Press Release
210 North I Street, Tacoma, WA 98403 253-272-2281 www.tacomalittletheatre.com
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Scott Campbell, Managing Artistic Director
scott@tacomalittletheatre.com Photos available upon request.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE End Date: June 26, 2011
TACOMA LITTLE THEATRE
raising money for local Non-profits
Tacoma, WA, Tacoma Little Theatre (TLT) is pleased to announce a new collaborative initiative aimed at helping local non-profit groups raise money. During its 2010-2011 mainstage season, TLT will donate one performance (per show title) for a selected non-profit partner to use as an exciting fundraising event.
There are many ways groups can take advantage of this unique opportunity – donor appreciation events, member ticket sales, public ticket sales – plus, TLT has plenty of space to allow for catering -- adding value to the event. Individual non-profits can best decide on how they want to leverage the free performance. For example, with TLT’s 250 seat capacity, a fundraiser charging $50.00 a ticket could raise $12,500.00. TLT will charge a small fee to cover royalties and other day of event costs . All other proceeds go directly to the selected non-profit partner. TLT will ask selected partners to help promote the show through-out the year through the partner’s routine organizational outreach and communication efforts.
The following titles are currently available for non-profit collaboration:
Sleuth, by Anthony Shaffer
Available non-profit performance date is Thursday, September 16th, 2010
The ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy English country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke. Invited guest Milo Tindle, a young rival who shares not only Wyke's love of the game but also his wife, has come to lay claim. Revenge is devised and murders plotted as the two plan the ultimate whodunnit. Winner of the Tony and Drama Critics Circle award for Best Play.
Eleemosynary, by Lee Blessing
Available non-profit performance dates are Thursday, November 4th, 2010 and Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Eleemosynary probes into the delicate relationship of three women: the grandmother, Dorothea, who has sought to assert her independence through strong-willed eccentricity; her brilliant daughter, Artie, who has fled the stifling domination of her mother; and Artie's daughter, Echo, a child of exceptional intellect-and sensitivity-whom Artie has abandoned to an upbringing by Dorothea. As the play begins, Dorothea has suffered a stroke, and while Echo has reestablished contact with her mother, it is only through extended telephone conversations, during which real issues are skirted and their talk is mostly about the precocious Echo's single-minded domination of a national spelling contest. But, in the end, after Dorothea's death, both Artie and Echo come to accept their mutual need and summon the courage to try, at last, to build a life together-despite the risks and terrors that this holds for both of them after so many years of alienation.
Annie, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan
Available non-profit performance dates are Thursday, December 9th, 2010 or Thursday, December16th, 2010
Leapin' Lizards! Just in time for Christmas! The popular comic strip heroine takes the stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals. "Annie" is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Frost / Nixon, by Peter Morgan
Available non-profit performance dates are Thursday, March 17th, 2011 or Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The writer of the award-winning The Queen and The Last King of Scotland tackles the question: How did David Frost, a famous British talk-show host with a playboy reputation, elicit the apology that the rest of the world was waiting to hear from former President Richard Nixon? This fast-paced new play chillingly recounts of one of the most monumental television interviews of all time. A Tony-winning play and Oscar-nominated film.
The Who’s Tommy, music & lyrics by Pete Townshend, book by Pete Townshend & Des McAnuff, additional music & lyrics by John Entwistle & Keith Moon
Available non-profit performance dates are Thursday, May 12th, 2011, Thursday, May 19th, 2011, or Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The tony winning Rock Opera comes to Tacoma. Based on The Who’s 1969 concept album “Tommy” the musical follows a catatonic child – Tommy – from his tragic early life in the wake of the Second World War to his ascension to stardom as a pinball wizard, and the awakening of his humanity.
Proof, by David Auburn
Available non-profit performance date is Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Proof is the story of a young woman named Catherine. Her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician, who has misplaced both his brilliance and his sanity in his later years. Catherine, a budding mathematician herself, must give up her schooling and her most creatively productive years in order to take care of her father, who has become convinced that alien civilizations are communicating with him directly through the local library's Dewey decimal system.
Organizations interested in participating in this unique initiative can email a letter of interest to Scott Campbell, Managing Artistic Director, at scott@tacomalittletheatre.com by August 1, 2010.
Tacoma Little Theatre, founded in 1918, is the oldest theatre in the west. For more information please call 253-272-2281 or visit www.tacomalittletheatre.com
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