Programmes
Fri, 1 July 2011, 11:17 amGordon the Optom16 posts in thread
Programmes
Fri, 1 July 2011, 11:17 amA recent community play that I attended had a superb programme, beautifully printed hard card glossy cover, a total of twelve sides of A5. The layout was excellent, thumbnail colour photos of the cast and crew. The font was about 10 pt, well above the diabolical new normal of 4 point. The only trouble was it was $4 a copy.
I suspect that the theatre group may have a lot of unsold copies.
After buying the seat ticket, purchasing the dreaded 3 raffle tickets for $2, is $4 a little too much for a programme when a $2 (or perhaps $3) simpler version would suffice? Or am I a tight old whinge.
The issue of programmes is interesting
Mon, 4 July 2011, 01:24 pmCertainly the top line commercial and subsidised theatre world use fancy programmes. Its another revenue stream not least from the advertising which either helps pay for the production or is advertising from sponsoring companies and is part of their deal but also from the sales. In the larger venues it could be several thousand dollars a night.
You the tend to come down with a thump. Smaller scale pro's tend to have cheap and cheerful prgrammes if they have one at all. Then you get to the bigger amateur or community companies who once again have fancy programmes.
What's the programme for? When I go I rarely buy a programme if its over a couple of bucks unless its a once in a lifetime experience. (I still have my programme from the tour of Antony Sher in Richard III and from the tour of Porgy and Bess.) What I want is something that will tell me why the writer wrote it and/or why the director chose it and a bit about the players. This can be done in a smaller cheaper programma and provided it is well designed and professionally printed thats fine.
I agree with you Bree about the raffles though.
Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing.
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