WeGotTickets Showcase Returns to Edinburgh
- WeGotTickets brings Comedy Showcase back toEdinburghFringe Festival
- Features winners from WeGotTickets Laughing Horse New Act, WeGotTickets Laughing Horse Brighton Fringe New Act and WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards
Following its successful launch last year, 2013’s Edinburgh Fringe sees the return of the WeGotTickets Edinburgh Showcase, a celebration of grassroots comedy featuring the winners of lauded comedy awards throughout the year.The event will feature performances from 2013’s most exciting new comic talent, including the winners of the WeGotTickets Laughing Horse New Act, the WeGotTickets Laughing Horse Brighton Fringe New Act, Funny Women Awards and the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards competitions. The event will take place on Wednesday 14th August, at Maggie’s Front Room in the Three Sisters. A featured compere will be announced later in the year.The showcase is a culmination of the ongoing investment that WeGotTickets makes into the comedy market each year through its sponsorship of competitions and awards: including this year’s Laughing Horse New Act of the Year. The first heats began across the country in November last year; the quarter finals will take place this February and March; the semi finals commence in April and the Grand Final will be held at the Camden Highlight on the 26th May, compered by Imran Yusuf. More information can be found here: http://bit.ly/SGTaxW.On the 5th April, the Bloomsbury Theatre will be home to the final of the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards, with heats and semi-finals being hosted at the Wilmington Arms across February and March. Now in its fifth year, the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards (MCAs) have grown in stature to now display some of the UK's finest up and coming musical comedians. The MCAs have previously provided a launch pad to superstar acts like Frisky and Mannish, Abandoman and Jay Foreman, and hosted stars such as David O' Doherty, Mitch Benn, Bo Burnham, Pippa Evans, Isy Suttie and many more. The 2012 Best Newcomers were Fair & Square, a folk comedy trio that found their way to the Edinburghstage at WeGotTickets’ inaugural showcase last year. More information can be found here: http://bit.ly/UpYyVO.Increasing its involvement in budding UK comedy, WeGotTickets in recent years has twice been sponsor of the WeGotTickets Best Newcomer Award at the MCAs, sponsored the Laughing Horse Brighton Fringe Best Newcomer Award and also actively supported the Funny Women Awards.Said Steven Endersby, Senior Account Manager, WeGotTickets "Over the past five years independent and grass roots comedy has become a really important part of our business. We've enjoyed working with comedy clubs, promoters and comedians all around the UK and are delighted to have the opportunity to sponsor each of these great competitions. We're looking forward to being involved in the development of some top new comics, and showcasing each of the winners at the Edinburgh Fringe later this year.We'll be releasing tickets in the spring, so keep your eyes on WeGotComedy.com and our newsletters for more news."Event DetailsTitle: WeGotTickets Edinburgh ShowcaseTime and Date: 10pm, Wednesday 14th August, 2013Location: Maggie’s Front Room @ Three Sisters, 139 Cowgate Edinburgh EH1 1JSAbout WeGotTicketsWeGotTickets is theUK’s leading paperless ticketing agency. Launched in 2002, WeGotTickets works with over 4,000 event organisers placing it in the top five ticketing agencies in theUK.WeGotTickets has made it possible for organisers of events of all shapes and sizes to benefit from advance ticket sales, and now sells more than 750,000 tickets a year; from art events and underground restaurants to traditional live music and comedy shows and festivals.Since its launch, WeGotTickets has consistently pushed for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry, with many of the company’s ideas becoming standard industry practice.The company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business, whilst its pioneering paperless ticketing system has been a major factor in reducing the live music industry’s carbon footprint.Over the years WeGotTickets has been proud to work on a number of special campaigns with charities such as Oxfam, Macmillan, Youth Music and Warchild, and regularly donates a percentage of their booking fees back to these groups. In 2009 the company launched a unique feature allowing ticket buyers to quickly and easily make a donation to a featured charity whilst purchasing tickets.WeGotTickets is now proud to be a full member ofSTAR(Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers) and is fully behind the organisation’s new fraud prevention kite mark.www.wegottickets.comwww.WeGotTickets.com