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Manatee Players outlines growth: 23,000 tickets sold, partnerships with Pops Orchestra and Disney pilots

3853473 · June 17, 2025
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Janine Anick, producing artistic director of the Manatee Players / Manatee Performing Arts Center, briefed the TDC on audience recovery, program expansion, partnerships with the Pops Orchestra, Disney pilot productions, a planned fourth-floor rehearsal room, and education and outreach programs.

Janine Anick, producing artistic director for Manatee Players and the Manatee Performing Arts Center, gave the Tourist Development Council an annual update on the theater conservatory's programs, audience numbers and facility plans.

Anick said the organization dates to 1947 and that the performing arts center now hosts about 190 ticketed events in a typical July-to-June year. She reported more than 23,000 individual tickets sold at the facility this past year and over 49,000 total visits when free and private events are included, putting attendance back at pre-COVID levels from 2019.

Anick described "action…

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