Current Season
2011-2012 University Theatre Season
Fall Southern Classic
Steel Magnolias
By Robert Harling
Oct. 27-29 and Nov. 3-5 at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 6 at 2 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Director:
Jan Powell
Synopsis:
Chinquapin, Louisiana. 1988. In the midst of wedding plans, divorces, births, funerals, new beginnings and profound endings, six women find a haven in the comfort of Truvy’s Beauty Salon. As they tackle the challenges of life with laughter, charm, tears and grit, we are reminded that while they are as lovely and fragile as magnolias they are also as tough and unflinching as steel. Join us for an evening of theatre as delightful and hardy as sweet potato pie.
Steel Magnolias is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Winter Musical
She Loves Me
Book by Joe Masterhoff
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Feb. 2-4 and 9-11 at 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 5 and 12 at 2 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Directors:
Directed by Rhett Luedtke
Musical Direction by Maggie Daane
Conducted by Richard Elliott
Synopsis:
Georg Nowack’s life as the head clerk in Maraczek’s Parfumerie is relatively peaceful until Amalia Balash is hired. While Georg and Amalia clash at work, each of them finds solace writing love letters to their anonymous romantic pen pals in the evening. But when Georg discovers that his romantic pen pal is none other than Amalia he faces a crisis of heart. Will his love for his pen pal prevail? Or will his disgust of his co-worker triumph? Join us for a delightful evening of theatre created by the same dynamic tandem who wrote Fiddler on the Roof.
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
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Spring Original
The Broken (A Working Title)
Written & devised by the ensemble & design team
April 12-14 and 19-21 at 7:30 p.m.
April 22 at 2 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Rhett Luedtke
Synopsis:
The Broken is our most ambitious theatre event as a department in many years. A select group of students (both actors and designers) will begin with a single image this September, and by April 12 will have created (devised) a brand new play together. Based loosely on actual events, we will begin with the image of a fortified, barbed-wire fence in a foreign country. A middle-aged Bible translator stands on one side of the fence with a machete in his hands. On the other side stands a native of the country also wielding a machete. As we develop this play together, we will explore the tensions, paradoxes and complications inherent in the clash between two cultures with different ways of expressing their faith.