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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2018 5:58:41 GMT
The best programme I’ve had in a while was War Horse - really informative with lots of information about the show and the author and everything else - and all the ads were at the front of the book as opposed to being scattered through the programme. One thing that is a bit of a letdown though is there are no headshots of the actors, just assorted photos throughout the programme.
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Post by lou105 on Nov 18, 2018 9:09:53 GMT
Had to resurrect this thread to mark my first sighting of a multi-buy on programmes! At the Nottingham Playhouse yesterday they were £4 or two for £6. Very tempting to make friends with someone else who was approaching to buy one, but the tickets were reasonable, so I didn't begrudge them the pound. For the record I thought it was good value for the price anyway- glossy A4 size, interesting interviews and articles, rehearsal photographs and cover photo of Mark Gatiss in costume.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2018 11:39:19 GMT
I must say the Heathers one is a joke. 10 pounds! 10!!! Yes, it's huge (and uncomfortable to carry around since they don't even give you a plastic bag - I asked and was told "not for programmes") but come on, ten pounds for a few pics and a sheet of paper in black and white with the cast list?
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Post by schuttep on Nov 19, 2018 10:09:02 GMT
I must say the Heathers one is a joke. 10 pounds! 10!!! Yes, it's huge (and uncomfortable to carry around since they don't even give you a plastic bag - I asked and was told "not for programmes") but come on, ten pounds for a few pics and a sheet of paper in black and white with the cast list? Yes, that annoys me too. Buy a keyring or fridge magnet for £5 and they'll give you a bag!! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 18:41:48 GMT
Yeah, I usually carry one bag too but that day I forgot.
The staff at the Dominion is super nice. Forgot my bag too, bought a programme in the foyer, asked for a bag and the girl told me I could get one from the merchandise shop, just by showing my programme. Oh, and free of charge (idk what the policy in the UK is, but now in Spain they charge you for plastic bags, by law, everywhere!).
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Post by Stephen on Nov 20, 2018 0:33:36 GMT
I wonder if Delfont Mackintosh have switched to the less shiny new programme design to cut costs?
Geek moment: I was loving the square ones and had a lovely little collection going.
The newer style one was £4.50 at the Inheritance tonight...
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Post by Snciole on Nov 21, 2018 14:22:01 GMT
As a blogger who gets free tickets getting a free programme has become a genuine treat. I don't always review press nights so don't always get a programme but they are getting more and more obscene in cost. I had to walk away in shock at Breakfast at Tiffany's because the programme was £8. How broke ass are the TRH?
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 10, 2019 22:28:03 GMT
For the Vaults theatre for The Permanent Way, for a standard fringe programme,10 pages, paper and £5.
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Post by Dr Tom on Oct 11, 2019 10:40:19 GMT
For the Vaults theatre for The Permanent Way, for a standard fringe programme,10 pages, paper and £5. They were free when I went earlier in the run! |
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Post by danb on Oct 12, 2019 8:36:31 GMT
Has programme buying dropped off because of the increase in ‘repeat visits’ to the same show? Back in the day a theatre would surely bank on x percent of the audience buying a programme, but if that x percent only came last Saturday they are hardly going to want to buy one again this Saturday are they? Are the majority of West End dayseaters affluent enough to hit the merch every week (Look Tracey, a new ‘waitress’ trigonometry set! I must have it for my exams!) or have these revenue streams been dented by new viewing habits?
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Post by viserys on Oct 12, 2019 9:39:32 GMT
pricing and the fact that you can look up the cast and everything online now. I've bought programmes religiously for 30 years, but when I saw the big glossy ones at Starlight Express here for 15 Euro, I just went NOPE and looked up cast bios online instead. £5 seems quaint compared to that and for now I keep going in London also due to the whole "collection" thing, but who knows how much longer. When you see 4-5 shows in one trip, it does add up! What annoys me more is though, is when shows force big glossy stuff on you, like the £10 programmes for Heathers when all I want/need is a song list and cast bio.
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Post by anita on Oct 12, 2019 13:20:02 GMT
I always used to buy them but I just can't afford to these days.
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 12, 2019 13:27:17 GMT
On a slight tangent, I keep each years ticket stubs on a (large!) pin board in the kitchen. If they try and palm me off with an e-ticket - like the Old Vic - I get a proper one from the box office. End of year I take a photo of the board and can either print that orf (poster size) or zoom in for the memories - then take them all down and start again. The rest is, as we know, online.
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Post by n1david on Oct 12, 2019 18:54:00 GMT
For the Vaults theatre for The Permanent Way, for a standard fringe programme,10 pages, paper and £5. I think some Fringe theatres view programmes as a fund-raising activity - they know that it doesn't necessarily have the value for the cost they are charging, but it's an opportunity to 'help out' the theatre a bit more by bunging them a few quid for something it costs pennies to produce. That's certainly the attitude of the Kings Head in Islington, which specifically includes programme-buying in the pre-show "how you can support us" talk. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 13, 2019 1:12:39 GMT
The problem then if you overcharge, which this theatre has by a country mile, then people simply just won’t buy one, so the theatre losses money by its own greed, most people that attend wont see this as philanthropy, but instead feel being ripped off, (which they are)
I am no fussy person and probably would find some stuff passable, where others wouldn’t, but to put this mildly again, this theatre is a proper sh*t hole and another theatre that is set in a railway arch, (guess the rent is cheap,) but theatre has no place being situated in a railway arch.
Also I have never seen security for a fringe theatre before.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 13, 2019 9:08:15 GMT
People still seem willing to pay a fiver for a thimble full of ice cream though don’t they. The ice cream queue always fascinates me, I can happily spend the interval just watching it. There’s the eager beavers who are down there almost before the applause has faded, people who look like they can barely walk negotiating the queue with sticks or Zimmer frames, the frisson of excitement as they get to the front of the queue, the peering into the tray while the flavours are announced, then for the non regulars, the wince when they find out they’ve just spent ten quid on two solid blocks of flavoured milk. The non regulars will then ask for a spoon and be told it’s in the lid before tottering back to their seats to tuck in. Then they’ll spend the entire interval jabbing away at it with that ridiculously inadequate spoon with a frown on their faces. As experiences go it’s not that great if you ask me. I’d rather nip into Sainsburys across the road afterwards and get a pint of Haagen Daz for about the same price.
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Oct 14, 2019 9:05:16 GMT
Used to buy a program at every performance I attended in London, last week only bought the Les Mis brochure and the McKellen program. At SIX, Witness for the Prosecution and Book of Mormon I photographed the cast list and Noises Off had the whole cast pictured in the flyer. I checked online afterwards if someone especially impressed me or I thought I knew them from some other production, but that is sufficient for me nowadays.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 14, 2019 15:46:52 GMT
...and Monster Munch.
Grab bags.
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Oct 15, 2019 21:06:15 GMT
Not during a show, I hope, or you'll be appearing in Bad Behaviour before long...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 15, 2019 21:28:59 GMT
Not during a show, I hope, or you'll be appearing in Bad Behaviour before long... I suck them... |
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Post by mistressjojo on Oct 15, 2019 23:18:33 GMT
I stopped buying programmes from my local theatre ( STC) as a matter of course when they put the price up to $AUD12. That's about 6.4 GBP and a bit steep for something I read once.
The exception will be if I want to stage door an actor and need something for them to autograph ( as I did recently with Maxine Peake)
Theatres here don't usually do free cast lists, but most will have a poster somewhere in the foyer showing the cast.
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