Theatre & Stage Production Budgets: Rehearsal Weeks, Cast & Crew Costs, Royalties, Seat Pricing Zones, Box-Office Break-Even & Touring Deals
Budget a stage show from first rehearsal to final curtain. You will build the production and weekly running budgets, cost cast and crew weeks, compute royalties on ticket sales, set price zones on a seating plan, find the break-even attendance per performance, compare a guarantee with a box-office split for a tour and review the run, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
This course budgets a fictional new play in a spreadsheet, from the first rehearsal to the final curtain. You cost the one-off production budget with SUMPRODUCT and a contingency, price cast and crew over rehearsal and run weeks with on-costs and per diems, and turn weekly, per-performance and monthly bills into the weekly nut. You apply a royalty with a weekly minimum, price a seating plan by zone, find the break-even tickets per performance and the weeks to recoup, compare a guarantee, a split and a guarantee plus split for a tour, and review the run against budget to decide whether to extend.
Lessons
- The Production Budget: One-Off Costs, Quantities × Rates and Contingency Pro
- Cast and Crew: Weekly Fees, Rehearsal and Run Weeks, On-Costs and Per Diems Pro
- Weekly Running Costs: Per Week, per Performance, per Month and the Weekly Nut Pro
- Royalties: A Percentage of the Box Office, a Weekly Minimum and the Gross You Need Pro
- Seating Plan Pricing: Zones, Held-Back Seats and the Maximum Gross Pro
- Attendance and Break-Even: Sold %, Average Ticket Price and Weeks to Recoup Pro
- Touring Deals: Guarantee, Box-Office Split or Guarantee Plus Split Pro
- The Run Review: Actuals vs Budget, Recoupment and the Close-or-Extend Decision Pro