Voices Bar

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Voices Bar

• An innovative, open, expressive vocal performance
  cocktail bar!

Concept by Richard A. Stanton 617 650
9998 richard_at_voicesbar.com
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Voices Bar Executive Summary
"Voices Bar" is a unique cocktail lounge venue
format featuring live solo and duet vocal
performances in the styles of musical theatre,
opera, vocal pop and jazz. It offers
accessibility to extraordinary artistry, creative
programs to attract top free talent, a
comprehensive community website, superior
physical space and sound system. Most
importantly, however, it's the thoughtful,
deliberate and supportive approach to creating
venue community, that will make this lounge
successful and a permanent part of the NY
landscape.
By developing a tight-knit community of
remarkably talented, passionate and attractive
performers, within a challenging yet supportive
environment of full self-expression, we will
subsequently attract very financially supportive,
grounded community-minded patrons.  These
communities will merge, synergize and be tightly
correlated to consumption of premium cocktail
beverages, superior entertainment, loyalty, lower
marketing costs, and great tips for service
employees.  In fact, our projections reveal that
the bar will reach effective saturation of
patrons after six months.  This will lead to
profitability by month 5 and payback of
investment capital in 3 years!
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Voices Bar Trends

• Enormous popularity of American Idol
• Enormous popularity of karaoke
• Recognition of musical theatre in modern cinema
  Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Phantom, Producers
• Growing popularity of holistic and
  spiritually-enriching practices
• Cocktail Bar specialization and differentiation
• The New York smoking ban yea!
• Most important trend hundreds (if not 1,000s)
  of talented, vibrant, attractive, extraordinary
  people will continue to arrive in NYC every year
  - with a dream!

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Voices Bar Features

• Hip upscale bar pouring premium brands, classic
  cocktails, wines and beers and very light fare
  (antipasti)
• Hosted open mic (HOM) with heart and soul
• Musical theatre, vocal pop, jazz and opera styles
• Superior rising talent and accompaniment
• Bravura performances! Full vocal expression no
  holding back!
• Innovative physical layout
• Many creative programs to build and maintain
  venue community such as a comprehensive
  website featuring community performers and live
  webcam feeds from stage

An enlightened - powerful - moving experience!!
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Voices Bar a fusion of existing experience on
one stage in one room!
Karaoke Bar
Hip Upscale Lounge
Cabaret
Piano Bar
Finest quality drinks
Vibrant
Rising talent
Open format
Top talent
Lively
Stylish ambience
Supportive
Musical theatre, vocal pop, jazz styles
Open environment
Beautiful , exciting people
Fun!
Fun!
Innovative and adaptive design
Expressive
Voicesbar.com 617 650 9998
Voices Bar!
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Voices Bar The Singers

• Serious developing vocal talent
• Full-time university and graduate students
• Established Broadway and
• professional singers
• Very attractive and outgoing people
• Looking for a place that
• stimulates and supports

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Voices Bar more than a performance! Format is
transformational because

• Its authentic - live music with real and
  extraordinary people singing and sharing their
  lives with each other and patrons
• Voices Bar provides a safe yet stimulating and
  challenging environment in which developing
  performers can do what they love most sing!
• The power of verse and expression merge and
  provides a context to channel emotions
• We become present to the possibility in all of us
  and our lives creativity and spirits soar!
• Voices Bar will touch, move and inspire!

Focus Expression Relatedness transforms!!
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Voices Bar Alternative Formats

• Top Cabaret Stages Dannys, Helens, Dont Tell
  Mama, Roses, The Duplex, Triad, Dillons
• Top Showcase Cast Party
• Top Piano Bars Maries Crisis,
• Brandys, The Duplex
• Bemelmens, Oak Room
• Top Karaoke Bars
• Overlook Lounge, Second on
• Second, Hope Anchor

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Voices Bar Alternatives Cabarets

• The mainstay for appreciating and sharing an art
  form!
• Rent-a-Stage business plan does not offer come
  anytime nor stay as long as you like
• Small roughly 50 60 seats
• Challenging for rising talent to book time
• Expensive (too expensive for most developing
  singers)
• Patrons fixed into seats
• Little or no interaction among singers patrons
  etc.

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Voices Bar Alternatives ShowcasesJim Carusos
Cast Party at Birdland

• Success based on principle when stars come out
  to play, people will follow its working!
• Closest example of Voices Concept in NYC
• Focus on established Broadway Acts, but some
  great developing performers as well
• Better value than cabarets (no cover)
• Monday nights only
• Very little community development, not much
  chance to mingle.

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www.castpartynyc.com
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Voices Bar Alternatives Piano Bar (dive)

• Maries is favorite among the young and
  talented Downtown crowd
• Fun with much cross-community interaction
• Small, cramped, inferior spaces
• Marginal product quality
• Audience not totally in sync with performance
• Patron base not well invested

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Voices Bar Alternatives Piano Bar (upscale)

• Expensive, but good product quality
• Not openly expressive reflects conservative
  clientele
• Not open to rising talent low risk tolerance
• Not progressive / artistic limited range of
  music
• Little or no audience community interaction

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Voices Bar Alternatives Karaoke Bar

• Good ones do serve as a model of support and
  encouragement
• Fun and open
• Does not offer more demanding vocal styles
• Not well adapted to performance, usually an
  after-thought in a local bar

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Voices Bar Financial Projections
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