Centenary Stage Company (CSC)
Hackettstown, NJ
 
"Thanks, as always, for all your excellent and FAST work!"
 
" It's been so nice having your input and enthusiasm
and pleasant company this year!"
 
"YOU were a big mention in our grant application this week - all the
tremendous work you have done for us.
We cannot ever thank you enough."
                                         Associate Artistic Director

A Professional not-for-profit theatre dedicated to bringing the performing arts to the Warren, Sussex, Morris and Hunterdon county areas.  The actors are a part of the Actors Equity Association, the professional union for actors.  Events also include a variety of music and dance by New Jersey Ballet and Cephas and Wiggins, for example, and educational offerings such as Young Performers Workshop. All are offered at very affordable prices and always a quality performance.	CSC - Fall 2009 Upgrade to new branding and wider Web pages
Prior Look - as CSC changes their branding / look
Lower Level Page	Home Page with dropdown menus and graphics in text presentation.
Online Ticketing:

Type Project(s)

It has been our pleasure to serve this great local professional Equity theatre with updated and innovative content since we created the site in May, 1999. Most recently, we added the online ticketing against a MS Access database and an email newsletter that picks up email addresses from that same database.

We are on their press release mail list so that we can promptly update the site without a word. We'll then refer links to the resulting new or changed pages to CSC so that they can review to be sure it meets their needs. We take pride in keeping the site timely and friendly to theatre patrons.

In October 2000, CSC and New Jersey Theatre Group awarded Susan Riding their Applause Award for our work with the Web site and other fund raising activities.

Theatre Online Ticketing

As of November 2002, the Centenary Stage Company Online Ticketing System went live. SR Web Resources designed and coded the full application. We also designed and loaded the required MS Access database. We created the system utilizing MS Access and Active Server Pages programming. From the point of the logon, every page is dynamically created using and verifying against the current information on the database.

The Event Choice page dynamically offers only events that still remain in the season. The automation provides that when it is still available, a season subscription is offered first. When the season subscription discount is no longer available, the system automatically brings up the Individual Tickets page.

The system covers their Professional Equity Plays, Concert Events and Young Performers Workshop events and was built to be expandable to easily add other types of offerings in the future. The design will easily allow for the addition of fund raising items to be purchased.

We asked system users for their comments on how they felt the ordering process went if they would care to take a minute to let us know. We did this so that we can measure our success in creating a helpful and easy to use ordering system. Actual comments on the ordering experience include:

Ticketing system benefits include:

1. Online sales.
2. Many new additions to the Centenary Stage Company mail list.
3. Future possibilities for an economical online newsletter to be sent to the mail list and for selling fund raising items online.
4. The Web presence and online ticketing systems are beneficial in the grants application process.

See screen shots of the pages at Centenary Stage Company Ticketing on this site.

Email Newsletter

Newsletter - this is the HTML Version with images     and the site's look and feel . It is sent in both     HTML and text versions and is received in the     proper version depending on the recipient's     email software and settings.

As of April 2003, we sent out CSC's first permission-based email newsletter/announcement (and since have sent out several more). They go out to email addresses on the CSC database, not to a lead list. It is totally permission-based. See details on our Email Newsletters page.

                     
                      Newsletter - Text Version

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