Hi Everyone,

I’m really pleased to announce that we’ve now launched our new, improved contemporary website at www.limelighttheatre.com.au. Please have a look at it and let us know what you think!! I think it’s bright, fun and will provide a fresh new online presence for our theatre. I’d like to thank all those involved in putting it together, particularly Adrian Price who did all the ‘techo’ stuff together with Nigel Rarp who provided lots of help and support. If you want to place anything on social media, whether it be on the website or Facebook, please contact anyone on the committee who can arrange to have the information published.

Nigel’s also been working hard with a company called Patronbase and also the Commonwealth Bank to get our new, improved online booking system in place. This should be available in the next few days so keep a lookout on the website.

Another great piece of news we’ve received in June is that we’ve been awarded a grant of $27,000 by Lotterywest to upgrade our sound system. In my opinion, sound has always been our Achilles heel and so it’ll be great to be involved in a production and not be continually worried that the sound system will let us down. I’d really like to give thanks to Patrick and Shelley McGinn for all their hard work in putting the submission to Lotterywest together.

Moving forward now, and I know that Sue Vincent and her cast and crew are already working hard to bring us our next production, Run for Your Wife, which I’m sure will be very popular. Please book your seats early!!!

 

All for now

Mike Gibbs

Hi Everyone,

The committee have been very busy this month, spending our hard earned money but with a view to very much improving the community’s view of our theatre, especially its online presence.

We have commissioned a brand new website to replace our existing site
which has become quite old and stale. The new one will be vibrant and
engaging, containing all the information you could possibly need to know
about our theatre, and regularly updated with news and forthcoming events.
It will also enable us to contact and maintain our membership information in a secure manner and enable members to access their newsletter whenever they wish without their inbox being ‘spammed’.

Even more importantly, and seamlessly linking into the new website, we have identified a new, improved, reliable online booking system which will be available for our next production. I would like to thank Nigel, Elinor, Jane and Carol, our booking officer, for all the hard work they’ve done in identifying a new system which will hopefully take some of the load off Carol and help our customers have a satisfying experience when interacting online with the theatre.

We’ve also bought some second hand lights from WAAPA courtesy of Jacob our lighting manager at a VERY reasonable cost and we’ve also invested in some new personal microphones for our current production. So all in all a very busy month, but a very productive one as well.

On another note, the reading committee is now primed and eagerly awaiting your submissions. Remember, we can only assess whatever is submitted and, as the clock is ticking on the closing date for submissions, please get them to us for consideration as quickly as possible.

Finally, please get your tickets for the Old Time Music Hall. We’ve all enjoyed putting the production together and Shelley’s worked her socks off to get the show to a very high standard so please come along and see the show. You won’t be disappointed.

All for now
Mike Gibbs