Monday, November 10, 2008
Tickets going for a song
smh.com.au: "With the economic downturn putting the bite on spending, producers of Sydney's musicals are being forced to be as creative at the ticketing window as they are on the stage."
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It finally seems that the economy has hit theaters. In the past weeks I have read many articles about how theater industry has some how or another has avoided backlash from the economy. But not that we are seeing the effects theaters will be putting on shows that will bring in the audiences. Theaters will do popular shows that people will know and will want to see instead of unknown shows. Theater's will also lower their prices and do less performances.
While it is unfortunate that theaters are going through hard times, it is great that theaters are finding a way to adapt to changing times. Drastically lowering ticket prices might not be the best long term solution, but for now it seems like a great way of ensuring that theatre is still available to a wide auidience.
It seems recently that their have been a surplus of articles about hard economic times hitting the theatres. It is very reassuring to see theatre able to cut back prices and adapt to get people into those seats, but is seems to me that more action will have to be take. I think that show budgets will have to be dramatically reduced in order to account for the loss of income, and shows will have to reuse more. Although this sucks for the designers i wonder if it will produce more innovative and surprising designs because of the limitations?
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