<p>IU streams ballet and opera performances, but I haven’t seen any theatre. Probably because the ballet and opera composers have long passed. I bet schools could stream Shakespeare or other classic, long dead authors, if they had a mind to do it. </p>
<p>Point Park doesn’t stream, but they are great about putting up video highlights from their musicals and plays. A new one just went up for their Chorus Line, now playing.</p>
<p>classicalbk, where does PP put their videos? I have treid to find some and never managed to see them. Do they not keep them up for long? D was in a dance performance last year and I tried to look for a video from it but never found one.</p>
<p>I know Texas State just streamed a performance of “A Little Princess” but I missed it. However it is by Andrew Lippa and he was directly involved with the production so rights may not have been an issue.</p>
<p>As I type IU Opera is streaming “A View from the Bridge” so I guess a work doesn’t have to be super old for a school to be able to get permission to share it with the world. Bravo for IU! It would be grand if the MT folks would do the same, although I know there is the argument that school is for taking risks and maybe you don’t want your early college stage experience forever roaming the internet. But the parents and grandparents would sure appreciate it! :)</p>
<p>KeepingCalm - the Point Park videos are at the Playhouse website:
[Pittsburgh</a> Playhouse: Photo/Video Gallery](<a href=“Theatres in Pittsburgh, PA | PPU Pittsburgh Playhouse | Point Park University | Pittsburgh, PA”>Theatres in Pittsburgh, PA | PPU Pittsburgh Playhouse | Point Park University | Pittsburgh, PA)</p>
<p>Many of the rights holders for musical theatre repertory will not give permission for the production to be recorded, much less streamed live.</p>
<p>KatMT is correct. When my daughter was a senior in h.s., her very last h.s show was Guys and Dolls in which she appeared as Sarah Brown. Her high school had a strict no taping policy because of licensing restrictions. I contacted the licensing agent and attempted to negotiate a limited license for non-commercial home video use so parents could video for their own family’s enjoyment. The people I spoke to were sympathetic but could offer no relief because the owners of the property control what rights can be licensed by the licensing agent. There was a list of properties for which various types of recording licenses could be obtained but Guys and Dolls was not one of them.</p>
<p>The places I referred to were just for recitals and opera… but it would be nice if more could be done when permitted and legal only, of course :)</p>
<p>I am a Texas Mom with a MT son in NYC. I’m constantly working all sources trying to find those cheap flights and hotels. A very valuable resource has been building friendships with other MT Moms at the school and a few times we’ve shared hotel rooms to cut costs. I’ve even flown into the city, attended his show twice, and took a red eye flight out without getting a hotel. I’ll never do that again…I’m too old =]</p>
<p>This month we missed a show D was in for the first time ever. We just couldn’t justify the expense of traveling again the week after we’d visited for Family Weekend. We didn’t know she’d be opening a show at the time we booked our travel, only two months after starting college and and a couple weeks before H returned for Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>It was sad to miss her first college performance (and she even had a named role though probably not large) but we all survived. I suppose if she ultimately becomes a full-time (hah!) working professional actor we are bound to miss shows, so I suppose we all need to learn what that feels like.</p>
<p>@berri - I agree with your decision about red-eyes. I tried them when caring for my aging parents across the country and they are extremely hard on us grownups!</p>
<p>S graduated last May from Carnegie Mellon and we tried to attend his performances as much as possible. One thing he told us, though, was that he was always so busy with the shows that he wished we could visit when he could go to lunch or dinner with us (or at least without rushing off to make his call). Having us see the shows was important to him but sometimes just being able to share his experiences with us and show us around seemed at least as important. Just a thought…</p>
<p>We leave later this week to see D in her first performance on the main stage at her school! This time we will see just two of the six performances, however, unlike in high school. It’s just part of our entertainment budget now since she is on the west coast. Last spring we missed a performance, but fortunately an enterprising student posted it on Youtube.</p>
<p>@kedstuff - I can certainly relate to your S’s comment about wishing you’d visited when he was less busy. It seemed that D had non-stop performances during Family Weekend, and while it’s always lovely to see her perform I’d have loved more time to hang out and chat. When it comes to regular shows, though, D sometimes seems to have more time during performances than while rehearsals are happening. It seems so hard to anticipate her college schedule, though, and make travel plans around it.</p>
<p>Ah well, with luck we’ll figure it out before she graduates!</p>
<p>@anne1244 - Congrats to your D and hope you enjoy her performances!!</p>
<p>Heading out to see my daughter in a show next week…can’t wait! She is a junior and so far I have only had to miss the student directed shows she has been in, but have made all the rest! We just saw her for Thanksgiving…she came home and surprised us, and she will be coming home five days after the show closes for Christmas, so not expecting much time with her when we go, but I wouldn’t miss seeing her! Many family members are attending the shows, so we will all have a wonderful time seeing each other and the few moments between shows that we can see her will be worth it all! In my daughter’s third year we have found that these little trips back and forth for shows help break up the time apart! She has a lead in this show, so truly so excited!!! These are such memory making trips, I can’t imagine missing out!</p>
<p>DD conveniently performs the last weekend of the semester so I can go to the shows and then bring her home after! The best of all situations. I am not going the first weekend of performances though.</p>
<p>My d’s school was about six hours away and I missed seeing her twice in four years. Her freshman year musical theater review was right before end of classes and finals week and we were able to take a lot of her stuff home so that was handy. One time DH had a a back problem and could not be in car for that long. I thought about flying up myself for Friday night performance of a non-musical show in which she had a few lines as we had 6 PM Saturday tickets for Garrison Keillor and was concerned about possible flight problems. Just as well that I did not go because that was the first significant snow/cold weather.</p>
<p>Texas State just streamed their production of A Little Princess! My daughter had a friend in the show so we paid $10 to watch it online on the opposite side of the country! Quite amazing to be able to do that, though it took forever to download and the sound wasn’t great. We still feel like we “saw” it. It was amazing BTW!</p>
<p>I am so jealous of folks who get to see shows via live streaming!!</p>
<p>Next week we’ll be missing D’s second college show, but it’s her first college musical (and she even has a song), which will be harder. Plus it’s near her birthday so it’s doubly sad not to be there, but S is playing in an important competition which I want to be home for and we have contractors in the house who need me there. Ouch! </p>
<p>I’m also realizing how nice it would be to be able to see the professional shows of the recent grads whose parents I’ve met, to get a feel for the “scene” beyond college.</p>
<p>Ah the slings and arrows of living far from our kiddos… but absence really does make the heart grow fonder and I know she misses us as much as we miss her!</p>
<p>Today I’m even wishing I could travel to see a show our D is NOT in. She has to tech for one quarter, so she’s backstage in a production of The Little Prince that they’re doing ala Cirque Du Soleil and it sounds AMAZING!!</p>
<p>So far this year I have traveled to see my D in a Main-stage show in November (Anything Goes), missed the main-stage show in March (Ragtime - she was ensemble), will be attending the Freshman showcase in May (where we will pick her up from school and continue on to a family reunion in Canada) and now we plan on flying back at the end of June to see her in the summer-stock production of Next to Normal. This is much more travel than I had anticipated and it’s not cheap to fly from Hawaii to anywhere!! I am just glad that she is not on the east coast! I guess from year to year these travel decisions will need to made on an as needed (as can be afforded$$) basis. This is something for you people who are sending your kids far away to think about (budget for…)!! Seeing her in the Nov show was great because it was a chance to see how she was doing (do a little retail therapy…) and she was not coming home for Thanksgiving. Now she will not be coming home for the summer either :-(</p>
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<p>So true! If we’d gone to see D in everything we wanted to this year it would have easily added another $5000 to the “school” budget… not to mention lost time earning money while traveling. </p>
<p>We’ve missed every performance except those that were during Family Weekend, but I hope to travel to see D in her freshman musical at the end of the year and again in her summer musical.</p>
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<p>I hear you loud and clear as we’re in that boat as well. ;-(</p>
<p>Ah well, I guess we’ve got our answer to the question of whether they’d still love performing as much without having doting parents there to shower accolades on them after every performance. ;-D</p>