Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmwho cares70 posts in thread
Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmHello everyone
I am very disappointed to have to inform everyone that Star Power has been cancelled.
This is due to the lack of entrants in the competition for this year. We are so very disappointed as we had the support of such amazing groups that would have offered training and workshops and opportunities for the youth of WA.
I must say that when I kept receiving emails asking how people could get the auditions without having to do the training, I started to wonder at the youth of WA.
I want to stress to everyone now that all entrants will be receiving their entry money back in the next week.
( For those narrow minded and petty people who thought that Star Power was trying to rip people off and went to the amazing lengths of having us investigated, well, the investigation found nothing, and you simply made us realise how many people out there don't understand that there really are people who are prepared to work for no financial reward at all in order to help others. The cancellation of the competition has cost us money.)
It seems that the youth of WA are not interested in training and workshops and opportunities . It seems that the youth of WA want to have the rewards without the work. That is a very sad generalisation I know and I am very sorry for the people who did enter. We simply couldn't make it work on those numbers.
I thank everyone at the ITA for their support , I thank the people who were helping us, I thank the entrants and I thank the people who saw this competition for what it was and wanted to do all they could to help. I am sorry that we couldn't make it happen.
Kerri
Let's stop all this now shall we?
Sat, 23 June 2007, 04:52 pmHello Everyone
Thank you for your comments of support and for your comments in general about the challenge and the reasons for its cancellation. Yes , to those of you who wondered did we advertise, well, we were in the West Australian, the Sunday Times, every community newspaper, three commercial radio stations, two alternative stations, the Dept of Education sent a letter and poster on our behalf to every school in the state. We were in Express Magazine, we were in the student newspapers of every university in the state, we contacted all of the community theatres, we had a myspace and we had our own website which in six weeks had nearly 4000 hits. I think we did enough personally.
Yes there will always be questions about the timing, but I don't think there would ever be a time in the year when people wouldn't question our "timing".
For those of you who are saying that the "Home and Away" audition was the ultimate prize, I think you have missed the point. There was an audition for "Home and Away"and "All Saints"and "Packed to the Rafters" ( new show about to start filming next year). There was an audition for Kookaburra, Australia's National Musical Theatre Company.
There were along the way, workshops and training and amazing opportunities. The grand final judges consisted of casting agents, script writers, television and theatre and musical theatre people, so I think we had it pretty much covered.
Yes I am disappointed. Yes we did a lot of work.
I think I am even more sad now that WA is left with only Storm the Stage. A talent quest , judged by Rotarians. These people with no theatre background will decide whether you go on to the final. Once you are at the finals, you will be judged by someone, but we don't know who yet. At least we were up front about our judges and the criteria etc. If you win, you can do whatever you like with the money and there are no career opportunities or further development.
Anyway, it is done and over with now. We tried and it didn't work. I am sorry for the people who did enter .
Enough said I think.
Kerri
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