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Show Comparison

Compare sales trajectories across multiple shows in a single view

What Is Show Comparison?

Show Comparison lets you plot the sales trajectories of multiple shows on a single chart, aligned from their first event date. Instead of switching between individual show dashboards to compare how two productions are tracking, you see them side by side — with each show's sales curve starting from week zero and running forward in time.

It's useful for understanding how a new production is pacing relative to last season's equivalent, comparing similar show types across your season, or building context before a review with your marketing director or programmer.

Accessing Show Comparison

Show Comparison is accessed from within an individual show's overview:

  1. Navigate to Shows in the left sidebar.
  2. Open any show.
  3. On the show's Overview tab, click the Compare Shows button in the top-right area of the page.

The comparison view loads with the current show pre-selected. You can add more shows from here.

Adding and Removing Shows

Click the Add Shows button (green, top-right of the comparison view) to search for and add additional shows to your comparison. You can compare as many shows as you need — though more than four or five lines on the same chart tends to get hard to read.

To remove a show from the comparison, click the × next to its name in the filter bar at the top of the chart.

Chart Controls

Control Options Description
Metric Revenue / Ticket Quantity Switch between viewing sales by revenue (net) or by number of tickets sold.
Granularity Day / Week Controls how data points are grouped on the X-axis. Week is usually the clearest view for most show runs.
Alignment First Event Date / Key Date By default, all shows are aligned to week zero from their first event date. If you've logged Key Dates for your shows, you can align by a specific date type instead — useful for comparing how shows tracked from their presale or general on-sale.

Reading the Chart

Each show gets its own color-coded line. Week 0 on the X-axis represents the first event date (or your chosen Key Date alignment point). Data to the left of week 0 represents advance sales — how far out tickets were being bought before the show opened. Data to the right represents on-sale activity.

Hover over any point on the chart to see the revenue or ticket quantity figure for that show at that point in time.

Below the main chart, a summary table shows total quantity sold and net revenue per show at a glance.

Downloading Charts

Click the three-dot menu (⋯) in the top-right corner of the chart to copy the chart as an image or download it. The downloaded image is clean and presentation-ready — useful for dropping into board reports, marketing decks, or season reviews.

Tips

  • Aligning by Key Date is more revealing than aligning by first event date when your shows have very different run lengths. Two shows that both opened the same week will sit at week 0 together — but if one went on sale six months earlier, aligning by General On-Sale date tells you a lot more about their pre-sale momentum.
  • The comparison is most useful when shows have had meaningful sales activity. Comparing a just-announced show against a closing weekend will produce a misleading picture — both lines will be there, but context matters.
  • Use the average ticket price view alongside revenue to spot shows where high revenue is being driven by pricing rather than volume, or vice versa.