Booking and Tour Management for the Performing Arts

A reference guide for booking and tour management in the performing arts. Each chapter explains in detail a key element of the booking and touring process, revealing how to turn a single booking into a tour, prepare a sound budget for touring, target prospective bookings, and create promotional materials that sell. This third edition has been updated to include a chapter discussing the revolutionary new ways that performers, managers and presenters are using Internet to transform the business of booking live performing events. Special chapters by outside experts provide information about what presenters need from artists; the technical aspects of touring; the unique demands of touring abroad; and touring through the eyes of the artist. The volume includes a Tour Manager's Resource Kit and numerous other ready-to-use sample materials, including a contract, letter of agreement, technical information questionnaire, performance checklists, calendars, schedules, tour budget model, technical glossary, and more.

ISBN 1581150954   Pages 288 ISBN13 9781581150957 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.   Weight (grammes) 399 Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.   Published in New York Format Paperback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 01 Jul 2001   Width (mm) 155 Library of Congress 2001002834   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 790.2068   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

		Acknowledgments
		Editor's Notes
		Introduction
1		Touring: An Overview		1
2		Booking: An Overview		15
3		Preparing a Budget for Touring		23
4		The Booking Brochure		41
5		Targeting the Presenter		49
6		The Nitty Gritty of Booking		61
7		Booking Meetings		79
8		Contracts		87
9		Promotion		93
10		Tour Management		103
11		Trends for the Future		129
12		What Presenters Need from Artists by Susan Farr		147
13		Touring from a Technical Viewpoint by M. Kay Barrell		165
14		The Road Show Abroad by Art Becofsky		185
15		Touring: The Artist's Viewpoint		211
		App. A: Contracts		225
		App. B: Tour Manager's Resource Kit		237
		App. C: Technical Information Questionnaire		249
		App. D: Technical Glossary		261
		App. E: Resources		265
		App. F: Selected Bibliography		269
		Index		271
		About the Author		275

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