Current Season
2009-2010 University Theatre Season
Fall Drama
The Diviners
By Jim Leonard, Jr.
Nov. 5-7 & 12-14 at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Director:
Caleb Thurston
Description:
Buddy Layman almost drowned as a toddler. Now, as a teenager, he can feel the rain coming from miles away and is the best water diviner in the county. The small farm community of Zion, Ind., (population 40) trusts Buddy’s water instincts, but they also marvel at his terror of water and his inability to bathe. When a charismatic but backsliding preacher drifts into town and befriends Buddy, the two lost souls find a common bond as they help each other divine for truth, faith and hope. But the play drifts toward irreversible tragedy when the townsfolk demand that the young preacher returns to the pulpit.
Players Presents
Threshold!
University Players, Drama Ministry Team
Feb 26-27 at 7:30 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Director:
Rhett Luedtke
Description:
This year, the University Players will be focusing on the moments in our journeys when we pause in the doorway at the threshold of change.
Winter Musical Revue
Rogers and Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing
Music by Richard Rogers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical arrangements by Fred Wells
Orchestration by Michael Gibson and Jonathan Tunick
Conceived by Walter Bobbie
Feb. 4-6 & 11-13 at 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 7 at 2 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Director:
Rhett Luedtke
Description:
Thirty-six of Rogers and
Hammerstein’s most memorable romantic ballads comprise this delightful evening
of theatre. The arc of Grand Night takes
the audience on a musical journey through all the emotional stages of love.
From “Oh What A Beautiful Morning”(Oklahoma),
“We Kiss in the Shadows” (The King
and I) and “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair” (South Pacific) to “A Lovely Night” (Cinderella), “My Little Girl” (Carousel) and “Maria” (The Sound of Music), this evening of
theatre is sure to delight and inspire.
Spring Tragedy
Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
Director:
Megan Weaver
April 8-10 & 15-17 at 7:30 p.m.
April 18 at 2 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Description:
Ruhl’s
imagination explodes on the stage in this fantastical retelling of the myth of
Orpheus. Eurydice follows the story
Orpheus’ lover as she falls in love only to die on her wedding day. After
falling to her death, Eurydice travels to the underworld, where she meets her
father and struggles to remember her lost love. A visually dynamic and
inventive story, Ruhl’s world features raining elevators, a room made of
string, talking stones and letters sent through the earth via worms. This
contemporary retelling of a timeless love story will take your breath away.
