Booking tip 13

How long acts actually run

Roving covers about 70 guests an hour and works in hourly blocks. A corporate stage set is typically 30 minutes, sometimes 40 depending on the act.

Two different clocks, worth knowing before you build the run sheet.

Roving works in hourly blocks, roughly seventy guests per hour as a maximum. That's what one performer can reach properly - beyond it, some guests never get seen. Two hundred guests across a one-hour canape window means two or three performers, not one.

Stage and feature shows run about thirty minutes as the corporate standard, some to forty depending on the act. Longer isn't better; thirty focused minutes usually beats a padded hour.

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