{Get your mermaid on.}
Guilty Pleasures 2013 is made possible by the generosity of:
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsor
Printing Sponsor
Table Sponsors
Monica Alquist Karen Brandvick-Baker Stuart Frank Shirley Roberson
Guilty Pleasures 2013 Committee
Monica Alquist, Kayti Barnett, Joann Byrd, Pam Kendrick, Lynn Murphy, Tom Oliver, Lynne Reynolds
Other Fabulous Donors
Emily Davis, Gil Joynt, N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn Bernier, Jeanne Metzger, Mary Pigott, Janice Strand, Ruth & Jerry Verhoff, Anonymous
“Can’t Be Here” Challenge Pledge-ers
John Aldaya, Tom DeFelice, Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey, Melissa & Don Manning, Marty & Don Sands, Ruth & Jerry Verhoff, Lucy Zuccotti
{ORDER OF EVENTS}
{ } Silent Auction Welcome Dinner
Catered by St. Clouds Food & Spirits
Live Auction
Hosted by David Silverman
INTERMISSION
Dessert
The Show
and the Well-Sung Hero Award
GOODNIGHT!
Say “CHEESE!”
Courtesy of Alabastro Photography, photos from tonight’s event will be available for purchase. Visit the Guilty Pleasures website www.guiltypleasuresgala.org for more details!
{SILENT AUCTION} Pencils down by 7:15 pm
1. Family Fun All Over Two tickets to each of Seattle Children’s Museum and Seattle
Children’s Theatre, six tickets to Storybook Theatre in Kirkland, and a Family Fun Day 4-pack for Skippyjon Jones in May. Value: $273
2. Date Night at “The Bagley” Two tickets in the Bagley Wright Theatre at Seattle
Repertory Theatre in the 2013-14 season and chic earrings by Harry’s Daughter Jewelry to wear on your special night out. Value: $188
3. Flight for Four Four passes to The Museum of Flight. Value: $68 4. It Takes a Village Two tickets to any show at Village Theatre—Issaquah or Everett—in the 2013-14 season. Value: $130
5. Acting Up Two tickets to a play of your choice in ACT Theatre’s 2013 season. Value: $110 6. Flex This Two 5-show flex passes to Taproot Theatre. Value: $310 7. Over-the-Pass Fun Two tickets to Icicle Creek Play Festival on Aug 19th with a $100 gift
certificate toward accommodations at Cashmere Mountain Bed & Breakfast. Value: $230
8. Treat Yo’Self to the Movies Four passes to the Majestic Bay Theatres in Ballard and a selection of delish goodies from Street Treats. Value: $119
9. Wine Club Wonder One-month membership in Firesteed’s Citation Society wine club with door-delivery of 4-6 exclusive releases, plus a winery tour for up to six adults. Value: $200
10. Tacoma on Wheels A $100 voucher to Broadway Center for the Arts and two passes to the new LeMay America’s Car Museum in Tacoma. Value: $156
11. Gorgeous from Head to Toe $100 towards very au courant custom-designed shoes from Hourglass, with luscious hand-made earrings by Harry’s Daughter Jewelry. Value: $138
12. High on Coffee A delicious basket of caffeinated wonders from Starbucks—get an extra lift with a gift certificate from the Red Balloon Company. Value: $148
13. Sponsor an Evening of Book-It This is your chance to put your name on a performance (announced live before curtain) of an upcoming Book-It show—you name the show and the date! Good for the last show of this season or any of next season.(Next season to be announced soon!) Value: $400 each
14. A Downtown Taste of Art Two passes to Seattle Art Museum (or Asian Art Museum)
plus a signed copy of Tom Douglas’s Tom’s Big Dinners cookbook and a gift certificate for dinner for two at The Dahlia Lounge. Value: $189 (Tom’s Autograph: Priceless)
{SILENT AUCTION} Pencils down by 7:15 pm
15. Comicon-Gratulations CGC Graded Wolverine Limited Series #2 and #3, and two
opening night tickets to a yet-to-be-announced (related and highly-sought-after) production in Book-It’s next season. Value: $290 (and climbing)
16. It’s Paramount! Two tickets in the Paramount Theatre’s VIP Club seats for the Tonynominated Fela, May 29, 2013. Includes VIP entrance, appetizers, and private bar and restrooms. Value: $200
17. Friend for Folk Life Two tickets at the Advocate Level for this year’s Folk Life Festival, all
the perks that go along, and a goodie bag with a hat, mug, t-shirt, and buttons. Value: $150
18. As Foreseen on TV! A package of delights from TV Land and a psychic reading by TV celebrity Steve MacDonald. Value: $420
19. A Dog’s Life A basket of gift certificates, toys, accessories, treats and more for your canine from Downtown Dog Lounge, a “Go Enzo” ball cap, and your own signed copy of Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain. Value: $150 (Garth’s Autograph: Priceless)
20. Knit One, Crochet Too Yarn, needles, two knitting lessons from Book-It Graphic
Designer Shannon Erickson and two crochet lessons from Book-It Development Director Christine Mosere. Value: $100
21. Watch Your Back Five one-hour classes of martial arts and self defense instruction with
Book-It actor Riley Neldam, and a post-class massage in your home from Malinda Newstrom for those aching muscles. (Seattle area only, please) Value: $320
22. Get Organized with underclutter! Two hours with home organizer Rhonda Bolton— perfect prep for tax time. Value: $100
23. Mega Movie Pack Two SIFF “Enthusiast-level” Memberships. Plus two one-year SIFF Cinema passes. Value: $610
24. Everything In Between A signed copy of the latest CD from Dave Ellis and an exclusive invitation to the live concert CD release party. Value: $100 (Hanging out with Dave and the Hopeless Sinners Band: Priceless)
25. Natural Goodness A $100 certificate toward accommodations at Doe Bay Resort and
Retreat on Orcas Island, and a Goodness & Flavor Goody Basket of gluten-free treats to take along. Value: $170
26. Phoenix Theatre Two season tickets to the Phoenix Theatre in Edmonds plus two tickets to their final production this season, Office Hours, playing Apr 5 - 28. Value $100
27. Subscribe to Shakespeare Two season subscriptions to Seattle Shakespeare Company’s 2013-14 Season. Value $280
{LIVE AUCTION} 1. Wine Frenzy Twelve bottles of premium Firesteed Citation Pinot Noir going to the first 12 bidder numbers we see. $75 each. Courtesy of Gerrie Goddard and Firesteed Winery.
Photo by Chas Redmond / Flickr
2. The View from Vashon See the Island by Car, by Foot, and by Cabin! Value: $990 You’ve seen the bumper stickers: Keep Vashon Weird. Well, now’s your chance to experience the Vashon point of view. After your personal tour of the island with island residents Managing Director Charlotte Tiencken and her husband, Bill West, you can launch into your Vashon Watersports kayak tour for a view from the water. Dinner is at the charming and exotic May—and when you’re dressing for dinner, don your beautiful necklace from World Wise Jewelry. Sleep deeply at The Two Tides, a private, beach-front guest cabin, and awake to sunrise over the deck. Only a ferry ride, but a world away from the daily grind at home. Available for mutually agreeable dates. Courtesy of Charlotte Tiencken and Bill West, Vashon Watersports, World Wise Jewelry, The Two Tides, and Vashon Vacations.
3. Kitsch Galore! A Palm Springs Getaway for Two Value: $523 It was Hollywood’s playground and now it’s yours (for a couple of nights)! Palm Springs is a warm and well preserved mid-century relic—just like
{LIVE AUCTION} the showgirls at the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies (rim shot!). You and a guest will see that iconic show in the historic Plaza Theatre. Later, return to your home-awayfrom-Seattle in your pool-side, Western-themed room at Ruby Montana’s Coral Sands Inn. If the wild life at the Follies wasn’t wild enough, your passes to The Living Desert Museum ought to do the trick! Sunshine and the desert air will make you feel like a celeb! Courtesy of The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, Nancy Crase, and The Living Desert Museum.
4. Dinner: Literally and Literarily—Dinner in Your Home with Founding Co-Artistic Directors Jane Jones & Myra Platt Value: Priceless Book-It board member and chef extraordinaire Lynne Reynolds will design and prepare a delicious menu paired with the perfect wines just for you and your guests (up to 8 total), with an after-dinner reading of Book-It favorites by Jane and Myra. Bidding war alert! Mutually agreeable date and time. Courtesy of Lynne Reynolds, Jane Jones, and Myra Platt.
5. “What am I doing? Oh, just lunching with famous author Jamie Ford. Yes, really!”
Value: Priceless One casual little lunch, so many benefits: hilarious and spirited conversation with author Jamie Ford over a casual lunch at the Historic Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House, insider information about his writing process, and the most awesome bragging rights! You’ll also be the envy of your book club with a signed copy of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and an advance, signed copy of Songs of Willow Frost (not yet in bookstores). Courtesy of Jamie Ford.
Author Jamie Ford; photo by Lawrence Kim.
{LIVE AUCTION} 6. Thanksgiving in N.Y.C. Complete with Hustle, Bustle, Lights, and Parade! Value: $bazillion There’s no more scintillating time to be in the Big Apple than Thanksgiving! Crisp air, sidewalk hot-dog vendors, Christmas window displays in every department store… and most iconic: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with reserved seats for 4 (in exclusive Macy’s Friends & Family section)! This package includes a two-night stay at the boutique Chelsea Savoy Hotel, tickets to shows on and off-Broadway, and more delights still coming in at press time. It’s a big-city holiday extravaganza you’ll always remember. Courtesy of Macy’s, Roundabout Theatre Company, Aileen Mosier, Chelsea Savoy, Primary Stages, and more!
7. Role in Next Year’s Guilty Pleasures Value: Priceless Attending Guilty Pleasures may be the pinnacle of your year—unless you are actually IN Guilty Pleasures! Imagine being on stage seducing your co-stars with the reckless abandon of your favorite romance novel... Watch the show for last year’s winning bidder. Don’t envy—just raise your winning bid number for Guilty Pleasures ’14. Geoffery Simmons, Guilty Pleasures 2012. Photo by Alan Alabastro.
8. The Heads and Tails Raffle Win Champagne, Chocolate, and a Hood Canal Holiday $50 per ticket; Value: $555 Yes, it’s a little like dancing the hokey pokey. First you raise your bid number for a chance to play. Then, all you have to do is put your hands on your head or on your, um, tail. In the flash of a coin toss you could be the lucky winner of 3 bottles of premium J. Lassalle Champagne, a sampling of delicious Theo Chocolates, and a one-night stay at Alderbrook Spa and Resort on Hood Canal (including a $50 dining credit). A fabulous prize, so place your hands wisely, friends. Courtesy of Margaret Kineke, Theo Chocolate, and Alderbrook Spa and Resort.
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Jose Abaoag and Marianne Owen in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet; photo by Alan Alabastro.
9. To Life! Value: Utterly Priceless You will have the ultimate Book-It insider status when you win two life-time subscriptions to Book-It Repertory Theatre. Just imagine—year-after-year of great stories and great theatre based on all the best books. Score! Non-transferable, all subscriber benefits apply. Courtesy of Book-It Repertory Theatre.
10. Book Book-It in Your Backyard Value: $700 Book-It’s Arts and Education programs tour Book-It Style adaptations of children’s literature far and wide throughout our region. Now you can bid on your own command touring A performance of La Mariposa; photo by Sara Lachman. performance for that birthday party in your backyard, your favorite library, your alma mater, or kid’s school. Limited to the touring season and repertoire; by mutually agreeable dates and availability; local-area mileage included; expires June 2014. Courtesy of Book-It Repertory Theatre’s Arts and Education Program.
{LIVE AUCTION} {AUCTION ITEMS} Mark Whitt / Flickr
11. SA-WING BATTA BATTA BATTA—Go Mariners! Value: $631 What wouldn’t you give to see the Mariners kick some Yankee or Red Sox booty?! (This is an auction so we hope you’d give a lot.) If you’re a hopeful Mariners fan who can’t wait to hear the swack of wood on horsehide, here’s what you can look forward to: two Mariners tickets per month from April 12th through September 10th in primo 100-level seats at Safeco Field. Some snazzy sports swag and a $25 gift certificate for merchandise comes with your tickets. Courtesy Margaret Kineke and Seattle Mariners Store. Here are details and dates: Section 128, Row 24, Seats 7 & 8 April 12, Rangers May 11, Oakland A’s June 7, Yankees July 8, Red Sox August 24, L.A. Angels September 10, Astros
12. Book-It Board Baker’s Dozen of the Vino Variety Value: $550 Whatcha got cookin’? Whatever it is, we’ve got the right wine for you right here. Each year Book-It Board members pull out the stops with bottles of specialty wines to create this mixed case: 2009 Karma Brut de Brut 2009 Francis Ford Coppola Sofia Blanc de Blancs 2009 Matthews Claret 2007 Peju Merlot 2007 Cougar Crest Merlot
{LIVE AUCTION} 2009 L’Ecole No. 41 Columbia Valley Cabernet 2009 L’Ecole No. 41 Columbia Valley Cabernet 2009 Stag’s Leap Artemis Cabernet 2009 Stag’s Leap Napa Valley Cabernet 2010 Chateau Montelena Cabernet 2007 Argiano Brunello di Montalcino 2005 Cayuse Armada Syrah 2004 Smith Woodhouse 2000 Late Bottled Vintage Porto Courtesy of the Book-It Board of Directors.
13. Jean Godden Has a Way with W-O-R-D-S Value: Priceless Watch out! It’s a Scrabble Throwdown with Councilmember Jean Godden. Match wits with our esteemed Councilmember who’s also a former Times and P-I columnist (didn’t we tell you she has a way with words?) over burgers at Two Bells. She’ll bring the board and her 50 years’ experience; you bring up yourself and a guest. Win or lose, this item is a Triple Word Score! By mutually agreeable date. Courtesy Jean Godden.
Photo by Rick/Flickr
Raise the Paddle! Introduction by The Art of Racing in the Rain author Garth Stein. Value: You choose! Book-It can’t reach over 100,000 people every year without your generous help. You make it possible for us to create and share our unique work across the region. For that—and so much more—we love you in that forever kind of way, so seal the deal on our beautiful relationship along with the one between literature and theatre. Listen for Auctioneer David Silverman’s challenge-match-level announcements. Paddles high, people!
The Book-It Board of Directors
Monica Alquist, Karen Brandvick-Baker, Steven Bull, Joann Byrd, Amanda Cain, Stuart Frank, Jane Jones, Margaret Kineke, Mary Metastasio, Lynn Murphy, Thomas Oliver, Myra Platt, David Quicksall, Lynne Reynolds, Shirley Roberson, Steve Schwartzman, Deborah Swets, Kristine Villiott, Elizabeth J. Warman, and Lucy Flynn Zuccotti.
The Book-It Staff
Josh Aaseng, Rachel Alquist, Anders Bolang, Patricia Britton, Amanda Cain, Georgina Cohen, Samantha Cooper, Tom Dewey, Allison Dunmore, Shannon Erickson, Jocelyne Fowler, Jane Jones, Lauren Krumm, Annie Lareau, Katie McKellar, Alex Miller, Megan Mills, Christine Mosere, Amanda Ooten, Erin Pike, Myra Platt, Bobbin Ramsey, Natasha Ransom, Hannah Schirman, Gail Sehlhorst, Victoria Thompson, Charlotte M. Tiencken, Bill Whitham, and Amberlee Williams.
Our Hard-Working Volunteers
Pam Kendrick, volunteer coordinator; Craig Ades, Josh Ahlers, Kayti Barnett, Leah Brown, Lisa Garms, Carol Phillippi, Pat Price, Susanna Pugh,Thea Roe, Brenda Schultz, Kathleen Stoll, Cathy Taylor, Jennifer Teunon, and members of the Book-It Staff.
Our Community Partners
ACT Theatre, Alderbrook Resort & Spa, Anthony’s Restaurants, The Art Bank, Kayti Barnett, Rhonda Bolton, Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, Cashmere Mountain Bed & Breakfast, The Chelsea Savoy, Nancy Crase, Dave Ellis & the Hopeless Sinners, Doe Bay Resort & Retreat, Downtown Dog Lounge, Shannon Erickson, The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, Firesteed Winery, Jamie Ford, Stuart Frank, Councilmember Jean Godden, Goodness & Flavor, Harry’s Daughter Jewelry, HighgradeComics.com, Hilliards Beer, Hourglass Shoes, Icicle Creek Center for the Arts New Play Festival, Margaret Kineke & Dennis West, LeMay America’s Car Museum, The Living Desert Museum, Macy’s, Majestic Bay Theatres, Steve McDonald, Museum of Flight, Riley Neldam, Malinda Newstrom, Northwest Folk Life, Phoenix Theatre, Red Balloon Company, Lynne Reynolds, Roundabout Theatre Company, Ruby Montana’s Coral Sands, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Children’s Museum, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Theatre Group, Starbucks, Street Treats, Garth Stein, TV Land, Taproot Theatre, Theo Chocolate, Tom Douglas Restaurants, The Two Tides, Vashon Vacations, Vashon Watersports, Village Theatre, Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West, Women’s University Club, and World Wise Jewelry. And thank you to Seattle Theatre Group and the staff at the Neptune Theatre, to John Platt and St. Clouds Food & Spirits, and to Carol Dole and Rebecca Dietz from Well Done Events! Cover: Rachel Glass, David Quicksall, and Jason Marr at Guilty Pleasures 2012; photo by Alan Alabastro.