This is my first year at a new school. But ticket prices are usually between 6 and 10 for the musicals. In the past the school would bring in about 150 per show for most of their musicals, but the shows were spread out over two weeks without a lot of advertising. This year we are only doing one weekend of shows and are looking for about 300 or so for the show, but hoping to get more in our auditorium.
Depending on what you think you could bring in, you may want to consider doing few shows to get more audience per show. You could also look at setting up some partnerships with neighboring schools, you come to our show we will go to yours, you could also increase the size of your audiences. If your musical is family friendly you could also set up a deal with the local elementary and or middle school to bring kids in for a cheaper ticket price. 500 kids at 3 dollars a piece would bring is 1500 which is more than 200 people at 5 dollars a piece, bringing in only 1000. If those elementary or middle school kids like it, than they would ask their families to bring them in again.
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Alan Strait
Teacher
CCSD
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-28-2013 13:42
From: Emily Call
Subject: Musical audience size and ticket prices
My admin would like me to increase the size of our audience. We generally average about 250-300 audience members for our ever other year musical. We charge $5 a ticket, because our community would not pay more than that. What I would like to know it: How often do you produce a musical, your average audience size, and ticket prices. Thank you so much for your help!
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Emily Call
Drama Teacher
Flowing Wells High School
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