SAC Pantomime 'Lost £100k'
Roisin McGroarty • Published 24 Feb 2010 12:10
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CINDERELLA'S glass slipper must have cracked this year after South Ayrshire Council lost £100,000 running the annual pantomime.
After shutting the Gaiety Theatre council bosses had promised to run a Christmas show in the town, choosing to stage the production in the Citadel sports centre.
But now the final costs are in it doesn't look for the show's losses stretch to £100,000 - something which has annoyed Glasgow Pavilion Theatre boss Iain Gordon, who had hoped to run the South Ayrshire show.
Speaking this week Iain said: "I offered to do the panto, saying we would go in and take the Gaiety for a short period and put on the pantomime free of charge to the council. I know we would have made money at the end of the day. It would have brought life back into the Gaiety. At least it would have kept the building warm. I did warm the council that the Citadel wouldn't sell."
The figure was revealed under the Freedom of Information Act, which also revealed that six performances had to be cancelled, five of them being school shows.
The panto did boast River City's Gina Rossi and Scarlett Mullen, but it wasn't enough to pull in the crowds.
Read the full story in this week's paper, on sale now.
This article appeared in Carrick Herald 23 Feb 10
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