Booking Performance Tours: Marketing and Acquiring Live Arts and Entertainment

Booking Performance Tours is the quintessential guide for anyone involved in the touring of live arts and entertainmentas 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.