Regal Trust Report March 2015
Attendance figures
March 2013 3074 patrons
March 2014 2058 patrons
March 2015 2164 patrons
A good month with audience figures up 5% on last year, but still down on 2013 where we saw 1650 attending for just two titles, Les Miserables and Quartet.
The Easter selection of films failed to produce audiences of the size we had hoped, the best being Shaun the Sheep which played to 460 people.
The new Regal Musical Theatre School launched in March, and the three sessions held to date have been a great success. The emphasis is on fun, and we have received great feedback from children and parents alike.
A session on stage makeup saw the first group of younger children making each other up as skeletons and the older children applying bruises and lacerations and emerging streaming with blood to shock the shoppers in Teme Street.
The first of the insulation jobs have now been completed and we have already seen some improvement in being able to maintain heat in the auditorium, although the West Wind problem remains and the work to help solve this is being discussed tonight.
Plumbing problems continue with both the cisterns in the Ladies toilets developing faults on the same night and Gents toilets in the function room randomly flooding.
The stage curtains also broke again this month, but luckily not at a critical moment and we were able to work around the problem.
We have installed an override system that enables us to operate the cinema screen if the remote control unit fails.
We have also installed baby change stations in both the function room toilets and the main toilets, as we are now getting quite a group of very young children attending the MiniCineMokeys playgroup.
And finally a story on the Regal’s facebook page went viral, with the search for the owner of a little lost Bear called Biscuit. Over 9,000 people saw the original post and a further 2,500 followed the lost Bears adventures until he was reunited with his owner. All good publicity for the Regal.
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