This issue has…

• 🍸 A Yummy Addition to Concessions
  please drink responsibly

• 😁 Lots of Smiles
  and lots of stats

• 🧑‍🎄 Some Holiday Heroes
  holiday dream team assembled

COMMUNITY

Warning: report may cause additional smiles

Didja get our annual report in the mail? If not, no worries; you can also catch it online by clicking here (or stop by the PCA and we’ll put one in your hand).

There are lots of facts and stats and stories about what the PCA did last season (hint: a lot). Also, it looks so pretty! Check it out when you can.

PEOPLE

Lobby legends

Big thanks need to go out to a few of the PCA faithful.

First, Guest Services Associates (and Phipps super-fans) Veronica Nepper and Alycia Benzer took it upon themselves to decorate the PCA’s lobby for the holidays. Be sure to ooooh and ahhhhh at their great work when you stop by this December.

Phipps Scene Shop Manager, Kassi Kulow, piped up in a meeting a while back and said "Hey! Let’s get some bins in the lobby for Operation HELP.” And when Kassi says “hey” with an exclamation, she means business. Bins in the lobby it is! Be sure to toss a need in a bin after sufficiently ooooh-ing and ahhhhh-ing at Veronica and Alycia’s holiday decor.

Lastly, big thanks to Phipps board member and Music Council chair, Tom Dahle, who crawled all over the lobby floor trying to get our player piano working for the holidays. We’re not quite there yet, but things are moving in the right direction. Thanks, Tom!

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my favorite gallery piece of the week
The Members Spotlight Exhibition is still on display. If you haven’t caught it yet, be sure to make some time to stop by. This Gallery One piece from Amy Clark is called Mankato Evening and I’m a fan.

THEATRE

Spirits are high (and pepperminty)

It’s a Wonderful Life is off to a fantastic start, as the show opened at 95% sold. At this point, there are essentially only single tickets remaining. That, my friends, is what we in the theatre industry would call “a holiday hit.” More important than the ticket sales, however, is the fact that cast and crew alike seem to be having a very positive experience. Kudos to John Potter and team!

Audiences seem to be doing okay, too, especially with the addition of a PEPPERMINT WHITE RUSSIAN to the holiday concessions menu. Wonderful life, indeed. 🥳

Here’s your friendly reminder that there are other holiday offerings at the Phipps this season, all of which still have tickets remaining (probably not for long): Wonderland Jazz Jam, A Brass & Organ Holiday, and Colleen Raye’s New Year’s Eve.

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