Memo

Memo
To: Cecilia Ramos
From: EfrenTorres
Date: 09/21/2010
Cc: 1311 English class
Re: UTEP Dinner Theatre

Message:
The UTEP Dinner theatre is an on campus organization that introduces the theatre arts to the average student. The UTEP dinner theatre provides a service for not only UTEP students but the general public as well. The dinner theatre puts on about four productions a year. The upcoming show is the classic “Singing in the Rain.” The Utep dinner theatre director is named Dr. Gregory Louis Taylor. He has a great staff behind him. His technical director Roy Lockhart, Patricia Ann Provencio who is the musical director, Jaime Barba who is the costume designer and Michael Spence, set design. With this staff he is able to put on some of El Paso's best stage performances. The Utep dinner theatre began as an idea in Dr. Taylors mind. Its first show was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It was performed on March 10, 1983 in the Thomas Rivera Conference center on the third floor of the East Union. That week the dinner theatre had three sold out performances. The theatres original was the Union dinner theatre but was changed to the Utep dinner theatre in 1998. The dinner theatre has put on over one hundred and ten productions in twenty one years. The dinner theatre can relate to many different organizations because of the many aspects to put on productions. It relates to the theatre department because it needs actors, actresses, and technical designers. It also requires help from the utep financial office and food and beverage offices.
The Utep dinner theatre communicates with the community in many different ways. It communicates through flyers, posters, word of mouth, e-mail, texts, billboards, and through their web sites. The most popular way that they communicate through is posters. They put up posters around campus, local restaurants, some high schools, and in front of the actual theatre. They also have a large billboard above the entrance of the theatre. Most of the theatres information can be found by reading information on their web site. The website has almost all of the theatres information. Such as, the history of the theatre, the past, future and current productions. The theatre performs mainly in English but has waiters and waitresses that speak Spanish. The dinner theatre puts on tech. heavy shows. Throughout the show the light show alone is worth the entrance fee to the production.
This agency boosts the morale of UTEP students. It boosts the morale by not only entertaining students but introducing them to a different form of entertainment and culture. They provide students with a state of the art theatre with some of the best thespians and technical directors in El Paso. It directly affects theatre students by giving them an outlet to present their progress and talents in acting and producing.
Without the Utep dinner theatre I feel that Utep would lack a huge part of what makes our community special. I hope that the Utep dinner theatre thrives for many years to come.