BC/EFA To Suspend Audience Appeals Until Spring 2022

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-CaresEquity-Fights-AIDS-Aims-For-Spring-2022-Return-For-Red-Bucket-Audience-Appeals-20211018

This means there will be no Red Bucket Follies this December, but Easter Bonnet will most likely go on as scheduled for April 25 and 26.

Which raises the question... why not set up a BC/EFA Venmo or PayPal page for e-payments? And not just a potential option for the fall, but also when the buckets do return?

Updated On: 10/18/21 at 12:31 PM

Given how stage door autographs are rare nowadays, I can see BCEFA making money by providing autographed playbills in exchange for a donation (as they have done so in the past.)

Since most theatergoers already use their smartphone to show their tickets, the likelihood of them having Venmo/CashApp/PayPal is quite high.

With the number of people who already stop in the middle of a crowd to go through their wallet (instead of doing so as they walk) as they approach a bucket, I don't think setting up entirely digital donations is going to work unless it's offered in many spots — the playbill, the merch table, the back of a seat, maybe?