Seats!

I've been in a few plays now and I'm starting to understand more and more abut how plays are put on.  It's much more than just us actors showing up to rehearse and then act.  Many super nice and important people, who don't go on stage, are needed to make sure the show happens. Actually, some times it seems like the actors are only a small part of what goes on at a theatre and definitely a small part of running a place like The 5th Avenue.  I will tell you all about The 5th's important management people who run it in my next posts.

But one thing I will tell you now about one aspect of management: marketing!  The 5th  sits 2,130 people.  So, that means over 90,000 people will see The Sound of Music during this run!! (A "run" means how long a particular show is on a particular stage.  For us, it's Nov. 24 - Jan. 3rd.  With matinees, that's 43 shows!)  To sell all those tickets, The Theatre has to do a lot of "marketing", which means advertising, which means using TV, radio, buses, billboards and the internet to get people to want to come see us!

Here are a few of the ads the 5th has put out there to show us off:

A couple of the ads are actually videos of us kids auditioning:

And, here is a bus ad: 

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