Starlight Theater stages a number of summer musicals at its theater in northern Ohio. Preliminary planning...

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Starlight Theater stages a number of summer musicals at its theater in northern Ohio. Preliminary planning has just begun for the upcoming season, and Starlight has developed the following estimated data. Production Mr. Wonderful That's Life All That Jazz 1 Average Number of Attendance per Ticket Variable Fixed Performances Performance Price Costs Costs 2 12 $18 $3 $165,000 20 15 1 249.000 12 20 0 316.000 2 3.500 3.000 4,000 Represent payments to production companies and are based on tickets sold. Costs directly associated with the entire run of each production for costumes, sets. and artist fees. Starlight will also incur $565,000 of common fixed operating charges (administrative overhead. facility costs, and advertising) for the entire season, and is subject to a 30% income tax rate. These common charges are allocated based on total attendance for each production. If Starlight's schedule of musicals is held, as planned, how many patrons would have to attend for Starlight to break even during the summer season? Starlight Theater stages a number of summer musicals at its theater in northern Ohio. Preliminary planning has just begun for the upcoming season, and Starlight has developed the following estimated data. Production Mr. Wonderful That's Life All That Jazz 1 Average Number of Attendance per Ticket Variable Fixed Performances Performance Price Costs Costs 2 12 $18 $3 $165,000 20 15 1 249.000 12 20 0 316.000 2 3.500 3.000 4,000 Represent payments to production companies and are based on tickets sold. Costs directly associated with the entire run of each production for costumes, sets. and artist fees. Starlight will also incur $565,000 of common fixed operating charges (administrative overhead. facility costs, and advertising) for the entire season, and is subject to a 30% income tax rate. These common charges are allocated based on total attendance for each production. If Starlight's schedule of musicals is held, as planned, how many patrons would have to attend for Starlight to break even during the summer season?

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