ELY- The final curtain may have dropped over a month ago on Ely high school’s production of “Disney’s Frozen, The Broadway Musical;” but the final business of the musical wasn’t over until this past week, when the last ticket payment cleared the bank account for the Mesabi Symphony Orchestra.
“Today, I will be mailing the Ely School District a check for $10,775 for the sale of 2,155 tickets,” said Karen McManus, who manages the finances for the orchestra. The orchestra provided the payment gateway for the musical so the public could buy tickets online in advance.
McManus’s check didn’t include cash sales of an additional 156 tickets, which brings the total ticket sales for the production to $11,555— not bad for a small high school selling $5 tickets.
Most ticket purchases came from northern St. Louis County, although others came from as far away as Duluth and even the Twin Cities.
Including complimentary tickets, a total of 2,447 people attended one of the four performances of “Frozen” in Ely this last January.