How the Tory council can do this to such a lovely old theather as the palace I don't know!We should vote them out when the time come's!

It's a real sham let all hope the palace will reopen very soon.

All the best
Christina
xxx

It's so up-setting to see all the windows blacked out.I could cry,I just can not understand why it has been done!The palace was always so lovly I pray it will open very soon.

I always hoped this wouldn't happen. In fact i was sure it wouldn't. Where such security came from i really can not answer myself.
In my mind as an italian tourist, the Palace was a certainty like the London Tower or the Big Ben, something that nobody would ever bother or dare to attempt . Just like them it was simply above the human vicissitudes and bound to exist.

From La Scala in Milan to The Savoy and The Strand in London or the RSC in Stratford passing through a myriad of local venues, nowhere else could I experience the same feeling of intimacy, the same perfect balance between opposites, luxury without ostentation , fine class without overwhelming opulence. I no longer felt I was foreigner.

Someone said that "It ought to be drama to be theatre ". I don't know if that is true but if it is, this is a good example.
In my mind I look back at all the characters that I saw coming to life on the Palace stage and the ones on the “Save Southend
Theatres Day”. I can see the similarity.
Funds never lack, by their own definition. Whenever the monies are not forthcoming you can conclude you rate poorly on someonelse's priority list.
These words come across my mind while listening to Roy Marsden's intervention . His figure and severe look still tower over the scene just as I used to remember him.
I happen to think that if this was one of his old inquiries the case would be already solved.
But there's no logic here, no set rules or irony......or perhaps there was too much of them all.

I truly hope the wheel could turn once more for all of us as it has over these last years.
My flight ticket will be ready for the occasion.
Sincerely,
Maria

Frank,I think the finances have been gone over many time's in the local papers.We all know the the powers to be have got it wrong and there is NO real saving by closing the Palace! As for break even point this would depend on the show.You can not buy the Palace but can take over management .

John

The website says "best trading year ever, selling 22,500 seats for 51 performances last year".
How do the finances work, what is the break-even seat sales, and what would it cost to buy the Palace?