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Essay On One Act Budget

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Every student in the school’s One Act play program last year ended up asking themselves the same question, and that question, put simply, is “What happened?” Previously under the tutelage of Mr. Johnston, the more seasoned actors and actresses were not used to the new director, Mrs. Smith. It seemed that the shows were ending on a somewhat lacking note, and everyone wanted to know why. Many chalked it up to the choices in script, which is a perfectly reasonable assumption, but I figured that there was at least one other factor. My speculation summed up to a budget consisting of pocket lint and good intentions.
To gather the answers to my questions about the One Act budget, I first went to our current director, Mrs. Hogue, who is new to the …show more content…

This answers the question of why One Act seems to be so low-budget, but it does nothing for the pondering of the budget itself. For this question to be attended to, I needed to dig deeper. I requested an audience with Mr. Knippelmeyer, and he proved to be most helpful with filling in the gaps. He relayed to me the information that One Act had almost $500 to its name last year, and that, “Most of the money for One Act this year is going to a new set.” This is contiguous with something Mrs. Hogue mentioned before, “This year, [the One Act budget] is mostly going to go toward flats for the set, which we can reuse, so next year the money will be focused… on something different, most likely wireless microphones.”
Mr. Knippelmeyer also explained that the extracurriculars with classes directly related to them (i.e. Speech, Science Club, Spanish Club, etc.) tend to get more support, if only because they themselves educationally support the class with which they are intertwined. In addition, a club whose administration feels isn’t getting enough attention may appeal to the Booster Club for assistance, and the thirty-five dollar sum the students are required to pay at the beginning of the year goes toward funding all of the school organizations sponsored by the NSAA. The district also purchases the scripts for

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