Want to see REVENGE OF THE SITH First In New York & Feel Good About It!'!' Here's how to Attend The Premiere!
Published at: Feb. 22, 2005, 2:56 p.m. CST by staff
Hey folks, Harry here... Now sometimes one's passion for STAR WARS can be a costly habit. Many gung ho fans of the galaxy far far away have spent untold thousands on their collections, tattoos, costumes, therapy... well you know what you've done. Here's a chance to see the last one first. You'll walk past the amazing Ziegfeld line... it's the one that Conan's evil dog lampooned last time. You'll get the answers to the questions we fans have had forever. How did Luke and Leia get split up? Who did it? What was that final twist of a black knife that turned Anakin's soul? What made Yoda run? How did Obi Wan defeat Anakin? These questions are the lynchpins to Star Wars fandom. The reasons why our entire generation... no matter what they thought of the first 2 prequels... will be seeing this one. I wanted the answers to these questions for about 2/3rds of my life. Now, what if you could see it in one of the best theaters in the United States, at a red carpet premiere in the heart of one of the great cities in the world? And if all the money it cost went to help homeless children in need of health care? Well, here ya go...
Hi Harry
We haven't been as "with it" as we should be, but thanks to my 17-year old son, Christian, I now understand what we've been missing by not getting the information about our charity premiere at the Ziegfeld on May 12th of ROTS on your web site.
When I say "we", I mean the charity I work for and love, The Children's Health Fund (CHF). CHF was founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/advocate Irwin Redlener, MD . It's a national organization committed to providing the finest quality health care to the most indigent children. Most are homeless. Many lack money or health insurance but we take care of them no matter what.
Back to the premiere: our theater is the Ziegfeld which ought to be cool because the infamous " line" will be in full swing at the same time we have our glitzy red carpet premiere. I must say we have had abundant media interest.
My interest is to sell tickets to raise money for the patients of CHF. We were so thrilled when George Lucas chose us as a beneficiary of one of the 10 charity premieres in the US.
The premiere will be for 1000 people and the after-party (location TBD) within walking distance of the theater is for 500 people and lots of incredible creatures. We want to do our own recreation of a nostalgic and quasi timeless Cantina scene there.
I am attaching information about the sponsorship packages available and some background about the charity as well. I'll also send you a media tip sheet--anything that will help you put a posting of our event and charity premiere on aintitcool.com.
BTW, individual tickets for just the premiere will go on sale in mid March and cost at least $500, maybe $600. $500 is what was charged in 2002 by the charity associated with Episode ll--so although it's not cheap, we can't go backwards.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email or call me. People can email us a StarWars@CHFund.Org.
