Oregon fest breaks record
ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 04, 2009, 7:16 AM /
ASHLAND, Ore. — With the recession cutting back travel and entertainment spending, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was anticipating a tough season this year — so much so that it cut the budget $1 million and actors tripled-up on roles.
But the repertory theater reported record attendance of 410,034 — 89 percent of capacity for the three theaters— and revenues of $17,098,115.
Paul Nicholson, the executive director, called the turnaround “astonishing.
Among the most popular plays of the season were a modern adaptation of a 250-year-old Italian farce, “The Servant of Two Masters,” and the quirky “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”
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