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Purchase a chair for Children's Theater, show support The major renovation under way in the Basic Science Building Auditorium offers MUSC people—faculty, employees, students—a chance to help make the auditorium double as a state-of-the-art children’s theater.   While impetus for the renovation comes from a $250,000 grant from the Elf Foundation, a California-based audio-visual non-profit organization, from the Audio Warehouse and from construction company D.R. Horton, the opportunity remains for individuals and small groups on campus, for patients and patient families and others in the Lowcountry community to purchase specially equipped theater seats with the dedicated name of choice on a brass plate designed for the seat’s armrest.    The renovated auditorium will be used for hosting events for MUSC’s youngest patients and will remain available for teaching students as well. Each seat donated will help put a smile on the faces of hundreds of sick children right here in the community.    The cost of each Theater Seat is $500. Each seat donated will display the dedicated name of choice. Commemorate someone who has made the difficult journey through illness. Thank the MUSC family for the care and medical attention your family received. Honor a MUSC student or graduate Support the MUSC Mission to teach, to heal and to discover. Help us make the joy and entertainment of movies something for our children here at MUSC to look forward to.   Take the time now to be remembered as a contributor to South Carolina’s greatest medical institution.    Reserve your chair by May 15.    For more information or to reserve a chair, contact Vanessa Hill at 792-9250 or Valerie West, Ph.D., at 792-2340 or e-mail West at westvt@musc.edu. Information can also be found at http://www.roomofmagic.com. What is the Elf Foundation? The Elf foundation, a newly formed nonprofit charity organization comprised of consumer and professional electronic dealers, manu-facturer's, manufacturer's representatives, media and industry organizations, working together for the express purpose of designing and installing entertainment and internet-based educational systems in children's hospitals and ancillary facilities around the country. “We believe that our industry—consumer and professional electronics—is about creating magic and we will delight in bringing the brief relief of pain, distress and boredom that face children and their families in need.” From Elf Foundation Website. The foundation is working with more than 20 health facilities across the country. The MUSC's Children's Theater will be the largest theater of its type and will become a national model for other hospitals.