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not necessarily going to move away from live music.” She said the advent of the new music center won’ t necessarily impact the Playhouse.
“ We’ re looking at it more like a collaborative effort,” Estabrook said.“ Our shows are marketed toward different groups. A 2,000-seat venue is going to serve a different audience that a 426-seat venue. Also, it’ s for-profit versus non-profit. So we are doing a lot of similar things, but I don’ t think we’ re affecting each other in terms of customer base. It’ s actually even helping us a little bit with audience numbers.”
The Playhouse struggles to fill the house; Eastabrook has only seen a couple of sellouts in her six-month tenure. The venue does better in spring and fall.
“ The music and the live shows really do well,” she said.“ I wish the movies would do better …. But, I think that if we do community theater right, we could turn ourselves back into what the Playhouse originally was. I think that’ s something we could move towards, but as of right now, live music shows are what works best for us.”
Estabrook said the Playhouse has had a lot of community support and has been gaining momentum over the past few months.
“ We’ ve had sponsors rolling in,” she said.“ All of the shows were sponsored in October, either by individual donors or businesses. It’ s just been really wonderful to receive and see. There are so many things that businesses can get themselves involved in— they’ ve had to pick and choose.”
Over the past year, the Playhouse board conducted a strategic planning process including a“ constituent survey” of about 10,000 people.
“ We know that a lot of people are really passionate about the Playhouse and what we have coming in the future,” Estabrook said.“ And we’ re just hoping that our new direction for 2020 will be what everybody wants.”
“ Hang with us, we’ re getting it together, it’ s just been kind of a rough transition,” she said.“ But we’ ve got really exciting things in store for next year.”
For more information visit < browncountyplayhouse. org > or call 812-988-6555. You can also follow the Brown County Playhouse on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. •
30 Our Brown County • Nov./ Dec. 2019