Show news and a related grump
Oct. 1st, 2008 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookzombieThe good news is that the first complete run through last night went pretty well, all things considered.
The bad news is that unfortunately we've had to cancel one of the performances (the Thursday) due to poor ticket sales. This is a perennial problem for us; although Andover is a pretty big town we struggle to fill the theatre these days. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason for it apart from amateur musical theatre seeming to be rather out of fashion these days. Someone at work did point out that the tickets are quite expensive but unfortunately these are set by theatre, not us.
My grump about this is around our individual ability to sell tickets. Whenever there are problems we always get the exhortation to 'get out there and sell more tickets'. The problems are 1) apart from my relatives the only people I know in Andover are members of the society anyway, 2) everyone in our families who can make it and are interested will come anyway, 3) while there are people at work who are interested, it is an hour or more travel for them to get there; you'd have to be pretty dedicated to make that effort, 4) most of my friends live even further afield, many of them not even in the same country!
My point is that you cannot sell over 1000 seats all together just from the friends and family of the membership.
End of rant.
Anyway, if anyone in the vicinity fancies a little trip to Andover to see me and pennski making an ass of ourselves in public, for money, then go to www.amos-info.com for ticket info (by the way, the matinee time is wrong - it starts at 3, not 2:30. Mutter)
The bad news is that unfortunately we've had to cancel one of the performances (the Thursday) due to poor ticket sales. This is a perennial problem for us; although Andover is a pretty big town we struggle to fill the theatre these days. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason for it apart from amateur musical theatre seeming to be rather out of fashion these days. Someone at work did point out that the tickets are quite expensive but unfortunately these are set by theatre, not us.
My grump about this is around our individual ability to sell tickets. Whenever there are problems we always get the exhortation to 'get out there and sell more tickets'. The problems are 1) apart from my relatives the only people I know in Andover are members of the society anyway, 2) everyone in our families who can make it and are interested will come anyway, 3) while there are people at work who are interested, it is an hour or more travel for them to get there; you'd have to be pretty dedicated to make that effort, 4) most of my friends live even further afield, many of them not even in the same country!
My point is that you cannot sell over 1000 seats all together just from the friends and family of the membership.
End of rant.
Anyway, if anyone in the vicinity fancies a little trip to Andover to see me and pennski making an ass of ourselves in public, for money, then go to www.amos-info.com for ticket info (by the way, the matinee time is wrong - it starts at 3, not 2:30. Mutter)
