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Skylight's Managing Director is Amy Jensen, and its artistic director is Bill Theisen. The founder of Skylight was Clair Richardson, and Francesca Zambello is a former artistic director. The company is based at the Broadway Theatre Center, a building that it has owned since 1993, in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward District. It rents space in the building to other arts organizations, including Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, and offers set-building and other services to these organizations.
The company gives over 80 performances each season. One of Skylight's specialties has been the production of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and it now produces one of the Savoy operas every other season. The company has also established a reputation for an adventuresome repertoire, encompassing baroque opera, operetta, contemporary chamber operas, musicals and original musical revues. The company also offers smaller productions in the smaller Studio Theatre in its building, as well as a free cabaret after Friday and Saturday night performances in the Cabot Theatre. The company states that, as of 2010, it has "produced 30 world premieres, three American premieres, over 70 original cabaret shows and 29 touring productions."
The Skylight operates an arts-in-education program, called Enlighten, that provides free classroom workshops, residencies and performances for the Milwaukee Public Schools. In 2009, over 12,000 students viewed or were otherwise engaged by Enlighten programs. The mission of the company is "to bring the full spectrum of musical theatre works to a wide and diverse audience in celebration of the musical and theatrical arts and their reflection of the human condition."
Skylight Music Theatre is a non-profit organization with a $3.2 million annual budget and an endowment. In addition to ticket sales, it raises funds through the rental of sets, costumes, theatres and public spaces in its theatre center, which it owns and operates. It also receives contributions from the United Performing Arts Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Wisconsin Arts Board, CAMPAC, Theatre Communications Group, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and various foundations, corporations, and individuals.
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