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Stage money : the business of the professional theater / Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson ; foreword by Ken Davenport.
Van Pelt Library PN2293.E35 D66 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donahue, Tim, 1952- author.
- Patterson, Jim (Jim Aris), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--United States--Finance.
- Theater.
- Theater management--United States.
- Theater management.
- Theater--Finance.
- Finance.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments. In light of this shocking and harsh reality, how does the show go on? Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson answer this question and many others in this updated edition of their popular, straightforward guide to understanding professional theater finances and the economic realities of theater production. This revised edition of Stage Money not only includes the latest financial information and illuminating examples of key concepts; it has been enhanced with a discussion of the stagehands' union plus a new chapter on marketing for the theater. Stage Money is designed for theater enthusiasts"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Commercial theaters vs not-for-profit theaters : key differences
- Commercial theater on- and off-Broadway : finance and legal structures
- Risk and return in the commercial theater
- The road
- A profitable, African American theater on tour : the Chitlin' Circuit
- The not-for-profit professional theater
- Stages of the business life cycle and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Ticket pricing
- Marketing in the professional theater
- Theatrical unions
- Shall we dance? The commercial and not-for-profit theater relationship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Donahue, Tim, 1952- Stage money
- ISBN:
- 9781643360737
- 1643360736
- 9781643360744
- 1643360744
- OCLC:
- 1149303676
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