Help The Melodramatics be a theatre force to be reckoned with by supporting our productions and activities in one of the following ways.  Every little bit helps and without the support of you and others like you, we would not have already had three successful productions under our belt or developed such a loyal audience base and talented performers pool.

With the wealth of experience on our producers team, our hope for 2009/2010 is to not only bring professional level productions to Edinburgh but to work on our education programme.  We see an opportunity to develop both adult amateur performers and youth performers in Edinburgh.  We are in talks with some schools, and one of our current plans is to do offshoot workshops based on the material of our current production, where we can explore the development of confidence through song/acting.

A package where your sponsorship donation gets your company premium placement on all marketing, press, web, email and publication information for The Melodramatics current production. 

This sponsorship donation goes towards the larger costs of our productions such as the venue, the performing rights and the rehearsal venues.

An angel is someone who donates to the arts for no commercial or material gain. 

In past productions our angels have donated amounts to sponsor individuals in the production and orchestra, or have sponsored the cost of props, mics, lights etc.

If you choose to become an angel we put your name in our production programme and on our website next to those you wish to sponsor.

For each production we produce a full colour brochure.  This is available to every audience member and includes informative pieces about the show and writers, biographies of cast and production team and a full list of songs and scenes in the production.

If you have a company which could benefit from being advertised to our audiences, then this is the option for you.  We can place your graphic ad in our brochure for very reasonable rates.

For your information, we have listed the approximate costs usually associated with an amateur musical theatre production running for one week in Edinburgh, based on a cast & orchestra of 16 each and on low scale technical budgets.

General

Venue - £2,000

Performance Rights - £1,500

Rehearsal Rooms - £1,000

Cast Insurance - £200

Website - £100

Technical

Set - £1,500

Transport - £250

Lighting - £1,500

Sound - £500

Props - £300

Microphones - £1000

Costumes - £1,000

Marketing

Fliers & Posters - £750

Distribution - £500

Advertising - £500

Show Brochure - £500

So all in, a quality small scale musical can cost somewhere around £18,000 to produce!

Other

Director - £1,500

Choreographer - £750

Musical Director - £1,000

Orchestra - £2,500