Do they take reservations? Can you ask for a small crowd or a mid-size? What if you get there and they are out of crowds? The reservation is supposed to keep the crowd there. Anyone can take reservations. It’s is the holding that counts.
Excellent Seinfeld reference.
General Dynamics owned an operation in South Africa. FSU paid for daily protests. A bus delivered warm bodies. They were handed a sign and box lunch and the sat there 8 hours per day. Bus picked them up at five.
I appreciate your thriftiness. My suggestion, if you can only afford to go small, is to rent some transgendered. They’re insane and very violent as a group, so you really get your money’s worth

Unbelievable. I wonder if they would take on the NRA as a client and protest for gun rights?
I’m sure you can “arrange for appropriate accomodations.”
As an undergraduate, I knew a girl who did this. She’d get like $30.00 (1982) and lunch to show up for various left-wing causes. I wonder what the pay is now?
It’s is the holding that counts.”
No! It’s one good photo-op for the MSM that counts.
Depending the the topic, parents who bring their children, or seem to, is a big plus. Children rental is a sub-specialty.