Category Archives: Box Office
Spoleto’s box office a gnat’s hair short of 2006
Blame it on medEia — or Faustus, or any of the other challenging, nontraditional fare Spoleto packed into in a season more stuffed than usual with programming whose ability to put butts in seats was hardly guaranteed. The final box numbers are in for the 2007 festival, and it looks like Spoleto’s four-years-running record-busting streak [...]
A dream within a dream
It’s hot out there. Welcome to summer.
Plenty of tickets left for State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake, apparently, as the Big Festival seems to have set itself an uphill battle filling the Gaillard’s 2,700 seats for five performances of a 2-hour, 130-year-old classical ballet, ravishing as it may be. And word has it plenty of [...]
Goodbye Cirque, hello Aurélia
Who needs Cirque de Soleil? The Montreal European circus and performance act canceled their Sunday gig at the Coliseum, but we just got in a batch of previously unreleased photos from Aurélia Thierrée’s circus theatre work Aurélia’s Oratorio, which opens tonight at Emmett Robinson Theatre, and this blogger has a feeling it’s going to be [...]
That was a lotta Latin
It looks like there may be another booming storm cooking up out there, preparing to punctuate the tail end of a fine day. As with last week, Monday and Tuesday have been low on rollouts for the Big Festival, as it recuperates from a second crazy weekend and gathers itself for the last mad rush [...]
Vive la revolution! Power to the people!
Ticketmaster seems to have cleared up the problems last weekend that were leading it to tell hopeful Piccolo-goers that a variety of shows were sold out when in fact there were plenty of seats still available. The snafu was, understandably, sending show producers across the festival program into apoplectic fits. The situation was exacerbated by [...]
That’s (not) the ticket
The Ticketmaster problem we reported here earlier doesn’t seem to have affected every show in Piccolo, but it’s definitely been a problem for several, among them the Village Playhouse’s Urinetown and Charleston Stage’s Denmark Vesey: Insurrection at the American. We’re told the Piccolo box office manager has been trying all weekend to correct the situation, [...]
They’re listening in New York
For anyone laboring under the misconception that Spoleto Festival USA is a quaint, homegrown affair with little impact beyond the Charleston city limits, I refer you to a big, fat preview article in today’s New York Times on Faustus, the Last Night, which opens at the Sottile Theatre in about 2 hours, by my [...]
Ticketmaster snafu?
Unlike Spoleto’s performers, Piccolo artists usually aren’t paid anything to appear in the festival; they’re here as self-producers and self-promoters, splitting a portion of the box office take and marketing expenses with the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs. Often they barely break even, sometimes they make a little money; it’s all a function [...]
A Giant achievement for Theatre 99
The Have Nots! and Theatre 99 have pulled off something of a coup this year by booking old friends Aziz Ansari , Paul Scheer, and Rob Huebel — better known these days as Human Giant, of MTV fame — for four hour-long shows at Charleston Ballet Theatre from June 6-9. (Don’t know who they are? [...]
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo [...]