The president of the Association of Theater Companies of Catalonia (ADETCA), Isabel Vidal, assured this Saturday that the Cap Butaca Buida campaign has exceeded 50,000 spectators. In response to the media before the start of the closing gala of the great festival of the theater sector, Vidal explained that the evaluation is “very good” and that the objective “dreamed of” by the promoters of the day of making a record has been achieved world.
“We have managed to ensure that the party has transcended the sector and has reached the citizens,” Vidal applauded. Throughout the day, 145 stage spaces have programmed 176 works with the aim of setting the world record for the number of attendees in one day in theaters in one territory. Next year the campaign will be held on March 22.
Vidal applauded that everyone who participated in the day is “very excited” and “proud” and predicted that the figure of 50,000 spectators will grow even more as they receive more data in the coming hours and days. In fact, at the end of the day’s closing gala they plan to announce a new attendance figure that they promise will be “much better” than the current one.
For his part, the vice president of ADETCA, Toni Albaladejo, recalled that the theater sector had always celebrated World Theater Day but that it was a commemoration that had become very “inbred.” “We wanted to share it with the public,” he explained. For Albaladejo, the bar set has been reached and Cap Butaca Buida has reached the citizens who have made the day their own.
Both Vidal, Albaladejo and the co-director general of Time Out Spain and France, Eduard Voltas, have applauded that Cap Butaca Buida has served to make Catalonia the first country to break the world record for spectators in theaters in a single day. They have also guaranteed that the initiative will continue and that in 2025 it will take place on March 22.
The closing of the day is celebrated this Saturday night at the El Molino theater in Barcelona with the show Fessta Grossa with Fel Faixedas and Carles Xuriguera, the discovery of the final participation data and a closing with music and refreshments.
