No Shows and Standby Lines

Hi all!

As Universities with free/discounted student tickets, I'm sure we have all faced the problem of a high rate of no-shows.  How does your University handle this?  Do you let students know their ticket is forfeit up to x amount of minutes before the performance?  Do you encourage students to return tickets if they will not be using them?  In addition, do you have a standby line at performances, and how do you handle it?  I appreciate everyone's input on this as we are currently trying to fine tune our (fairly non-existent) policies and procedures around these questions!

Best,

Olivia A.

Parents
  • I think I’ve mentioned this before on this forum, but even further cementing our decision to continue charging students at a student ID rate, we have Pay-What-You-Can performances for each production, and encourage them to come to that, but tickets are only available at the door that evening. It’s fairly well-attended by students.



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  • I think I’ve mentioned this before on this forum, but even further cementing our decision to continue charging students at a student ID rate, we have Pay-What-You-Can performances for each production, and encourage them to come to that, but tickets are only available at the door that evening. It’s fairly well-attended by students.



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