Media Highlights for Nonprofit and Advocacy Clients

1. Nonprofit/Advocacy

2. Instead of falling apart when her 22-month-old grandson was getting
slammed with chemo to battle cancer, Kay Burnham decided to sing
and dance.
It had been decades since Burnham had gone onstage – high
school, to tell the truth – but in a very wonderful way she believed
she had no choice. After witnessing the dedication, care and
tenderness of the staff at CHOC Children’s Hospital, where little
Carter was being treated, her soul needed to give back and she
knew of a very special musical that would help her do just that.
Now, six years since those terrible days, Burnham is still giving back
by, yes, singing and dancing.
It’s a recent Saturday and Burnham and more than 100 other
volunteers rehearse – and rehearse – for one of the craziest and
coolest fundraising events in Orange County, the annual CHOC
Follies. It’s a musical of epic ambition and – absent my two-left feet,
unlike a few years ago – the April 2 opening night is sure to be a
musical of epic success.
“What if your hinges all are rusting?” dozens of voices soar in unison
and with “All That Jazz” finger-snapping cool. “What if, in fact, you’re
just disgusting?
Whiting: CHOC Follies: They're saving
babies with a song
“Razzle dazzle ’em / And they’ll never catch wise!”
Join me as we walk through the fourth floor of a building on the corner
Of Bristol and Sunflower in Costa Mesa that just happens to be a
perfect home for razzling and dazzling.