Would it be cheating to have a group fund the once-in-a-lifetime $600.00 recitation? At twenty bucks a head that would be thirty people. You have many LJ friends - if you can get a group together, I'm willing to use my credit card as a place holder, and be paid back at the door. (door to where, one wonders. I'm not sure I could fit 30 people into my living room).