The Sunday Giveaway: 2 Tickets to Driving Miss Daisy.
One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to figure out more ways to thank all of you for reading and tweeting and liking the blog . . . which is why I’ve come up with The Sunday Giveaway!
Every single Sunday, I’ll announce a contest where . . . well . . . I give something away!
It might be tickets to a Broadway show, a new CD, or a program from the original Broadway production of Carrie (I do have one of those), but it will be something and it will be cool . . . and it will be every single Sunday.
And we’re starting it off right with TWO FREE TICKETS to see the Actors Fund performance of the recently recouped Broadway revival of Driving Miss Daisy! Woo-woo!
Daisy stars a couple of newcomers . . . Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones . . . and is directed by David Esbjornson (who will be featured in an upcoming 10 Questions for a Broadway Pro).
If you haven’t seen Daisy yet, you’re in for a treat. And if you’ve never been to an Actors Fund performance, well then that treat is going to taste that much sweeter. AF audiences are some of the most supportive in the world as they are filled with members of the industry who care enough to support one of the most important charities the NYC theater has, The Actors Fund.
The performance is February 7th at 8 PM.
How do you enter Giveaway Sunday and get a shot at these free tickets?
Every week will be different . . . but for this week, all that you have do is write a comment on this blog entry asking to be entered. We’ll randomly pick a commenter and bingo, bongo, you’re going to see Vanessa and James. (Email and Facebook readers, click here to reach the blog so you can comment and enter.)
Make sense?
I will announce the winner next Sunday, when I also announce the following week’s giveaways! You have up to 11:59 PM each Saturday to enter.
Simple!
Thanks again for reading, and I’m thrilled that we have this opportunity to give stuff away as a thank you for your awesome support of this blog and of theater in general.
Oh, and if you have cool stuff you want to give away, email Jen Tepper in my office at jennifer@davenporttheatrical.com.
Good luck!
Don’t forget to comment below to enter to win the two tickets to see Driving Miss Daisy!
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Drive me to Miss Daisy!
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So I guess I’ll comment on your totally awesome blog.
Yup.
Just did.
I’ll be driving from Washington to be Driving (with) Miss Daisy and hope I’m the lucky winner!
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Awesome Awesome Awesome idea..you seem to know a winner when you think it ;). So please think of me and enter me in for 2 tickets to Driving Miss Daisy. Thanks.
Please enter me, Ken.
I feel compelled to enter because February 7th happens to be my birthday (no kidding)!
Also- I became a fan of David Esbjornson’s when I met him while he was directing “Gabriel” for the Atlantic. I was really impressed by him: he asked for feedback- and truly listened and thoughtfully discussed the responses!
bingo, bongo, i’m going to see james and vanessa?
see what i did there…?:D
Hey Ken — Great idea as always! Count me in!
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I’m in!!!!
Now that’s what I call a New Year’s resolution! Great idea Ken! Love the way your mind keeps thinking all the time. And an Actor’s Fund performance of Daisy to boot. Yeah “H E Double Hockeysticks”, enter me!!
Not living in New York, I am hereby entering.
If – no when – I win, I’ll have an excuse to travel to NYC before summer to see Miss Daisy and a ton of other shows.
Time’s a wastin.’
I’d love to be entered! Thank you!
Definitely enter me, please! Great idea, these giveways…thanks for becoming the Oprah of the theatre world!
Very creative idea and a fun resolution. Please enter me! 🙂
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Ken at the risk of sounding risque, I’d love to be entered.
warm, matt coyle
I last saw Mr. Jones live in the one man B’way show, “Paul Robeson,” back in 1977 or so. He had a terrible head-cold, but didn’t want to disappoint his fans, so he went on, and incorporated his sneezing and coughing into the characterization. Moreover, my girlfriend at the time was a student at the High School of the Performing Arts, and asked to meet with him post-show. Mr. Jones graciously chatted with us and gave us a backstage tour. A champion among champions.
Ken: your blog continues to impress me. If anyone is going to bring new ideas to the theatrical industry and help the fabulous invalid succeed, it is going to be you! It’s so easy to say, “well, we can’t try that, because we’re such a unique industry,” but you’re willing to look at theater from all sorts of perspectives. Terrific! And by the way, add my name to the Driving Miss Daisy contest!
I love free stuff. And your blog. And free theatre. And daisies. And driving places. So…. enter me please!
Please enter me into the contest! That is the day after I finish two weeks of grad school auditions (MFA Acting), and it would be a real treat to see consummate professionals at their bets!
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We saw James Earl Jones in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and think he would be fantastic in this role. We’d love to go see him and Vanessa 🙂 Thanks for having this contest!
Me me, enter me.
A great Marketing idea! I’m sure your readers will be pleased.
I want to be entered in the Driving Miss Daisy contest! James Earl Jones is one of my all-time favorite actors.
two free tickets? AF? yes please!
Please enter me in your Actor’s Fund/Driving Miss Daisy free ticket giveaway contest! Thanks!
ONE TIX FOR BINGO, ONE FOR BONGO! Pleeeeezes!
I love reading everything you write my good sir and I love the new giveaway!
Ken,
I love your passion for theatre and producing. You’re awesome!
O my, I would SO love to see these 2 living legends onstage together in this sweet/salty play! Please enter my name in your drawing. Thanks!
Hi Ken,
As one of your readers, who just enjoy reading about “backstage theatre”, and lives no close to Broadway enough to take advantage of your Broadway giveaways, could I just participate and ask you to give this potential prize to an underpriviledge local someone(s)who could enjoy this prize?
Keep on writing, Ken. Though I may not be involved in theatre anymore, the tips and tricks, and inspiration your blog provides, to me at least, goes way beyond theatre and Broadway. Thanks!
I would like to be entered into the contest to win 2 tickets to see Driving Miss Daisy, starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Regrave.
Hey Ken! Cool idea about the giveaway….sign me up!!! Thanks.
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Please enter me in the contest. I’d like to take my 13-year-old daughter to see this important play and two unforgettable actors.
Ken, thanks for starting a giveaway. Another inspired idea. Please enter me in the drawing.
Please enter me to win. I love James Earl Jones. I last saw him a couple of years ago in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’. He is exceptional in everything he is in. His performance in On Golden Pond was extraordinary. And even though he was not visually in Star Wars, his voice is so identified with those films. And everytime I think of Vanessa Redgrave, I think of an 8 hour flight I was on and watching her movie Atonement.
Count me in! I’m young, broke, and would love to see the show. 🙂
Please enter me in the contest! Thanks!
Congrats on all the responses! Nice way to get out “the WORD”!!!!
Enter me while you’re at it!
Brian
I would love to see a show where the collective age of the two stars is older than the entire cast of American Idiot. Count me in! It’ll be a perfect contrast from Super Bowl Sunday!
I first saw James Earl Jones on Broadway at 13 in THE GREAT WHITE HOPE in 1969. Please enter me to see him again.
Me! Me!
Great idea. Please count me in!
Long-time reader, first-time commenter. (Could this perhaps be a marketing ploy to get so-far-quiet-readers to break out of their shells and start commenting? If so… it worked!) I would LOVE to see Driving Miss Daisy!
Hi Ken, This sounds like a good night out for two overworked parents or a feisty 2 year old starting a theater company and dealing with our house burning down! Count me in:)
I would LOVE to see Vanessa and James!!
May I please be entered? Thanks.
Would love to see this show!
Enter me, please. Thanks, Ken!
I love free stuff!
Ken please enter me…. this is my favorite movie as well as my girlfriend movie… we would love to see the show. We haven’t had a chance to see a broadway show in a while and its going to be our 18 months together next month please!!
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Hi Ken
Please enter my name so I can show support for those new kids Jimmy and ‘Nessa.
Thanks
Michael DiGaetano
Hey Ken, please enter me into the contest!
Sounds like great outreach! Hopefully I wont miss my chance to see this show!
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I would love to win this contest and take my Emerson 2012 Stage management daughter with me!!
I would love to win this contest! I saw James Earl Jones in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” with my school and he is amazing! Thanks for all your blogging!
Yes, please enter me!
I live right across the street from the John Golden Theatre and keep running into Vanessa Redgrave in the street, but haven’t seen the show yet.
Thanks!
I really would love to see this show!
Would love to be entered into the giveaway!
Thanks for all the inspiration. Please enter me in the drawing.
I promise to wear my seat belt when I go to see Driving Miss Daisy… so Please feel free to make me the winning entry in the drawing! Bravo!
ps:speaking of driving, have you seen the new $65million dollar parking garage in South Beach? there must be a lesson in there for the blog — how about a new theater within a parking garage in NYC!
pss: if you don’t win these tix, go see LOMBARDI before or after the Super Bowl (just not during, as the Packers will be on the field)!
Bingo, bongo – enter me to win the tix. Keep on with the blog. Love it!
James Earl Jones is a fellow Pawlingite. I have seen him appearing live in the local market asking where the duct tape is located, but have never seen him in a show and would love to do so if I win your free tickets. Thanks for the entry and for the great blog week after week.
Please sign me up! Very exciting and generous! Thanks Ken!!
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Interactive Blogging! Nice. Enter me in this contest!!!!!
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Well, this is my first time reading this blog and I already love it!
Free tickets don’t hurt either… 🙂
I would absolutely love to see “Driving Miss Daisey!” Sign me up pretty please!
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Thanks,
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For the drawing! Thanks!!
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Would love to see two masters working. Train up from VA. Visit some friends, family and catch two of the greats in Miss Daisy. Please toss my hat in the ring. I’m in…..
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Great Idea, count me in! I enjoy the blog and would love to see Driving Miss Daisy. Thanks.
Please to let me win.
I always learn something from reading your blog. Thank you for sharing and please enter me in the ticket contest for Driving Miss Daisy!
I’m interested as well.
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Would love to see two powerhouse actor in one show!
Would love to see such two powerhouse actors in one show! I’m in!
very generous! please enter my name. 🙂
I would feel honored to see Vanessa Redgrave live, because I have considered her to be one of the most amazing actresses in the world after her performance in the HBO produced movie If These Walls Could Talk 2.
Would love to see this production! Please put my name in the hat for tickets!
Daisy is one of my favorite shows…..prized posession is au autographed picture of me and Frances Sternhagen who created the ORIGINAL role that Ms. Redgrave inhabits nightly !
I loved the movie, would love to see the play.
am boyd gaines’ neighbor and would love to see those promising newcomers vanessa & james — thanks!
You’re a rockstar Ken! Would love to be entered into the drawing for Driving tix! Thanks.