Here is the potential new layout. We have 7 days left of our kickstarter. Thank you for all your support on this project so far. We are about $2,000 away from our goal. Please tell your friends.

We met with the Alderman yesterday and he has said he will support the project IF we can get the Graceland West Community Association to back up the project. He is setting up a town hall meeting for us in our new space in the weeks to come. We will need the support of our fans, artists, and neighbors to come show this group who we are.

We need to prove will not be focusing on giving $20 hand jobs in the back alley, corrupting there children with drugs and foul language, and violent dance style rumbles in the street. All of that is just an added benefit to what we will be offering. Low cost high quality entertainment, creating jobs, raising revenue to start community outreach programs, and lots and lots of laughs.

Our fundraising efforts have been going great, and we can’t thank you enough for your support. We have 10 days left in our Kickstarter and we have raised almost $3,000 of the $5,000 goal. If you can please pledge to it, pledges start as low as $10. If you can’t give at this time please let a friend know about us, word of mouth is our best form of Marketing.

Pledge here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cicomedy/chemically-imbalanced-comedy

PS some of the above comments are meant in a satirical fashion. Although we would like to give $20 hand jobs in the back alley it is not currently planned for our 11th season. Also I have my own kid to corrupt and she approves this message. “Love you mommy”- Jordan McMahon 5 years old Nettlehorst CPS

Thanks everyone
Angie

With 12 days left to go in our Kickstarter Fundraiser we have reached 50% of our goal.

I also wanted to express our Thanks to those of you who took the time to call the Alderman's office and express your support of our Expansion project. It was unnecessarily kind of you, and impressed him when I met him at the fundraiser last night that we have community support.

I have our meeting with him tommorow (Thurs) and will let you all know how it goes.

As always thank you for the support and if you can't pledge something right now please tell a friend. Word of mouth is our best form of marketing.

Love CIC

PS Pledge as low as $10 here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cicomedy/chemically-imbalanced-comedy

I had put a lot of thought into our recent “asking of monies” to expand our space. I wanted to share some facts with you as to why this is important for us.

1. We run, and have run, for the past 10 years on no debt. We have no loans, credit cards, or debt to speak of. We had decided in the start that if we couldn’t afford something we wouldn’t get it. Why is this a problem now? Well our current savings will most likely not cover all our costs, or leave us with very little to operate with. And because our buisness has no credit (and hasn’t had any for 10 years) we are finding it harder to get these kinds of small buisness loans now.

2. We don’t pay anyone. Well we do pay small amounts to designers for shows (mostly $100-$150 per project) for set designers, light desingers, sound designers, costumers, and stage managers. We have paid actors up to $10 per show depending on the project. We also have a daytime staff that works in the office and gets paid between them less than $1000 per month no matter the hours put in (split 2 ways)
The rest of our performers, box office, and staff do this out of the goodness of their hearts for the love of the company. It is our hope with the added income of more chairs and drink sales we will be able to start to pay more of our staff, and dare I say a living wage.

3. We keep our ticket prices low. We do this cause we want everyone to be able to see Theater and not break the bank. If we wanted to actually cover the costs of putting up productions, and paying folks we would have to charge much higher prices then $10-$20 tickets ($20 is the highest we have ever charged it it is very unusual for us to go that high)

So we ask you as artists who have performed with us, neighbors who have supported us, and audience members who have seen our work…do you feel we are worthy of your donation?

We have many programs we want to offer and don’t have the resources to do now (for instance we would like to offer classes for children and teens, free neighborhood appreciation nights, continued education workshops for our staff in audience development, pr, board building, grant writing, etc)

Don’t get me wrong, we are lucky to have such a wonderful space to perform in. And have been blessed that we have been able to save any money in this tough time. We know lots of hands are being held out these days asking for support for many worthy causes. We know times are tough and asking for support so we can create paying positions and free programs may not feel as worthy. (Am I talking you out of this now?)

We do appreciate all the support that has been given us through out these past 10 years. We could not survive without you. Please consider supporting our expansion effort.

Thanks Angie McMahon, founder CIC.

Tomorrow we meet with our Alderman to support HIS fundraiser. On Thurs we have our official face to face meeting with him to ask him to lift the Liquor Moratorium on our additional space.

We are 40% funded on our Kickstart and we can't thank folks enough for your support. If you haven't been able to pledge yet we would love to go to our meeting with the Alderman and show him how much the community is supporting our efforts to expand. Hoping to show him a solid 50-60% by Thursday.

Again if you can't pledge right now we would love the support in a facebook status update.

Thanks folks, much love CIC

Pledge here for as low as $10:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cicomedy/chemically-imbalanced-comedy

Just a short video tour of the new space we want to turn into the bar lobbyt

Thank everyone who has pledged support so far. We have had two meetings with our permit planners and architect. Today we meet with the lawyers and money starts changing hands. I will give updates as we get them. Tell your friends! As always thanks for the support!