Fringe Progress Report
I’m blogging at the table nearest the bar in the Warehouse; Shakespeare Theatre staffer/Fringe guy Sam Goldblatt is blogging at the table next to me, and Fringe Festival Director Julianne Brienza is checking up on numbers in the seat across from him.
And she just squealed. Because as of today:
Fringe has sold 6,964 tickets, for a net (after ticketing fees) of $91,135.13.
‘Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around … ‘
And now I’m off to see something about a Neon Man.
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10:01 am
Hey, The Neon Man and Me. That’s my show! Cool, Trey will be in the audience.
If you want to check it out, come see me at Warehouse- Beyond.
Sunday, July 22 – 12:30 pm
Monday , Jlu 23 – 9:15 pm
“A Brokeback Mountain between 2 staight guys that don’t have sex!”
11:18 am
Is that 6000+people or tickets? People are seeing more than one show so maybe we are talking 3000 people. That’s two tickets a piece, and lots of people are buying more tickets than that.
Somewhere else on the site Julianne saw is the number of actual people buying tickets? People not tickets is what matters! Especially when the “six pack” is six tickets for the price of five.
20,000 tickets is the goal, but what if that’s 5-9000 PEOPLE?
1:01 am
… but does it really matter? 1 Ticket = 1 butt in 1 seat, right? I’ve gone through 2-6 packs already (or nearly), and I think what matters to the performers is that they aren’t performing to empty houses, right?
10:37 am
People matter to the businesses in Penn Quarter, and the other neighborhoods. Commerce matters to the DC tourism and BID-Business Improvement District people who help sponsor The Fringe. No sponsors & No Fringe. People/eyeballs matter to the ad department at City Paper too!!
1 buyer who buys five tickets to five different performances might only visit businesses alone. That is one butt getting refreshment or something else somewhere in the area. Not five people.
You probably get a good estimate of people by using the number of transactions (ticket purchases everywhere but the door till the end of The Fringe?) and multiplying by two.