I went to the Antigravity Show last night at the Performing Arts Center and it was packed. It was a show with really muscular men and women (the women also wore sexy costumes) doing acrobatics. There was some tap dancing too.
The best part of the show: Every single ticket was $10. It was a great deal for the audience. There were lots of children in the audience and everyone seemed to be having a good time. So, the Carnival Center is not only for the rich as some readers pointed out. It would be interesting to find out if the Center made any money on this show.
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Hope you had a good seat. We were up top in the last few rows, we got our tickets late. The show was great along with the turnout. This was our second trek to Carnival Center, one for each building. The Carnival Center experience was great both times. Now we just need to navigate to less expensive parking by learning our way around the area. A neighbor said he got parking for $10 just to the west of the building.
I would tell you my parking secret $4 but I have to guard it.
We hear some parking lots are charging $80.
Now we learn the Miami Art Museum wants $400 Mil from the taxpayers for waterfront land and construction money AND the Miami Art Museum is not budgeting to build any public parking. More problems ahead...
Did they make money at $10 a ticket? That depends on their arrangment with the artists.
Events fall into three categories:
Rental
Co-production
Production
If the artists rented the hall, then yes, the Center made money; the costs should have been covered by the rental fee. The fee can work several ways: flat fee, fee with a ticket split, or fee versus a percentage of the total net sales for the event.
If the co-produced the event (split costs and reciepts with the artist), then the Center might have covered its operating costs for the event, but nothing would have gone to pay down their capital debt. Perhaps they didnt' LOSE money, but they didn't make any, either.
If the Center produced it, they lost money. Or did they?
After all, at those prices, they got people into the center who otherwise wouldn't have walked through the door. In that case, the event really goes onto the promotional budget instead of the production budget. Think of the effect of people paying for the commercials.
thank you theatre manager!!!!!!
Who will pay for the proposed Miami Art Museum when they only get 12 visitors a day?
Do you believe their lobbyists expect the taxpayers to pay for another disaster, again with no parking?
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