I've made progress on my thesis! Since I've effectively decided to abandon the Spring Carnival idea, I've been trying to find out more about the Dallas Children's Theater to see exactly what a Pratham event would entail there. At first, I was considering the Beauty and the Beast show, but as it turns out, when I called them, they told me that it was a puppet show, which meant it would be in their Studio Theater, which seats just 150 people. That won't work for our Pratham event, because it's not big enough. So instead, we're probably going to go with Mariachi Girl, which is a regular show held in the Baker Theater, which seats 400 people.
The other thing that's nice about this idea is that the DCT has plenty of open spaces available to rent for the post-show reception. One of the rooms, the Gables Room, has enough room for 150 people. It seems like the best fit for the reception, considering that all the rest of the rooms are either small classrooms or the theater spaces themselves, and obviously neither of those types would really work.
The event itself is meant to be a just a short reception for Pratham ticket buyers, probably with snacks and a short presentation about the organization. Since I'm doing this as part of my thesis project, I might also make a short presentation to talk about my experience with the Readathon and how that culminated in this, but we'll see if that happens. Overall, the reception should only be about an hour or so. The show itself is between 1 hour to 1 hour and 45 minutes (I'm not sure the exact length yet, but I can call and find out; this is just the range given in their FAQ for all their shows), so the event as a whole shouldn't be that long. The showtimes that are on Saturdays (this show runs for about a week or two in mid-March) are either at 1:30 pm or 4:30 pm, which I think are pretty ideal times. Hopefully in the coming weeks we'll decide on an actual showtime so that we can buy the tickets soon and start selling them to raise money.
The other thing that's nice about this idea is that the DCT has plenty of open spaces available to rent for the post-show reception. One of the rooms, the Gables Room, has enough room for 150 people. It seems like the best fit for the reception, considering that all the rest of the rooms are either small classrooms or the theater spaces themselves, and obviously neither of those types would really work.
The event itself is meant to be a just a short reception for Pratham ticket buyers, probably with snacks and a short presentation about the organization. Since I'm doing this as part of my thesis project, I might also make a short presentation to talk about my experience with the Readathon and how that culminated in this, but we'll see if that happens. Overall, the reception should only be about an hour or so. The show itself is between 1 hour to 1 hour and 45 minutes (I'm not sure the exact length yet, but I can call and find out; this is just the range given in their FAQ for all their shows), so the event as a whole shouldn't be that long. The showtimes that are on Saturdays (this show runs for about a week or two in mid-March) are either at 1:30 pm or 4:30 pm, which I think are pretty ideal times. Hopefully in the coming weeks we'll decide on an actual showtime so that we can buy the tickets soon and start selling them to raise money.
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