Cabaret Seating - Your Experience?

Hi everyone:

Have you been successful at setting up a Cabaret facility in Tessitura?  I've searched the forum and didn't land on anything.

We did one cabaret run last season. Seating preference went to donors and subscribers, then the general public. We did not reserve tables. Patrons arrived, an usher had a list to confirm priority and they were sat on a first come first serve basis.

At another venue, we reserved tables using  a seat map in Excel and adding names to the map based on seating choice. Tables were numbered and tickets had the corresponding table numbers on them. An usher lead each person to their table as they arrived.

We'll be doing the same this season and I'd love to hear how others handle the seating and if you had any success in TNEW with cabaret seating as well.

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Hi everyone:

Have you been successful at setting up a Cabaret facility in Tessitura?  I've searched the forum and didn't land on anything.

We did one cabaret run last season. Seating preference went to donors and subscribers, then the general public. We did not reserve tables. Patrons arrived, an usher had a list to confirm priority and they were sat on a first come first serve basis.

At another venue, we reserved tables using  a seat map in Excel and adding names to the map based on seating choice. Tables were numbered and tickets had the corresponding table numbers on them. An usher lead each person to their table as they arrived.

We'll be doing the same this season and I'd love to hear how others handle the seating and if you had any success in TNEW with cabaret seating as well.

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Hi,

We usually have a gala ball fund raising each year.  We have tried numerous methods of managing tickets sale and table seating and trying to steer our event organizer away from excel spreadsheets (not always successfully) however we have arrived at is this.  We built and venue with "tables" and a perf. in this table facility.Ticket sales and monies go through this perf. which also mean we can sell online. Its too difficult to manage the actually seating plan here (mainly because purchasers are often unclear "whose table" they want to sit at, or they have the wrong name etc etc)  the facility is a GA space so purchasers don't get a table or seat number and the tickets attached to the perf. say "Please check seating plan on evening".    

We then use an Elevated Event - to name/label a table and add guests - so we effectively use the elevated event in place of an excel spreadsheet to organize the tables.  It ain't perfect and its always pretty labour intensive.  But its the only way we have come up with to keep everything in Tessitura.

Hope this helps, Darrell

Hi Michelle,

San Diego Symphony's TNEW site is one of the few with SYOS already in HTML5, looks like they do Cabaret style seating, too.  Here's one performance: http://purchasing.sandiegosymphony.org/single/SYOS.aspx?p=4207

Cheers,

Kevin

Hello,

The Fisher Center has been doing cabaret in a bona fide Spiegeltent for a few years -- this is our first year with Tessitura. We also make use of OpenTable to use this as a dining venue prior to performances. There is no integration between the two systems, and the biggest challenge is in managing people who arrive for dinner prior to a performance in another venue vs. people who would like to eat early before a cabaret performance vs. people who will eat at their table during the cabaret performance -- often all within the same evening, and remember that Cabaret seating is assigned. We have our hands full!

Probably in the future we will investigate ways to have Tessitura function for pre-show dinner reservations, but we are on TNEW so this may pose some limitations. They did build us a very nice SYOS map, however!

http://fishercentertickets.bard.edu/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=246

We've had a Cabaret facility since we converted to Tessitura. We are not on TNEW.

Our Jazz and Cabaret series use the Cabaret configuration in our Samueli Theater.

http://www.scfta.org/home/Content/ContentDisplay.aspx?NavID=548 (seat map links on the right column of the page)

The tables themselves are assigned, but the seats within the table are first come, first serve at show.

We also used a table setting when we had Teatro ZinZanni on campus a couple of years ago.

With this one we only had one zone split into  tables and a general seating section. The assigned tables were VIP seating and patrons were able to select their tables at the time of the order. Each table was created as a zone so the patron can select the table online (not SYOS.) If the patron selected the lower priced tickets, they dropped in the general seating section. We then provided these names to the host who assigns seating a couple of hours prior to the show.

I can send you images of our maps in Tessitura if you're interested.

 
Karen Diche 
Manager, Season Tickets 
Segerstrom Center for the Arts 
600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 
T (714) 556-2122 x 4359   F (714) 755-7477   E KDiche@SCFTA.org

We have two cabaret theater spaces and offer a cabaret season. We do all of our bookings in Tessitura. We do not use TNEW, but I would be happy to answer any specific questions you have. Feel free to email me...

jpeters@floridastudiotheatre.org

Hello other Studio Theatre. Yes we have been confused with you recently but...

We are doing a play with cabaret tables for the first time and I'm interested in how this build looks in Tessitura. We do not have TNEW either but would like to have some sort of visual of the table setup online. 

I'd appreciate any information on how you guys set this up. 

Thanks. 

Adria

Hey Karen.

I'd appreciate seeing images of your table maps in Tessitura. We're about to do a cabaret type show. 

Seating people a couple of hours before the show sounds scary. Is that enough time? Is the patron okay with not knowing their seat assignment beforehand? 

Thanks. 

Adria