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Agenda - Ordinary Meeting 22 November 2012 - CITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT REPORTS<br />

Attachment 3<br />

8.3.1 Community theatre<br />

The local theatre groups predominantly use the Jetty Memorial Theatre to perform a wide<br />

range of theatre from musicals to drama and comedy. While they would enjoy expanded<br />

facilities, the local community theatre groups do not pay for the use of the Jetty Theatre<br />

facilities at a commercial rate. There is no evidence that local community theatre groups<br />

would be able to afford the hire, and access to specialist staff, for a full scale theatre of 600<br />

seats plus (i.e. over twice the size of the Jetty Memorial Theatre at 250 seats). There is also no<br />

evidence that the audience for community theatre would be able to fill a larger venue. In<br />

2011, the average number of tickets issued for the most attended community theatre shows at<br />

the Jetty Memorial Theatre was 168. 19<br />

In order for community performing arts to flourish, there is certainly a requirement for<br />

physical resources such as buildings; but for the ongoing development of the community<br />

theatre sector in particular, the continuing development and extension of the skills of the<br />

community participants is a key aspect.<br />

8.3.2 Professional theatre<br />

There is not a large amount of professional performance product available to <strong>Coffs</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />

which requires the scale of facility under discussion, and there is no guarantee that there<br />

would be sufficient product in the future to supply a regular and predictable program to such<br />

a facility.<br />

As a point of comparison, of 13 shows in May to December of the Glasshouse Season 2012, six<br />

will also be presented at the Jetty Memorial Theatre, as well as one more show which was at<br />

the Glasshouse earlier in the year. A further concert which will be performed at the<br />

Glasshouse during this period will be performed in <strong>Coffs</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> at the Botanical Gardens.<br />

There are therefore six shows, totaling ten performance nights, where the company or<br />

individual performer has made the decision not to perform in <strong>Coffs</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong>. Of these, five<br />

decisions are highly likely to have been made at least in part because of lack of a suitable<br />

capacity venue – either in terms of staging, audience capacity or both (the other is a one man<br />

show). One of these five shows - OzOpera - was in fact available to <strong>Coffs</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> this year at<br />

Sportz Central (and has been staged there before), but will not be offered in 2012 because of<br />

high demand on the human resources of the sponsoring organization.<br />

19 The King and I, 17 performances and The Invisible Woman, 8 performances.<br />

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