Gala & Comfest Gift Vouchers on sale in Dec.

[unfrufru]

i got this from the fresh email list a few minutes ago.

FRESH NEWS – 11th November 2005
From the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
12 April – 7 May 2006


COMEDY FESTIVAL ON SALE IN DECEMBER!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for... The Comedy Festival Gala will go onsale in the first few days of December! The ritzy, glitzy, red carpet showcase is without doubt the Festival's hottest ticket and sells out in hours. It takes place on Wednesday 12 April 2006.

You'll have to wait until it's onsale for all the other details! But don't worry, as a Fresh subscriber, you'll be amongst the first to hear when tickets are available. We will send out an email to you all, before the
first public announcements are made, you guys are first in the queue!

"MERRY CHRISTMAS HE HE HE..."
Also on sale in December through Ticketmaster, for the first time are COMEDY FESTIVAL GIFT VOUCHERS. Although the full programme of events won't be released until February 2006, you can buy a $20, $50 or $100 Comedy Festival gift voucher from December, which can be redeemed for actual tickets once they're all on sale.

Give the comedy junkie in your life a Christmas fix with a Comedy Festival Gift Voucher this year. Nothing says "I love you" without a straight face like a Comedy Festival Gift Voucher.

We'll let you know when these are onsale in another email in a few weeks.

PLANNING A SHOW FOR 2006?
Registrations for 2006 Melbourne Comedy Festival are NOW OPEN online at www.comedyfestival.com.au

See the website for loads of information from venues to budgeting. Registrations close at 5.00pm on Monday 19 December 2005. Please contact Artist & Program Coordinator - Claire Hammond on 9417 7711
or claire@comedyfestival.com.au if you have any queries.

ALL interested Festival participants are invited to attend the
annual Comedy Festival’s INFORMATION SESSION
on Tuesday 15 November @ 4.00pm at the Festival office (Level 1, 110 Johnston Street, Fitzroy)
The session is presented by Festival marketing, sponsorship & production staff and a panel of experienced independent producers & performers. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to Make the most of your Festival experience and improve your chances of a successful season. Our panel will give advice and take questions on production, promotion, venues, ticketing (including ticketing agents & GST info), sponsorship opportunities and public liability.

RSVP essential to info@comedyfestival.com.au


DO YOU THINK YOU’RE FUNNY?

Raw Comedy is Australia’s most prestigious and only truly national open mic comedy competition. If you reckon you’ve got what it takes to make people laugh, sign up for Raw.

Even teenagers can get into the act. If you’re in years 9 to 12, think about Class Clowns, our national secondary school comedy competition.

Jeez Louise Funny Womens’ Forum is a Comedy Festival run event for anyone who’s interested in promoting and supporting women in comedy (yes, even men). Local and international comedians and producers/promoters lead workshops and panels on a weekend during the Festival. The event ends with an in-house “Faux Show” where you can get up and do it for the first time, if you feel so inclined.

Details about all these opportunities are on the Festival website. The 2005 information will be updated with 2006 information over the course of November.


Stagetime : Comedy @ Bar Open
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 :
Tim Minchin (Perrier Award winner Best Newcomer, Edinburgh Fringe 2005)
Paul Calleja (Rove Live, Triple M)
Michael Connell
with guest MC : Adam Richard (Fox FM breakfast show)

NOVEMBER 20 :
MC : Cal Wilson
Justin Hamilton
Adam Rozenbachs
Toby Sullivan
Xavier Michelides
Kieran Yap

NOVEMBER 27 :
MC : Charlie Pickering
Judith Lucy
Damian Callinan
Jarrod Fitch
Richard McKenzie
Tom Siegert

Stagetime : Comedy @ Bar Open,
317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Sundays from 5pm, $10
www.stagetime.com.au


Westgarth Kindergarten Comedy Fundraiser
Saturday November 12
Grandview Hotel – Dining Room
Corner Station Street and Heidelberg Road Fairfield
Feat. Dave O’Neil, Christine Basil, Damian Callinan
Tix $20 on the door

[Playm8]

The gift vouchers are a great idea. Did they always have these? That’s so going on my what I want for Xmas list!

[sara]

Originally Posted by Playm8

The gift vouchers are a great idea. Did they always have these? That’s so going on my what I want for Xmas list!

Definitely a great idea. It's on my list, although I've just been told that I'm not allowed to just put that down. I was so excited when I saw them, now I don't need to worry about saving as much money for comfest.

[Alisso]

FRESH NEWS – 30th November 2005
From the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
12 April – 7 May 2006


COMEDY FESTIVAL GALA PRIORITY BOOKINGS OPEN 11.00AM THURSDAY 1ST DECEMBER!

Get your tickets to the Comedy Festival’s Opening Night GALA before it goes on sale to the General Public!

The year's biggest, boldest and best night of comedy is on again!

The Gala will be held at the Her Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday 12 April 2006 at 7.30pm.

Tickets - $98 A Reserve, $78 B Reserve and $58 C Reserve.

One of the hottest comedy tickets around, the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala is an evening of shameless showing off and killer laughs as a glittering line-up of local & overseas guest artists celebrate the Comedy Festival's opening night in the swishy surrounds of Her Majesty’s Theatre.

As a FRESH subscriber you have the opportunity to beat the rush and get in first to secure these highly sought after tickets!

Get your tickets now - don't miss out on the best and biggest laughs in town! Once again the Gala is sure to sell out in a flash. Get in now before tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday 2 December.

2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Opening Night Gala
Wednesday 12 April at 7.30pm
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Exhibition Street, Melbourne

The GALA special offer keyword is: GALA

To take advantage of this priority booking offer:
1. Follow the ‘Click here’ link below
2. Log in to your Ticketmaster Advantage account, using your registered password, or set up a Ticketmaster Advantage account.
3. On the purchase page, enter the number of tickets you require.
4. Enter the GALA Red Hot Ticket special offer keyword: GALA (this is different to your Ticketmaster Advantage member password)

From 11.00am (AEDT) on Thursday 1 December, CLICK HERE to purchase your tickets!

MORE TICKETS ON SALE!!!!!

The Gala is just one of 4 guaranteed sell-out shows going on sale early! From 11am (AEDT) Friday, December 2 you can purchase tickets to the notoriously enjoyable Great Debate, Upfront Comedy and Raw Comedy National Grand Final.

More Information

[Spawn of Satan]

Once again I will miss it, Curse you uni

[Danisa]

YAY!

I just got my Gala tickets!
Now I just have to wait 5 months for the actual show

[Amanda]

Just out of curiousity where abouts are your seats?

[Alisso]

Got mine. Row M *snorts* but I don't mind so much. I'm assuming the allocated seats for the pre-sale Fresh offer weren't fantastic, and there weren't very many of them, cause my first offer was in the UPPER circle (never, ever sitting there again) and then when I specified stalls, I never got offered anything better than M. And I kept getting error messages, saying the tickets weren't really onsale online.

If you didn't book your tickets today, I think you might get offered better seats if you try tomorrow. Unless they've pre-sold or reserved the front few rows for the important people *G*

[Amanda]

Yeah, I think I missed my op to buy them through the presale. My first offer was row t. And all other ones weren't great. I guess I'll wait until tomorrow and get what ever I can.

Also I'd just like to say that the ticketmaster website really annoys me. There are so many things wrong and just not as buyer friendly as ticketek. When selecting tickets it's not that clear as to whether you're slecting A reserve, or B reserve. I mean you can work it out but it really should state it.
(okay they've just changed the drop down menu to state the differeny reserves, which is just bugging me. They shouldn't really be making changes once the event has gone on sale. It should all be ready to go live)

And what's with all the error messages. I was getting them when I was just doing best avaible all sections. Sorry 'bout the slight rant but ticketmaster just bugs me at times.

[kali]

<i>I'm assuming the allocated seats for the pre-sale Fresh offer weren't fantastic</i>

No I'd say they've possibly put aside more comp tickets than previous years. If they're selling back to front then I'd have to be convinced that micf have lost their minds!

[Amanda]

They've released some tickets for the Gala. I've got mine now. So happy!

[unfrufru]

and i've got 200 bucks of gift vouchers whoo hooo

[unfrufru]

can u still get the laugh pack with the vouchers? or tight arse tuesday prices?

[Alisso]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

can u still get the laugh pack with the vouchers? or tight arse tuesday prices?

No reason why you shouldn't be able to. Certainly the Tuesday prices are just automatically assigned to the Tuesday night sessions of the shows that offer them. Laugh Pack you have to make sure they do properly, if you want the discount, and usually at a face to face outlet, or over the phone, but that's always the case.

[unfrufru]

oh yeah people, u can only use the vouchers face to face. forgot about that hehe.

i'll see if i can find out anything about the vouchers terms & conditions.

my first draft of the shows are ready hehe

holy crap if they don;t do laughpacks then i'm up for $606 at least and i still have heaps of gaps!