We're working on an entertainment development in Detroit and would appreciate your feedback. The facility will seat approximately 500 people and will be designed for an intimate evening with a national act that our target audience usually can only see at a 20,000 seat arena.
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What facilities (stage, backstage amenities, sound, lighting, personal, etc.) and financial arrangements would be required in order to add a stop at our venue for a national act that is touring?
Question
What facilities (stage, backstage amenities, sound, lighting, personal, etc.) and financial arrangements would be required in order to add a stop at our venue for a national act that is touring?
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Re: Venue design
Fri, August 5, 2005 - 6:40 PMWell, first I suppose you'll need to find a way to pay performers an amount roughly equivalent to how much they'd earn playing for 20,000 people though you're only selling 500 tickets, yes? Dare I ask what your game plan is there? -
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Re: Venue design
Sat, August 6, 2005 - 12:55 PMJohn,
We have the financial end covered. We're trying to ensure that the venue from a facility standpoint meets or exceeds the artist's expectations. We have been working with several folks who represent national acts but we're alway interested in additional viewpoints so that we miss as little as possible. -
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Re: Venue design
Thu, August 11, 2005 - 1:17 PMThe artist's representatives should be able to provide you with a rider outlining all of the artist's needs (demands) and expectations. Contact alan@concertmanagement.com if you need help planning the event.
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Re: Venue design
Mon, August 15, 2005 - 3:35 AMAs a former Production Manager for a concert promoter I have been in this position dozens of times, and the key to making this work is communication.
Plan on going through the rider with a fine tooth comb with the artists road manager. and plan on providing as much of what is requested as possible and logical. as an example if you dont have the facilities to provide the hospitality requirements plan on buy-outs and a runner or 2 ( this is usually negotiable ). If their stage plot calls for 10 sets of wedges plus side fills in additon to back line and your stage is just slightly larger than a postage stamp then somethings got to give. As long as any and all issues like this have been discussed in advance and everyone is going in to your event with their eyes wide open then every thing should work out.
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Re: Venue design
Wed, August 24, 2005 - 11:14 PMI'd say that it would have to be very special indeed to be worthy of a position in the tour date listing of any major tour. It goes without saying (I hope) that every aspect of the stage, monitoring, and the way the performers are presented to the audience would have to be perfect. The cutting edge audiophile quality sound rig, ideally a dolby 10.2 compatible, ambisonics ready, mind blowing (but not ear blowing) wonder, should only be the twin of the most amazing and totally enveloping LED-holographic-sculpture-interactive-moving head video-exceptionaly programmed... visual spectacle anyone has ever had the pleasure to behold. ...
...and mucho mucho .. mucho .. dinero. yo. :)
