A Gathering Place for the Community 2006/07 Report to the Community 2006/07 Presenting Season SEPTEMBER 26-27 Ballet Folklorico de Mexico OCTOBER 10-15 All Shook Up 19 American Players Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet 20 Bob Newhart 24 Third Annual Fox Cities Choral Music Festival 28 In the Mood 31 Captain Louie NOVEMBER 2 Adrian Cronauer 3 Fox Valley Symphony’s Romeo & Juliet 7-12 Mamma Mia! 16-17 Classical Savion 30 Nebraska Theatre Caravan’s A Christmas Carol DECEMBER 1 Nebraska Theatre Caravan’s A Christmas Carol 5 Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra 7 Sandi Patty 12-17 Twelve Angry Men JANUARY 14 Hamburg Symphony 16-21 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 30 Davy Crockett FEBRUARY 1 Harry the Dirty Dog 3 Tiempo Libre 8-9 Nnenna Freelon 13 I Hear America Singing 20-25 Sweet Charity 26 Cam Jansen MARCH 1-2 Momix Lunar Sea 8 Soweto Gospel Choir 9 Irish Rovers 18 Mannheim Steamroller 28 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie APRIL 17 Anastasia Krupnick 24 The Color of Justice MAY 10-31 Disney’s The Lion King JUNE 1-17 Disney’s The Lion King M&I Bank Broadway Across America - Fox Cities series Arts Alive! series Thrivent Financial Education Series Cover photo: ©Image Studios, LLC A letter from the president and chairman ©Bob Rueckl/Rueckl Studio Susan Stockton, president and Kathi Seifert, chairman Dear friends in the community, As the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center’s 2006/07 season — our most exciting and successful season to date — came to a close, we continued to be amazed, inspired and deeply moved by the enthusiasm the community and region has both for the Center and for the wide variety of artists and performances we strive to bring to northeast Wisconsin. Your Fox Cities Performing Arts Center serves as a gathering place where community members young and old can share an experience that sparks an emotional connection. In this Report to the Community, we review and celebrate some of the memorable events and milestones from our 2006/07 season. The financial support from individuals, businesses and foundations ensures that the Center remains a premier venue for the arts in the region and a nonprofit that continues to fulfill its mission. Thank you to our partners and patrons. We look forward to sharing our upcoming fifth anniversary season with you! Connecting the Community ©Fox Valley Technical College Technical Valley ©Fox “Our December ceremony at the P.A.C. is COMMUNITY USE The following is a list of community organizations who used the Center during the 2006/07 season. truly an amazing event! The presentation of Acts 1:8 Ministries Lawrence University Adagio Dance Studio Life! Promotions Affinity Health Systems M&I Bank our graduates on the stage is breathtaking, Alta Resources Medical College of Wisconsin American Heart Association Menasha High School American National Bank Miller Electric Mfg. Co. Appleton Papers Inc. Mills Fleet Farm and the facilities are superb.” Appleton Area School District Miron Construction Co., Inc. Appleton Boychoir Modern Business Machines Appleton East High School NEW Chinese Families with — Barb Dreger, director, marketing & student recruitment, Appleton North High School Children APT Fox Cities New North Fox Valley Technical College B.A.B.E.S. Child Abuse Prevention Radisson Paper Valley Hotel Program Red Cross Outagamie Chapter The Fox Cities Performing Arts Chapter of the American Red Badger Liquor ReMax Valley Realtors Beacon of Hope, Light of Christ Sales and Marketing Professionals Center is the community’s place Cross, ThedaCare Follies and Bergstrom Corporation of NEW Buzzwords Saturn of Appleton to gather, connect and share B.A.B.E.S. Mystery Dinner, along CR Meyer & Sons Co. Schenck Business Solutions experiences. Whether it’s a with important community events CCD Clinics SECURA Insurance Companies Children’s Hospital of WI Society of Human Resource performance in Thrivent Financial like P.A.R.T.Y at the P.A.C., aiming Commercial Horizons, Inc. Managers Community First Credit Union St Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Hall or a meeting in the Founders to prevent alcohol and risk-related Community Foundation Church Room, the Center prides itself on trauma in youth. Community Hospice The Academy Dr. Jan Bax ThedaCare bringing people together. Dr. Michael Gabler Theda Clark Medical Center Faith Technologies Foundation The Center presents the Arts First English Lutheran Church Thompson Community Center In the 2006/07 season, the Center Alive! series, which is a window Fox Cities Community Clinic Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Twin Cities Catholic Education hosted 159 community use events, to the world that featured diverse Bureau System Fox Valley Technical College United Way Fox Cities including meetings, proms, cultural performances such as Godfrey & Kahn, Attys. at Law University of Wisconsin Oshkosh graduations, weddings, family Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, Tiempo Grand Opera House Valley Endodontics Habitat for Humanity Valley New School reunions and more. The Center is Libre and the Hamburg Symphony Heartland Business Systems Virchow & Krause Co. LLP Juvenile Diabetes Research Visuelle Productions a popular venue for fundraisers in the 2006/07 season. The Center Foundation Wildwood Film Festival like Soup’s On for the Outagamie also brings northeast Wisconsin Kimberly-Clark Corporation WLUK-Fox 11 Lakeland College THE P.A.C. GIVES BACK 2006/07 Facility Use By Event Type TO THE COMMUNITY The following is a list of community organizations the Center Examples of Event Types donated tickets to during the 2006/07 season. Community nonprofit: American Red Cross Community partner: a local business meeting Arts Alive! / Education series: Classical Savion A Better Chance Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Commercial event: Lorie Line ALS Association Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Broadway series: Mamma Mia! Altrusa International, Inc. of Appleton K9’s for a Safer Community Alzheimer’s Association Kiwanis Club of Grand Chute 29% 52 American Cancer Society Lawrence University Commercial American Heart Association Learning for Life events 111 American Red Cross Life! Promotions Community 14% 23% nonprofit Appleton Art Center Lincoln Elementary School 88 Appleton Education Foundation Lutheran Homes and Health Services Broadway series Appleton Housing Authority Foundation, Inc Appleton Library Foundation Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin 45 82 Arc Fox Cities Menasha Joint School District Community partner Arts Alive! and education series Arthritis Foundation Mid-Day Business and Professional 22% 12% Aspirus Health Foundation Women A-T Children’s Project Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. 63% B.A.B.E.S., Inc. NAMI Fox Valley Best Friends of Neenah-Menasha Neenah Rotary mission-based subsidized events Big Brothers Big Sisters New London Middle School Boys and Girls Club of the Fox Valley Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce CAP Services, Inc Oshkosh Jaycees Cerebral Palsy, Inc Rawhide, Inc students together to enhance their classroom Children’s Fund Ride for Life curriculum through performances in the Thrivent Chilton Optimist Club Roosevelt Middle School Clarity Care Rotary Club of Appleton Financial for Lutherans Education Series. Nearly 20,000 Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups Safe Haven students from 198 schools attended a performance in Community Family Resource Centers, Inc. Sexual Assault Crisis Center 2006/07 and the series reached 62 new schools from Community Hospice Foundation Special Needs Adoption Program Correctional Education Association- St. Anna Fire Department four school districts. Students performed onstage Wisconsin Chapter St. Gabriel Parish in the Third Annual Fox Cities Choral Music Festival, Deaf Empowerment St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital which featured 164 high school singers from Appleton Divine Community Development Corp. The Salvation Army North, Kimberly and Menasha. EAA Gathering of Eagles ThedaCare Easter Seals WI Tiffany Hollaway Academy of the Arts Eastshore Humane Association, Inc Universal Multicultural Center The Center proudly gives back to the people of the Embarrass River Lions University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Fox Cities through its support of other area nonprofit Emergency Shelter of the Fox Valley, Inc UW Comprehensive Cancer Center Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Volunteer Center of East Central WI organizations. In 2006/07, the Center donated a total First Book-Fox Valley Volunteer in Police Service of 523 tickets at a value of $13,327 for Arts Alive! Fox Cities Rotary Multicultural Center Windhover Center for the Arts performances helping other organizations raise funds Fox Valley Literacy Coalition, Inc Wisconsin Business Travelers Association Fox Valley Sibling Support Network Wisconsin Juvenile Officers’ Association that support and enrich their programs and awarding Fox Valley Technical College Wolf River Area Healthcare Foundation scholarship tickets to students and organizations in Friends of Muehl Public Library Women’s Division of Oshkosh Area, Inc need. In addition, 245 scholarship ticket donations Friendship Place, Inc YMCA of the Fox Cities valuing $1,225 were awarded to the Thrivent Give Kids the World Young Adult Council of Marinette County Green Bay Public Schools 4-H Financial for Lutherans Education Series, enabling Highlands Elementary School Youth Go disadvantaged students to attend a performance. Horizons Elementary School ©Kristin Schroeder/Fox Cities Performing Arts Performing Cities Center ©Kristin Schroeder/Fox Engaging the Community COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES “It was all our dancers talked about for 7 performances offered preshow discussions and demonstrations: weeks after the event. I had one dancer say, • Ballet Folklorico de Mexico • Twelve Angry Men • Hamburg Symphony ‘This was the best day of my life!’ ” • Soweto Gospel Choir • Classical Savion — Maeghan Johnson, Studio Y Dance Program, about the • Disney’s The Lion King (2) dance class led by cast members of Mamma Mia! 8 performances offered question and answer sessions with the cast: Taking in a show at the Center included an ABBArobics-inspired • American Players Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet involves much more than just dance class led by two cast • Fox Valley Symphony’s Romeo and Juliet • Twelve Angry Men the show itself.