Dear Patrons and Friends of 42nd Street Moon,

We hope you watched the entertaining Tony Awards show Sunday evening and were reminded of how important musical theatre is in your lives.

It’s been a very hectic but productive two weeks since we alerted you to some operational and financial challenges at 42nd Street Moon and reached out for your support. While we still have some remedial work to do and funds to raise, we are grateful and pleased to update you on the encouraging progress we’ve made to date with our campaign to raise $300,000.  

Led by a leadership pledge of $75,000 from Moon’s Board of Directors and a generous infusion of contributions from early givers big and small, we have raised over $150,000 already and are optimistic that we can reach our goal with continued support from patrons and friends like you.

We also want to remind you that this fundraising campaign is not only to enable Moon to redress its near-term financial and operating issues, but to also help provide the company sufficient working capital and operating visibility to announce an exciting new season of musical theatre programming for 2024/2025. The Board of Directors is fully committed to doing whatever is needed to set 42nd Street Moon up for success and be shining high and brightly again soon for current and future generations of Bay Area audiences, patrons, performing artists and aspiring musical theatre students.

To those who’ve already donated to this fundraiser, all of us at 42nd Street Moon – our board, staff and an ensemble village of stellar artists and dedicated theater folks THANK YOU from the collective bottom of our hearts.

To those of you who haven’t donated yet, please consider supporting one of only a handful of theatre companies in the country solely dedicated for 31 years to a beloved and iconic art form – the musical. Help us get back on stage to entertain you, friends and family with classic, contemporary and new works with our extended family of Moon artists at the Gateway Theatre.