We need audiences back in these venues".
Of course, most opera houses are consciously anachronistic spaces, designed to transport audiences back in time.
Now it's easing audiences back to plays, mostly with short runs of touring productions.
I want audiences back in a very basic position where they can trust their eyes again.
I wanted the rejuvenated theatre to give audiences back the excitement I felt".
It took ITV time to build their audiences back up and fair play to them on their recent success.
Act I now has, in theater parlance, a curtain: a cliffhanging turn of events to draw audiences back after intermission.
But in the following years, thanks to directors like Chaplin, Griffith, and DeMille, increasingly sophisticated films propelled audiences back into theatres.
For five decades, the theater used the solid brass bell to send audiences back to their seats before it disappeared in September 2004.
Only the Kabukiza's reopening will tell if the new generation can preserve this tradition, while modernising it enough to entice younger audiences back.
