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UNCG Box Office violates its own privacy policy

Below you will find an e-mail from the UNCG Box Office that was received at this domain.  As you can see, Jody, the UNCG Theatre manager, is offering us all e-mails and addresses captured at the box office in violation of the policy quoted in the box office FAQ:

http://www.uncg.edu/euc/boxoffice/faqs/

Does the Box Office share my personal information?

When purchasing tickets in advance the box office will collect address and phone number information for all patrons. This information is used strictly to notify patrons of any show changes that may occur and inform patrons of upcoming Dance, Theatre, Music or UCLS events. The box office does not sell or release personal information to anyone other than the event producer.

Here is the e-mail, emphasis mine:

From: Jody Cauthen JTCAUTHE <jtcauthe@uncg.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:03:21 -0400
To:  *****@rainbow-news.com

Subject: Angels in America at UNCG
 Rainbow news...it appears that maybe you all are on a temporary
hiatis...if you are still in business and/or would be able to assist me
in distributing information about this amazing play, please let me know.
 I'd be happy to share email/addresses that we capture at the box office
during the sales period if you would be willing to exchange your
email/mail list (if it's current).  Thanks, Jody

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Hello from UNCG,

UNCG Theatre is preparing to produce the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning
play, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
in late September/October of 2009.  
 This controversial and exciting play revolves around the AIDS epidemic
of the 1980's---and the infected men and women who suffered.
 We invite your special interest group to attend the production--either
as an organized group event or as individuals.
 Here's an excerpt from Jacobus' The Bedford Introduction to Drama:
 "Angels in America has epic, Brechtian proportions.  Kushner has said
that he set out to write a play on "AIDS, Mormons, and Roy Cohn."  He
chose AIDS because it is a scourge that has destroyed large numbers of
the gay community.  He chose Mormons because he saw in them a group that
valued goodness and godliness but that could not tolerate gays.  He
chose Roy Cohn because, when Cohn was an aid to Senator Joseph McCarthy
during anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950's, he persecuted gays even
though he was himself a closet homosexual.  His homosexuality did not
become public until he contracted AIDS and died in 1986.  In Cohn,
Kushner had found a villain whose rapacious individualism and
unquenchable thirst for power helped symbolize the selfishness of the
1980s."
 UNCG Theatre would be very interested in communicating with your group
membership about this play, production dates, post show forums/talkbacks
with the director, designers, and actors as a way to encourage a show of
support for this influential and riveting play.  Group discounts of up
to 40% ($9 per person) are available for organized groups of 10 or more
with priority reserved seating, free parking, and (for additional fees)
reception facilities.
 Also, if there was significant interest, UNCG Theatre would be grateful
for the opportunity to come to a meeting to discuss the play (beforehand
or afterward)
 Tony Kushner is one of America's leading playwrights and gay/lesbian
advocates.  It is possible that Mr. Kushner will join us for some
portion of the rehearsal process and/or production.  Please note the
extensive biography of his life and work below.
 Would your group be interested in receiving information and if so, what
is the best way to communicate with them all?  An email that could be
forwarded on to the membership base (with coupons/discounted ticket
offers attached)? Or would you prefer some sort of paper communication
to share at a meeting?
 BIO:

Tony Kushner In “After Angels,” a profile of Tony Kushner published in
The New Yorker, John Lahr wrote: “[Kushner] is fond of quoting
Melville’s heroic prayer from Mardi and Voyage Thither (“Better to sink
in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals”), and takes an almost
carnal glee in tackling the most difficult subjects in contemporary
history – among them, AIDS and the conservative counter-revolution
(Angels In America), Afghanistan and the West (Homebody/Kabul), German
Fascism and Reaganism (A Bright Room Called Day), the rise of capitalism
(Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Browne), and racism and the civil
rights movement in the South (Caroline, or Change).  But his plays,
which are invariably political, are rarely polemical.  Instead Kushner
rejects ideology in favor of what he calls “a dialectically shaped
truth,” which must be “outrageously funny” and “absolutely agonizing,”
and must “move us forward.”  He gives voice to characters who have been
rendered powerless by the forces of circumstances – a drag queen dying
of AIDS, an uneducated Southern maid, contemporary Afghans – and his
attempt to see all sides of their predicament has a sly subversiveness.
He forces the audience to identify with the marginalized – a humanizing
act of the imagination.” Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in
Lake Charles, Louisiana, Kushner is best known for his two-part epic,
Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes.  His other plays
include A Bright Room Called Day; Slavs!; Hydriotaphia; Homebody/Kabul;
and Caroline, or Change, the musical for which he wrote book and lyrics,
with music by composer Jeanine Tesori.  Kushner has translated and
adapted Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk,
Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her
Children; and the English-language libretto for the children’s opera
Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’ film
of Angels In America, and Steven Spielberg’s Munich. His books include
But the Giraffe, a Curtain Raising, and Brundibar: the Libretto, with
illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the
Present; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses
to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.
Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award,
two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Oscar nomination, an Arts Award
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Award
for a Mid-Career Playwright, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and
Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and a Cultural Achievement Award from
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, among many others.  Most
recently, Caroline, or Change, produced in the autumn of 2006 at the
Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, received the Evening Standard
Award, the London Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Olivier Award for
Best Musical.    He is the subject of a documentary film, Wrestling with
Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, made by the Oscar-winning filmmaker
Freida Lee Mock.  He is currently working on a screenplay about Abraham
Lincoln. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris. “Tony
Kushner is a dramatist through and through.  Even when he is delivering
a lecture or writing an essay, other voices break in, all smart, some
smart-aleck, in a slaphappy polyphony, as he badgers himself (and
others) into shrewd judgments... The results are funny, harsh and wise.”
– Garry Wills 

Sincerely, Jody Cauthen, UNCG Theatre Manager PO Box 26170
Greensboro,  NC 27402 Voice: 336-334-4601 Fax: 336-334-5100 Box Office:
336-334-4849 or buy tickets at http://boxoffice.uncg.edu
www.uncg.edu/the for show and academic information
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