Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 26, 2018 16:32:10 GMT
It may just be that I am paying more attention but it seems to me that there is an increase in major companies putting their new seasons on sale without giving much detail beyond the title and perhaps one or two other names.
There are, of course, honourable exceptions to this - but the norm seems to be to get people to book first and for audience members to find out more about what they have paid for later.
On the whole, I need more than the title of the piece before making a decision as to whether to spend my spare cash on a theatre ticket.
Surely it is not unreasonable to have at least an outline of the production and a good chunk of the casting in place by the time tickets go on sale.
If you can't announce that, perhaps you shouldn't be announcing the show at all at this stage.
With the Globe announcing their SWP season with almost zero detail and the Old Vic going on sale with a similar deficit (and they are far from the only perps in this regard), should we accept this as the new norm or start demanding better?
There are, of course, honourable exceptions to this - but the norm seems to be to get people to book first and for audience members to find out more about what they have paid for later.
On the whole, I need more than the title of the piece before making a decision as to whether to spend my spare cash on a theatre ticket.
Surely it is not unreasonable to have at least an outline of the production and a good chunk of the casting in place by the time tickets go on sale.
If you can't announce that, perhaps you shouldn't be announcing the show at all at this stage.
With the Globe announcing their SWP season with almost zero detail and the Old Vic going on sale with a similar deficit (and they are far from the only perps in this regard), should we accept this as the new norm or start demanding better?
