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This is going to sound weird, but I need to gather 300+ bottle caps. You know, the plastic ones from 20 oz sodas or 2-liter bottles? Yeah, those. I also need them as soon as is possible.
Since I know I won’t drink 300+ sodas in the next couple of weeks, I figured I’d turn to you, my friends, and see if you could help us out – or help us out by passing it along to others who might be willing to send caps along. After all, I’m not asking for money or anything that many would value, but it would help us a great deal!
As to why they’re needed?
Well, I’ve recently started helping out with the Jobsite Theater group, which is a local not-for-profit theatrical group. Thanks to a combination of sponsored donations and ticket sales, they manage to bring some really great plays to the Tampa Bay area. They also have exposed audiences to brand new never-before-seen plays by promising new playwrights. And much as I’m sure they’d love to, these aren’t folks who do this for a living. They have families and jobs and still manage to carve out large portions of their life for the joy of bringing good theater to the Tampa Bay area.
With that said, we need caps to help create portions of the set for the upcoming production of boom! I don’t want to give away too many details on precisely how they’ll be used in the set; it ruins the fun of seeing it. However, in exchange for your gracious donation of plastic bottle caps, I’ll post some behind-the-scenes photos out here of rehearsals; the Straz center; the cast; and things of that nature. I’ll also be keeping a running tally on how many we’ve received to date, for those interested. (Who knows, perhaps we’ll get buried in bottle caps within a week! It would be awesome – and greatly appreciated.)
So if you have a few stamps, a few caps, and would like to take part in this really strange but 100% serious call for help for a very deserving theater company, here’s where you can mail them to us:
| Caps for boom! c/o Jobsite Theater P.O. Box 7975 Tampa, FL 33673-7975 |
Caps for boom! c/o Krystalle Voecks P.O. Box 47542 St. Petersburg, FL 33743-7542 |
As soon as I get 25 caps, I’ll post the first behind-the-scenes shot; so send those caps in and check back! (Or watch my Twitter feed.)
Thanks, everyone!
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Krystalle Voecks, Krystalle Voecks, Paddy Fellows, Michael C. McGreevy, Aaron and others. Aaron said: RT @Krystalle: Repeating because we need the help: We need 300+ plastic 20 oz or 2-liter bottle caps. You can help! Details are here: http://bit.ly/9DkFcy [...]
Is there a deadline on when you need these by? I’ve collected a handful from the people at work (who are all very curious about their eventual use) and need to know when – or if – I should send them to you?