A new CueCall account starts with a sample production, Sample - The Pirates of Penzance, on the Shows page and the dashboard. It comes filled in with scenes, a cast and characters, a rehearsal schedule, props and costumes, a script to page through, a budget with expenses, a mic plot, cues, notes and tasks, the audition that cast it (closed, with the panel's scores) and a volunteer signup sheet, so you can see what a production looks like before you build your own. Until you have a production of your own, your dashboard leads with it: press Open the Sample under Start here, or create your own show or theatre company from the options below it.

Change anything: It's yours to click around in and edit. Nobody on the cast is a real person, and nothing in the sample sends email. The one thing it can't do is bring other people in: inviting someone to the sample, giving it a public page, or publishing its audition or signup sheet, is refused.
It's free: The sample doesn't count toward your free shows.
It goes away after 30 days: The banner at the top of the sample, and its badge on the Shows page, say how many days it has left. After that it's removed automatically.
Remove it sooner: Press Remove sample in the banner at the top of the sample. Archiving the sample does the same thing: it is removed for good rather than kept in your archive. Its pretend cast and props leave your People and Inventory too. People and props you added yourself stay, and so does anyone or anything you've put on a production of your own.
Who gets one: Only new accounts, and only if you don't already have a production or an invitation to one waiting when you first open the dashboard.

More in Managing Shows

Managing Shows: Creating a Show — Creating a show takes one step, and filling it in is up to you:
Managing Shows: Finding & Sorting Shows — Use the search box at the top of the Shows page to filter by title, and the "Sort by" dropdown to change the order of the cards.
Managing Shows: Archiving & Deleting Shows — Keep your Shows page organized by archiving completed productions.
Managing Shows: Turning Features On & Off for a Show — Not every production tracks a budget, runs auditions or approves hours. Production leads can switch the features a show doesn't use off, so nobody on the company has to wonder what an empty menu item…
Managing Shows: Customizing the Show Menu — Inside a show, click Customize menu at the bottom of the sidebar menu to tailor the menu to the way you work.
Managing Shows: Duplicating & Exporting Shows — Create copies of shows or export them to share with others. Useful for running the same show with multiple classes or sharing show templates.
Managing Shows: AI-Powered Scene & Character Generation — After creating a show, CueCall can use AI to suggest scenes, characters, and inventory either from a recognized show title or from production documents you upload.
Managing Shows: Pricing & Access — Your first two shows are free for one year each with full editing access and unlimited users. Additional shows cost $14.99/year each, or subscribe to the Unlimited plan for $49/year to cover every…
Managing Shows: School District Plans & Purchase Orders — Schools can pay with a purchase order instead of a card. CueCall sends an invoice that quotes your PO number, and your business office pays it on net-30 terms. Order from the Billing page, or email…
Managing Shows: Running a district's classrooms and roster — A school district runs its CueCall account from one organization, its District Organization. Its owners and admins open the District tab on that organization's page to give schools classrooms, set up…
Managing Shows: Show Overview Tab — The Overview tab is your show's home page with key information at a glance.
Managing Shows: Inviting Collaborators — Collaborators are users who can log in and access your show. This is different from People (cast/crew) who may not have login access.
Managing Shows: Show Announcements — Announcements let you communicate important updates to everyone in your production. They appear prominently on the Dashboard and Show Overview page.
Managing Shows: Role Permissions — Each role has specific permissions controlling what they can see and do within a show. The table below is CueCall's default access matrix — these rules are enforced by the server, not just hidden in…
Managing Shows: Customizing roles — What a role can do is set in three layers. CueCall's defaults (the table above) come first; a company can change them for all of its shows from Organization → Roles; and one show can change them…
Managing Shows: Rehearsal Plan (AI auto-scheduling) — Open the show's Schedule tab and switch to Rehearsal Plan at the top. Tell CueCall which days you rehearse, when tech week starts and when you open. It works backward from opening night and proposes…
Managing Shows: Schedule Tab — The Schedule tab (formerly "Calendar") shows events specific to this show. Everyone on the show can view it; adding or editing events requires show edit rights (Director-level roles and Stage…
Managing Shows: Availability (who's coming to rehearsal) — The Availability view on the Schedule tab lets cast and crew say ahead of time whether they can make each call, so the people running rehearsals can plan what to work on before the night instead of…
Managing Shows: Show Tasks Tab — Track production to-dos for each show from the Tasks tab in the show navigation.
Managing Shows: Program & Listings (Digital Program, Print PDF & Public Page) — The Program & Listings tab in the show navigation (visible to roles with show edit access) groups the show's two audience-facing surfaces as sub-tabs: Program — build a professional playbill-style…

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Your first two shows are free for a full year each, with every feature and unlimited users. Pricing is per show, not per user.