...but these are the final, peak days, attendance increased by Scotish half term in many areas...and an Illuminations weekend.
Many season pass holders get in for free, and lots of seats not available does not mean seats actually sold for this weekend, Mandy gives lots away for first and last weekends to make the place look full.
I know, I have received such tickets.
500 seats (used, not necessarily sold) out of 1800, on a very peak weekend, does not make a successful operation, not with a cast, staff and stage crew of near a hundred.
With what looks like the mandy block booking of the best seats.
The show makes a massive loss.
Repeated reports over the decades, it has lost money since the seventies, I have attended every decade, and the "theatre" has never been more than 20% full on my visits.
The expensive, experienced consultants made the losses very plain, allegedly, repeatedly.
But you know who knows best, and ignored the paid, expensive, professional advice of experts, because it is her sandpit, and hers alone.
Nobody tells her what to do.
