DCP NewsFeed Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 It was one of the hardest and most emotional phone calls Mike Scott has made. With about 300 Canton Bluecoat corps members, staff and family on the call, the organization’s chief executive officer delivered the season-ending news. Drums Corps International had canceled the 2020 summer tour. Read the rest of the article here. View the full article 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_orangecounty Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, DCP NewsFeed said: It was one of the hardest and most emotional phone calls Mike Scott has made. With about 300 Canton Bluecoat corps members, staff and family on the call, the organization’s chief executive officer delivered the season-ending news. Drums Corps International had canceled the 2020 summer tour. Read the rest of the article here. View the full article This makes me sad because I know more articles like this are coming. How many corps will be left by this time next year? But is this a typo? "laying off their nearly 200 employees" Modern Drum Corps have THAT many employees!!?? How can that be? Edited April 10, 2020 by greg_orangecounty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84BDsop Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 21 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said: This makes me sad because I know more articles like this are coming. How many corps will be left by this time next year? But is this a typo? "laying off their nearly 200 employees" Modern Drum Corps have THAT many employees!!?? How can that be? A lot of it is admin, not instructional....takes a lot of behind-the-scenesfolks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_orangecounty Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 30 minutes ago, 84BDsop said: A lot of it is admin, not instructional....takes a lot of behind-the-scenesfolks. So it takes more than 1 paid support position for every marching member.....!? Something's wrong. Who exists for whom? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 hour ago, greg_orangecounty said: This makes me sad because I know more articles like this are coming. How many corps will be left by this time next year? But is this a typo? "laying off their nearly 200 employees" Modern Drum Corps have THAT many employees!!?? How can that be? Probably a lot of part-time people. The performing arts company I work for let about 115 people go, around 70 of whom worked 5-20 hours per week, with another 10 or so who were full-time but on short-term contracts. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 23 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said: So it takes more than 1 paid support position for every marching member.....!? Something's wrong. Who exists for whom? I work in a theater. Any given show typically has fewer than a dozen performers, but there are, or were, carpenters, painters, stage electricians, props artisans, costumers, sound and projections technicians, stage managers, directors, designers, production assistants, ticket sellers, house managers, and more I'm not thinking of just connected directly to the shows, and then office staff including a marketing team, fundraisers, a business office, maintenance staff, and more besides, who collectively vastly outnumber the performers. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Tuma Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 39 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said: I work in a theater. Any given show typically has fewer than a dozen performers, but there are, or were, carpenters, painters, stage electricians, props artisans, costumers, sound and projections technicians, stage managers, directors, designers, production assistants, ticket sellers, house managers, and more I'm not thinking of just connected directly to the shows, and then office staff including a marketing team, fundraisers, a business office, maintenance staff, and more besides, who collectively vastly outnumber the performers. Bluecoats are also staffing an event space/bingo hall, correct? I wonder how much of their 2.5 million budget is payroll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Brian Tuma said: Bluecoats are also staffing an event space/bingo hall, correct? I wonder how much of their 2.5 million budget is payroll. Might not some of the workers at bingo's be volunteers from the group running it? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Don-O Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 They are fortunate that they have a BINGO operation. It may be shuttered now, but that is presumably temporary. At least they can look forward to that reopening and generating some income during 2020. I'm sure there are some other corps without a source of income other than corporate sponsorships, member fees, show money and donations. Those corps will be in even deeper financial trouble this year... 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totaleefree Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 12 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said: This makes me sad because I know more articles like this are coming. How many corps will be left by this time next year? But is this a typo? "laying off their nearly 200 employees" Modern Drum Corps have THAT many employees!!?? How can that be? 200 people? One, they could be counting every person who gets some money from the BlueCoats, every advisor, prop designer, summer tech, etc, plus bingo hall workers. I know Carolina Crown and Phantom Regiment each have 2 or 3 full time employees everyone else is contracted for their specific job. With season canceled I don't know how liable they are to continue paying those folks. If MM can be released from their contracts I imagine the corps could also cancel instructor contracts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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