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Glenda Cockrum
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From: Monaca, PA, USA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 01-13-2003 10:42 PM
If you are fortunate enough to find a theatre to purchase that is still in operation, try to do an "internship" with the exixsting owners/ operators. We spent 6 months with the prior owners while my SBA paperwork was being processed; this gave us a good start in understanding the business, and really made all the difference in our continuing into our 5th year. Of course we have still hit some "bumps", but the internship was the key to everything from booking ,box office, concession and projection booth. Above all realize this business changes all aspects of your life; rather like a marriage, your free time is gone, forget weekend getaways, dinner out with friends is a difficult juggling act, your children's schedules also get shifted, everything changes; you must eat, sleep and breath theater for at least your first year to fully get the beginnings of a clue to this business! But I can not imagine doing anything else! Good luck!
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