It is a busy day/week/month (take your pick) in the life of this Underdog. Lemme give you the run-down of what's happening:
Fundraising, fundraising, soliciting, making connections,business plans,donation letters,profit or not-for-profit,FEIN numbers,corporations, LLC's, partnerships,Patron Tequila,the Spot,Samuel French, Dramatists, Bachelor Holiday, July 9, 11, 12, 16, 18, JUNE 6, Mary Poppins letters, WICKED donation, Cornservatory Donations, Illinois Tax Exempt Letters, bank accounts, debit cards, rights approvals, sponsorships, donations, liquor, food, music, piano players, STOREFRONT THEATRE MUSICAL, nervousness, APRIL 30th, overwhelmed, The Last 5 Years, Letterhead, business cards, vista print, paper source, red 7 salon, binnys, charitable donations, pictures, tambourines, lawyers, accountants, questions, no answers, canvassing, audition notices, audition spaces, Ludicrous theatre, reciprocity, reciprocity, reciprocity, reciprocity, connections, thank you's, red tape, money money money, 5 year plans, SWOT, donors, marketing, images, words, sounds, art, acting, theatre...to name a few things. :)
So basically I've been working on getting UTC some money; cash; cold, hard green - or donations. We're not officially a business yet because we have no money, no one can/will give us money because we're not a business - see the vicious circle? I've contemplated taking out loans to get us off the ground and official and legal...but let's put it this way...my credit 'aint the best. So we're stuck. We have The Big Bang fundraiser that is coming up on June 6th. Red 7 Salon has graciously offered their space to us free of charge, and is throwing in a gift basket for us to raffle/auction off. So we owe them a big THANK YOU. I'm in talks with Binny's Beverage Depot to donate some booze for us as a charitable donation...things seem to be going well with that. Let's hope everything goes smoothly. I'm also trying to get Patron Tequila and Spirits to sponsor our first event, Bachelor Holiday in July. This will be our FIRST, premier production. Woo hoo!! Look at us go! We are having auditions on May 3 and are looking for 3 guys...well 2 guys. And we're performing at a bar and are having product placement in our show...why WOULDNT patron sponsor us?? Its almost a direct sale for them.
I met one of the managers from the Broadway tour of Mary Poppins and he was totally cool. So I may be scoring some tickets from him! **fingers crossed** Ellen and i went soliciting yesterday and got some positive feedback so lets hope those connections come through for us. We also decided that UTC will donate 10% of it's season's proceeds to the Human Rights Campaign, Cancer Research and AIDS research and some other local causes. We're all Underdogs in a way and we need to stick together. My brain is absolutely fried right now, so i'm going to end with that. Things are happening, i hope they don't stop.