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.
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