Festival Report

Everything for Spring festival is going great! Except one thing. Attendance is way way down. We are 45 short of last spring at this time and short of last fall when total attendance was 151 where we lost a grand or so. Please come to festival, if I could be there [at the board meeting] I’d grovel and kiss your feet (thank God my daughter has a cheering banquet I must attend as it would be pathetic). If you can’t come because, lets say you dying or dead, please grovel at everyone’s else’s feet and beg them to come to festival.

And then pray for a miracle that 200 people sign up!

The details -- two weeks before Festival:

Total Registrations (Everyone, including staff, performers, kids 0-4, and Sunday people)

165 Spring 2006

- Fall 2006 (I must not have been around to tally the figures that week)

120 Spring 2007 (includes all of the performers)

Towards Minimum Guarantee (Everyone, excluding kids 0-4, Sunday people)

153 Spring 2006

- Fall 2006

111 Spring 2007 (includes all of the performers)

200 Minimum Guarantee** (170 adults, 30 kids).

89 Below

Paid Adults (Excludes staff, performers, all kids, and Sunday people)

102 Spring 2006

- Fall 2006

78 Spring 2007 (includes all of the performers)

138 APPROXIMATE Breakeven**

40 Below

** The numbers given for both 'Minimum Guarantee' and 'Paid Adults' have not been analyzed to see if those numbers are still valid.