Re: RAT Re: Tickets

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- Erik Ehn <shadowtackle@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> All-in-all:
> 
If theater is having a hard time surviving on the
basis
> of earned income, maybe we are not meant to be
> earning income. Maybe we are meant to be darlings of
> fate or royalty or schools or the state (rising
> order of peril). Subsidize productions by outside
> means (grants or large individual donations) - let
> the grass roots keep the green. A further
> possibility: give stuff away in addition to putting
> on the show for free, e.g. bread or soup. 


It seems to me that casting their fate to the rich
and/or royal is just what got the regional theatres
into the gilded pickle of ineffectuality that they now
and forever flounder in.

Now I’d hate to sound like Adam Smith among the
Yippies, but it isn’t it self-evident that, with the
exception of the actual crucible of the stage itself,
the box office, real or vitual, is one of the only
contact points between the folks who actually place
their butts in the seats, and those that provide the
seats for said butts.  I have no objections to
pay-what-you can, but pay you should.  Most people, I
find, at the level that we do theatre are only too
happy to pay.  

Blessed be thee that gets thine inspiration for free,
but mine doth cost me dearly.  Let the theatre-goer
pony up for it somehow.  Let THEM bring soup and
bread.  If they have none, let THEM tell a story or
sing a song.  Let them engage in the exchange. 
Something for something.  Healthy humans dig an
exchange.




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