How Theater Managers Manage brings together the stories, beliefs, and experiences of a few seasoned theater managers. Through them, a portrait and a concept emerge depicting what they have unknowingly practiced throughout their careers. Designed to be a stepping stone for new theater managers, this book covers a wide variety of topics including budgeting theater costs, gross potentials and ticket prices, show contracts, settlements, and emergency and security procedures, to name a few. A sample budget, building forms, and show and performance forms are also included. While most of the experiences in this book relates to commercial theater, many of the ideas put forth can be applied to not-for-profit theater and facility management.

Randi Jo Gaylor's family is poorer than dirt. Yet the little girl survives with an optimistic attitude despite imagining a Fear Angel haunts her. Through four decades, she covers up murder and betrayal by others until a threat against her daughter forces her to take an action she never thought herself capable of... killing a man she'd once loved.

Randi Jo Gaylor's family is poorer than dirt. Yet the little girl survives with an optimistic attitude despite imagining a Fear Angel haunts her. Through four decades, she covers up murder and betrayal by others until a threat against her daughter forces her to take an action she never thought herself capable of... killing a man she'd once loved

When she was ten years old, attorney Alma Bashears' father disappeared; and now, the only man who knows the true story has been brutally killed. To defend herself against an accusation of murder, Alma must face the ancient mystery of her own heritage, an ancestry stemming from a misunderstood race of people called the Melungeons. Their land holds the secrets of the ages-secrets Alma must uncover before an old enemy comes out of the shadows....

Contrary, Kentucky is a small community in the haunted and mysterious land of the Appalachian Mountains. After settling in the town she fled in her youth, commonwealth attorney, Alma Bashears uncovers disturbing family secrets, witnesses a new age minister's charismatic power, and is drawn to a handsome stranger. After the murder of her pregnant cousin and the disappearance of her nephew, Alma realizes a killer has made himself at home.

When she was ten years old, attorney Alma Bashears' father disappeared; and now, the only man who knows the true story has been brutally killed. To defend herself against an accusation of murder, Alma must face the ancient mystery of her own heritage, an ancestry stemming from a misunderstood race of people called the Melungeons. Their land holds the secrets of the ages-secrets Alma must uncover before an old enemy comes out of the shadows....

Contrary, Kentucky is a small community in the haunted and mysterious land of the Appalachian Mountains. After settling in the town she fled in her youth, commonwealth attorney, Alma Bashears uncovers disturbing family secrets, witnesses a new age minister's charismatic power, and is drawn to a handsome stranger. After the murder of her pregnant cousin and the disappearance of her nephew, Alma realizes a killer has made himself at home.