Ticket Prices
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Topic: Ticket Prices
Posted By: BlueEye217
Subject: Ticket Prices
Date Posted: 9/21/10 at 12:13pm
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General question for everyone: What do you charge for a show? My group seems to have the lowest prices around (which is crazy because we're in NYC).
We charge $15 at the door and $12 for seniors/students and pre-reservations. We're raising the prices with our next show to $15 & $18 because it's a musical.
Thoughts?
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Posted By: TZine
Date Posted: 9/21/10 at 7:32pm
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This is one of those things that's so variable. Dependent not just only on the size of the city, but also the theatre scene. I used to live in a metro area of about 400,000-450,000. When I was in my early college years, there were three or four well-established community theatres that all charged $10-15. By the time I was out of college, five or six small, scrappy theatres had opened and as the quality and variety increased, prices did, too. The well-established theatres kep their prices the same, but prices for the new companies (depending on the company and their varying production values) now range from $15-25. And yeah, for NY, $15 seems so little - I just spent more than that for a quick stop at Starbucks!  ------------- TheatreZine:Theatre news for busy people. A free triweekly e-mail newsletter with the latest, most important theatre news. Subscribe. Stay in the loop. http://theatrezine. |
Posted By: KEB54
Date Posted: 9/23/10 at 12:01am
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I work for two theatres - one charges between $22 - $25; the other is $10. The first has a paid, full-time staff and their own building. The other hires postions show-to-show and uses a high school theatre. So a lot depends on the theatre, how it is set up, and the expenses it has. ------------- KEB |
Posted By: jayzehr
Date Posted: 9/23/10 at 6:32am
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We charge $12, up from ten a couple of years ago. All straight plays, no musicals. I recently checked the prices of the surrounding CTs--all in the $10-15 range even for musicals. The play I directed this summer went up against a new group in town that charged $10 for a musical. |
Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 9/23/10 at 9:38pm
| We're in a Chicago suburb and we charge $12 and $10 for seniors and students. This is for plays. Very rarely we'll do a musical, then it's $15 & $12. Others around us seem to do $15 & $12 for straight plays and $18/$15 for musicals. |