Attitudes Anonymous

SCRIPT:  Diane Porsch

Region 16 – Music Team Seminar

January 2006

Attitudes Anonymous Scenarios #1 & 2

SCENARIO #1

Facilitator:  ____________________

CHAPTER NAME & LOCATION:  Harmoniously Yours Chapter – Northview, New York

TIME OF YEAR: Regular rehearsal -- early Summer

SITE:  Your rehearsal hall

SCENE: 

You are a small and accomplished chorus with a membership that fluctuates between 25 and 30 members.  Several of your members are “snowbirds”, taking up residency in the southern United States for the winter months. Most of these singers rehearse with choruses of a lesser singing caliber than Harmoniously Yours Chapter.

Your chorus embraces the concept of Dual Membership, appreciating that these singers are active in Sweet Adelines year-round and return to your chorus ready to sing well…without losing a step in the process.  One “snowbird”, (a LEAD!), winters with an International Champion Chorus.  Her return to your “B-Level” singing chorus is welcomed, but difficult because she GLOATS about her huge championship medal (she wears it to EVERY rehearsal);  she coaches from the risers (making references to the many things her “other chorus” does to sing well; and she is very disruptive in section rehearsals – undermining the efforts of your Director and Lead Section Leaders.

CHARACTERS THAT NEED ASSIGNING:

* Chorus Director

* Frustrated Lead Section Leader

* Chorus Members

* Several Snowbirds

    who have missed singing with the higher-calibre Harmoniously Yours Chapter and are more than HAPPY to be back “home” for the summer months,

ONE obnoxious returning LEAD snowbird

    who sings with the International Champion Chorus during your winter months and sees Harmoniously Yours Chapter as doing most everything wrong.

SCENARIO #2

Facilitator: _________________________

Become familiar with SCENARIO #1 – And, using same personnel, create a role play which provides a recommended “fix” to the entire situation.