In this June 2012 SR file photo by Jesse Tinsley, Husband and wife acting team Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon perform a scene from the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre's "Hello Dolly" in Schuler Auditorium in Boswell Hall at North Idaho College. Travolta tried unsuccessfully to save the theater from closure.

There will be no encore for Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, at least not next year. The board of the nonprofit professional theater company voted on Monday to disband, despite a fundraising effort launched two weeks ago. “With both season ticket and individual ticket sales down significantly this year, there is no indication that Coeur d’Alene has an appetite for the type of presentation our organization, in its current form, is consistently able to produce,” the board said in an email sent by president Joseph Anderson, a Coeur d’Alene financial adviser with Merrill Lynch. “While we are a non-profit organization, we are not entitled to exist simply because we are passionate about what we provide. We must serve the needs of the people in our community. We don’t exist in spite of our audiences, we exist because of and to serve our audiences.” CST owes more that it has cash on hand, the board statement said, and “it was unreasonable to assume that the debt load would do anything but increase in the foreseeable future"/Carolyn Lamberson, SR. More here.

Also: Letter from board Chairman Joseph Anderson here.

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