Hi Tessitura Community!
I work for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Rochester, NY and per NYS guidelines we are now able to host events with designated vaccinated sections without any social distancing. All other non-vaccinated sections would need to continue the 6ft spacing rule.
We are playing a number of shows at the Perinton Recreation Center. This venue has tiered grass sections (see screen shot below). There are no physical seats already in place. My question to you all is would it be possible to have designated GA sections for vaccinated people and reserved seated pods distanced 6ft apart for non-vaccinated people in the same facility?
I am curious to know if any other organizations have a similar situation. Thank you in advance for your help!
We have a similar mixed venue (a church) where the most front/central pews are reserved (no seat number but you are assigned a section and row) and the peripheral sections are all GA. I imagine you could set yours up a similar way, just with some different language re. vaccinated/unvaccinated. If you send me your email address I can send you some screen shots of our setup?
Hi Anna! My email address is dlippa@rpo.org.
Thank you!
It is possible. We have four GA sections attached to our main reserved seat facility of Jones Hall. One GA section for on-stage seating (in that rare occurrence), one for standby passes, and the other two are for whatever else might happen to come along (ie. moving people who did not attend during the pandemic). Then the reserved seating we have set in pods utilizing blackout holds. Would you be building a brand new facility or tacking GA sections onto an existing facility? If you have further questions let me know.
Best,
Heather
I would be adding GA sections to an existing reserved pod seated facility. Would you be able to send me some screenshots of this facility in Tessitura? My email is dlippa@.org. Thank you! Here is an example of our current facility:
Made a typo. dlippa@rpo.org
Sure. Give me a bit.
Hi Dan, Anna and Heather.
I'm very interested in this too. I'm about to build a new facility of 5,000 seats, where 4,200 are reserved/allocated, and 800 are GA. I'll be offering SYOS via TNEW so am keen to know what a good approach to this is.
I've emailed you, Dan, to see if you can share what you've learnt from Anna, Heather and your work on it to date.
Thanks in advance to all!
Tom.
Hey Heather,
I am interested in how you set this up. We have a performance that would like our front section to be reserved seats and the rest of the house GA. I would be using an existing facility. Any tips/tricks that you found when building out a hybrid facility would be appreciated!
Thank you,
Amanda
Our outdoor venue this summer has both reserved and GA seating. For the section with GA seating, we assigned different price types (Lawn) than the reserved sections. The other prices were disabled in that section and Lawn prices were disabled in the reserved sections. We also have some VIP tables where patrons must purchase all four seats at the table; those tables also have different price types.
This is very helpful, Diana. Thank you!