Somewhere…

• A managing director is face-palming because the budget draft is still a departmental wish list;
• A marketing director is face-palming because the artistic director decided that he knew more about marketing than the marketing director;
• A development director is face-palming because the board chair has fashioned a multi-million dollar “capital” campaign (actually, a “get-out-of-debt” campaign) with no feasibility study, no regard to the annual development campaign, and no accountability to anyone else;
• An artistic director is face-palming because the plays she wants to do don’t jibe with the mission of the company;
• A board member is face-palming because every meeting is about reporting, money, by-laws, and the gala;

And somewhere, performing arts audiences and constituents are collectively face-palming, hoping against hope that the arts folks in their region remember that for them, it’s about the art.