Bucky wrote:I think I asked this before, but does anybody have any "insider info" on revenues from a large-scale concert?
In the "old days", you'd pay a ticket price, and if you didn't go to the venue to buy the ticket, maybe 2 bucks to ticketmaster.
Today I just bought 4 seats (right around shortstop) for the 9/9 Bruce show at CBP. $150 each.
BUT THEN:
Facility Fee- $6 per ticket
PER TICKET FEE: $28 per ticket
PER ODER FEE: $10
I'd love to know (for example): does CBP only get $6 per head? Still isn't bad. Maybe $275K. If so, what does that include? Just the facility and utilities? Or does the venue provide (and pay) the ushers, security, and ticket takers?
WTF is the "Per Ticket Fee"? You mean to tell me the people that simple broker the tickets get 5x more than the actual facility?
If there's a "Per Ticket" fee, was an additional "Per Order" fee? Greed, I guess?
So that leaves us with the $150 per ticket. Who gets that? I imagine the production company gets a huge chunk of that- it takes a lot of trucks, people, and equipment to produce, supply, and move a show of this magnitude. I think shows like this typically have like 50 or so techs/roadies as part of the traveling crew, and another 100 or so union stagehands as gameday employees. So that ain't cheap.
And how much is left over for the band? Does Bruce personally net like $100K for a show like this?
INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW!!!!
http://www.wisebread.com/how-much-a-breakdown-of-concert-ticket-prices
Hope E Street is playing too at $150 a pop.
