RIVER CITY THEATRE COMPANY

Program Successes\r\n- Previous Cast Members tell us about success in their lives \r\n- Financial Sustainability \r\n- Returning cast members\r\n- Returning board members and volunteers year after year \r\n- Voted Best Theater Company in Sacramento 2012 \r\n- 500 children granted scholarships since 1990 along with 8000 free tickets for scholarship schools/audience members \r\n- Elly Award winning multiple times (Elly is equivalent to a Tony Award) from the Sacramento Regional Theatre Alliance (SARTA).

RCTC is asking for $1,000 - $5,000 in donations. In last year's production of Anything Goes, we had 14 scholarships awarded to 14 individual school students who are financially disadvantaged. RCTC usually awards at least 10% of its cast members with scholarships. When RCTC awards a full scholarship that includes waiving the $300 registration fee and costume fee ranging from $50 to $100 or more ($75 average). A $1,500 contribution/donation would sponsor and fund four scholarships awarded to four financially disadvantaged children to participate in the cast of our production ($1,500 / $375). A $2,500 contribution/donation would sponsor and fund around seven full scholarships, or half the number of scholarships in our current production of Anything Goes, ($2,500 / $375). A $5,000 contribution would pay for the royalty rights to put on one production--thus, you would be the sponsor for the entire show production, with your organization's name printed in the season program, and announced to the audience at the beginning of each show.

Our available resources and number of paid registrations dictate how many scholarships we can award.\r\nOur last production of "Anything Goes" performed in March/April 2017, was not financially successful. We\r\nhad 30 percent fewer paid registrations than our previous production of "Cinderella" in November 2016.\r\nRCTC took a large financial loss of around $25,000 on the Anything Goes production. This was expected, as\r\nAnything Goes is not as popular of a show than Cinderella, and from a technical theatre standpoint, Anything Goes required advanced dancing skills attracted by older youth such as high school students. Thus, paid registrations from youth in grades 1-7 were very low. So RCTC has programmed for our upcoming 2017/2018 season shows that would attract a larger\r\npool of youth and families who have heard and are excited for popular, well-known, young family oriented shows.

We just completed our Fall 2017 production of "Seussical The Musical." It was a success! Our registration numbers were at a level that reached historical norms (profitable). Also, both school field trip shows were "sold-out" achieving attendance of approximately 1,200 for each show (fire-code maximum capacity is 1,228). Concession sales were also good. Our next production in Spring 2018 should be just as successful. We have programmed two popular shows for two different age groups. For 1st - 8th graders, we will produce "The Lion King Jr." in April 2018. For 8th - 12 graders, we will produce "The Addams Family" in March 2018. Eighth graders have the option in registering for either show, but not both. This past Fall, we also implemented and installed a digital projection system above the theater stage in lieu of renting expensive backdrops. This 21st century equipment enables us to save money over time, while presenting many more visually stunning images, backgrounds, and scenes in each show.