Booking Performance Tours: Marketing and Acquiring Live Arts and Entertainment

Tony Micocci

Allworth Press, Jun 29, 2010 - Performing Arts - 336 pages

Booking Performance Tours is the quintessential guide for anyone involved in the touring of live arts and entertainment—as a producer, artist, presenter, agent, manager, or attorney. Industry insider Tony Micocci shares keen insights on:

--Relationships among producers, agents, managers, and presenters
--Negotiating styles
--Taxation
--Technology
--Ethics in professional dealings
--Booking strategies
--Nonprofit versus commercial touring
--Special considerations for booking Broadway and popular music
--International touring
--External factors affecting the field

Booking Performance Tours includes nearly 100 pages of appendixes containing engagement contracts, technical riders, deal memos, and representation contracts, with extensive point-by-point analyses of all provisions. This book is destined to become the classic reference for the industry.

About the author

Tony Micocci, the president of Micocci Productions, has more than 35 years' experience in international management and tours. His clients have included mime Marcel Marceau, directors Anne Bogart and Lee Breuer, and many others. He lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Booking Performance Tours: Marketing and Acquiring Live Arts and Entertainment
• Author: Tony Micocci
• Publisher: Allworth Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1581157843, 9781581157840
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Business Aspects