Why Tickets Are Limited & Why We Ask for Your Understanding

We know how deeply our community loves this production. Every year, we hear from many people who want to attend, and it truly means everything to us that this show is so cherished. At the same time, we want to be transparent about why tickets are extremely limited and why, despite our best efforts, we simply cannot accommodate everyone who would like to attend.

This is a community talent production, and our dancers have each invested hundreds of hours rehearsing, creating, and showing up for this work. It is incredibly important to us that each dancer has the opportunity to invite their loved ones to see them perform. To support this, each dancer is given access to purchase two tickets per performance for their family and friends.

The Best Way to Guarantee Your Ticket

The best way to ensure access to tickets is to become a Move the Butte Sponsor at the $500 or $1000 level. 

Sponsorship donations directly support our nonprofit programming and are tax deductable.  Sponsorship benefits include VIP tickets and marketing visibility with our 1,400 local audience members.

Click here to learn more about sponsorship levels and benefits.

The Reality of the Numbers

Theater capacity:
Approximately 355 seats per performance

Number of performances:
4 shows

Participants involved:
Approximately 140 dancers 

Ticket Allocation Per Performance

• 140 dancers × 2 tickets each = 280 tickets reserved for dancers to purchase first for theiloved ones

Seats remaining after dancer tickets:

• 355 total seats − 280 dancer purchase tickets = 75 seats per performance

From those remaining seats, we must also accommodate:

• 10 volunteer staff tickets (essential production staff working each performance)

• 20-50 possible sponsor tickets (supporters whose financial contributions make this production possible)

Public Ticket Availability

While the numbers above reflect our maximum allocations, the reality is that not all dancers choose to purchase their full ticket allotment for every show, and sponsors do not always use all of their tickets each night.  Because of this, a limited number of tickets typically become available for public sale for each performance. While availability varies by night, there will be opportunities for community members to attend.  We are committed to offering these tickets in a fair and transparent way to our community. 

Why We Can’t Add More Shows or Move Venues

We understand the common questions and suggestions, and we want to address them directly:

• Why not move to a larger venue?
  We have explored options with larger seating capacity in Gunnison. However, we have consistently heard that many Crested Butte community members would not attend if the show were moved out of town. Staying in CB allows us to best serve our audience and participants.

• Why not add more than four shows?
  All of the dancers, choreographers, and staff are community members with full-time jobs, families, and other commitments. Producing four shows is already a significant physical and logistical undertaking. Adding additional performances would not be sustainable and would risk burnout for the very people who make this production possible.  At this time, four shows is our absolute maximum capacity.