By Carrie L. Kaufman
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The Second Chase Community Giving challenge is over and 15 Chicago theatres have pulled down $20,000 a piece, giving Chicago Theatre $300,000 of the $5 million total purse.
“It was a great community effort and everyone pulled together to make this happen,” said Lindsay Muscato, managing director for The Neo-Futurists , which came in 111th on the 200 charity list (and fourth among Chicago theatres).
“There was a lot of teamwork, a lot of vote trading, and a lot of supporting one another,” said Amanda Farrar, executive director of Barrel of Monkeys , which finished 139th.
This contrasts with the last round, which ended in January with two Chicago Theatres—Sideshow and New Colony—getting $25,000 a piece. Those theatres did it totally on their own. But when the next round came along, many small theatres had their network in place.