A New Green Room

[Evilpandabear]

I mentioned that I wanted to help get the green room organized, and I came up with some ideas to bounce off your proverbial heads. Here it goes:

1) Instead of lockers (the cheapest I found were $60 for a column of 6 lockers) why not make/purchase cubbies, like we had in elementary school? My thought was to disentigrate the cradenza and place cubbies(maybe 2-3 cubes high) along the dry erase board wall. You don't have to worry about locks, keys or combination codes. It gives a great sense of fun, energy and community. And it gives tremendous atmosphere for classes in the green room.

2) Removing those three little mirrors and placing coat hanger stems all scattered (systematically) along the wall, so if you hung up several coats, hats, or purses it would have this great artistic look and feel to it.

3) below the dry erase board, you have little boxes each labeled differently and more importantly ICONICLY: Pens, Pencils, Cage Match Ballots, First Aid, etc.

4) Disentigrating the huge wastful podium in the hallway and get a GIANT trash can. The trash can we have now is way too small, and gets full through out the night. If we had one trash can that could hold all the trash from one night, so you only had to take it out to the trash once a night at the very end of the night, things we be a lot cleaner. And you wouldn't have trash building up outside either.

5) Next to the trash can on an elevated plank of wood, we place a bus tub. This bus tub is for all the plates, cups, and what not that belong to the Hideout Coffee Shop. At the end of the night you empty the bus tub at the coffee house. Maybe get two bus tubs for a rotation process. They cost like $5 at any restaurant supply store. (There's one called Ace's on 5th & Lamar.)

6) On the back of the brown door to the Green Room, you have a sign. Please help keep our theatre clean. Throw out your trash. Maybe even say "If you don't throw out your trash, it will be thrown out for you. Everything is trash at the end of the night."

7) Add extra shelving into the green closet & throw out the filing cabinet. Can we even open it? Extra shelving is super super cheap. Why? Well we move the cleaning supplies to the back shelf, and use the other new shelves for props. This becomes a temp prop room. Is your show having a three show run? Leave your props in our prop room. As opposed to a permenant prop storage, which is under the risers. I also reccomend having a big trunk for a lost and found stored in here. Now, the green closet must remain locked at all times, and only the house manager (and maybe andy have the key.) If anyone needs to lock something up, they can talk to the house manager.

Moving the bookself to the top of the stairs (where the white fridge is) so it's out of the way. Move the white fridge down to where you can actually use it & double use it as an end table to the couch. While the other fridge is also used in the same manner.



apparently is what happens when you enter "eight" followed by an ")" sure, i could disable smilies, but what kind of improviser would i be, if i didn't see the humor in this.

whew... fire away at these ideas guys... i'm ready for you...

[smerlin]

These are some great ideas! Let's do it!

(Although I do think that one day a bunch of stuff is going to get stolen from purses and such in the green room and after that we will really feel like getting lockers. But until that day, cubbies sound great!)

[HerrHerr]

I like the bus tub idea a lot. I like the large trash can idea a lot. I try and hit the trash can in the hallway, but it is often full. If I am in a hurry or don't have the time to search out a different trash can, I am guilty of setting a can or whatever down anywhere. Sorry.

I also like the idea of having a nice sized trash can in the green room.

[beardedlamb]

cardboard racks for free. i don't live in austin.

[arclight]

4) Disentigrating the huge wastful podium in the hallway and get a GIANT trash can. The trash can we have now is way too small, and gets full through out the night. If we had one trash can that could hold all the trash from one night, so you only had to take it out to the trash once a night at the very end of the night, things we be a lot cleaner. And you wouldn't have trash building up outside either.

If you want to clear up the landing, put the podium at the bottom of the stairs and take tickets there so a) you aren't causing a line on the stairs, b) so there's a doorman to direct Micetro traffic to the cabaret and Whirled News Tonight traffic to the mainstage and c) so you can stow it in the downstairs theater when it isn't in use.

The podium adds to the capital-T theatre experience and gives people more of a perception they're getting a professional show to justify a $10+ price tag (blah blah ... alienating the masses ... blah blah ... hoity-toity snobby theater ... blah blah ... gotta go tie-dye some brownies ...) We've gone over this before - no need to destroy things you don't understand.

Second, one big trash can is one big trash that fills up and becomes a far bigger pain in the ass to empty. Better to have more smaller cans scattered around and empty them frequently rather than one that fills up slowly, gets rank, and is so large that nobody wants to deal with it. The longer it sits, the ranker it gets and the less likely it gets cleaned.

5) Next to the trash can on an elevated plank of wood, we place a bus tub. This bus tub is for all the plates, cups, and what not that belong to the Hideout Coffee Shop. At the end of the night you empty the bus tub at the coffee house. Maybe get two bus tubs for a rotation process. They cost like $5 at any restaurant supply store. (There's one called Ace's on 5th & Lamar.)

I don't know that we need a shelf for it but a couple bus tubs would definitely make it easier to truck all the dirty dishes back downstairs. As long as they're clearly marked as AIC's we won't have to worry about them disappearing into the coffee shop (or we can get Greg to buy them...)

7) Add extra shelving into the green closet & throw out the filing cabinet. Can we even open it? Extra shelving is super super cheap. Why? Well we move the cleaning supplies to the back shelf, and use the other new shelves for props. <...>

Adding new shelving good, throwing out perfectly good furniture bad. I agree that the credenza should go; it collects a lot of trash. We actually do have a need for a filing cabinet (keeping old programs, posters, and other historical paper.) Pick the lock, change it for one we have a key to, and toss whatever useless junk is inside. Again, no need to destroy it.

And why aren't we using the office downstairs instead of the upstairs green room?

[Evilpandabear]

...no need to destroy things you don't understand.

First, up yours Bob. There wasn't a need for punching but you went there.

Second, I understand the need for a fucking podium. It's a goddamn podium, Bob.

Third, I would love to keep it sure, but it (a) takes up way too much space (b) primary purpose is to house garbage (c) if people were consistently taking tickets there then I wouldn't see a problem keeping, BUT I rarely see someone sitting behind it collecting tickets unless a pgraph member is there (d) if you want to keep it downstairs that's fine. you can see it from the ticket booth so people can asking "where do i go" when they'll see your beloved podium

Four, up yours Bob.

Second, one big trash can is one big trash that fills up and becomes a far bigger pain in the ass to empty. Better to have more smaller cans scattered around and empty them frequently rather than one that fills up slowly, gets rank, and is so large that nobody wants to deal with it. The longer it sits, the ranker it gets and the less likely it gets cleaned.

Because we've all seen how successful everyone is about taking out the trash... right? WRONG! Even before there was a House Manager there would still be trash on the metal walk outside. Our current trash situation is NOT working. One major reason there's trash all over the damn green room is that the trash upstairs over flows and no one changes it. You can scold people all you want, but it won't change. There are decent trash cans that aren't Monster sized that can accomodate one night of trash. They have cans that can roll. They have cans with lids to prevent odor. Garbage technoolgy, Bob, has come a long long way. And I will tell you this from working in the restaurant business for countless years, a single big trash will get taken out every night; however, several small bags won't. PERIOD. You've seen this happen. You see this happening right now as we speak.

(or we can get Greg to buy them...)

Why get Greg to buy something that only costs $7?? The man can't get a liquor license in a reasonable amount of time, and according to Shana he's too lazy to pick-up a goddamn phone and make a call that would hae made him thousands of dollars.

Adding new shelving good, throwing out perfectly good furniture bad. I agree that the credenza should go; it collects a lot of trash.

thank you

We actually do have a need for a filing cabinet (keeping old programs, posters, and other historical paper.) Pick the lock, change it for one we have a key to, and toss whatever useless junk is inside. Again, no need to destroy it.

I will concede to this; however, it should be locked, because sooo many people will toss in random shit inside. We could have an inbox on top so people are requesting to put stuff inside. The bottom drawer can be used to lock personals as well. OR we leave it in the green closet, which remains closed and then we only have to worry about popping the lock. It's been ALMOST A YEAR since that thing has been used, and in my opinion, if you don't use something at least ONCE a year, then it's garbage.

And why aren't we using the office downstairs instead of the upstairs green room?

don't even get me started on the downstairs theatre. that's an entire galaxy of troubles that needs to get sorted out.

[deroosisonfire]

I came up with some ideas to bounce off your proverbial heads.

jay, you asked for feedback and someone gave it to you. there is no reason to be so defensive. especially if you agree with bob about where to put the podium, just put it at the bottom of the stairs and let it go.

[Evilpandabear]

I came up with some ideas to bounce off your proverbial heads.

jay, you asked for feedback and someone gave it to you. there is no reason to be so defensive. especially if you agree with bob about where to put the podium, just put it at the bottom of the stairs and let it go.

i asked for feedback, not insults. constructive criticism with a dash of civility isn't too much to ask for. granted my blood got flowing and some uneccessary rage did come out, so for that, i am sorry bob.

[kaci_beeler]

1) Instead of lockers (the cheapest I found were $60 for a column of 6 lockers) why not make/purchase cubbies, like we had in elementary school? My thought was to disentigrate the cradenza and place cubbies(maybe 2-3 cubes high) along the dry erase board wall. You don't have to worry about locks, keys or combination codes. It gives a great sense of fun, energy and community. And it gives tremendous atmosphere for classes in the green room.

HEY! I thought of that idea a long time ago...I mentioned it before, I think people thought I was kidding. I also have an idea for a semi-complex sticker system that identifies who occupies what cubbie.
Do we want glossy stickers, glitter stickers, poofy stickers, transparent stickers?
There's a lot of choices out there guys, we need to be aware of our options.

[vine311]

Do we want glossy stickers, glitter stickers, poofy stickers, transparent stickers?

Poofy...I totally want poofy

[Evilpandabear]

They make poofy stickers now? Wow, I *have* been out of the loop. Are the furry or fluffy ones? Wait... I think they had poofy when I was a kid. Does poofy mean that they're 3D, kinda bubble-shaped? Because then I have been in loop for a long time. Wait... you didn't mention scrath and sniff, are there no scratch and sniff stickers anymore?

[arthursimone]

I want lockers. I demand lockers. I am entitled to lockers.


How else, I ask you, can we crack jokes and trick our friends into falling into the "I don't know" slime trap?? Will Ross ever give us a raise? When can we sell Barf Burgers?