[Carolina crown audition advice for 2015?]

I believe they sometimes reduce tour fees for people who are signed late in the process, because they need to fill the hole in the drill that's already been written. I'm not sure how much, though. There may also be fundraising kits to help raise the funds (at least, there should be - every other activity has them!)

My understanding is that the audition itself will be quite a learning experience. Not only will you have to show what you know, but they will teach you things to see how you respond, and to assess your attitude. The Spirit audition video on fan network shows some of this. It ain't easy.

Audition for multiple corps with a range of performance levels, just to make sure you get in somewhere. Drum corps is like pizza, even the lowest corps is way better than none. Good luck!

I joined Spirit at their last camp and then came to move ins as an alternate because they had already set their hornline. My tour fees were $600 (I think, and my grandparents paid for it as a graduation present) due to joining so late, spots were filled, and I was an extra. At the second or third week of move ins, a kid quit and I got his spot in the line.

I recommend doing something to be involved, especially since you have some marching experience. You can try emailing the caption heads and ask if there's a spot open for an alternate or give them your info in case someone quits and they need to call someone in. As an alternate you do everything except perform at shows. The plus is getting a music education, physical fitness, housing, food, seeing the US through your window.

[A Funny Poke in Our Eye]

I donated to djdrumcorps and would like to share my receipt to help you match price

[Famous people in Drum Corps]

there are quite a bit who work at disneyland/world.

[Should DCI be allowed to edit Finals DVD's?]

not like this isn't the first time a dvd performance has been edited.

[Anyone else have this happen at the countdown?]

I really hate when management anywhere tries to pull this out as an excuse. There is no way DCI had a scheduled break in the middle of a show. If the theater had an event with their system scheduled to happen in the middle of this, they should just own up to it. If they had a problem they were trying to fix right in the middle of a show, they should also own up to that. Where the hell has personal responsibility and customer service gone these days? Plus, he should've come in with an apology and freebie offers for the concession stand trying to make up for it. People pay too much for something like this to have some goofball manager try to lie to them like that.

Did anybody hold his feet to the fire?

If you're seeing the Windows startup screen, that sure ain't DCI's doing, that's the computer running the digital projector.

The manager's an idiot.

So I work at a movie theater and we just showed Dirty Dancing. There's no reel for that- it's satellite so we wouldn't have control over something like an interruption. Just start and stop. With reels, there's no rewinding to replay a scene or if something happened in the film- it might be the film and not the projector. It is required for an employee to screen each movie that is sent in, in order to make sure there is nothing wrong with the film. Unless they fell asleep, they're supposed to report anything wrong during the screening.

Customer service? Do you realize how many patrons suggest things each day (like sound, screen off center, temperature, etc.) that are actually fixed? All of them if we can. Things like temperature- it's cold so that when the theatre is packed, it is not hot; the temperature may be warmer than freezing. Working there, we go out on a limb for customers; AMC has the highest rating for customer service. (Most of the theatres hosting the countdown were Regal) Also, managers aren't always offering freebies to everything. That makes the company lose money. If you really put up a fight, then as a last resort we'll give you a Re-admit pass. If you're in a long line, they wouldn't give you a candy bar for grief.

To pay too much, it's not decided by the theatre. It's the company; no affiliation with the theatre besides where the movie is being played. If you look at other special events in theatres like dirty dancing, the opera, Dale Earnhardt, they all had a different price than regular tickets. Lastly, why would a manager lie about something such as an interruption in a movie? They would be losing customers and it wouldn't solve anything.

Even though the interruption in your theater shouldn't have happened, there's not always one person to blame.