Q&A for How to Run a Talent Show

The actual talent show should be no longer than two hours, but the prep and take-down may run into many hours.

Most of those treats would include soda, candy, chips, cupcakes, cookies etc. Adults might not want their kids having all those treats, so you could have a healthier sale with fruit trays and water bottles.

Get some adult help, or even someone who has done a talent show before, and get your friends to help too. Set us a schedule of performers, look into advertising with your school, libraries, and anywhere else local. Decide if you will charge for the show, or do it for free. Hold auditions for the talent, decide on the day of the event, and above all, have fun.

It's up to you! As long as there are at least five participants, you can have as many performers as you want.

Individual bags of chips, chocolate bars, candies, sodas, and water bottles. If you're feeling fancy, go for cupcakes or mini bundt cakes.

Choose a place in your house which is big, and set up auditions. Then, find judges.

$10 is a fair fee. If you ask for too much, not many people will want to audition.

You can just be straightforward and honest with them, and ask them directly.

Enlist the help of your friends to secure a space, publicize your event and get people to sign up for the talent show. Ask local entertainers to be judges and post about your event on social media to build a buzz.

As many as you like! If you want to, hold it across multiple days and have another round each day.

You can decorate however you want! If your talent show has a theme, then it would be a good idea to focus your decorations around that theme. If your talent show is just generic, then you could focus on normal event decorations like streamers, balloons, signage, etc.

It really depends on the size of the event, location, etc. Generally, security is not necessary for smaller talent shows, but it might be a good idea if your talent show is very large.

One responsibility is communicating with the venue and participants (or their parents). They also plan the talent show and the auditions, and they decide who gets in.

Put the cost on the application form and ask applicants to include it with the form when they submit it.

It depends on how long each performance is. If they're five minutes each, then roughly 300, if everything goes according to plan, including judging, prize announcements, intros, ect. An intermission might be nice if it's that long, so keep that in mind.

Yes, you can. But you can't be a judge, because people would accuse you of cheating.

Make a step by step plan for the talent show and query local businesses about sponsoring your show.

One month ahead, gives you time to fundraise and raise awareness. From experience, I would also advise you to have a form which the performers should sign guaranteeing their presence.