Performing Arts Patron Gifts

I'd like to donate to your theater, but

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

Tut and Carmen.

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

"Biff's old money, Angelo is new money and Boris is funny money."

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Marcel Marceau's parrot

Koko pleads with the Mikado

"The first rule of miming is you don't talk about miming."

"The audience is really classy tonight, they are throwing quail eggs."

The Costumer Is Always Right

Edmund Kean Supporting Drury Lane

Funding Cuts for the Arts

Theatrical emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles

Can Can

"Yikes. I'm on in five minutes and still haven't figured out my character's motivation."

"He's a rescue, and before that he was in Vaudeville."

"Yes, but is it art?"

Would you like something from the bar, miss? It looks like you might need it.

Tilted painting

'Son I want you to Follow in My Footsteps.'

"Cultural economy - keep it going."

"Take us to Lady Gaga."

Circus trousers

John Ruskin

Theatrical Christmas.

'This one is from my pre-arts grant period'

'I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but in order for Act 3 to go on we'll need an additional $17,000!'

Please consider donating your cancelled ticket so that we may sing again for you very soon.

This program is made possible by donations from Don and Mary Doughaberg, and from lowlifes like you who never get their names mentioned.

"It's a panda-cam production of 'Streetcar,' but it is live theatre."

'Supporting the arts'

"That is today's special, sir, Spanish lobster flamenco."

The play was soo much fun! You were great, Sally! Do I know you? I was your #3 attendant in scene 2. Attendants are seen and not heard. Are you going into the theater, Twig? Yes. I'm going to write plays where the pretty girls get it. Ah, revenge! The wellspring of great art.