Runway
The eleven-minute show, costed
A full line-item breakdown of a mid-size runway show: venue, crew, casting, sound, seating and the four costs that always run over.
Tomás Rivera
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A mid-size show runs about eleven minutes and costs between forty and ninety thousand, depending almost entirely on venue and how late you lock the run-of-show.
The four overruns
Venue overtime, last-minute casting replacements, sound re-cuts after the final rehearsal, and steaming labour on show day. Between them they account for most of the variance we see across seasons.
Build a contingency of fifteen per cent and hold it against those four lines specifically. A general contingency gets spent on the first thing that goes wrong, which is usually the least important.
Tomás Rivera
Head of Production
Tomás runs the studio floor — permits, crew, logistics and budgets. Twelve seasons of show production means very little surprises him.
