How Theater Managers Manage
How Theater Managers Manage brings together the stories, beliefs, and experiences of a few seasoned theater managers. Through them, a portrait and a concept emerge depicting what they have unknowingly practiced throughout their careers. Designed to be a stepping stone for new theater managers, this book covers a wide variety of topics including budgeting theater costs, gross potentials and ticket prices, show contracts, settlements, and emergency and security procedures, to name a few. A...
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The job of the theater manager has always been an intricate part of the theatrical community. Collins investigates the job in terms of such daily activities as supervising staff, interacting with unions, facility management, show personnel, providing customer service, and dealing with financial concerns and restraints. This easy to use how-to guide includes examples of important documents and useful forms that can be adapted for venue use. Interviews with theater managers reveal how to come up with creative solutions to problems when resources are inadequate or non-existent.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPt. ITheater: The Way It Was, the Way It Is, and the Way It Is Becoming1Theater and Theater Managers32The Cast of Characters153The Show Must Go On234Front-of-House: It's Not a Dress Rehearsal455The Theater Building: You Work for a Theater but I Work for a Theatre516Unions677Customers and Employees, or Yelling at the Usher Always Improves the Sound77Pt. IIFinancial Concerns8Budgeting Theater Cost for an Engagement939Gross Potentials and Ticket Prices10510Show Contracts11511Box Office12112Settlements135Pt. IIICareer Development13The Drama Offstage15314Management and Imagination16915Managerial Imagination17716Creating and Thinking18717Industry Interviews: Peter Botto, Mitch Brower, Gordon G. Forbes, Edward C. Powell19518Manager Topics: In Our Own Words221Concluding Thoughts227App. ASpecs Package: Advance Information and Backstage Information231App. BEmergency and Security Procedures241App. CBuilding Forms251App. DShow and Performance Forms257App. ESample Budget265Works Cited273Index277About the Author281
\ Choice...a solid primer for anyone considering theater management as a career and a helpful mid-career review for the professional manager. Appendixes provide a variety of helpful procedural outlines, daily operation and performance forms, information data sheets, emergency and security measures, and sample budgets.\ \ \ \ \ Library Bookwatch...a very practical and straightforward guidebook to the business of running a community theater. From dealing with unions, to the nuts and bolts of determining ticket prices, to a sample budget, to building forms, and a great deal more How Theater Managers Manage is an invaluable resourceful guide which is very highly recommended for anyone starting out in theater management, or who is contemplating the business side of theatrical management theater.\ \
