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Since 2012, the Tuesday following Thanksgiving marks Giving Tuesday, a day focused on supporting your favorite non-profits through unified charitable giving. Springfield Contemporary Theatre has been humbled by the outpouring of support from our patrons near and far As the pandemic wears on, we have reassessed our current needs and abilities and have allowed our imaginations to explore and seize new opportunities. The pandemic has presented new and unprecedented challenges for theatre makers across the country, and SCT remains committed to produce theatre that puts our artists' and patrons' safety first. For Giving Tuesday 2020, we hope you will join us in pursuing our new and exciting plans through this year's campaign.

Starting February 2021, Springfield Contemporary Theatre will establish a new base of operations at 2025 E Chestnut Expressway. The move is an economical one that allows us to operate under one roof. This move will consolidate what has been three different locations and will result in one rent and utilities payment instead of three. In this new space, SCT will be building a virtual production studio that allows the organization to provide safe, high quality, consistent, year-round productions that its audiences have come to expect. What's even more exciting is that when the weather is right and pandemic infection rates allow, we can present outdoor productions onsite!

We are committed to Downtown Springfield, and we continue our search for a permanent home in the downtown area that will allow us to produce indoor productions in a safe and healthy situation for performers and audience as social distancing guidelines can be eased in the future.

We welcome your questions and ideas. Please reach us during office hours or online.

Springfield Contemporary Theatre is known for real, premiere, immersive, grown-up theatre. Thank you in advance for helping Springfield Contemporary Theatre achieve our goal this Giving Tuesday. Together, we will continue to create theatre safely, and and with a fresh perspective.

SCT’s goal is to raise $10,000 this Giving Tuesday to support:
 
1. A virtual production studio, equipped with an SCT-sized stage equipped with light trellises, new energy efficient LED light fixtures, necessary video equipment, video editing equipment and improved internet infrastructure for streaming capabilities.

2. Continued solvency which allows the SCT staff to dream big without fear of closure by locking in a reduced overhead for the next two years.

3. The future at SCT: each item purchased for this new space will be selected to not only support this current venture, but also the transition into SCT's eventual permanent home.

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We hope you are all staying healthy. In this time of uncertainty, we must all do our part to support and protect one another.
 
As local cases of COVID-19 surge, SCT remains closed to the public in order to protect our audiences, artists and staff from the spread of the coronavirus. We are determined to weather this storm and look forward to welcoming audiences back the the theatre as soon as we are safely able – it is now clear that we will not be able to resume in-person performances before the end of 2020. 
 
With performances suspended, our primary revenue stream has been shut off. However, the bills have not. We ask you to consider making a gift to SCT to help us address the overwhelming economic implications of the pandemic. In these extraordinarily challenging times, theatre and the arts offer solace to a frightened nation and our fellow citizens.

Your support at this time will help sustain Springfield Contemporary Theatre so it can continue to produce high-caliber theatre experiences and be a vital part of our community.

We are forever impressed and grateful for your passion and support. We need it now, more than ever before. Thank you.

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Springfield Contemporary Theatre produces nine mainstage productions in a year-round performance schedule as well as other special events and performances. We need your help to continue offering quality live theatre at a reasonable admission price to attract a wide socially diverse audience. As a non-profit theatre company, only half our annual budget can be covered by ticket revenue, therefore donor support is crucial to Springfield Contemporary Theatre’s success. If you are already a supporter, thank you. If not, please consider making a gift today. In addition to individual donations toward our season goals, SCT is also looking for individuals, businesses or organizations to help sponsor specific productions, guest artists and projects throughout the season. If you have any questions about donating, please contact our Executive Director, Lou Schaeffer at SCTheatreMO@gmail.com.
All Season Donations shall be acknowledged in our playbills:

            Cameos                       $50–$99
            Supporting Players      $100–$249
            Featured Players         $250–$499
            Principals                    $500–$999
            Headliners                  $1,000-$4,999
            Stars                            $5,000 and above
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Sponsorships for individual productions shall be listed in the specific productions news releases and credit will on the title show page in playbills.

            Production Sponsor                  $1,000–$2,499
            Production Underwriter            $2,500 and above

Headliners and Stars may receive two tickets to each production in our season. Production Sponsors and Underwriters also receive an allotment of tickets for that designated production.

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS
Reflecting contributions from January 1, 2020 to October 13, 2020
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STARS
($5,000+)

Rob & Sally Baird

Robert H. Bradley
​​Paul & Carol Reinert

​Yates & Janet Trotter
Maggie Wilcox

Anonymous

HEADLINERS
($1,000-4,999)

Chuck & Marcia Bonwell

Scott & Michelle Bradley
Nancy Cooper
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Cynthia Hollander
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Duane & Gwen Hunt
​Noah Karrasch & Gloria Galanes

Alex & Cathy Primm

PRINCIPALS
($500-999)

Buddy Ball & Virginia Jones

Bohannon Auto Services,
Darin & Kristi Bohannon​

​Patty Brooks

Walter & Laura Cowart
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Richard & Linda Dimond
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Mark & Diana Eul
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Jim & Terri Evans

Janice Summers Faucett

Tess Harper

Alex Huff

​Shirley Huffman
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David & Shirley Hutchison
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Victor & Linda Koeneman

​Betsy Kurtz

​​Andy & Cindy Lear


​Ed & Debi Lee
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Charles O. Letterman
Jack Laufer & Michael Brill

​Robert Lanning & Minuen Odom


​Terry & Mary Kay Meek

Erika Nadir

​​Susan Pyle

​Ted Salveter

Rocco Vienhage

​Joyce Wise

FEATURED PLAYERS
($250-499)

Nita Jane Ayres

Ruth Barnes

Jeff & Donna Carney
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Tom & Cathy Carter

Don & Betty Golik
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​Sequoia Grace

​Art & Lisa Hains
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Rebecca Hogan


Sam & Marsha Jones
​Gary Kester
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​Thomas Kurtz

David Lee & Polly Dross
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Marilyn White Lowe

​K. Todd & Kathy Morriss

Wallace & Joyce Munden

Marie Murphree


​Music Moves for Piano
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​Barbara Parker

​Denny & Mary Pilant

​T. Haven Miller & Robin Rader

John Reece

Becky Savage

Martha Schatz

Jon & Sandi Sidoli

Dennis Stewart

Judith Vanderbilt

Krista Kelam Wysong

SUPPORTING PLAYERS
($100-249)

Pokey Alrutz

​Arleigh Atkinson

Roger Malarkey & Al Miller

Leslie Ballew, Joe Bowman & Joyce Bowman

Ellie Bennett
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James & Judith Billings

Terry & Julie Bloodworth

​Rich & Jane Bogue​

Cynthia & Dave Bolinger

Sara Brummel

​Linda Chorice

Andy Cline & Lola Butcher

​William Cooper & Richard Daut
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Jill Creson

Todd Daniel

​Kara DeBacker
Michelle Drye

​​John Eldridge

​John & Jennifer Essman


Savannah & Josh Fernelius
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​Darrell & Marge Gonstead


Margaret Hader

​Ralph & Janet Harris​

​Karen Horny
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Randy & Susy Huff

The Lazzaro Family

Aila Lee
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​Rhonda Lewsader

​Janice Mann

​Josh & Breanna Mareschal

Sharon Marsh
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​Terry Meyer
​Pamela Mitchell

​Keith Myers


Bruce Myers
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​​​Elizabeth Rains


​Mary Jo Raming
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Gloria Scarlet
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Jeremy & Michael Sullivan

Julia Taylor
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Rana Tenorio

​Ron Tindle

Betsy Wahl

Jason & Chelsea White
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Maxine Whittaker

​Kirsten Weiss

Micheal Wilkes

​Dan Woodall

CAMEOS
($50-99)

Kristoffer Barefield

Fran Beam

Ross & Kay Bebout

Susan Brummell Belcher

Jerry & Linda Benson

​Barbara Block

​​Teresa Burns

​Scott Whiteley Carter

Hue Chin

​Cathy Coonis
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Natalie Doliner

Barbara & Rick Dullum

​​Molly Edwards

​John Ferguson

Anne Gardner

​Stacy Howard

​Kevin Keppy


Lynn Kleiber

​Ann Kynion

​David & Jennifer Logan

​Susan Lovelady

Judy Luxton

​Marcia Morriset

Jeff & Kathy Munzinger


​Kaleb Norman

Zipporah Peddle​


Caryl Posada-Stillings
Kym Priest

​Kathy Raymond

Kathleen Reddick

Cathy Sanchez

​Allan Schilter

Barry Shaw

Alberta Smith

Ted Smith & Anna Faye Sturhahn

Nathan Taylor

​Cathy Van Landuyt

Amy Viets-Cooper

​Adie Williams

Christopher Witla

CELEBRATIONS

In Memory of Dennis Chappell
Carol Chappell

​In Memory of Marc Cooper
Nancy Cooper
​In Memory of William Brandon Bowman
Mary Fry

In Memory of Tom Peavey
Judith Peavey
In Memory of Dennis Chappell
Carol Chappell
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