Comparing their numbers

Ballet West 2001 season 2011 season

#

Pioneer Theatre

Utah Shakespeare Festival

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera

206,317 156,320

Audience number or season ticket subscribers

Figures for Utah Shakespeare Festival and for Utah Symphony | Utah Opera include all tickets sold
#

122,359 117,363

3,166 3,443

6,529 8,229
$6.60

$5.07 $4.32 $3.84

$2.18

$2.42 $1.56

$2.28

Ticket revenue
(in millions of dollars)

140 110 85 83 34 35 26 32

Full-time employees

$3.12

$3.48

Government monies received

$1.64

(in millions of dollars; includes city, county, state and federal monies)

$1.33 $0.84 $0.69 $0.18 $0.55

$7.74

$4.19

$3.91

$3.98

Private donations received

(in millions of dollars)

$0.66

$0.94

$0.87

$1.06

Sources: Ballet West, Pioneer Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Utah Symphony & Utah Opera 2001 gures are before the symphony and opera merged nancially in 2004 The Salt Lake Tribune