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Los Spamgeles - CTG does the full Monty (Python)
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009In case you missed the SPAM-tastic festivities at the Ahmanson this morning, here are some choice photos from today’s SPAMAPALOOZA event. We celebrated Spamalot tickets going onsale with an April Fool’s Day Fair, complete with costumes, wandering minstrels, mimes on unicycles (you read that correctly), cow-toss and killer-rabbit-hoops games, a Spam-can hunt, and a giant foot (you read that one correctly, too).
Emcee Josh Venable from Star 98.7 was our excellent host for the day. Here he is with our knight in spamming armor.
Folks were lined up around the Ahmanson to be the first to get tickets for SPAMALOT as it makes its L.A. premiere.
Hundreds of patrons played carnival games - including a Killer Rabbit toss - for Spamulous prizes. Here is one of the pesky critters mid-flight.
Eager contestants got dolled up for our King of Fools competition, wearing their best and most ridiculous outfits for a cash prize of $350.
Opening Night Madness
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Michael Bulger is CTG’s Marketing Coordinator.
It’s that time again in the CTG Marketing Department. The time which we hold near and dear to our hearts. The time we all look forward to for weeks and weeks.
No, not the parking lot cook-out…OPENING NIGHT! And what’s great is this time we’ve got three at once! That’s right, over the next two weeks we’re opening three shows…first Taking Over at the Douglas, then Pippin at the Taper and finally Minsky’s at the Ahmanson.
While openings themselves appear to be lovely evenings with star-studded crowds, making them that way is no easy task! First there are weeks of going through lists, deciding who we’re going to invite which inevitably takes us longer than we hope. Then we scramble to get invites out in time only to get back a deluge of RSVPs on our phone lines as we nervously anticipate overbooking the house.
And that’s how it goes for about week before opening….one moment we’re too full, and the next we’re not full enough…which is when we start the dreaded game of seating.
Our conference room becomes a war room – (imagine your dorm while cramming for finals with empty pizza boxes and scraps of paper on the floor) – while we figure out just the right seat for everyone (and remember, the Ahmanson has almost 2,000 seats!!) We shuffle post-its around on seating charts like crazy people. We check, double check and triple check our lists for accuracy. Last minute cancellations are only slightly less common then last minute additions…and you can guess how much fun those are!
Finishing mere hours before curtain on opening night, we rush to the box office, list in hand, ready to greet our guests. And the best part is: it’s all over in an hour! As they say, the show goes on, and the weeks of pulling our hair out end pretty anti-climactically. Ah well, it was good fun…and hey, there’s always the after party!
