Good way to sell more tickets to our high school play?

Question

We are a small-ish high school in Iowa, and we need ideas to sell more tickets to our musical "Fiddler on the Roof." What can we do to get more people to come? (We already advertise with posters, on the radio, in the newspaper. Any better ideas? 10 points to best answer!)

Answer 1

Here's a thought: Ask at one (or more) of your local supermarkets and see if they will give you permission to set up a little table outside their doors on the sidewalk (like the girl scouts do when they want to sell cookies). Most local businesses are community supportive and will do a lot to help their local schools. That is where their next employees will be coming from.

Answer 2

I actually graduated earlier this year, but I can tell you what it was like 8 months ago! To start with, there were only about 70 students and included grades 7 through 12. The lunch room was also the social studies room which was also the planning room and occasionaly english and math and you actually brought your lunch from home. My french 8 teacher was also my chemistry and biology teacher. We didn't have an air conditioner, which is good because we would have never used it. However, our heat was controlled by the board office some 100 km away. I never had a principal that I had had before, and lunch started at 11:37. Generally, the students were ok, but there was definitely a social hierarchy within the halls. Fights occured very rarely, but they happened. Smokers usually ran across the road to have a smoke before and after class, a favorite time seemed to be the 1 and half minute break between two classes. We were evacuated once because someone thought they smelled gas, but it turned out to be an egg sandwhich! Everyone could really be friends with anyone though, from grade 7 right to grade 12, and sometimes classes would stop right in the middle of the day so we could go outside and have a water balloon fight. There was always someone playing a guitar in the art room at lunch. Finally, we never got a snow day. The only times school was ever canceled was because it was below -40 and the buses wouldn't start, or the roads were too dangerous for the buses to carry kids on. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was school. :P

Answer 3

Pit the classes against one another in a contest to sell the most tickets? Will it be the Seniors, Juniors, Sophs?? Find a nice prize like a plaque to award the winners.

Answer 4

Try to promote the production through an online performing arts forum...see if this one will advertise for you

http://www.iowa.com/category.aspx?Category=16

Answer 5

~Wear your production shirt to school opening night
~Ask if it could be mentioned on your school's morning announcements
~Ask teachers if they would allow you to put up a flyer in thier classroom
~Ask local stores,shops,and grociery stores if they'd let you put up flyers
~Tell every person you see about it

Answer 6

get the nearest tv station to advertise it.