We’d like to thank our audience, family, friends, and the Rocky community for your support of the PurplePalooza charity 5K for Family Shelter Service! We blew past our goal of $4711 and raised $5200 to help survivors of domestic violence.
The walk was Sept. 29 and we are ready for October, baby! Come check out the show, try our new Rocky Horror-related drinks, and let’s PARTY!
Wow, we have some amazing guest performers this summer! We have guests coming in from Cincinnati; St. Charles, Missouri; and even Milwaukee! You don’t have to travel to see some of the Midwest’s finest Rocky Horror performers – just come to Hollywood Blvd and we bring them to you. We also have a theme night planned (shh! it’s a secret!) and we’re working with our bartender to get some featured drinks.
To make the runup to Halloween extra special, we’ll be fundraising in August and September for the annual Family Shelter Service 5K to fight domestic violence – so you can enjoy fantastic guest performers, give to charity without leaving your chair, and enjoy Rocky Horror with to-your-table beverage service.
Ah, summer. We love it!
We’re proud to announce that we are walking in the Heroes for Hope charity 5K for the 5th year to raise money for Family Shelter Service. We have raised over $20,000 for FSS in the last 5 years and we are collecting money at the show, so please bring a little extra when you come see us. No donation too big or too small – we will happily take your pocket change; we’re not proud.
The big walk is Oct. 30 at Midwestern University, and we’ll be rocking our corsets at 8am right after our big Halloween show – wait’ll they get a load of us!
We are teaming up this year with Indiana cast Help Me Mommy, and we have donations from as far away as Israel, Japan, France and Germany! You can support us with a credit card donation here:
http://fss.donorpages.com/16WalkRun/TeamRockyHorror/
Thank you for your support – DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUCKS!
Thank you to our audience and other supporters for a very successful Fight for Air stair climb to fight lung cancer on Feb 8! Our 6 person team all finished, and with your help we raised $1350 for the American Lung Association.
We were featured in the Chicago Tribune on-line and our photos from the event were shared by Lady Patricia Stephens (Pat Quinn, who played Magenta!) on her Facebook page.
We’re now the #1 Google result for both “Rocky Horror” + Charity and for “Rocky Horror” + “Fight for Air” and we’re so proud.
Love to you all – cancer sucks!
Thanks very much to all our fans who donated and made the Hero for Hope event a huge success!
Our audience, friends and family raised over $5000 for the Family Shelter Service domestic violence shelter! The team won top fundraiser, with Audrey and Ruth netting top individual fundraiser honors, AND three cast members earned medals for their times (about an hour to walk 5K) – Desmond and Dylan won 2nd and 3rd, and Olivia won 2nd in their age divisions!
Thank you to everyone for opening your hearts and wallets. We went right from the 5K into the Halloween season, which was crazy and wonderful and we’re gonna LOVE next year, when Halloween’s on a Saturday! See you at the show…
It’s 2 days until the Heroes for Hope charity 5K, and with the help of the Rocky Horror community (and our families and friends – hi, Mom!) we have raised nearly $4500 to fight domestic violence. Rocky Horror plays in 32 states in the US – we have donations from 29 of them!
When we wake up Sunday morning to put on our makeup, pull on our fishnets and lace up our shoes, we believe we’ll have $4711 to hand to the fine folks at Family Shelter Service. Thanks to all of you for your help!
If you’d like to donate and you haven’t yet (calling our friends from New Mexico, South Carolina and Tennessee!), you can at http://fss.donorpages.com/HeroforHope2014/CompletelyCrazy/
Next week is October and we’ll be getting ready for Halloween.
First, we’d like to thank all of our friends from:
Arizona
California
Colorado
Washington DC
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
North Carolina
Nebraska
New Jersey
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Texas
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Taiwan – Scotland – Australia – and Germany!
We’re walking 5K in our Rocky Horror costumes for local domestic violence shelter Family Shelter Services on Sept. 28. We need your help – our goal is $4711! (Want to know why? Take a good look at Frank’s leg when you come see the show Saturday.)
Please bring a little extra cash to the show – we will be collecting for the charity. Every little bit helps, and we love you for it. The shelter is just down the street from our theater. They help thousands of people in our community, and even $5 will fund a child’s breakfast in the shelter. (And we really, really want to be the Girl Scouts team.)
THANK YOU!
(Couldn’t give at the show? You can donate on-line right here: click on http://fss.donorpages.com/HeroforHope2014/CompletelyCrazy/
We enjoy doing charity work at Completely Crazy; thanks to our audience from our Memorial Day show. We donated a third of the proceeds from prop kit sales to Paws for Purple Hearts, a charity which Paws for Purple Hearts (PPH) teaches veterans and active duty personnel with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to train service dogs for their comrades with combat-related injuries. PPH is built upon the trusted and time-honored tradition of Veterans helping Veterans.
Thanks for helping us support this worthy cause!
Happy 2014! Hope yours is successful and full of joy and a lot of fun. We’ll be putting on a hell of a show every Saturday; come join us!
As part of our 2014 activities, we’re participating in the Feb. 9 Fight for Air stair climb – scaling the Western Suburbs’ tallest building, the Oakbrook Terrace Tower (31 flights of stairs!) in our Rocky costumes. The firefighters in full gear beat our time last year, but we think we look better in stockings. (If you’re a firefighter and you can prove otherwise, please PLEASE send us the photos!) Proceeds benefit the American Lung Association.
Seriously, it seems like half the crowd at Rocky smokes, and frankly, so does half the cast. We’ll need the American Lung Association someday, so please give generously at the show. You can also donate here:
http://action.lung.org/site/TR/Climb/ALAUM_Upper_Midwest?team_id=82265&pg=team&fr_id=7960
Thanks!
Or at least we hear they will on Saturday, Oct 12, at Hollywood Blvd!
Come see us – we’ve heard your brains are delicious!
In other news, THIS:
Google “Rocky Horror” + Charity.
Look at the top two results – we’ve been in the #1 or #2 spot for 2 weeks now! $3600 plus raised so far, with 3 weeks to go! Please help us reach $4711 by donating at the show or here: http://fss.donorpages.com/HeroforHope2013/CompletelyCrazy/ . We’ll post lots of pictures of us walking 5K in our Rocky costumes for YOU, our fabulous audience, and for local women’s shelter Family Shelter Service!