Fleet Week

We’ve got a big favor to ask you, oh you big blog audience out there. We’ve got a publicity stunt we want to try.

Yes, we’d like you to come see the play, but that’s not the favor.

This past Monday we had our first readthrough and it was FANTASTIC. Before I go any further, you should know we’ve got Fringe Festival award winners. We’ve got OOBR award winners. We’ve got cabaret and downtown theater award winners. And we have a TONY NOMINEE. I don’t know how we got this lucky, but the cast is incredible. Even if you hate the show, you’re gonna love the cast, I’m sure of this. And we’re getting amazing support from the Festival itself. Their biggest gesture of faith in us is our venue assignment, the historic 299-seat Lucille Lortel Theater on Christopher Street.

Now, sure, that’s 299 seats to fill per show, but we’re actually kind of excited about the challenge. After watching a week of reahearsals,
we can see that the show will do most of the work selling itself once it’s opened, so we’re focusing our efforts on selling out the opening
night.

We REALLY need you to come on opening night, which is half of the favor. The other favor is to buy your tickets as soon as possible. Like Saturday, July 30th. RIGHT NOW, if you’re reading this on Saturday.

Fringe Festival tickets go on sale tomorrow. If you’re already planning to see FLEET WEEK, please, please make every effort to come opening night, Friday, August the 19th at 7pm. And if you buy your ticket this weekend, it helps us 10 times more than if you buy it later.

That’s the favor. Please come see our play, on Friday, August 19th, and by your tickets by Monday.

We know it’s a lot to ask. But it is a hell of a show. And we are currenly trying to sweeten the deal a bit:

We’d love to repay the festival, the cast, and the production team for all their hard work and support with a kick-ass opening to get
everyone talking about the show. And we’d like to reward everyone who helps us do it, too. Right now we’re working on getting an opening night party together for all opening ticket-holders, we’ll send more news on that as it develops.

For information on how to get tickets, go to:

tickets

Obviously, we’d love to see you guys on any night you can make it. We know how busy things get for all of us. But come check out opening
night if you can. We can pretty well guarantee that you won’t be disappointed.

Lindsay, Jordana, Sean & Mac

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