Sentence examples for audience capacities from inspiring English sources

Pliny the Elder reports that, by about 50 bce, wooden theatres with audience capacities of up to 80,000 were being built three stories high, with decorations made of glass, marble, and gilded lumber.

The large, yet compact, Restoration playhouses, with audience capacities from 700 (Bridges Street) to upwards of 2,000 (the next house on the same site, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, finished in 1674), were enormous investments, financed through selling shares in the companies, which were thus bound to make more and more money from ticket sales.

The maximum audience capacity has been estimated to be 500.

The audience capacity of this theatre exceeded 1,000.

The show had never been a bestseller on Broadway; in recent weeks, audience capacity ranged from 62 percent to 78 percent.

Successive restructuring had expanded audience capacity, cut off the forestage and pushed the actors behind the proscenium.

"We've been bursting at the seams at City Center in terms of audience capacity," Mr. Grove said.

It's a wonder that National Sawdust, with its small audience capacity, is making a go of it economically.

None of the clubs, however, come close to the 370-acre Seaside Park in terms of audience capacity.

It can be extended twice, reducing the audience capacity at full extension from 1,087 to 923 seats.

Today it will announce a small operating surplus, with average income per performance up 13%, and audience capacity up from 69%to76%69%to76%