My husband John and I both caught the 'Broadway bug' when we were young. I still remember my first show, the Amish musical Plain and Fancy at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City where I grew up. They raised a barn on the stage! I was nine-years old and I remember it like it was yesterday. Thousands of shows later, my love of live theatre has only grown in the decades that have passed.
As John and I planned our estate, we discussed what we wanted to do with what we had been fortunate enough to accumulate during our life together. Countless nonprofits were options. When we came across the Theatre Development Fund’s student matinee program which brings students from all over New York City to Broadway shows, we both looked at each other and said, 'That’s it.'
We set up a legacy bequest in our trust naming the Theatre Development Fund’s student matinee program to be the beneficiary of our estate. The proceeds will go to TDF so that we can put more kids in theatre seats, and a new generation can discover the magic of Broadway.
I lost John in 2014. While I expect to see many more Broadway shows in the years ahead, I also now have the satisfaction of knowing that the estate plans we made through the Doug Jones and John Sanger Theater Ticket Fund will help thousands of New York City kids—most of whom have never been in a theatre before—attend Broadway shows simply because we took the time to plan our legacy gift to TDF. You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to make a difference. Planning your legacy gift today can give the joy of Broadway to New York City students for generations to come.”
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