Affordable, Quality Musical Theatre
CLOC is committed to providing high quality Musical Theatre
at the lowest possible price to the community in general.
CLOC's pricing policy is structured to assist and encourage
both the family units and the disadvantaged with particular
emphasis on children and the elderly. Current pricing for
tickets is between one third and a quarter of the price being
charged for similar quality professional shows in City theatres.
Community Involvement
Along with the large number of people from the community
who are able to experience high quality musical theatre, CLOC
also provides involvement for between 150 to 200 people in
each production covering all facets of theatre including activities
such as acting, singing, dancing, costume design and making,
set design, making and painting, properties, hairdressing,
make-up, orchestra, advertising and marketing, ticket sales,
directing, stage managing, transport, ushering, etc.
Training
CLOC is recognised by both professional and non professional
theatre along with secondary and tertiary institutions as
playing a significant training role in all facets of theatre
including on stage, back stage and administration. Over the
years a number of young performers & production personnel
have started working with CLOC before graduating to professional
theatre.
Support for Schools
As well as involving students from schools in all facets
of our productions, CLOC also provides many other services
to schools such as costumes and properties, technical assistance
and advice along with provision of expertise to assist staging
school productions and skilled people to act as guest lecturers
in all facets of theatre.
CLOC assists schools by building scenery for them and provides
work experience for students. CLOC also provides highly discounted
tickets for school groups and offers theatre tours with expert
commentary covering all aspects of the productions.
Community Service
Over the years, CLOC has contributed to the community through
direct donations to local hospitals and other community organisations
by providing expertise and performing talent to local Councils,
benefit organisations, schools and churches for the staging
of concerts and other types of live productions.
CLOC's involvement has ranged from providing scenery, properties
and costumes, to arranging for performers and totally organising
and managing the productions. Examples of these have been
a series of community, charity and mayoral concerts and events
for the Moorabbin, Dandenong, Malvern and Kingston City Councils
and a series of concerts for Heart Beat.
CLOC was recently recognised for their community involvement
in 2007 in being awarded the City of Kingston Community Group
of the year.
