Playbill
Sponsors, Warm Wishes, And Business Ads
Our Playbill is a Gorgeous Keepsake
The playbill is a great way to share your love with your actors, let parents know about your business, and support this production!
Check out a previous playbill and see for yourself how stunning the playbill truly is!
Creature Mountain 2024 playbill. (+ Switch It Off 2023 playbill, Your Turn 2022 playbill)
Local Businesses Support us with Ads:
Please also take a look at the businesses who helped sponsor our show in previous years. Local businesses are a huge help to us, and we want to return the favor by being a huge help to them. Please do look at the past playbill and if any business seems intriguing, say yes to checking out their business! We’re a part of a community, so let’s support our community businesses. Don’t forget to say Thank You to the owner for supporting the Garden Players.
If you have a business yourself, join our list! Send us an ad to put into our playbill.
If you have an actor in the show, make the playbill extra special by including a note to your actor. Put in a photo. Fill a line or a whole page! You can send us the words and the photo and let us design it, or send us your own design.
Send high resolution photo and wording and we can create your layout.
If you’d like to design it yourself, see the dimensions below.
Full page – $140 (7.25h x 4.5w)
Half page – $75 (3.5h x 4.5w)
Quarter page – $50 (Tall: 3.5h x 2.25w /OR/ Wide: 1.75h x 4.5w)
One Liner Warm Wishes – $15 (ie: Dan, you are a star! We love you, Mom and Dad)
Cash or check to Garden Players, or Zelle to betina@gardenplayers.com or purchase via credit card
Content due April 11th, but please get it to us as soon as you can so we have time to edit the playbill.
Your Ad Supports Our Local Theater Community
We have an important opportunity for your business to support the arts in the Forest Hills community by advertising in the Playbill of The Garden Players’ family musical as well as being added to our sponsors page. Our original musical will premiere with two shows on May 17th and two on May 18th, 2025, at The Community House of The Church-in-the-Gardens in Forest Hills. Our annual productions involve over 120 neighborhood children, their extended families, friends and neighbors with over 600 seats filled.
Arts education helps our children and our community thrive, and your support means a lot to the parents, children and audience members of our musical theater troupe. I started carrying the torch for Garden Players in 2003, a local theater group which has been around for over 100 years, and I am proud of our vibrant and creative community.
Over the 20 years I’ve been directing Garden Players, our shows have been a huge success due to our sponsors, local community, and volunteers. We have 4 packed performances each May. As the director and co-writer of the show and member of the BMI Musical Theater Writing Workshop, I am excited to be working with composer Sunny Knable and book writer Gwynne Watkins to bring fresh musical theater to our community.
Our annual productions have sold out each year to a local audience of over 600 people. As a local business, you have an opportunity to support the arts in our community by advertising in our Playbill.
Your Options
(Exact sizes, additional payment methods, and more, below.)
Share your message! This includes a banner, a flier, a full page ad in the playbill, and your name on our website and in the playbill as a Gold Star Sponsor! You will also have early access tickets in the first 3 rows (as long as they are available).
Pay by check to Garden Players, cash, Zelle, or follow our Credit Card Link
$500
Actor warm wishes or business ad. This is a custom, full page ad space in the program for the spring musical. Business supporters will also be added to our supporters page. Send a high res photo and words or design it yourself. (4x7) (subject to content approval)
Pay by check to Garden Players, cash, Zelle, or follow our Credit Card Link
$140
Actor warm wishes or business ad. This is a custom, half page ad space in the program for the spring musical. Send a high res photo and words or design it yourself. (4x3.5) (subject to content approval)
Pay by check to Garden Players, cash, Zelle, or follow our Credit Card Link
$75
Actor warm wishes or business ad. This is a custom, quarter page ad space in the program for the spring musical. Send a high res photo and words or design it yourself. (2x3.5) (subject to content approval)
Pay by check to Garden Players, cash, Zelle, or follow our Credit Card Link
$50
It's like twitter in the program! Drop a short shout-out to the cast with these break-a-leg-agrams. (subject to content approval)
Pay by check to Garden Players, cash, Zelle, or follow our Credit Card Link
$15
Want to give extra? You can make a tax deductible donation to our show through Fractured Atlas.
Size and Payment Details
Requested Deadline For Ad Copy: April 11th, 2025
You can mail in a physical ad copy or email a Word, JPG, or PDF file to betina@gardenplayers.com*. If you want us to design it, please send the words and photos. We will show you what we have created. Our volunteers will make something clean and clear. If you want to create it yourself, please take a look at the sizes below.
Cost & Sizes
Gold Star Sponsor $500 (7.25 x 4.5 Full Page + This includes your logo on a banner, a flier you provide, and your name in the playbill as a Gold Star Sponsor!)
Full page $140 (7.25 x 4.5)
Half page $75 (3.5 x 4.5)
Business Card $50 (Business Card Size: Tall: 3.5h x 2.25w /OR/ Wide: 1.75h x 4.5w)
Payment Options
Zelle payable to: betina@gardenplayers.com / 917-204-5647
Credit card at gardenplayerstheater.com
Checks are payable to: Garden Players
Mail to: Garden Players
Church-in-the-Gardens
50 Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375-6009
*Feel free to call if you would prefer your ad and your contribution to be picked up
Performances
Saturday, May 17th, 4:30 P.M. & 7:30 P.M.
Sunday, May 18th, 2 P.M. & 5 P.M.
You Make A Difference
Thank you for continuing to support arts education in Forest Hills!
Sincerely,
Betina Hershey, Executive & Artistic Director
betina@gardenplayers.com
917-204-5647
