Bert Morris wrote:
> Stephen Farrow wrote:
>> Depends where. A four-performance weekend would be quite unusual, for
>> example, in any British theatre, since Sunday performances in Britain
>> are relatively rare. If you count Friday as the weekend, it's not
>> unknown for shows in the West End to have two shows Friday and two
>> shows Saturday, at, say, 5pm and 8.30pm, with the 5pm Friday
>> performance taking the place of a midweek matinee earlier in the week,
>> but it's more common for shows to play Monday to Saturday with
>> matinees Wednesdays or Thursdays and Saturdays.
>
> Just out of curiosity, in British theatre is there the equivalent of our
> USA holiday tradition of squeezing ten shows of "A Christmas Carol" in
> one week? Do British theatres have ten shows or more of, say, "pantos"
> scheduled per week during the holidays? What kind of schedule?
Yes, that's quite common. It's also not unknown for evening performances
of pantos to be either scheduled a little earlier than those for more
standard fare or supplanted by more matinees. A 10-performance schedule
for a panto might have 7pm evening performances Tuesday to Saturday
evenings, with 2.30pm matinees Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
and an 11am performance on the Saturday morning. During Christmas Week,
all kinds of convolutions and permutations are possible, depending on
the day of the week on which Christmas Day falls (there wouldn't be any
performance at all on Christmas Day - almost nothing in Britain is open
on Christmas Day, the entire country more or less shuts down - but there
would be additional matinees on other days. It's not unknown for shows
in the West End to schedule additional matinees during Christmas Week as
well, though again there'd be no performances at all on Christmas Day).
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