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I Need to See Wicked 17 More Times
and how to double your Phipps gift this year 💰
Ben Thietje
December 02, 2024 • Est. Reading Time: 6 minutes
Hello!
Welcome to The Flying P, a weekly newsletter covering your Phipps Center for the Arts and anything else I might want to throw your way.
Whooopsies!
So sorry I missed you last week. The Prancer opening had us all in a tizzy. But the P is back this week and ready to roll. Happy belated Thanksgiving!
This issue has…
🎁 A Mega Gift Alert
you can double your donation this year🧩 Puzzle Game Stuff
it’s back and waiting for you to solve it🧹 A Wicked Plug
seriously so good
GIVING
Mega gift alert!
HUGE NEWS: last week one of you stopped by the office and threw down a $100,000 matching challenge for the remainder of our fiscal year (through June, 2025). Everyone in the Phipps office immediately died and then came to life to process what just happened. What amazing generosity!
We’re utilizing this matching challenge to focus on two things: recurring gifts and increased giving. This means that you can DOUBLE your PCA gift this year if you…
That’s it.
If you do one of those two things before the end of our fiscal year, your gift is automatically matched by this amazing $100k matching challenge. Thank you in advance for considering this.
Are you so excited?! I’m so excited! Let’s both be so excited!!
PHIPPS TOP 10
best-selling upcoming events this season by tickets sold…
1. Prancer (previously: 1)
2. A Brass & Organ Holiday (previously: 2)
3. Colleen Raye’s NYE (previously: 3)
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (previously: 5)
5. Kick the Bucket List (previously: 8)
6. The Andrews Sisters Onstage: a Jen Burleigh-Bentz production (previously: 4)
7. Silent Sky (previously: 6)
8. Underneath the Lintel, or: The Mystery of the Abandoned Trousers (previously: 7)
9. Cantus (previously: 9)
10. The SpongeBob Musical (previously: 10)
BETTER HURRY LIST
best-selling upcoming events this season by percent sold
(i.e., closest to being sold out)…
1. Prancer (previously: 2)
2. A Brass & Organ Holiday (previously: 4)
3. Kick the Bucket List (previously: unlisted)
4. The Andrews Sisters Onstage: a Jen Burleigh-Bentz production (previously: 1)
5. Colleen Raye’s NYE (previously: unlisted)
PROGRAMMING
It’s puzzle game season again
seriously…this team was goooood.
The Phipps puzzle game, The Show Must Go On, is up and running once again (back by popular demand).
Day one saw the team from Christiansen Creative solving this thing in less than one hour, which is a pretty amazing time.
The pic above is the ONLY HINT YOU GET…until you actually play, at which time we’ll give you unlimited hints. 😀 It’s the holidays after all.
artist: Kristin Prideaux
👆
my favorite gallery piece of the week
This one is special for two reasons: 1.) it’s a part of our Members’ Spotlight show, which consists of only Phipps member-submitted work, and 2.) it’s one of Kristin’s pieces…as in Kristin from the Phipps admin office. GO, KRISTIN!
Check out the Members’ Spotlight exhibition before it closes on 12/8.
This week’s recoBENdation (it’ll grow on you) is Wicked. If you haven’t already, put this on your holiday must-see list. It’s absolutely fantastic!
Go see it. Go now.
I’ll wait.
The Flying C(rossword) will be back next week!
🤷♂️😕
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