impresario
impresarios
An impresario is a promoter: someone who books, promotes, and organizes shows such as concerts.
Impresario comes from an Italian word for a businessperson, and in English it especially refers to someone in the promotion business. In the music business, Bill Graham was a famous impresario who arranged concerts for huge bands such as The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. An impresario signs a band — or other entertainment — and makes a deal with the venue. Impresarios then arrange advertising and promotion to alert fans and arrange for tickets to be sold. Impresarios make shows happen.
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a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891)
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William Frederick Cody
United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
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Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
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Richard D'Oyly Carte
English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)
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Solomon Hurok
United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974)
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Charles Ringling
United States showman whose song-and-dance troop evolved into a circus (1863-1926)
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types:
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exhibitioner, exhibitor, shower
someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
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organ-grinder
a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy
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porn merchant, pornographer
someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores
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type of:
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booker, booking agent
someone who engages a person or company for performances
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