Talk:University of New South Wales Revues

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For a May 2005 deletion debate over this page see Votes for deletion/UNSW Revues

Past executives
There has been a suggestion (in a discussion about the fate of the New South Wales University Theatrical Society page) that the information about past show titles and directors needn't be included on Wikipedia. I've been involved in the revues myself, so I think they should stay - on the grounds that revues spawn the nation's comedic talent - but I'd be interested to know what non-revuer Wikipedians think about it. Joestella 01:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm in agreement. Perhaps Transwiki the info to somewhere on the various revue site. I'm going to move the directors and producers list off the main page to the talk page if someone wants to move it somewhere. čĥàñľōŕď 23:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Well-attended
An anonymous contributor has softened the language on Law Revue's political leanings - which is fair enough. It was pretty strong. Curiously, this contributor appended "The show is well attended every year" to the paragraph, as if as a justification.

If that person visits again, they may be interested to note that (correct me if I'm wrong) the best turnout Law Revue ever enjoyed was in 2002, the year after what was considered to be a very right-wing show (Dude, Where's Bob Carr?). 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 ran heavily on left-wing themes and were rewarded with smaller audiences from 2003 onwards. This may be related to other factors. But don't kid yourself that audience turnout vindicates the revue's politics.

Of course, if someone out there has the exact numbers, please add them to the article. Joestella 09:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

You guys are seriously lacking in historical perspective. I reckon Faheywatch would have gone very close to selling 3000 tickets over the five nights. 203.35.254.234 01:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but what happened to the money from that show? Ended up under a producer's mattress by his own account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.43.138.32 (talk) 07:18, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Past Directors
"Former directors ... are often instrumental in annointing directors for the following year."

I'm curious as to how valid a claim this is. They do have their involvement in the enite process of selecting the new directors, but surely it isn't "instrumental" in all cases is it? --Billy C 13:51, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

In Law Revue and CSE Revue, yes. In Med Revue, not so much. Unless things have changed significantly. Joestella 13:59, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

In CSE's case if you are referring to the screening process, it's the orgs comittee who determine the canidates. Current directors would make up only 2 of the dozen or so votes. More ex-director influence could be possible if there were former directors in the orgs team, but this hasn't happened in the past as far as i know --Billy C 05:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm aware of the screening process. The article uses qualified terms to give a sense of the persistance of institutional memory in the organisation, not the formal selection processes. The latter are arcane and ill-defined, the former speaks to the history and development of the medium. Joestella 06:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Back in the mid-1990s, the tradition was that next directors would be selected through trial by combat, where candidates would be forced to duel naked using chickens strapped to their chests, in a strange parody of the 1970's animated movie "Fantastic Planet". The directors from the previous year would watch and offer advice in overly loud voices such as "Bigger movements!" and "Don't wear dark colours on stage!". These comments were all taken from a one-page document titled "How to direct a Law Revue" handed down from director to director since the early 1980s. The winners would celebrate with a round of nitrous oxide. Then, in the later 1990's, the scene turned to hard drugs and this tradition was lost. This is a pity, as this practice was carried out for many years and hence, pursuant to Law Revue lore, should have been carboned copied in each future year. To preserve this tradition, I will also add this description to the University of New South Wales Revues page.

AUJS Revues not included...?
AUJS Revues

'' This topic could probably be archived now... AUJS revues have been rightly given their proper place in the main article. The below relates to the previous version(s) of the main article, which failed to recognise the AUJS revue as a UNSW revue at all and as the third longest running revue. ''

Yoni 10:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I hope the 'main author' sees fit to adjust the main 'UNSW Revues' page, given the total lack of credit to the decades of contributions to this sphere of endeavour made by the Australian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS).

Many Law and Med revue band members and tech crew actually got their first revue tastes in an AUJS revue! (true in the mid to late 1990s).

Due to a big downturn in AUJS in general in the early 2000's, 2003 was the last revue for a while, but this year (2006) sees AUJS, backed up by over 600 AUJS revue alumni, resurrect the AUJS revue.

Revue Alumni:

2006 Revue Participants:

Yoni 11:03, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I was under the impression that AUJS Revue wasn't based in UNSW, unlike the other three major revues, since it came from a multi-campus society. But I do agree that AUJS Revue should be mentioned in the article. --Billy C 05:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, some facts:

- The vast majority of AUJS Revues have been held on UNSW - AUJS (NSW) and AUJS (National Pres., when held by a NSW person) resides/has its office at Shalom College, UNSW - UNSW is the campus with most Jewish students in NSW, by an estimated factor of 3 to 4 times - MANY Law & Med Revue hacks have done their training at AUJS Revues (mainly in bands and tech crews), especially through the late 90's.

And, while not meaning to sound defensive, which other revues can claim 100% UNSW staff/student participation? To claim that CSE is one of the 'three major revues' at UNSW, while ignoring AUJS, is laughable.

AUJS has commenced prep for 2006. Sun 30 Apr saw a kick-off meeting with producers and directors being formerly inducted (see tables above). The show is called "Diaspora Housewives" and is booked to go on stage in October 2006 ... just trying to find which stage... ;-)

Over and out!, Jono Herrman AUJS NSW Pres 1989 (!!) AUJS Revue Alumnus 1987 - 1991

147.10.125.99 02:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Revues have been moved to chronological order, except for Arts Revue which is a newly established revue. Please keep all revues in order in future in order to keep things consistent and easy to understand. Editing the Wiki to put one's personal interests in precedence will not be tolerated. If you wish to further clarify details about your revue, please redirect users to another page.

211.31.43.16 12:44, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

re: "MANY Law & Med Revue hacks have done their training at AUJS Revues (mainly in bands and tech crews), especially through the late 90's." - Many people who did the revues in non-cast roles did all 3 revues (particularly the band), so it's difficult to claim that AUJS Revue was the training ground. In many cases, I think it was the other way around. The AUJS Revues in the late 1990s ended up being highly teched by cast and crew who started in other revues (mainly Med, some Law), in part due to the work of one tech director who started in Med Revue as a cast member, later went to NIDA to become a techie and was asked to tech direct the AUJS Revue some time in the mid-to-late 1990s. For many of those who followed him, it was often a case of wanting one more fix of wearing techie black, impersonating pirates, attending revue parties and doing bucket bongs under the Science Theatre stage.

Digitising (Preserving) Revue Videos
The AUJS Revue Alumni have decided in 2006 to try and track down master videos of each year of AUJS revue and digitise them, ie put it on DVD.

Together with scanned images of the programmes and tickets (if clean copies or original artwork can be found), the aim is to produce a DVD for each revue (or we might be able to get two revues onto one DVD given the poor VHS quality we're working with) AND producing a 'best of' DVD.

Any queries or offers of help (equipment, material?!, advice) should be forwarded to the site moderators of the alumni forum.

147.10.125.99 00:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Breaking up the show list
Just wondering why all the shows were seperated by revue and not kept as one list - thought it would be easier to read in the original layout Billy C 07:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I always hated that list, especially since CSE and Arts leave large trails of white through it. Also, the main reason you'd have a table is to compare information across rows, and there's not much need to do that. Joestella 07:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)