We are considering trimming down our season as we're just spread too thinly...as are our audiences.  We break even financially by the time all is said and done. 

 

So, I was wondering:

 

1.  How long is your season (months)?

2.  How many different productions are included in your season? 

2.  How many performances per production?

 

Many thanks!

 

~ Stagefryte

 

1.  How long is your season (months)?

2.  How many different productions are included in your season? 

2.  How many performances per production?

 

1.  We run year round.  Our season is April to April.

2.  Our patron season consists of 5 shows.  The usual make up is 2 musicals, 2 comedies and a drama.  We also have "second stage" performances (1-3 per year) for edgy/off beat work.

3.  Musicals run three weeks (Thurs-Sun, Thus - Sun, Thurs - Sat)- 11 shows.  Comedies and dramas run two weeks (thurs - Sun, Thurs - Sat)- 7 shows.  Second stage is usually one weekend a piece with 2-3 shows per weekend (Fri -Sun).  That's about 50 shows a year. 

1.  How long is your season (months)?

2.  How many different productions are included in your season? 

 

Our season is Summer and winter break.  We use the high school stage and so we have those times available to us. So we do one show in the summer and another show in late January/early February.

 

3.  How many performances per production?

 

In the Summer we do a large musical. It plays two weekends, generally just Friday, Saturday, Sunday.  So that is 6 performance for the summer show.

 

The winter show is generally a non-musical.  It runs one weekend - Thursday through Sunday, so four performances.  However, there have been times when the winter show is a small musical.  Then we run two weekends same as our summer show.

 

We are toying with the idea of adding another production at another location, somewhere like the American Legion or a church hall.  If we do it will most likely be a small cast show with a simple set that can be rehearsed elsewhere.  It may be a dinner theatre type thing, possibly a fund raiser.

 

In response to the original poster,

 

 

1. We are a year round operation, our season runs April through March.

2. We produce five productions per year, a four-play season and an extra add on event called the Summer Sampler, usually an extra play produced.

3. We have six performances of each production, only three for the Summer Sampler.  On some productions we have added an extra performance. (but not over the last two years).

 

We are in a town of 36,000 people and own our own venue of 472 seats.  We have other events scheduled in between our shows that either we present, or are rentals.  Some of those things have included Leo Kottke, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Ozark Jubilee from Branson, Roger McGuinn, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Greg Brown, von Trapp family singers, and others.  We have a number of community groups rent our facility and that generates some good revenue.

We produce 4 shows per season and each show has 12 performances.

We try to have a mix of shows so that there is a youth show, musical, drama, and comedy.

 

We have a winter show that usually falls too close to Easter. Up 'till now, we have been using a not so great 900 seat middle school auditorium that we haven't filled for many years.

 

There used to be a spring/summer straight play, but that has been dropped for the time being.

 

Then comes our 6 week kids theater camp. This is our most financially successful activity and helps pay for the rest of the year's losses. We do this in a neighboring middle school that is new and quite nice.

 

We also have a smaller fall show that we do in the church hall. Not a great facility with uncomfortable folding chairs. This show can be a musical or straight play.

 

There is talk of adding a small show that we can take to competition too.

 

Next year's spring show is Evita and we don't expect a big audience, so it may go into the church.

 

David

 

 

- Neal (a.k.a. Stagefryte)

 

9 mainstage productions, 7 performances each (2 weekends)

4 children's workshop productions (1 weekend for performances 3-5 shows, depending on the size of the cast)

2 one-act play weekends (one weekend of performance each)

1 1/2 day workshops (one adult, one for kids)

 

We have a 93-seat performance space and recently acquired a large room next door for extra rehearsal space. We lease our building.

 

-Season is January to December, so a mainstage show opens ever other month (even number months)

 

-Six Mainstage shows - this year all straights, 4 weekends each, total of 12 performances of each show.

 

 

-Eight weeks of childrens programming over the summer (June to August), number of performances vary based on the show

 

-One collabrative production with Northern Arizona University, three weeks, total of nine performances

 

Gary Walden

Executive Director

Theatrikos Theatre Company

Flagstaff, AZ

http://www.theatrikos.com - www.theatrikos.com

1.  How long is your season (months)?

2.  How many different productions are included in your season? 

2.  How many performances per production?

 

1. our first show goes up in januray always a dinner theatre

 

2.  we do a dinner thetare in january, and stage play in april/may, another dinner theatre in august, a childrens show in august and a stage show in November

 

3.  we usually do 5-6 performances for stage plays, dinner theatres are performed at local restaurnat venues and those perfrormancers vary from 4-8 teh childrens show follows a week long workshop and gets one showing.  musicals(when we do them) get 6 performances and we always plan for more.

 

we are a small group in a small town but are fortunate to own our own theatre, an old converted barn (we just bought it:))