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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 5-8, 2020 Continued from B-2 Institute seeking donations of the year, will be matched by one of our generous donors,” Ioannides said. “Even if 250 people donated $20, they would sustain us through March when we can start selling tickets and getting sponsors.” Before COVID-19 shuttered Park City Institute, the nonprofit would provide incentives for donations. “Donors’ names would appear as a sponsor, or they would get tickets or priority seating to see events or get access to post-show after-parties,” Ioannides said. “Right now, when we cannot put on shows, we don’t have something for someone to sponsor and we can’t acknowledge your donations other than thanking you online or sending a letter. So it’s very difficult to motivate donors to support us.” Park City Institute isn’t the only performing arts nonprofit that is struggling to stay alive. The Egyptian Theatre furloughed all of its employees and temporarily shut its doors. Mountain Town Music, which usually presents more than 300 free summer concerts, began hosting door-to-door shows where bands would perform in neighborhoods on the back of a flatbed truck, and Park City Film began screening films online and hosting weekend drive-in films at the Utah Olympic Park. None of these solutions are sustainable in the long run, according to Ioannides. “I think it’s important that people know that without a little bit of funding, there is a chance that one or more of these organizations won’t make it through COVID,” he said. Ioannides is doing all he can to keep the institute’s overhead down to conserve resources. “We cut our monthly operating expenses by 94%” he said. “We did everything from canceling our water cooler to sending back our copier lease. Even our power bill is 30% from what it used to be because we turned down our thermostat, and we only have one salaried employee out of the 15 who work for us.” These cuts were also made in an attempt to lessen the impact of artists’ requirements as outlined in their contracts, Ioannides said. Entertainment contracts include riders, which are lists of specific items such as types of food, drinks, hotel rooms and other requests that the artists ask that must be supplied by the production company or hosting venue, according to Ioannides. In addition to that, the artists will specify the types of lights, sound system and communication system they need so they can rehearse and perform, he said. “Usually in the past, the production companies would accept those riders, which can cost us upwards of $50,000 or more on top of what we have to pay the artists,” Ioannides said. Since March, Park City Institute changed the contracts, so it wouldn’t have to provide everything the artists requested, he said. “If the artists don’t agree to those things, then we have to say, ‘No, thanks,’” Ioannides said. In addition Park City Institute changed the terms regarding the artists’ down payment B-3 The Park Record Time to buy your balls! for playing. A down payment is typically guaranteed to the artists and not refundable to the production company or organization, whether or not the show happens, according to Ioannides. “So we’ve rewritten in the contract to say we won’t pay the down payment until 30 days prior to the show,” he said. “We also say that we can cancel the event up to 30 days before it is scheduled for reasons that include the pandemic or that the school district won’t allow us to use the theater. And we’ve found the artists have been OK with that.” The changes came a little too late for a handful of performances Park City Institute canceled at the end of its last Main Stage season this spring, Ioannides said. “We won’t be able to get a return on those shows until we bring those artists back,” he said. “We will bring them back, but it’s a matter of when. Everyone is ready to see shows, but we just can’t do it right now.” Although Park City Institute canceled its summer season, if something would have changed at the last minute, the contracted artists would have performed. Ioannides said. “If we had found another venue for Black Violin to play, they would have come,” he said. “The same thing with Gretchen Wilson. She would have come to perform. We did work hard to try and find places, but just couldn’t find them.” To date, Ioannides and Park City Institute artists liaison Jenny Knaak have already planned the upcoming winter and spring Main Stage season and some of next year’s summer season, he said. “We have to keep booking shows just in case there will be a time that we can present them,” Ioannides said. Parkcityminersday.org/balls Only 300 balls are running 5 balls will win! 5 FABULOUS prize packages include Delta airfare, Deer Valley & Epic Passes, a Las Vegas getaway, and lodging, golf, and dining certificates. All proceeds benefit local nonprofit organizations and scholarships through Park City Rotary. Get all the latest Park Record updates. New Equipment is expensive The Park Record’s “Help Wanted” section has the jobs you need to support your gear addiction ALL AFLUTTER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 BY OLIVIA MITRA FRAMKE / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ Olivia Mitra Framke, of Jersey City, N.J., is an academic adviser at the New School’s College of Performing Arts in Manhattan. She describes herself as a flutist, dog lover and ‘‘all-around gaming nerd’’ (video games, board games, role-playing games, you name it). This is her seventh crossword for The Times, including her third Sunday. Like her previous Sunday puzzles, this one has a visual element. — W.S. AC R O S S RELEASE DATE: 9/13/2020 44 Actress Susan of ‘‘The Partridge Family’’ 1 Selling point? 45 Soleus muscle locale 5 ‘‘____ Catch ’Em All’’ (Pokémon theme 48 ‘‘ … you get the idea’’ song) 50 Course for a nonAnglophone, for 10 Gastric malady short 15 Word aptly found in 51 Keebler crew ‘‘price control’’ 53 Worker who might 19 Nobel laureate check all the boxes? Morrison 54 What may come after 20 Longtime daily TV you show about the rich 55 Invitation from a host and famous 56 Scrap, slangily 21 Mandarin greeting 58 Goddess of witchcraft 22 One-named singer 59 Hall-of-Fame QB with Grammys in Dawson 1985 and 2010 60 Split 23 Protected, in a way 62 A.L. East team … or, using the shaded 24 Mathematical field square, what a little that includes the movement by this 81-Across puzzle’s subject 26 Irritated mood might cause 27 Custom-made, as a 63 Kerfuffle suit 64 ‘‘Pitch Perfect’’ a 29 Psychic energy fields cappella group, with 30 The Sims and others ‘‘the’’ 32 Regal home 66 ‘‘Let’s do this!’’ 33 Remains here? 67 Bound for 34 ‘‘Ciao!’’ 69 Log 35 Magical resource 71 Prefix with -sphere in Magic: The 72 ‘‘You got it!’’ Gathering 74 Goblinlike creatures 36 Pianist’s pace 75 Practical joke 37 Sounds of disapproval 76 Anesthetic of old 39 7/ 77 Tick off 40 Duds 78 Pop singer known for wearing faceOnline subscriptions: Today’s covering wigs puzzle and more 79 When ‘‘Laverne and than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords Shirley’’ ran for most ($39.95 a year). of its run: Abbr. 80 Visionaries 81 Subject of this puzzle, as suggested visually by its central black squares 87 Sports figure 90 First name in the freezer aisle 91 Southeast Asian language 92 Flowed into 93 Table scraps 97 21st Greek letter 98 Famous literary nickname, with ‘‘The’’ 99 ‘‘Catch-22’’ pilot 100 Spanish title: Abbr. 102 Period 103 Computer data structure 105 Up 107 Ready to crash 109 & 113 End of the definition 117 Assessment: Abbr. 118 ‘‘Doe, ____ … ’’ 119 Exchanges words, say 120 Bit of cunning 121 Repeated word in a Doris Day song 122 They have pointy teeth 123 Ish 124 Words of clarification when spelling 125 Math grouping seen in curly brackets 126 Tolkien race 127 Handles, as an account, in brief 19 20 23 24 27 21 25 28 128 Eight-bit gaming console, for short 22 32 35 26 29 30 33 34 31 36 37 38 DO WN 1 Wild guess 2 One of 42 on a Connect Four board 3 Start of a definition of the 81-Across 4 Baker’s container 5 Creature that can lick its own eyes 6 Half of O.H.M.S. 7 After-dinner offering 8 Like ‘‘Waiting for Godot’’ 9 Convinced 10 Blue 11 Dupes, in a way 12 Stand-up comic Margaret 13 Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil of the Wild West 14 Rolls-____ 15 Some college assignments 16 Middle of the definition 17 Comics dog who walks on two feet 18 N.B.A. team with black-and-white uniforms 25 ‘‘I’m listening ... ’’ 28 Wild Asian equines 31 Break out 35 1957 Broadway hit starring Robert Preston, with ‘‘The’’ 38 Twitch.tv user 39 Rabbit in a red dress 39 40 50 51 55 56 60 41 44 45 77 88 89 97 68 69 74 75 103 64 80 90 91 92 99 100 85 93 101 106 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 58 The last of the Pillars of Islam 61 Seeing red? 65 Not on time for 68 Temporarily adopt, as a pet 70 Pot 73 Tulsa sch. 76 Canceling key 82 Timetable abbr. 83 Traditional Valentine’s Day gift 84 Croft of Tomb Raider 85 Tiny terriers 114 115 95 96 108 117 126 113 107 94 102 110 41 Noted 1836 battle site 42 They’re parked at national parks 43 Mate for life? 45 Cereal that changes the color of the milk 46 Director DuVernay 47 Clear a path for 49 Bleeps 52 Toy on a grooved track 53 Help to settle 57 Another name for Cupid 112 86 109 125 111 71 76 83 105 65 70 82 104 84 49 59 79 98 48 54 63 78 81 47 58 62 73 46 53 57 67 72 43 52 61 66 87 42 116 127 86 N.Y.C. summer hrs. 87 Black suit 88 Does really well 89 Going rate? 94 Return to a theme, as in a symphony 95 Vine support 96 Bring down 98 ‘‘Ciao!’’ 101 Response to a puppy video, maybe 104 Middle black key in a group of three, on a piano 128 105 Some laptops 106 Sci-fi moon 108 John Wayne, by birth 110 Current fashion 111 Paradise 112 Tidy 114 On an airplane, it’s filled with nitrogen rather than air 115 Assumed part of some addresses 116 Those: Sp. |