Phew! Life as a PR girl is never dull or boring. In fact, it's exciting. You can't be in this business if you can't handle change or go with the flow. Things never go as planned cuz ya know, life ain't perfect. Nor did the original plan for our Divine Stage Works Crimes of the Heart party. Last year's Father of the Bride party was such a success at Club Cafe we wanted to do something similar but a little closer to 'home' (Jamaica Plain).
The party planning didn't start out as smoothly as my mom's dancing skills were last night ;) We originally planned the event at a venue on the outskirts of Jamaica Plain. Long story short, a week before our event we found out that the bar had double booked us and we could no longer hold our event there. Boooo. So I sprang into action mode (on a Sunday at 9am which isn't easy for me). I contacted Peyton, found a new venue (Costello's!) http://costellostavern.com/] within the hour and done done done!
Costello's has been nothing but amazingly helpful and accomodating to us. Over communicating (in a good way), offering us great food, staying in our budget and allowing us to take over the neighborhood bar that Costello's is with our signature drink menu we made up! Many fellow theatre friends from the Footlight Club http://www.footlight.org/index.shtml joined us as did our partners, friends and family (my mumise showed up!). About 35 people showed up and everyone had a great time, ate good food and sipped on "Hurrican Camille or Meg's Bourbon Sidecar" cocktails while in the background I jacked up the jukebox with Elton John and the Jackson 5. We also included the opportunity for people to buy tickets at a discount. And we did REALLY well! We sold about 25 tickets. Yay! The night ended with my mom and me dancing and having a little too much fun...if you know what I mean. All in all a great success! Cheers to everyone who came and to Costello's!
xo,
Liz
The party planning didn't start out as smoothly as my mom's dancing skills were last night ;) We originally planned the event at a venue on the outskirts of Jamaica Plain. Long story short, a week before our event we found out that the bar had double booked us and we could no longer hold our event there. Boooo. So I sprang into action mode (on a Sunday at 9am which isn't easy for me). I contacted Peyton, found a new venue (Costello's!) http://costellostavern.com/] within the hour and done done done!
Costello's has been nothing but amazingly helpful and accomodating to us. Over communicating (in a good way), offering us great food, staying in our budget and allowing us to take over the neighborhood bar that Costello's is with our signature drink menu we made up! Many fellow theatre friends from the Footlight Club http://www.footlight.org/index.shtml joined us as did our partners, friends and family (my mumise showed up!). About 35 people showed up and everyone had a great time, ate good food and sipped on "Hurrican Camille or Meg's Bourbon Sidecar" cocktails while in the background I jacked up the jukebox with Elton John and the Jackson 5. We also included the opportunity for people to buy tickets at a discount. And we did REALLY well! We sold about 25 tickets. Yay! The night ended with my mom and me dancing and having a little too much fun...if you know what I mean. All in all a great success! Cheers to everyone who came and to Costello's!
xo,
Liz
Liz Laneri, the PR Queen herself, sippin' a bourbon cocktail.
The lovely 'Crimes' cast: Cheryl Bellows, Anne Colpitts, Brooke Casanova, Brad Reed, Matthew John Finn, and Amanda Kelly
Adam Musto, 'Crimes' ASM
Contributed by Liz Laneri, Crimes Publicity Manager
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