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.
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