Trust Report Oct 2014
October was a month of contrasts, The month began with a very successful broadcast by Stephen Fry, then we had a number of films that barely broke even. In the middle of the month we had the excellent live drama, Around the World in 80 Days which unfortunately also failed to break even. The half term week was very successful with 780 people enjoying live Music, Films and finally Magic with Paul Daniels.
The ticket sales for the rest of the year appear to look reasonably healthy, but our main focus is our Pantomime Aladdin.
The cast are hard at work rehearsing, and the technical team are ramping up to cope with the requirements of building unusual props and using far more complex technical equipment than they has so far been exposed too.
We have already sold 30% of the tickets. This is good, but we all need to keep up the effort of promoting the show, as bringing people into town in the Christmas season also has a tremendous effect on the whole town's vitality and viability.
Over the next few weeks 30,000 leaflets advertising the pantomime will be distributed by Royal Mail in a wide area around the town and hopefully this will encourage even more people to come and give us a try.
The new mid-stage curtains have now arrived and were used for the first time for the Paul Daniel’s show. The new LED lighting has also been installed to replace the somewhat unreliable and expensive to run Par Cans. The replacement cinema screen is due to be installed later this month.
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