Big HOO HAA - getting too big?
Sun, 27 June 2004, 10:42 pmcrgwllms6 posts in thread
Big HOO HAA - getting too big?
Sun, 27 June 2004, 10:42 pmWe had another terrific special on Friday night, our second birthday anniversary. Twice as many teams, two musicians, two 'swing' players....a lot of toy donations given to the Smith Family Xmas Charity Appeal, and a brilliant night had by all.
Well, almost all. Unfortunately, once again, we were crowded to over-capacity, and had to turn people away at the door. Even the lucky last few to get in were unable to find chairs, and we were selling space on the floor. (A prominent perth director who shall remain nameless was cunning enough to steal the chairs from the Hoo-Haa players, making them sit on the floor...). There was also an unfortunate misunderstanding with some people who believed they'd booked and reserved a table...we apologise that it got mucked up, and we're looking at implementing a better method so it won't happen again.
It's probably time that we started looking for a bigger venue to host our 'specials'. Nobody likes turning people away, especially when we were virtually full more than half an hour before we were due to start.
Speaking of specials....it was announced that the next Big Hoo Haa special will be a 24-HOUR Hoo-Haa in September, based upon the History of the World..!! Watch out for more information as we get closer to the date!
And of course, no Hoo-Haa this Friday (First Friday of the Month Standup Comedy night instead), but we resume our normal crazy shows on the 9th July.
Cheers,
Craig
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Well, almost all. Unfortunately, once again, we were crowded to over-capacity, and had to turn people away at the door. Even the lucky last few to get in were unable to find chairs, and we were selling space on the floor. (A prominent perth director who shall remain nameless was cunning enough to steal the chairs from the Hoo-Haa players, making them sit on the floor...). There was also an unfortunate misunderstanding with some people who believed they'd booked and reserved a table...we apologise that it got mucked up, and we're looking at implementing a better method so it won't happen again.
It's probably time that we started looking for a bigger venue to host our 'specials'. Nobody likes turning people away, especially when we were virtually full more than half an hour before we were due to start.
Speaking of specials....it was announced that the next Big Hoo Haa special will be a 24-HOUR Hoo-Haa in September, based upon the History of the World..!! Watch out for more information as we get closer to the date!
And of course, no Hoo-Haa this Friday (First Friday of the Month Standup Comedy night instead), but we resume our normal crazy shows on the 9th July.
Cheers,
Craig
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Re: Big HOO HAA - getting too big?
Mon, 12 July 2004, 11:24 pmSpeaking as the "prominent Perth director" who "stole" seats from the cast (sorry to ruin the subtle and ingenious coded hiding my identity), I did not intend to post about this, but seeing as the matter has been raised, let me just add my ten centsworth.
The Hoo Haa is a great fun show, and a cracking evening out. I had in fact brought seven of my Improvisation Class students along to see it. We arrived at least 25 minutes before starting time, and having bought our tickets, found that NO seats at all were free in the venue. Now I don't just mean no seats together...I mean not a single unreserved seat. We tried asking the people selling tickets on the door, but no-one seemed too bothered: in fact, they just kept on selling tickets to let MORE audience in. We tried sitting on the floor: unhappily I am too old (and - let's be really honest - too fat) to do this comfortably for a show that runs several hours.
Our group were just deciding to ask for our money back, when I asked a prominent member of the Hoo Haa team, who shall remain nameless (I am getting the hang of this code thing, Craig), whether we could use the empty chairs waiting for the cast. I was tacitly allowed to understand that this person thought that would be fine so long as they "knew nothing about it". Was I upset at stealing the cast's seats? Well, they got paid for standing up, we had to otherwise pay to sit on the floor. A bit of a no brainer really.
Finally my apologies to the group whose view we blocked. Do they have a very good reason to complain? Oh Yes. To the organisers of this event. In all seriousness, to carry on selling tickets while making no provision for where the poor saps were going to sit was not only bad PR but foolhardy and even dangerous. God knows what a Fire Officer would have made of this.
You have a great show here people. Why not set some kind of safe limit (matching number of seats perhaps?) and stick to it? And perhaps get your ushers (the outward face of your company) to look as if they care about the comfort and safety of the paying customers.
The Hoo Haa is a great fun show, and a cracking evening out. I had in fact brought seven of my Improvisation Class students along to see it. We arrived at least 25 minutes before starting time, and having bought our tickets, found that NO seats at all were free in the venue. Now I don't just mean no seats together...I mean not a single unreserved seat. We tried asking the people selling tickets on the door, but no-one seemed too bothered: in fact, they just kept on selling tickets to let MORE audience in. We tried sitting on the floor: unhappily I am too old (and - let's be really honest - too fat) to do this comfortably for a show that runs several hours.
Our group were just deciding to ask for our money back, when I asked a prominent member of the Hoo Haa team, who shall remain nameless (I am getting the hang of this code thing, Craig), whether we could use the empty chairs waiting for the cast. I was tacitly allowed to understand that this person thought that would be fine so long as they "knew nothing about it". Was I upset at stealing the cast's seats? Well, they got paid for standing up, we had to otherwise pay to sit on the floor. A bit of a no brainer really.
Finally my apologies to the group whose view we blocked. Do they have a very good reason to complain? Oh Yes. To the organisers of this event. In all seriousness, to carry on selling tickets while making no provision for where the poor saps were going to sit was not only bad PR but foolhardy and even dangerous. God knows what a Fire Officer would have made of this.
You have a great show here people. Why not set some kind of safe limit (matching number of seats perhaps?) and stick to it? And perhaps get your ushers (the outward face of your company) to look as if they care about the comfort and safety of the paying customers.