The entertainment business operates on the concept that “the show must go on.”
Forced to go dark for 38 weeks and six days because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Florida Theatre Performing Arts Center Inc. embraces that mantra, based on the nonprofit’s 2020 annual report for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 released Feb. 4.
As it was for virtually all businesses, 2020 at the Florida Theatre was like no other.
In the opening letter to friends and supporters, Numa Saisselin, the nonprofit’s president, says 96% of the income the venue would have earned in the second half of the fiscal year disappeared.