Box office increases to $203 million for major performing arts

Audience figures and social media followers have increased with some surprising winners in a new OzCo report.
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Audience figures and social media followers have increased with some surprising winners in a new OzCo report.

Opera was the biggest winner with orchestras and dance also positing increases. Theatre, on the other hand, had a weak year but the industry will have to wait for next month’s analysis for assessment of the reasons.

 
Preliminary analysis of annual reporting from the Major Performing Arts sector for 2012, conducted by the Australia Council, has revealed that the combined box office income of the 28 leading Australian companies increased by $28 million to $203 million, with all art forms except theatre reporting increases.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts