Infobox_Company
type = LLC
company_name = Off Broadway Theatre
slogan = "A Taste of the Big Apple in the Desert"
foundation = 2007
location = 4151 La Linda Way Sierra Vista, Arizona USA
key_people = Cheryl Lynn Reynolds, President
Andy Reynolds, Technical Director
Chris Sancho, Artistic Director
founders = Cheryl Lynn Reynolds and Andrew Reynolds
industry = Theatre schools and training organizations
homepage = [http://www.offbroadwaytheatre.biz/ www.offbroadwaytheatre.biz]
Off Broadway Theatre is a theater arts school in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The school came into existence when Cheryl Reynolds, the acting (albeit illegal) president of non-profit organization LimeLight Productions, Inc. allegedly purchased Limelight's assets for $4500 and proposed to dissolve the non-profit school.[ Citation]
last = Shacat | first = Jonathon
title = Judge dismisses case, but group files new complaint over Limelight.
newspaper = Sierra Vista Herald
date = 2008-05-17
volume=53
issue=244
page=A5
year = 2008
url = http://www.svherald.com/articles/2008/05/17/news/doc482e7d467c552285180768.txt .] A board meeting consisting of three (of five which were legally required) directors voted on and approved the proposal; one of these directors was Reynolds, who abstained, yet stayed in the room when the motion was made, seconded, and voted on. The other two directors were Sue Ann Waddell and Joe Morris, neither of whom were validly elected.[cite court]
litigants=KATHRYN CHAFFIN-HONDA, et al. v. CHERYL LYNN REYNOLDS, et al., No. CV200700858
court=SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF ARIZONA
date=2008
url = http://uploadingit.com/files/630829_rlwta/LimelightRuling.pdf .] The assets included the building in which the school is housed (which included a theater with 50 seats, lights, sound equipment and a dance classroom with an oak wood dance floor), a piano, a van, office equipment, furniture, and numerous props and costumes.[Citation]
last = Shacat | first = Jonathon
title = Former arts group at center of recent lawsuit.
newspaper = Sierra Vista Herald
date = 2007-11-10
volume=?
issue=?
page=?
year = 2007
url = http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/11/10/news/doc47355dd7a1051000207735.txt .] Although she was never elected, Reynolds served as "de facto" president of Limelight from January 2006 through the present date, reserved the name of Off Broadway Theatre on May 14, 2007, and filed articles of incorporation for Off Broadway, a for-profit organization offering essentially the same things that LimeLight had been doing as a not-for-profit entity, on July 05, 2007.[cite court]
litigants=KATHRYN CHAFFIN-HONDA, et al. v. CHERYL LYNN REYNOLDS, et al., No. CV200700858
court=SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF ARIZONA
date=2008
url = http://uploadingit.com/files/630829_rlwta/LimelightRuling.pdf .] History of case
LimeLight Productions, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non profit corporation was founded in 1984 by Kathryn Chaffin-Honda. Limelight's objective has been to "encourage and promote individual creative growth within a communal structure among young people ages 3-18 years." [citation]
title = Limelight Productions, Inc., Constitution, Art. II § 1, Pls.'] Reynolds became a member of the board not by election, but by appointment in January, 2006. According to LimeLight's by-laws, her appointment should not have extended past January 31, 2007. When Reynolds claimed that LimeLight was in "terrible financial shape" in June, 2007, LimeLight held its annual dance recital at the Buena Performing Arts Center without charging any admission, although it was necessary to pay for the use of the center. One of LimeLights methods of raising money in the past had been charging charging admission for these recitals. In addition, neither Reynolds nor anyone else serving on the board made any special appeal to the membership or past donors seeking contributions, and no mention was made of LimeLight's financial distress when a general request for donations was sent out in January, 2007.uperior Court decision
The Court found, by clear and convincing evidence, that Reynolds did not act in good faith or in the best interests of LimeLight Productions, Inc. In addition, the Court found that Reynolds acted in violation of her fiduciary obligations to LimeLight Productions, Inc. Reynold's Motion for Indemnification was denied on the basis that she was acting illegally as a director of Limelight while having the ability to rectify the illegality by convening the required annual meetings (to be conducted in January of each year) to elect a lawful board, but failed to do so. No annual meeting was held in 2005, 2006, or 2007.
taff
*Cheryl Reynolds (President)
*Andy Reynolds (Technical Director)
*Chris Sancho (Artistic Director)
*Beth Egbert (Dance Director)
*Rube Caraballo (Dance Instructor)
*Cassie Cleere (Dance Instructor)
*Shannon Sample (Office Manager)
References
See also
*Kathryn Chaffin-Honda et al. v. Cheryl Lynn Reynolds et al.
Further reading
* Citation
last = Shacat | first = Jonathon
title = Former arts group at center of recent lawsuit.
newspaper = Sierra Vista Herald
date = 2007-11-10
volume=?
issue=?
page=?
year = 2007
url = http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/11/10/news/doc47355dd7a1051000207735.txt
*Citation
last = Shacat | first = Jonathon
title = Judge dismisses case, but group files new complaint over Limelight.
newspaper = Sierra Vista Herald
date = 2008-05-17
volume=53
issue=244
page=A5
year = 2008
url = http://www.svherald.com/articles/2008/05/17/news/doc482e7d467c552285180768.txt
External links
* [http://www.limelightproductions.net Limelight's Webpage]
* [http://www.offbroadwaytheatre.biz Off Broadway's Webpage]
* [http://uploadingit.com/files/630829_rlwta/LimelightRuling.pdf The Court's Ruling in .pdf format]
