2007 Year-End Review

People

Prior to 2007, our individual cast sizes had been ten for The Diary of Anne Frank and 9 (with 8 of them new) for If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise.  In 2007, our cast sizes grew dramatically with 13 involved in our first One Act Competition and Dessert Auction, over 40 involved in Charlotte's Web-The Musical and more than 20 involved in Winnie the Pooh for a total of over 60 people involved in our casts and crews for the year.  A little simple mathematics would show that more than 2/3's of our  2007 cast and crew were in their DTC debut during the year.

However, the cast and crew numbers don't show the most exciting part of our people involvement for 2007.  That honor goes to our audiences.  For The Diary of Anne Frank we had a capacity of about 75 per night for the six performances and averaged about 50 per performance for a total of about 300.  For If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise we had a much larger capacity but still only about 200-300 attended the four performances.  Our numbers are not as exact for that production because some of the audience members attended for a donation only and, as such, did not have a ticket for us to count.  However, for our 2007 One-Act Competition, which was a one-night event, we had a capacity crowd of about 80 people in our small space convincing us that we need a bigger space for this year's event.  For our first dinner theatre musical production of Charlotte's Web we had a capacity of 104 for each of the 5 performances.  Not only did we have a total attendance of nearly 500, three of the performances were completely sold out and between the other two performances we had about 15 seats remaining.  Finally, for Winnie the Pooh we were back in a smaller space with a seating capacity of about 90 for each of the three performances (that was placing chairs from wall-to-wall with a small center aisle and very little space in the front and back) and we ended the weekend run with about 25 seats unsold and a final performance with additional audience members standing in the back of the space.  Information gathered from audience members combined with comments indicate that many of the audience members attended multiple performances throughout the year however, especially at Charlotte's Web many people attended who had never attended one of our shows...including a group from Central Illinois and several from the southeastern United States.

Thank you all of you for your continued support of this organization.  It is only through your support that we can continue.