basil Mahan –Porirua Little Theatre
Bruce McDowell – Taieri Musical Theatre
Campbell Downie – musical director
Chris Green – Theatre Hawkes Bay
Chris Zampese- Musikmakers Hamilton
Christian Penny - Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School
Dale Henderson – Tauranga Musical Theatre, EVANZ
David Bosworth – The Light Site
David Spicer Productions
Deane Philip – NZ Fire Shield Limited
Diane Brodie – Showbiz Christchurch
Stephanie Stenhouse - Dominie Drama
Glen Ruske – BOUNCE NZ
Graeme Philip – John Herber Limited
Grant Meese – Amici Productions
Hal Leonard Australia
Irene Mosley – Results Consulting
Jane Keller
John MacGibbon – ML Consultants
Kaarin Macaulay, Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School
Kathryn Osborne – Places Please
Ken Williamson QSM, JP, MInstD
Kevin Murphy
Kim Ransley - Origin Theatrical
Neville Scelly - performer
Phil Conroy – Shand Shelton
Play Bureau
Playmarket
Rachael Wiseman - Amici Productions Limited
Reece Preston - iTICKET
Richard Braid – Now Sound Limited
Richard Marrett - NASDA
Rob Peters – Theatresystems and Design
Sherrin Scelly - performer
Steve Spiegel – Theatrical Rights Worldwide
Terry Molloy – Redd Acoustics Sales
Terry O’Connor - Amici Productions Limited
Val Hemphill – choreographer
WUNZ

And special thanks to:

Allan Nagy for assistance with the 50^th Anniversary book
Andrew Comrie
Daphne Abbott – North Shore Music theatre for ball costume hire
Delwyn Smith
Diane Hill – Musikmakers Hamilton for making the 50^th Anniversary Cake
John Antony
John MacGibbon – Spotlight archives
Kerry Griffiths – The Edge
Lyn Dorreen
Ngaire Holmes
Rydges Auckland Team – Angela, Gabrielle, Rhys, Stephen
Zone One societies for hosting conference
Zsofia Keszthelyi – Sky City Convention Centre