Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:25:52 EST
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Are your bookings down or up?


definitely down 20-15% over last year with a few cancellations of existing  
bookings in the winter and spring. The proverbial "canary in the mine" was from 
 a school in a wealthy local Baltimore /Washington county that had a $500 
school  assembly booked for March and called to cancel saying that they'd had  a  
PTA fundraiser and hadn't raised any funds. I'm going to feel pretty good if  
we're doing over half of what we're doing right this time next year. Most 
school  systems have frozen all school based funds around here leaving only 
Title1 and  PTA money. My pessimism/instinct is that we'll be doing half by this 
time next  year. Hope I'm wrong. It's makes bringing on or replacing a performer 
very  stressful, much less paying the mortgage. 
 
michael cotter 
blue sky puppet theatre 
 
 
In a message dated 12/5/2008 2:03:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
steve-AT-axtell.com writes:

As a  performer have you found that in these 
difficult economic times, that your  show bookings 
are slower than normal, or are you as busy as 
ever....  or have you found that you are even 
busier this year than you were last  year?




Steve Axtell
Axtell Expressions, Inc.
http://www.axtell.com
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