This handbook is designed for the specific use of present and future sponsors of performing arts companies on tour. These companies - theatre, opera, ballet and modern dance, offer sponsors an immense variety in scale and technique as well as present diverse production requirements. Knowing how to select the proper production for the proper facility helps both the sponsor and the performer to succeed. Basic knowledge of the technical aspects of production will help a sponsor understand the needs of touring companies as well as the potentialities and limitations of theatre space and equipment available locally. Thus, this handbook stresses the basics of technical production. (Introduction).

CONTENTS
Introduction.

1. Sponsors and performers.
    The space.
    Crews and technicians.
    Equipment.
    Time.

2. Special requirements.
    Theatre.
    Dance.

3. Glossary.
    General stage terminology.
    On the stage.
    Masking.
    Instrument mounting positions.
    Lighting equipment.
    Instruments.
    Dimmers.
    Patch panels and circuitry.

4. Bibliography.

This handbook is designed for the specific use of present and future sponsors of performing arts companies on tour. These companies - theatre, opera, ballet and modern dance, offer sponsors an immense variety in scale and technique as well as present diverse production requirements. Knowing how to select the proper production for the proper facility helps both the sponsor and the performer to succeed.