Panto red, green blue performance...what does this mean?

[galaxybeyond]

Any ideas?

It means different groups of people acting. Usually so children don’t perform every session.

Oh ok, there is nothing at all on the website to say this. Very strange

As above. They’ll have a ‘red cast’ and a ‘green cast’ of kids. If you know a kid in it you’ll know which cast they’re in so choose a date which is that colour cast. If you don’t know a kid in it, it doesn’t matter, hence no explanation on the website I guess!

Sometimes these refer to different price bands like peak and off peak tickets

In my local theatre the colours refer to performance types.

Eg blue is an accessible 'quiet performance' with a smaller crowd, lower music levels and the lights still up.

Here at another theatre it's price bands.

It'll be price bands, nothing to do with which panto babes are on. Theatres wouldn't publish that information for safeguarding reasons, even coded.

Nope not price bands

For licencing reasons children cannot perform every show for a long run. They're restricted by number of hours a day, number of days in a row etc.
So they put the children into teams, and they perform with their team only, and naming the teams by colour is very usual. Our local one does that anyway.

Can you say which theatre it is?

Rang theatre and it's pricing! Some days are cheaper such as Thursday afternoon which is green ban - Top seats £31 compared to Thursday evening which is red band and top seats £45

Do you mean it wasn't price bands and they've changed it?

It was never going to be anything other than price bands. Theatres do not publicly colour code their performances based on which panto babes are on 😂

I mean the one near me does 🤷‍♀️ when you click to book it says ‘Cinderella - purple team’ and knowing some of the kids in it are purple team I assume that’s what it refers to.

Really? Their box office must get awfully fed up with fielding enquiries as to what purple team etc means.

I used to work in a theatre. Nobody attending is in the slightest bit interested in which random children are performing other than their families, and parents/carers will of course already know their itinerary. It's utterly meaningless to most patrons and would be crackers to publicly advertise, causing confusion when booking and so more work for staff.

Yep 🤷‍♀️

to be fair, the theatre this thread is about apparently list random colours on their site and don’t make it clear on their website that it relates to pricing, and has people phoning up to enquire as a result. I suppose if they make it clear on their website it won’t lead to lots of calls.

I'd be willing to bet that price ranges are alongside the colours.

When all performances and seats are the same price and when it’s a small theatre with local patrons this 100% happens, as crackers as it would seem.