Thanks Altrusa International! Yours, SLT

The fine ladies from Altrusa International came by the Seussical set today to pick up the almost 2,000 children’s books the Spartanburg Little Theatre is donating as part of our Seuss Literacy project.

(Pictured are the members of Altrusa International Spartanburg, Jay E. Coffman, Executive Artistic Director of SLT and the Cat in the Hat, aka Matt Giles, Artistic Director of SYT)

For those of you who don’t know the good things Altrusa does, here’s a blurb from their website www.altrusaspartanburg.org:

Altrusa International, Inc. of Spartanburg, established in 1961, is an organization for professional women and men with a common goal to provide service to our local and global community with emphasis on the family, education, and the environment.

The organization also promotes personal and professional growth for its members.

Thanks to Altrusa and their members for the willingness to collaborate.  Can’t wait to hear where these books are donated.  Bravo!

Come see Seussical this weekend.  Shows are selling fast! www.chapmanculturalcenter.org or 542-ARTS.

Spartanburg Little Theatre announces Seussical contest winners!

In conjunction with our mammoth production of the hit Broadway musical Seussical, we held two contests promoting literacy in Spartanburg County.

Our first contest encouraged school classes to donate new or gently loved children’s books, with the winning class promised a visit and story hour by the Cat in the Hat from Seussical. 

All in all, almost 2,000 books were donated to The Spartanburg Little Theatre.  We in turn will donate these books to Altrusa International, a service club for women, who will donate them to area nonprofits and needy children.

Congratulations to Giada Parris’ class at Woodruff Primary School! (pictured above with the Cat in the Hat).  Thank you so much for your generous gift.  And many thanks to all the other schools in Spartanburg County who contributed.

Our second venture was a poetry contest.  Children were asked to submit poems in the style of Dr. Seuss with the winners receiving two free tickets to Seussical and the opportunity to read their poem to the audience at intermission.

The poems were awesome and the readings have been a lot of fun.  We’ll have three more readings at this upcoming weekend’s productions.

Congratulations to:

Shane Rice—Monarch Elementary School

Rebekah Nelson—Abner Creek Elementary School

Braeden Mull—Boiling Springs Elementary School

Iman Qatawi and Maggie Wrinkle---Berry Shoals Intermediate School

Kyle Henderson—Berry Shoals Intermediate School.

The spirit of Seuss lives on!!!!

Come see Seussical this weekend.  Tickets are going fast!  www.chapmanculturalcenter.org or 542-ARTS