Booking & Tour Management for the Performing Arts - Softcover

Shagan, Rena

9781880559369: Booking & Tour Management for the Performing Arts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880559366 ISBN 13: 9781880559369

Publisher: Allworth Pr, 1996

This revised edition of the popular book The Road Show is designed to help solo artists and performing groups in music, theater, and dance develop the skills needed to compete in the rough-and-tumble marketplace. Rena Shagan reveals the secrets of more than twenty years' experience, including how to turn a single booking into a tour; prepare a sound budget for touring; target prospective bookings; and create promotional materials that sell.
Booking and Tour Management for the Performing Arts is the most comprehensive handbook ever assembled about booking performances and organizing and managing tours. Special chapters by experts give inside information about touring abroad as well as what presenters expect from artists.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Publisher:

On the Road Again: A Favorite Tool of Enterprising Performing Artists Returns to Books Shelves and Touring Buses

The young Martha Graham would have probably loved it, and so would have the Beatles before they met George Martin. BOOKING & TOUR MANAGEMENT FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS by Rena Shagan has guided generations of solo artists and performing groups of all types on the road to success. Written by a veteran of the booking and touring business, this classic reference tool has now completely been updated to provide performers, tour organizers and agents with everything they need to book performances, build tours, and become welcome performers at the myriad performing spaces throughout the United States and abroad.

Whether your group requires two oversized touring buses, or even if you have never ventured across the border of your home base, BOOKING & TOUR MANAGEMENT will enable performers and group managers to make the smart decisions that are necessary to guarantee a successful road show, from identifying frequently overlooked expenses, choosing the right insurance, and creating realistic budgets to assuring their group’s safety and well-being on the road and on stage. Packed with a Tour Manager’s Resource kit, checklists, calendars, schedules and tour budget models for groups and tours of all sizes, this classic resource book leaves nothing to chance.

From the Inside Flap:

“Rena Shagan earns an A for her "show and tell" handbook on touring the performing arts. More than a primer on the basics—this expanded edition draws on the savy experience of pros to explore the future role of booking and tour management. As a desk reference or college text, this book holds a place in my library.”
—Ken Crossley, Presenter and Theatre Management Instructor, Brigahm Young Univesity

“A thorough, accessible, and helpful how-to of the performing arts industry that de-mystifies touring. From important nuts-and-bolts examples to thoughtful and honest discussions of the importance of long-term relationships in the arts world, Shagan brings to the fore years of her own valuable experience and key interviews and contributions by presenters, managers, and technical staff. Her book is invaluable resource for artists just starting to contemplate touring, and full of "a-ha" moments for those who've toured for years.”
—Margaret Lawrence, Director of Programming, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.