Word: ticketed
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...wait a minute - or, rather, a day. The numbers that shape box-office reports like this are announced each Sunday at noon, before anyone's so much as bought a ticket for today's shows, and are therefore based only on Friday and Saturday ticket sales. The prediction of final weekend grosses thus involve much entrail-reading, analysis of the success of earlier films in the same genre and the possible use of Ouija boards. The tense to be used in these stories really shouldn't be the past ("won") but the future perfect ("will have") or, more cautiously...
...problem is that these groups have been hit in all three of their main revenue streams. For many of them, audiences are down sharply, because in a recession a theater ticket or concert seat can seem like an indulgence. Meanwhile, with corporate profits tanking and charitable endowments badly deflated, donations and underwriting have also been drying up. And as state and local governments contend with huge deficits, arts spending has been a major casualty. In Michigan, where the struggling Detroit Institute of Arts recently laid off 20% of its staff, the 2010 budget proposed by Governor Jennifer Granholm would...
Finding ways to tweak the revenue stream is not as simple as raising prices. For instance, for most museums that charge admission, fees at the door account for less than 10% of annual income, so hiking ticket prices doesn't do much to close a budget gap. And because many museums benefit from taxpayer support, any attempt to charge more can turn into a battle over the right of the public to have affordable access to a place it subsidizes...
...shell-shocked organizations that went to Kaiser for advice was the Beck Center for the Arts, a theater and arts-education group near Cleveland. In January ticket sales and donor money "fell off a cliff," says Lucinda Einhouse, the Beck Center's president. In April she traveled to Washington to meet with Kaiser. She went home and instituted some, if not all, of his gospel. Marketing will be maintained. But the theater will mount fewer shows next year, and some will be chestnuts like Fiddler on the Roof and Peter...
...imagine themselves being the central character in two stories. In the first story, they graduate from college and then find a job with a major company that has a well-appointed lobby and swank office furniture. In the second story, the participants are asked to imagine losing a ticket to a concert but then finding it and heading out to the show. The first story is designed to prime readers with an intensified desire for prestige; the second story has no such effect...