MTI

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 3:00pm

How much does it actually cost to licensee a show? Like, the scripts and everything, but without renting any costumes, sets or props, how much does it cost just for the basic license of a show? Why don't they give estimations on the site?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 3:04pm

because it varies so much. It depends on the show, the number of performances, ticket prices, seating capacity......... they can only quote an estimate/price if they have that info.

[tthomas76]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 3:40pm

I know musicals are usually around 2500.00 just depends on what show you select. However, our theatre just checked into Anything Goes and Gypsy and I think the cost was going to be 2425.00

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 3:43pm

Broadwayguy is right. We were gonna do LSoH in our city theatre, seating several hundred and it was going to be 400 dollars per performance. We then decided to do it in our small school theatre that seats less than 100...we are doing several more performances...now each performance is only gonna be 85 dollars.

[Derek]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 3:49pm

Our High School is a small school (only 190 people graduate a year). Our theatre holds about 550 people and we usually do shows like Guys and Dolls, Once On This Island, Godspell...u know, really different lol. They usually cost us about 2000

[Jon]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 4:58pm

Our theatre seats 200 - for us, typical MTI shows cost around $150 per performance, plus $400 for rental of materials, plus a $400 deposit, refinded when materials are returned (minus damages or missing books).

You have to pay everything in advance in order to get the materials.

[badkarma719]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 5:06pm

it has a lot more to do then just ur seating

ticked prices also

I did little shop in a 701 seat theatre 2 years ago and it was 500 per show with $3 tickets

total it cost us $1500 just to do the show

plus the orchestra music (whatever all the orchestra parts are), scripts and vocal scores (they auto ship a certain amount for a show, then all the extras(rehersalscore, orchextra, visual assistance, commercials, study guides, logos, the plant for LSOH, interviews with the writers/producers)

example of an extra cost: orchestrations were $500 extra, the Audrey II designs were $200, the logo pack was $100, the rehersal score was $300( I think), if we wanted to rent their AUdery II it had to be decided if it was a costume ($3000) or a prop($1500) which was to be shiped in a 10 foot by 10 foot wooden crate, that we had to pay for if damaged

the scripts and vocal, piano/conductors score, sometimes a study guide is sent with a down payment (I think its $500)

if you send all the scrips/vocals bacj you get the $500 back HOWEVER each script not returned (he he) is $25 each, the conductor score and orchastratios are $50 each, and so on and so on.

MTI charges a whole lot for a whole lot of stuff that most of the time you might not need but mostly comes in handy for things. EX the rehersal score is the entire music score in a computer program that is on CD, this has all the orchastrations in a midi sound file almost (we used this as our orchestra) just hoook up the computer to a sound system or speakers and your good to go.

any other questions about it PM me or e-mail me
I also posted the link to MTI theatre resources below

Theatrical Resources

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 5:07pm

exactly karma.

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 8:17pm

check out the web sites for MTI...Samuel-French.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 10:28pm

The RehearScore program is for rehearsals only. It is ILLEGAL to use it for performances. That's why it's called REHEARSE - score!