Pick your shows
Choose the shows you're filling. Each one shows its date, time and venue.
SHOW ASSIGNMENTS BUILDER
Split your recital into shows that work for everyone.
Decide which routines go in which show without the spreadsheet marathon. The Show Assignments Builder keeps dancers in as few shows as possible, keeps families together, balances run times and fills seats evenly — then lets you fine-tune every choice.
When your recital outgrows one show, deciding what goes where gets hard fast. Put a routine in the wrong show and a dancer has to perform twice. Split two sisters and their family buys tickets to both. Load every big class into Saturday night and it sells out while Sunday morning sits half empty. The Show Assignments Builder weighs all of it at once and hands you a plan you can actually use.
How it works
Your rules. Our math. Your final say.
Set your rules and priorities
Pin routines that must be in a certain show, and tell the builder what matters most this year.
Press Optimize
ShowSculptor assigns every routine to a show to best fit your rules and goals.
Fine-tune by hand
Drag routines between shows. Every number at the top updates as you go.
Accept
When the plan is right, accept it. Then use the Show Order Optimizer to set the order inside each show.
Rules and goals
Hard rules are never broken. Goals are balanced by priority.
Pin to show
Lock a routine into any show you choose — or into several shows, like a company number that appears in every performance.
Set each goal to Off, Low, Normal or High, and the builder trades them off for you.
Fewer multi-show dancers
Keeps each dancer's routines in as few shows as possible.
Keep families together
Puts siblings in the same show, so a family buys one set of tickets.
Balance run time
Keeps every show close to the same length.
Balance audience demand
Spreads ticket demand so no show oversells while another sits empty.
Balance styles and ages
Gives every show a good mix of styles and age groups.
Youngest dancers in earliest show
Puts the little ones in the morning or matinee show.
Keep a teacher's routines together
Lets each teacher be at fewer shows.
Settings
Seats per family
How many tickets you expect each family to buy, used to estimate demand.
Young age cutoff
The age that counts as "youngest dancers."
Show for youngest dancers
Which show the little ones should go in.
Venue capacity
Set for each show to get a warning when estimated demand is higher than your seats.
See the whole picture
Every trade-off, in plain numbers.
Across the top, the builder tracks what matters to dancers, families and your box office. Every number updates the moment you move a routine.
Multi-show dancers
How many dancers perform in more than one show.
Extra appearances
How many extra shows dancers have to attend.
Split families
How many families have dancers in different shows.
Run time
The length of every show, side by side.
Demand vs capacity
Estimated ticket demand for each show compared with its seats.
Each show is its own column, with its run time, dancers, routines, families and estimated seats. Every routine card shows its length, number of dancers and average age, so you can see the shape of each show at a glance.
Multi-show
Every dancer who has to perform in more than one show.
Families
Every family split across shows.
Matrix
A grid of every dancer and the shows they're in, filtered by family, teacher or age, and ready to export.
Rules
Your hard rules and goals.
Save different plans as scenarios and compare them — two shows versus three, or a version that keeps families together at all costs. History and undo let you go back to any earlier plan. Export the final plan to share with your team.
Use cases
Built for the studio that's outgrown one show.
Going from one show to two
Your recital hit three hours. Split it in half without sending half your dancers to both shows.
One ticket order per family
Keep siblings together so parents don't buy tickets to Saturday and Sunday.
Sell out evenly
Spread your biggest classes so no show oversells while another has empty seats.
Minis in the matinee
Put every dancer under the age cutoff in the earliest show.
Fewer teacher call times
Keep each teacher's routines in one or two shows instead of all of them.
Pinned showcase routines
Keep the company numbers or the senior tribute in the evening show, and let the builder arrange the rest.
Compare before you commit
Build a two-show and a three-show scenario and see which one works better for your families.
Answer parent questions
Before you publish, see exactly which families will have dancers in more than one show.
Questions about the Show Assignments Builder
Will it change my shows without asking?
No. Nothing changes until you press Accept.
Can I move routines myself?
Yes. Drag any routine to any show. Every stat updates as you go.
What if a dancer has to be in two shows?
Sometimes there's no way around it. The builder keeps it to as few dancers as possible and lists every one of them, so you can tell those families early.
How is audience demand estimated?
From the number of families in each show and the seats per family you set.
How does this work with the Show Order Optimizer?
The Show Assignments Builder decides which routines go in which show. The Show Order Optimizer then sets the order inside each show.
Which plan includes it?
The Show Assignments Builder is included in Production Pro.
Plan every show in an afternoon.
Upgrade to Production Pro and build this year's show plan.