Hear that sound? That was a record shattering: $61,000 in gross ticket gross sales over 5 performances, the most in the 80 years of the Dolphin Show at Northwestern University.
This 12 months’s Dolphin Show, which final month produced a prime-notch manufacturing of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical at Cahn Auditorium, broke the gross sales record beforehand held by the 2014 manufacturing of Shrek the Musical by greater than $11,000.
Since Shrek was additionally a household-pleasant manufacturing, does that imply Dolphin will shift its focus to that kind of present in the future? Previous exhibits have included Gypsy (4 instances), Guys and Dolls (thrice) and Anything Goes (twice).
Rachel Schmaier, group producer for Dolphin, stated in an e-mail that, “Regardless of the title next year’s team produces, we are looking at ways that our future programming can continue to engage and build on this family audience.”
The Dolphin Show, a nonprofit pupil theatre group that traces its roots again to 1939, is understood for its annual manufacturing of the largest pupil-produced musical in the nation. More than 150 college students work collectively to do the whole lot essential to get the showcase the web page and onto the stage.
This 12 months’s crew, directed by Lucy Harrington, was particularly efficient. The 1,000-seat Cahn Auditorium bought out the remaining night time of the present.
In a assertion, Schmaier and her co-producers, Arella Flur and Daniel Maton, stated, “It was a huge triumph to mount this production and its success is attributed to every single person on and off the stage.”