Kickstarter

Hello Everyone!

Well we're a week and a half into rehearsals and less than a month from opening! We are getting more excited about the show every day. Just an FYI to all of you CoLaborators tickets are now onsale at www.brownpapertickets.com. There is a discount for purchasing your tickets in advance and there are only a limited quantity per performance available for presale - so buy early and buy often :-p. Things we have used some of your generous donations for so far include script copying and binding for actor scripts, a kitchen island, a deck of cards, and a magicians hat and scarf. Curious as to how all these things will tie together? Well we can't wait to see you in the audience. Keep up with us on our blog and read some posts by our actors Alyce Householter, Patrick Poulin, and Tony Rios http://colabtheatre.blogspot.com. And stay tuned for more updates from the production trail!

Kenny, Erika, and Mary-Liz

Hello everyone!

We wanted to send out a belated but heartfelt and very excited THANK YOU to all of your support during our Kickstarter campaign. We have gotten through casting and had our first rehearsal last night and are giddy about getting to work on the play. Because all of you have a stake in this production we are doing our first public cast announcement here. Without further adieu the cast is as follows:

June - Alyce Householter
Julius - Patrick Poulin
Morrie - Tony Rios

For those of you awaiting a reward in the mail, bear with us as we gather our materials together to have them mailed out. Also, we have been so successful throughout this campaign that we have set up a direct donation button on our website, so please continue to spread the word about our growing company! Your names as collaborators can be found along side this donation button on our website http://www.colabtheatre.org/become-a-colaborator.html.

For full production information check it out here: http://www.colabtheatre.org/upcoming-shows.html

Stay tuned for more updates on production and thanks again for all of your support!

* Kenny, Erika, and Mary-Liz

WOW.

We are overwhelmed with the support we've received for this project so far and we can't thank you enough for donating! As of July 9 we are at $2000, plus our matched donation of $800 (of the original goal), which brings us to a grand total of $2800 towards our first season. THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH. We have four days to go until our campaign comes to a close so we'd like to ask you one last favor, if you enjoyed this and think someone else would enjoy this video, please pass it along. You can even use this link, right here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1220702887/dearly-beloved-a-colab-theatre-co-production?ref=video

If you REALLY enjoyed this video AND live in Boston, come see us in action this week for our Second Annual Production of: 

play.Discovery at Unity Church of God in Davis Square on Wednesday, July 13 and Friday, July 15. To learn more, follow the link below:

http://www.colabtheatre.org/upcoming-shows.html

Thanks again -- we love you all!

- Kenny, Erika, and Mary-Liz

What an amazing first 25 days of our campaign. We could not have asked for more with in this first few weeks. The show of support has been truly outstanding. But the most amazing part is that we still have 49 days to raise money to fund other events in our 2011 - 2012 season. In addition to play. Discovery and Dearly Beloved we would love to include a community arts event in the late fall, a production of an established work in the spring, and another round of Audition Circle to complete our 2011 - 2012 Season. But we still have a long way to go before that is a financial reality!

To fund everything for our complete first season, from performance space, to equipment rentals, to index cards for Audition Circle, we need a total of $6000.00. With the money we have raised with this campaign so far and our $800 matching sponsorship we are almost half-way there, but it would be truly amazing to reach our full budget by July 15th!

Thank you again for all of your generosity and support -- please keep spreading the word!

We're up over $1,300.00 already. Thank you to all of you who are spreading the word via facebook, it is truly appreciated! Opening up our company and this video to a larger network will surely help us reach our production budget goal of $1500.00. Stay tuned for updates as we interview directors and continue on our production path. And keep spreading the word! Every little bit helps :-)

Always,

Kenny, Erika, and Mary-Liz