A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

FROM THE ALOTT5MA OCCASIONAL GENEROSITY DESK: A guest post from commenter Sue, with many interesting items below the fold.

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Hello, fellow ALOTT5MAers!  As you may know, I work for an Off Broadway theater called Playwrights Horizons. Each year, to raise funds to support productions of new plays and musicals (such as the world premieres of Clybourne Park, Grey Gardens, I Am My Own Wife and many more), we hold an Online Auction.   Most of the items take place in NYC, but there are also set visits and tapings in L.A., theater packages in Chicago and D.C., and trips to Mexico, Palm Springs, Sun Valley, London and Africa!  

Best of all, there are dozens of items in the world of pop culture and sports that I think will interest the gang here, including:

• New Girl set visit

• Inside the NFL: set visit and meet the hosts

• Tickets to the premiere party for The Walking Dead, season 4

• House seats to Broadway shows including:
  •  Matilda (and go backstage and meet Lauren Ward, playing Miss Honey!)
  • Book of Mormon (go backstage and meet Nikki James!)
  • Kinky Boots (go backstage and meet Annaleigh Ashford!)
  • Wicked (with backstage tour)
  • Motown, Newsies, Jersey Boys (with hotel!)  and many other Broadway and Off Broadway shows!

• Homeland “Q&A” script signed by the cast.

• Theater packages in Washington D.C. and Chicago.

• Tickets to the premiere party of The Walking Dead

• Lunch for eight people with Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

• HBO swag bag

• Rangers center ice seats

• Showtime DVD collection – the most recent season of Dexter, House of Lies, Nurse Jackie, Californication

• Tickets to tapings of The Daily Show, Jimmy Fallon, Jay Leno, Chelsea Lately, America’s Got Talent

• Lunch with BBC America Copper star Ato Essandoh

• NCIS: LA set visit

• Your story: mixed and ready for public radio

Every bid helps, and every dollar you spend helps Playwrights Horizons to develop and produce the best new American plays and musicals.  Playwrights Horizons is the theater that:

• The New York Observer called “the single best thing on the theater landscape in 2012.”
• The New York Times encouraged theatergoers to “see whatever’s on stage at Playwrights Horizons” in fall 2012.
• Produced three of this year’s five nominees for Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Play!

The auction ends Monday, April 15 at 8:00 pm.  Take a look and happy bidding!