iBT TOEFL Topic Vocabulary Breakthrough Unit 049

iBT TOEFL Topic Vocabulary Breakthrough Unit 049
Author: Li Xiaolai

49. In commercial and nonprofit theaters, the producer is the person who puts together the financing, management staff, and the artistic team to produce the show. Usually, the producer works in tandem with a general manager and others to accomplish the daily running of the production, from rehearsals to closing. In this role he or she selects a season of several plays, hires the artistic teams and technical staff, works with a casting director to audition and cast actors in the various parts, controls the theater’s funding, and acts as the final authority in all artistic and administrative operations.

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