Footlight To Donate Performance Proceeds To Haiti Relief Fund

For Immediate Release, January 2010

Footlight Players will help provide a “Miracle” to the people of Haiti by donating 25% of their ticket proceeds from the January 28th performance of “The Miracle Worker” to Charleston’s local organization, Water Missions International. Come out and support the Footlight Players as well as help in the relief efforts to those affected by the earthquake in Haiti.

The money raised by the Footlight Players on January 28, 2010 will be donated to Water Missions International, who is providing clean drinking water, one of the biggest needs right now in the crisis, to the people of Haiti. Water Missions International (WMI) is a nonprofit, Christian engineering organization based in Charleston, SC whose mission is to provide sustainable access to safe water and an opportunity to hear the Living Water message in developing countries and disaster areas. So far 12 units have been dispersed to Haiti to purify their water and 10 more are in transit. Each unit can provide water each day for 5,000 people. Ultimately, Water Mission International plans to send 100 water systems to Haiti.

Be a “Miracle” with the Footlight Players and come see “The Miracle Worker” on January 28, 2010 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors, $15 for students, and $10 for children 10 & under. Join us in helping the people of Haiti. Call (843) 722-4487 to get your tickets today and make a difference.

THE FOOTLIGHT PLAYERS

The Footlight Players, founded in 1931, is Charleston’s oldest theatre tradition. Currently in its 78th season as Charleston’s only community theatre, the Footlight Players is located at 20 Queen Street in the heart of downtown Charleston. Each season, the Footlight Players presents six Mainstage shows, three Latenight shows, and hosts the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. The theatre is volunteer-based, with only five full-time staff members. The theatre’s mission is to provide the best in theatre entertainment for the Lowcountry: to provide an outlet for the talent, energies and cultural aspirations of the community; and to create and establish for the future, a theatre rooted in the traditions, needs and dreams of the community.