Culture: Bold Change at Box Office Should Reap Rewards for Crescent ; Classical

Birmingham Post › September 17, 2008

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It is good to see the spirit of optimism is alive and well at Birmingham's Crescent Theatre.

Although audiences last season were often by no means as large as could have been hoped, the city's leading amateur theatre has boldly extended its box office opening hours. Instead of being available from 4.30 pm to 7 pm for telephone callers and to 8 pm for patrons who arrive in person, it has taken another step towards the professional image that its shows habitually display - albeit too often with professionalism less apparent in the way it presents itself to the passing pedestrian - by announcing that tickets are now available between noon and 7pm (telephone) and noon and 8pm (personal callers).

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Culture: Bold Change at Box Office Should Reap Rewards for Crescent ; Classical

This is excellent, coming as it does in readiness for the arrival of musical theatre companies that is customarily a feature of Crescent programming at this time of the year and just before the reopening of the Old Rep on September 30, foll...

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