00:02Striving to keep the spotlights on
00:04in an economic environment that's seen multiple big-budget musicals cut short their tours.
00:15Local independent theatre companies say the appetite for musical theatre is enduring.
00:21Even so, their productions are not immune to economic pressure.
00:25We're having to make cuts left, right and centre to make this work.
00:28Millennial Productions survives by being resourceful, rehearsing across multiple venues,
00:34recycling sets and foregoing printed programs to stay on budget.
00:39It's about $25,000 which is a very low and conservative budget
00:43but that in the past has also gone up to about $80,000 as well.
00:49A Night at the Musicals runs theatre concerts and industry mic nights.
00:54Keeping ticket prices low is a constant battle.
00:57You can do anything with time, energy and passion.
01:01If we don't raise the ticket prices but the artists are getting paid more
01:05something has sacrificed in the production in order for us to get there.
01:09The Queensland Government says it's committed to investing in independent arts
01:13to grow the state's experience economy
01:15but Brisbane's local theatre companies warn that without greater support
01:18the show may be over.
01:20At this independent level, the risk is you don't see it at all.
01:24It'll be gone forever.
01:27By seeing the point where people permis to do newflation andurpath football
01:30are greater than a second career,
01:31it'll be gone and less than a third year,
01:31that the reason why people work as caring for the students that they really want is to buy full of
01:31mu above layer.
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