Show dictionary · Production Management
One-Off
Also: fly date · single
A one-off is a single engagement outside a tour routing: one festival slot, one private or corporate show, one benefit. Because nothing carries over from yesterday or to tomorrow, everything (gear, crew, travel) is arranged for that date alone.
In practice
One-offs are commonly fly dates: the core team flies in, rents backline and production locally, and leans on the rider plus a heavy advance to make an unfamiliar package feel like the touring rig. The economics differ too; a one-off fee has to absorb costs a tour amortizes across weeks.
For local crew and production companies, one-offs are the bread and butter: corporate events are almost all one-offs, produced from scratch each time, which is precisely why the corporate world leans so hard on documentation where tours lean on repetition.
How you’ll hear it
"It is a one-off with rented backline, so line check is going to take the full hour."
Related resources
Part of the eventools.io Show Dictionary, a free glossary of live event production terminology.