How is everyone's box office lately?
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Topic: How is everyone's box office lately?
Posted By: jayzehr
Subject: How is everyone's box office lately?
Date Posted: 11/20/12 at 4:41pm
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We seem to have fallen off a cliff attendance-wise this year. A number of possible variables but I'm not sure exactly what is going on. Is everyone else doing well? (I hope!) |
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Posted By: skoehler
Date Posted: 3/12/13 at 10:13am
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We had a huge drop off last year. Things are improving for us this year, but not quite back to what we had prior to last season. ------------- Steven Koehler Managing Director Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette www.lafayettecivic.org |
Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 3/13/13 at 3:56pm
| Our attendance is down about a third from a couple of years ago. Things are looking up, but it's going to be a while before we're back to what we were calling "normal'. |
Posted By: bmiller025
Date Posted: 3/13/13 at 11:00pm
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I work for quite a few different companies in the metropolitan Denver area. Many of the shows I have designed in recent months have had losses, due to reduced audiences. In only a few cases, I think I can blame the choice of production. It seems that audiences are smaller because people aren't going out to see live theater as much. I am sure there is a way of explaining this from a macroeconomic perspective, but it is a huge disappointment. Subscription campaigns just aren't working the way they have previously, and you can't count on positive press or word of mouth to get people in the door for the time being. I am not aware of anyone in these companies having success with new, out of the ordinary marketing strategies, either. ------------- http://www.brianmiller.biz/BrianDesign.htm |
Posted By: dynamicstheater
Date Posted: 5/19/13 at 4:40pm
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We've managed to stay fairly consistent with our attendance, but we've had to market a lot harder to keep those numbers up. Hopefully that increased marketing will pay off in the near future. ------------- Jim Smoot Program Coordinator Dynamics Community Theater www.dynamicstheater.org - www.dynamicstheater.org |
Posted By: hobbyactor
Date Posted: 5/20/13 at 10:51am
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The production that we just finished at one of our local theaters was close to setting an attendance record for a drama. Comedies and musicals always seem to draw bigger crowds, but we were pretty happy with the attendance for this show.
Of course, it was an outstanding production!
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Posted By: Majicwrench
Date Posted: 5/21/13 at 11:44am
| I work in a tiny town in the NW corner of Nowhere, and we have had really good attendance the last year or so. Keith |