Booking tip 19

What you're actually paying for

A thirty-minute show can be three days of preparation. Trimming ten minutes off the set doesn't trim ten minutes off the work.

When you ask about price, it's worth knowing what sits behind the number. Depending on the act, a single show can take days to prepare - writing, tailoring material to your audience, rehearsal, building and packing.

So when a client asks whether the fee drops for twenty minutes instead of thirty, the honest answer is that you're taking ten minutes off three days of work, not off thirty minutes of it.

It's like buying a painting. You're not paying for the moment it's unveiled. You're paying for everything that went into it before that point.

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