Just a quick heads-up that time’s running out to buy advance-priced tickets and merchandise for the show at Chicago’s Portage Theater on August 28! Online ordering will close on *Wednesday, August 25*; after that, tickets will be $15 cash only, at the theater box office only on the night of the show. Order now at our website, and check out photos some of the great items that will be on offer at our silent/live auction at the show!

If you’re already planning on coming and can bring along a thing or two to help one of our charities, we have a new Wish List from The House of the Good Shepherd for our drive this year at our Can’t Stop the Serenity event.  All the details can be found at our Local Charity page.

Thank you, and hope to see you at the Portage!

CSTS Chicago

Because The House has lost some funding, they really need Gift Cards from the following:

• Jewel
• Target
• K-Mart
• McDonald’s
• CTA Transit Cards

Additionally, the following are needed:

• Diapers: sizes 4, 5 & 6
• Baby Wipes

Lastly: Do you have a used cell phone lying around collecting dust?  Donate it to House of the Good Shepherd! You can dispose of your old cell phone responsibly while you help fund our violence recovery program.  We partner with a national organization that recycles old cell phones and pays us for each one we send them.  The cell phone you no longer need can support House of the Good Shepherd and similar programs all around the country.

We’ll be collecting these items by the door and we’ll give you an extra ticket for our prize giveaways.

The House of the Good Shepherd greatly appreciates everything generous Browncoats have donated in the past few years.

http://www.chicagolandbrowncoats.com/local-charity/

With your help, we raised a 2009 total of:

$4,153.88

$3,115.41 = 75% for Equality Now
$1,038.47 = 25% for The House of the Good Shepherd

I have already given Amy the check for The House and will be writing out and mailing the check to Equality Now tonight.

Once again, thank you so much to everyone who attended this year’s event and and to those who brought items in for our collection drive for The House.

Another big thank you to our volunteers!  We arrived at the theater to set up at 1pm and you guys worked tirelessly at making sure everything was set up and ready for our attendees and really kept the event running smoothly!

Thank you to our local sponsors:

• Graham Cracker Comics
• Busy Beaver Button Co

…and to those of you who donated items during our event!

• Dave Boyd
• Sydney Orr
• Acme Design, Inc
• Nina Marie
• Christopher Esterhammer-Fic
• …and more (need to find my notes!!)

We would really appreciate any comments/suggestions/complaints you might have regarding this year’s event, so please email us or comment at the forum.

THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who showed up to support Equality now and The House of the Good Shepherd.

A big thank you to those who showed up with some absolutely fabulous last minute donations for our auction table!!

We’ll be writing up a more detailed thank you and we’ll be posting the total raised within about a week or so.

The Chicago CSTS Team

Here is the schedule:

• 6 PM to 7 PM – Pre-Show Mini Shindig (only Pre-Show ticket holders)
• 7 PM – Will-call and Box Office open
• 8 PM – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
• Costume Contest
• Global Prize finalists announced
• Silent Auction closes at 9:30 PM. Live auction to follow if necessary
• Door prize giveaways
• 10:30-ish – Serenity

Tickets and merchandise are cashy money only.

We will have some local area maps marked with ATM locations as well as some local restaurants, at the Box Office. You can also check the google map on the Theater page.

Remember – we are collecting much needed items for The House of the Good Shepherd too!

See you there!

Get your advance priced tickets here until tomorrow, Aug 26th @ midnight.

Tix are $10 in advance / $15 at the door (cashy money only!)

We’d also like to remind you that we are collecting much needed items for local charity The House of the Go0d Shepherd (a shelter and recovery program for battered women and their children).

Bring the items to the theater and we’ll receive the items either at Will-call and/or we’ll have one of our cars outside with a sign.

Below is a list.  If you have anything not listed that you would like to donate, please contact Amy at amy@chicagolandbrowncoats.com so she can make sure the items can be used.

See you there!

We will also be donating 25%, of the funds we collect, to The House .

Please bring your items to the Portage on the day of the event.  If you have items that are not listed, please contact us to make sure The House can use the items.

Details can be found at the Local Charity page.