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Portland Center Stage is offering a free ticket to anyone who brings in two dozen or more clean, empty catfood cans before May 15—they need the cans as props in their upcoming production of Grey Gardens, a show about two women who lived together with their 52 cats. (That’s 49 more than I have, so everyone can please stop referring to me as a “cat lady” now; thanks.)

Alison Hallett served nobly as the Mercury's arts editor from 2008-2014. Her proud legacy lives on.

11 replies on “Catfood Friday”

  1. I didn’t see a reference to it on their site when I looked earlier. Here’s the email I got:

    Alison,

    For Grey Gardens, our props department needs literally hundreds of clean dry empty cat food cans (52 cats. The Bouvier Beales had 52 cats. Yeow!). Would you be willing to do a cat Friday call out to Blogtown’s cat ladies (and gentlemen) to save them up and bring them on down to PCS? Any amount of cans is helpful, but if they bring in 2 dozen or more (demonstrating their true cat lady bonafides) we’ll thank them with a complimentary ticket to the show. We need them by May 15th.

  2. Uhmm, didn’t they just say that anyone that can come up with 24 empty cans before May 15th is a cat lady? We won’t call you “crazy cat lady” (because that title is reserved for my ex with 5 anti-social black cats,) but I think 3 cats fairly easily qualifies you as cat lady.

  3. uh, what a lazy prop department…Grey Gardens is set in the 70’s so current catfood can labels aren’t going to be historically accurate. Why not find/design a vintage catfood label, Xerox it, and glue to appropriate cans?

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