Coachella's ability to sell tickets so quickly, and to all but guarantee its performers abundant media attention, gives it tremendous negotiating leverage with acts and their agents.
Kids Forum has raised the standards of its productions, joining Actors Equityy to guarantee professional performers, and hiring a new costume designer, Imbal Gildin, who has also created whimsical foam animals for props.
But it soon became a broader movement in support of welfare guarantees for performers and more government backing for culture in general.
The tablaos (flamenco shows) can be expensive, but come with a guarantee of professional performers.
After all, she's not only the most appetizing thing on stage but also one of the show's few performers guaranteed not to cause tooth decay.
Hearing artists in concert becomes the most satisfying way to gauge their real abilities -- and even then there's no guarantee that the performer isn't making use of prerecorded parts and other aids.
Stardom is not guaranteed, even for performers who check all of the most widely marketable boxes.
The Barbican representatives freaked out and promptly cancelled the entire week of performances, saying they "could not guarantee the safety of performers, audiences and staff".
In a statement, the Barbican said: "Due to the extreme nature of the protest outside the Vaults, regrettably we have cancelled this evening's performance of Exhibit B as we could not guarantee the safety of performers, audiences and staff.
This follows protest action at its premiere at the Waterloo Vaults on Tuesday night, in which protesters tried to force the doors of the venue, and security guards determined that they could not guarantee the safety of performers, staff and spectators.
