WAYS TO SUPPORT
Cost Breakdown of Live Rich, Die Poor
Set Cost - Costume, Light, Set Design
$2,500 Light Design
$1,000 Costume Design
$3,000 Set Design (including props)
$3,000 Two special commissioned trees (with benefactors names carved into it)
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Complete the needs of the current Set (commissioned collapsible tree and boxes)
Total $8,500
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Create Press Kit/Marketing (To take the show to theaters and colleges around the country)
$5,000
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Festivals Applications
United Solo Festival $2,000
Additional Festivals $3,000
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Salaries
Admin Support: $10,400
Actor Salary - 2 additional actors 3 month rehearsal and memorization fee
Two Actors: $6,400
Writer/Actor (during pre-production): $5,000
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Stage Manager
3 weeks prep before a show @ 20 hours a week x $50: $3,000
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Touring
2 day show and rehearsal (arriving:Friday for rehearsal, performance on Sat. & Sun): $2,500
Director (3 months of rehearsals ): $4,320
Puppet Builder & Director (converting current show into a 40 min. Children’s show with puppetry): $10,000
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Children’s Show development and research: $2,000
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Publicist: $8,000
Dramaturg: $2,000
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Housing and Food during Tour dates:
$750 for 10 weekends
$7,500 per person
TOTAL: $85,100
Levels of Giving
(to get to $85,100)
In Memorial (appears in playbill)
$750 (8 at this level)
EXAMPLE: Live Rich Die Poor
Written and performed by Ann Perry
Presented in memory of
Jimella Maple by the Maple, Perry, Foster Family
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$1,000 ( 20 at this level)
Eatonville’s Backbone Sponsor
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$500 ( 40 at this level)
Harlem Renaissance Wings Sponsor
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Title sponsorship (one at this level)
$35,000
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Appears on the Playbill
Live Rich Die Poor, A Like Bamboo Production
Presented by Clarence and Edna Perry