Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880. By Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2001. xiv plus 299 pp. $49.95). Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series, edited by Thomas Postlewait

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“…Ticket purchases could then be made at any node on a network of distributed terminals across a city or a continent. The distribution of tickets through multiple points of sale dates at least to the 19th century, when theaters in London allocated portions of their stock to libraries, wine shops, and coffeehouses in upscale neighborhoods (Davis & Emeljanow, 2001, p. 4), but mainframe-based ticketing introduced something new. Those 19th-century schemes required that hard tickets be removed from box offices and committed to different points of sale.…”

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New Furniture for the Box Office: Computer, Ticket, Window

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2020

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The arrival of the digital computer demanded a new spatial logic for performing arts ticketing. As late-20th-century box offices updated equipment, managers imagined a ticketing space that was open and airy, rather than closed and secure. Interactions between agents and audiences became collaborative, and ticket sales became central to marketing efforts. This article analyzes changes in the box office by historicizing the spaces of ticketing, drawing upon Bernhard Siegert’s notion of cultural techniques, reading a diagram from a 1993 ticketing guru’s book, and excavating archival and published materials bearing on performance spaces in Western Europe and North America. The article shows how technological, social, and political changes in the 1970s and ’80s led to a substantial shift in the interactions that inhabit paraperformative spaces. In a concluding gesture, the article shows that these changes are themselves transitory and have since been succeeded by the digital ticketing familiar to early-21st-century audiences.

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Section: The Disappearing Windowmentioning

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New Furniture for the Box Office: Computer, Ticket, Window

Kushner

2020

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Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880. By Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2001. xiv plus 299 pp. $49.95). Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series, edited by Thomas Postlewait

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New Furniture for the Box Office: Computer, Ticket, Window

New Furniture for the Box Office: Computer, Ticket, Window

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