“Attendance at the Arvada Center plummeted to 54,870 in 2006-07, a decline of 30 percent in just two years. While revenue has remained mostly flat (thanks to a thriving children’s theater division), subscribers have fallen to 5,298 in the current season, down from 8,536 in 2003-04, a drop of 38 percent. And in that time, the operating budget has ballooned by 18 percent, to $3.2 million a year.”