Community Arts Support
ACHF Arts Access
With the support of the Central Minnesota Arts Board, the Great Northern Theatre Company will continue to operate and provide the opportunity for area artists to use, learn, practice, refine, and showcase their talent for audience members with three productions in 2016. To measure how many artists contributed to our community theatre, we will count all of the cast and crew members listed in the program. To measure how many audience members saw our shows, we will count the number of tickets sold at each performance.
2016 was financially successful for Great Northern Theatre Company. All of our administrative and production bills were paid, we have 20 working ear mics, and 25 additional lights were purchased and hung in the Glanville Smith Auditorium. We did not have a small net income to end the year to carry us into 2017. In July of 2016, the board entered into a one year lease agreement to rent heated storage space that doubles as a rehearsal area. The board knew that there was enough cash from prior years' net income to cover all of the lease payments and that 2016 may show a net loss if 2016's revenue didn't cover this additional expense. 2016 was also successful given the number of people served. We anticipated serving 110 artists and actually had 134 artists participate in our three productions. We anticipated 2,650 paying audience members and actually had 3,531 people purchase tickets.
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