Poor Elly!
So many shows to do and nowhere to get dressed!
To call our dressing rooms overcrowded and dilapidated is a heck of an understatement*. But help is on the horizon!

Put some clothing
on that woman!

<--- Click here or on her picture to obtain a mail-in form

Exchange Bank keeps Elly Lichenstein covered with a generous donation of $5,000 to the "Dress Elly" Dressing Room Fund.

Photo of Rick Mossi Regional Manager of the Golden Eagle Shopping Center Branch, Trudee Herman, Cinnabar's Development Director, and Ron Malnati, Business Development Officer.

REBUILDING TOGETHER PETALUMA has chosen Cinnabar Theater as a project for April 2007! Among other pressing needs**, they have kindly agreed to remodel our dressing rooms. While all labor is free of charge, Cinnabar must raise half the funds needed for materials.

That’s where you come in: please donate generously to our Dressing Room Fund so Elly won’t have to go onstage in her Union Suit. Then see her transformation progress with our giant “Elly paper-doll” in the Cinnabar lobby. As donations pour in, we will dress “Elly” in her costume and make-up, crediting each individual donor with his or her name on the doll.

Remember: A naked actor ain’t a pretty sight.

*Call us! We’d be delighted to give you the twenty- five cent tour!
**Also slated for a dressing-up: a new floor and windows for our studio and new doors for our offices.

Cinnabar Theater is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Already a Member of Cinnabar? Your Dressing Room Fund gift will be added to your current gift, and new benefits may apply!

From the Press Democrat, by Janet Palmer, Dec 1, 2006:

As many as three dozen people share the backstage space at Petaluma's Cinnabar Theater, changing costumes and awaiting their cues to perform.

The space is cramped and dilapidated, a real contrast to the large theater and the stage, now festively decorated for a holiday production of "The Tailor of Gloucester."

Most patrons never see the back stage, and they may be surprised to learn that it's a converted lavatory from the original Cinnabar School, which was built in 1908.

An old garbage collection area from the school also has been turned into space for dressing rooms and makeup artists and other craftsmen working on Cinnabar shows.

Read the full article here...