TATER PATCH TICKETING:

Seating for all the plays is reserved and can be purchased online or at the box office on show nights. Please call 706-253-2800 if you have any difficulty getting tickets. We want to make your theater experience, from buying tickets until the last applause, as enjoyable as possible. Purchase tickets for each performance online by clicking the “Buy Tickets” button on any page of the website.  You will be connected our ticket vendor’s website  to  choose your show and seat, then purchase and print your tickets.    The new ticket system allows you to reserve your seats right away and be guaranteed a good seat.  You can print your tickets out and walk right in on the night of your choice.  The advantage is in knowing that the seat you chose is waiting for you when you arrive at the theater.

BUY and USE SEASON TICKETS

Season tickets cannot be bought online.  Our ticketing service, which is really helpful to us and you in a number of ways, is only designed for sales for individual shows.  However, we try to make it as easy for you as possible to become a season ticket holder.  You can call the theater at (706)253-2800 and talk to someone or leave a message and we will call you back.  You can send us an email for more details at taterpatchplayers@gmail.com. For either of these options, we’ll let you go ahead an reserve your seat(s) for the show and leave your tickets at the box office.  When you come in you can pick up your season ticket and pay by cash, check or credit card.  Or, you can buy your season ticket when you come to the show, without reserving a seat in advance.  When you are ready to reserve your seat for a show, call or email with your seating preferences for performance date and which seats you want and your seats will be reserved for you.  If no one is there, leave a message and we will contact you.

Season Tickets for the last 3 productions of the season are $38, which is a 15% discount off the regular adult prices and will allow the ticket holder to make reservations for each show. Once you are a season ticket holder, you can call or email before the upcoming season show and tell us the date and seat(s) you want and they will be reserved for you. One of our season ticket holders has already picked and held his seats for the whole season! When you come to the theater, just check in with the box office for your seating stubs.  What could be easier?

The three shows that you get with your season ticket this year are going to be terrific:  The Foreigner, Gypsy, and The Miracle Worker.  We think it’s our best season ever.  You can go to the calendar page to see the show dates and and other activities.  And if you ever have any question, you can call or email.  Someone will always get back to you as promptly as possible.

Tater Patch Players is constantly striving to improve its new theater, and to pay the ongoing costs of home-ownership!  We are a 501 (c) 3, not-for-profit corporation and gifts to Tater Patch are deductible to the extent allowed by law.  We put all our capital that we had been saving in our building fund into the new theater.  Now we need your help for a while to keep going forward.  One of the best ways to show support is for you to buy tickets and tell all your friends about Tater Patch.  Patrons in the seats, enjoying a great show, is the culmination of what we are here to do.  Please join us!  If you wish to make a gift, please go to the Donors and Sponsors page to learn more about giving to Tater Patch.   And if you prefer to provide things rather than funds,  we have a wish list, too!

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in our new space for almost a year, after what seemed like many years searching for it. We all agree it is wonderful beyond anything we imagined we could get as we searched.

We now have a beautiful lobby and entrance, a functional auditorium, good storage, a commercial kitchen, and a beer & wine license. We have done several very good shows, as well as some ancillary activities.   It’s been quite a year!

 The good news is that we are on the verge of a great season. The Dixie Swim Club has come together beautifully. It’s going to be a funny, slick, and professional show that will have the audience laughing uproariously and almost in tears at the end.

The bad news is that we are in financial straits. The audience attendance has been dismal. We’ve found out that the saying, “If you build it, they will come” apparently only works for baseball.   We’ve burned up most of our reserves getting to where we are. The ancillary revenue streams — concessions, drinks, movies, musical performers, the haunted house — are not materializing as rapidly as we had hoped. We are at the point of delaying some payments which should really be paid on time.

While we have confidence that our revenue streams will increase as we continue, right now we need to do something. My plan is this: If everyone who has an interest in keeping our doors open would buy four season tickets, we could generate enough money to get to the box office returns we anticipate. I realize many of you have already bought season tickets, or attend shows for free by helping with the concessions and ushering.   But these tickets would not be for YOU.  You would use these tickets to bring your friends to our theater. Yes, get on the phone and ask friends what night they want to come, then call the theater and make the reservation. If you can’t afford four, then buy two. Or, call those friends and get a date commitment and then make reservations for them online for this show.

 We need everyone who cares to take personal responsibility for getting four new patrons into the seats for The Dixie Swim Club. As director, I guarantee that they will enjoy this show enough to bring in more of their friends. Please consider helping now, so that this will be the last letter of this sort I have to write.

Sincerely,

Robert Countryman
President of Tater Patch Players

 If it’s entertaining, it’s Tater Patch!

Our Board has decided that we will no longer do Thursday performances this year.  But to bring you the same number of great performances, we’ve added an extra Friday and Saturday show to three of our productions.  The changes are already reflected on the calendar.  All Sunday shows are at 2PM and the others are at 7:30 PM.  The new dates are:

Dixie Swim Club:  2/10,11,12,17,18,19,24,25
The Foreigner:  5/4,5,6,11,12,13,18,19,20
Gypsy:  7/13,14,15,20,21,22,27,28
The Miracle Worker: 11/30, 12/1,2,7,8,9