Box Office Attendant
Objectives
The Box Office Attendant is responsible for sale of tickets to a performance.
Appointed by the Box Office Chair, the Box Office Attendant
staffs the box office before a performance.
Typical tasks and tips
NOTE: Physical tickets currently are in the form of programs.
- Arrive one hour prior to curtain.
- Distribute tickets reserved before the performance and collect payment.
- Sell unreserved tickets to walk-in patrons, terminating sale when capacity for a performance has been reached.
- TIP: The House Manager will provide you with money for making change.
- Take reservations for future performances of the current production.
(This allows walk-ins to a sold-out performance to buy tickets to a future performance.)
- Keep a record of which reservations have been paid.
- Return updated reservation lists and payment status to the Box Office Chair.
- Maintain statistics on classes of tickets sold.
- Prepare funds for deposit and turn over monies collected to the House Manager.
Last revised 2/4/03
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