Throughout our 24 year history, the Roxy Regional Theatre has utilized a 1947 movie house as a performance space (a 153 main stage and 50 seat black box), a shop, a rehearsal space, storage, classrooms, art gallery, offices and banquet facility. Most of the time this all happens in the same space, which has become both economically draining and artistically limiting.

Now, we begin a transformative step for the arts in Clarksville creating an opportunity to further anchor and broaden our commitment to serving this community by building The Roxy Regional Center for the Arts.

Just as the Roxy Theatre was on the cutting edge in the 1940’s, this new complex, designed by John Sergio Fisher, will be a state-of-the-art complex of distinctive design that will generate a new enthusiasm, not only for Clarksville/Montgomery County but for this entire region.

The complex will begin at the corner of Franklin and First Streets, measure to within 24 feet of the Brenner Building (leaving space for a covered walkway leading from Franklin Street to a proposed City parking deck) and reach back to Spring Alley.

The vision for The Roxy Regional Center for the Arts is:

• Green space from the side walk of  Franklin Street to the new entrance approximately 20 feet back
• First Floor
  -A Five hundred seat State-of-the-Art Auditorium
  -Full thrust/proscenium arch stage with center revolve, orchestra pit and  lift  and 2 trap
  -Stage size 38’ by 50’ with a 25’ opening
  -250 seats on the main floor
  -250 additional seats in the balcony
  -No seat in the auditorium will be further than seven rows from the stage
  -Theatre will be utilized by the 200 events scheduled at the Roxy
  -Potential uses include:
          Fiddler’s Convention
          Junior Miss Pageant
          Music Concerts
          Dance Concerts
          Corporate Meetings
          Touring Productions
  -The theatre would incorporate a full work shop area, loading dock, dressing rooms and storage
  -A Full Lobby Gallery
          -Lobby would be used for local art shows
          -Space could also be utilized for banquet facility
  -Gift shop for Gallery and Theatre
  -Bar and kitchen (concessions) area

• Second floor would incorporate

                  -Dance/Rehearsal room that could double as a performance space
                  -Room would have mirrored walls, removable dance bars, and portable   
                   chairs for performances
                  -Dark Room
                  -Ten multi-purpose rooms that will be rented by artists or musicians as classroom or studio
                  space, among other uses

 INCOME

Additional funding will be realized by renting facility to:
      Concessions Vendors
      Art Studios
      Musicians Studios
      Dance Academy
      Fiddler’s Convention
      Pageants
      Concerts
      Corporate Meetings

The Roxy Regional Theatre is and will remain a nonprofit entity.

According to the Americans for the Arts’ 2002 study, Arts & Economic Prosperity:  The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts Organizations and Their Audiences, revealed that America’s nonprofit arts industry generates $134 billion in economic activity every year, including $24.4 billion in federal, state and local tax revenues, and supports 4.85 million full-time equivalent jobs.  The Roxy Regional Center for the Arts is an ambitious undertaking—one which will benefit every member of the Clarksville/Montgomery County community directly through a personal arts experience or indirectly through an improved economy.