Game Profile: Show Manager

Curtains Up!  Will your
shows be the best around the world?


Mechanics Card Drafting, Set Collection
Theme Theater
Publication Queen Games, 1996
Ages 10+
Time 60
Players 2-6
Description
You are a Show Manager.  As a player you will put
together the best cast for 4 musical plays to be performed in the entertainment
capitals of the world.  Each of the
musicals: Moonlight, Lipstick, Queenie and Rats will require a different cast
of characters.



On each turn players will
have 4 potential cast members available for hire.  Some of the cast members will be more
expensive than others.  Those cast
members range from actors that are perfect for one role to actors that are more
diverse but bring less star quality to the performance.  There are even extras that can fill in any
roll.  You just hope people do not notice
that you have a bunch of nobodies in your cast. 
The worst case scenario is that you have someone completely miscast in a
role they cannot handle.  Once players
develop a cast of for one of the musicals they launch their play in one of the
4 available cities.  If the cast is not
very good you might want to launch in Stockholm where the risks are
smallest.  If you think you have a sure
fire hit with your cast you may launch in New York where risks and rewards are
highest.  Once a play like Lipstick is
launched in say Paris, all competing Lipstick productions will have to be
launched in Paris as well.  Players
continue to scramble for talent and manage a dwindling supply of cash until
they successfully launch all 4 musicals. 
In the end all Rats productions will be rated against all other Rats
productions and victory points on a sliding scale from best to worst.  The same is done for each musical.  The winner will be the player with the best
casts in the riskiest cities.  Just don’t
launch a play with a really bad cast anywhere in the world.




We have an open copy of Show Manager in our Store Demo Games Library available for you to try out while you are here.






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