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MEMORANDUM

FROM :  THE MEN AND WOMEN OF MOC,
INCLUDING:  Annie, Mame, Eileen, Rio Rita, Rose Marie, Tawya, Naughty Marietta, The Merry Widow, Evita, George M., Funny Girl, Mademoiselle Modiste, the Spring Maid, Rose of Algeria, Robin Hood, Fiorello, the Man of La Mancha, Me and My Girl, Me and Juliet and The King (and I)

TO:           The Past, Present and Future Supporters of the Montclair Operetta Club

RE:            Life, Death, Survival, Mourning, Celebration, Dancing and Music

You don’t need to be a news hound to realize that there is The New Moon over state support for the arts, which is sinking faster than the Titanic.  Even the Unsinkable Molly Brown is feeling the need for The Fortune Teller  to see whether arts in New Jersey will dance again The Great Waltz or feel more like The Vagabond King.  It is Follies at its worst, for sure …truly Bitter Sweet.  Well Call Me Madam, that just can’t happen…can it?  No, No, Nanette, it cannot!

The truth is The Sweet Smell of Success  which pervades our Camelot  is endangered.  Unless we get endowed by Countess Maritza  or the Count of Luxembourg, the time may come when we have to say Kiss Me, Kate, Call Me Madam and Can-Can our way out of here.  No longer could we ask you to Meet Me in St. Louis,  visit Oklahoma, Brigadoon  or the South Pacific, see My Maryland, hear the Song of Norway or visit The Wizard of Oz.  The Sound of Music  would be silenced.  We’d no longer be able to be Footloose  inThe Secret Garden  or tap our way down 42^nd Street on our Knickerbocker Holiday.  The Most Happy Fella and Little Mary Sunshine would be sad.  The Cabaret  would be shut down.  The Carousel  would stop.  The Desert Song  would be silenced.

WE NEED YOUR SWEET CHARITY.  Plain and Fancy, I mean, plain and simple…our RENT for this Show Boat is quite a sum.  It’s Nunsense to think any amount you give won’t help…in fact, Anything Goes.  If not, it’s Ragtime for us as we pack up our Company and sail off with The Gondoliers as we head Into the Woods, taking The Music Man, The Chocolate Soldier and The Pirates of Penzance  along with us.  Worst of all, our Student Prince(s) (and princesses) won’t get the support we’ve been giving these Guys and Dolls      to learn their craft.

Please help us keep one of the longest continuously operating theatre companies in the U.S. from sailing into the sunset on the H.M.S. Pinafore.  We’re Crazy for You and want to keep providing you with the shows that make your imagination flitter like The Firefly.

If you are impressed with this list of titles in our appeal to you, consider each one of these has been performed at least once by M.O.C....75 titles here out of 104 unique titles that we’ve produced since 1925.  It would be a shame to have that come to a close.  If you donated last year, you’re Sweethearts … thank you … how about doing it again?  If you haven’t donated in the past, please consider a donation … no amount is too big or small, and every dollar is appreciated.  Donations can be made at www.mocmusicals.org, checks mailed to Montclair Operetta Club, 494 Valley Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07034, or at the box office on show nights.

It’s Kismet  that we’ve met at this time and place, so let’s make sure those Bells Are Ringing for many years to come.