Arts Activities Support

We hope to perform on site at 15-20 community based nursing homes, assisted living facilities, senior centers, and similar facilities serving seniors who otherwise have limited access to musical theater style entertainment, and we expect to receive positive approval ratings from the vast majority of the event planners who respond to a follow up survey, based on their personal reactions and reports and comments from their staffs and audience members. We also hope to entertain over 1,500 audience members at six or seven public performances of our 2016 theatrical show (the name and theme of which have not yet been finalized), at the Bloomington Center for the Arts or a similar venue in May or June of 2016. We evaluate our onsite community performances at senior residences and service centers by counting the number of Metropolitan Regional Arts Council supported appearances we make at such facilities during the course of the grant year and by obtaining follow up surveys from the event planners at such facilities characterizing the quality and desirability of our performances. We measure the success of our full scale theatrical shows by counting the total number of audience members who attend, as determined by the theater at which the shows are presented, including both tickets sold and comp tickets issued, and by comparing total revenue produced from ticket sales with the total cost of mounting the show, seeking to cover at least 70% of our expenses with ticket revenue.