2009-2010 ASU University Theatre Season
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Summer 2009 Season
Summer 2009 Dinner Theatre 1
California Suite
by Neil Simon
June 25-28 and July 2-4, 2009
ASU Modular Theatre
Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.
It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York ,Visitor from Philadelphia ,Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago.
In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The banter flies fast and furious but Hannah's well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold.
The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband "en flagrante delicto" with a drunken hooker.
Visitors from London brings a British star as failed Academy Award nominee. Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality will be no comfort tonight...
The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared.
"Mr. Simon is writing at his ebullient best...his language has the grace of conversation we wish our friends could muster...makes us laugh so effortlessly."
--N.Y. Times
"The middle aged visitors had last night's middle aged audience laughing heartily."
--N.Y. Daily News
Summer 2009 Dinner Theatre 2
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Wingfield
July 30-August 2 and August 6-8, 2009
ASU Modular Theatre
See all 37 of William Shakespeare’s plays in an hour and a half! A fast-paced, and obviously abridged jaunt through the most well-know 400 year-old plays and converted for our time. A 10-year run at the Criterion Theatre makes THE COMPLETE WORKS… the longest-running comedy in London’s history.
“THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) embodies one of comedy's most essential impulses: the adolescent urge to take a baseball bat to the culturally revered. A mix of pratfalls, puns, willful misreadings of names and dialogue, clunky female impersonations, clean-cut ribaldry, and broad burlesque. The gung-ho vitality is impossible to resist. The conversion of the histories into a football game is very funny. So is a rap version of OTHELLO. HAMLET truly soars and allows the actors to come into their own as manic clowns.
At its giddiest, its tone recalls the fabled Bullwinkle cartoon shows.”
--Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“This irreverent deconstruction of Shakepeare's work makes a dilly of poor Willy. A fantasia of zany energy that throws together Monty Python-ish drag and Mel Brook-ish anything-for-a-laugh gags.”
--Michael Musto, New York Daily News
Originally produced and performed by The Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Fall 2009
Queen of the MIst
by Jackie Rosenfeld
October 2-4 and 9-10, 2009
ASU Auditorium
In 1901, when Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to plunge over
Niagara Falls in a barrel she was not a young, adventure-seeking daredevil,
but a 62 year old retired school teacher from Michigan. In the premiere
production of Jackie Rosenfeld’s new play, Queen of the Mist, we find
Annie some twenty years later, on her deathbed in Buffalo, New York.
Carrie Paulk, a young suffragette reporter comes to Annie on an adventure
of her own. If successful, Carrie will persuade Annie to face the demons
that took her to Niagara Falls and the ones she invented for herself after she
crawled out of her barrel alive and found neither the fame nor the fortune of which
she was so certain.
QUEEN OF THE MIST is the Angelo State University Theatre entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
Holiday Dinner Theatre
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of A Christmas Carol
by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin, Jr.
November 12-15 and 19-21, 2009
ASU Modular Theatre
In a festive mood, the ladies mount another assault on the classics with their stage version of A Christmas Carol. They enthusiastically portray a dizzy array of characters from the Dickensian favorite (and a few which aren't), engineer some novel audience participation while bravely contending with an intrusive PA system and, a real Farndale first, rap their vocal cords and feet around two original, show stopping songs.
“Another classic dramatic massacre that enthralls." --Independent
"Not since the Monty Python mob dressed up as The Batley Townswomen's Guild and re-enacted the Battle of Pearl Harbor with their handbags have I tittered so much." --Daily Express
Spring 2010
Carousel
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on the Play LILIOM by Ferenc Molnar
As adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer
Original Dances by Agnes de Mille
March 5-7 and 12-13, 2010
ASU Auditorium
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent "up there." Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. It's easy to understand why, of all the shows they created, CAROUSEL was Rodgers & Hammerstein's personal favorite.
EURYDICE
by Sarah Ruhl
April 29-May 2 and May 6-8, 2010
ASU Modular Theatre
In EURYDICE, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.
"RHAPSODICALLY BEAUTIFUL. A weird and wonderful new play - an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory.” --The New York Times
"EXHILARATING!! A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth, lush and limpid as a dream where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious." --The New Yorker
“Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact and luminously liquid in its rhythms and design, "Eurydice" reframes the ancient myth of ill-fated love to focus not on the bereaved musician but on his dead bride -- and on her struggle with love beyond the grave as both wife and daughter.” --The San Francisco Chronicle
Subscribe Now for the 2009-20010 Season! It's LIVE for You at ASU!Subscribers receive the best deal in town paying only $30.00 for all major 2009-20010 University Theatre and Music events. (Subscriber Dinner Theatre tickets are an additional $15.00 to cover the food costs.) Overall, the Arts at ASU subscription package IS THE BEST entertainment value in town. Furthermore, it is LIVE for YOU! The $30 cost of a single subscription membership will afford the subscriber six (6) admissions to University Theatre productions (additional food preparation charge for dinner theatre) and advance notice of ten (10) music events (which are free admission). The theatre admissions can be used in whatever combination of shows you choose. For example, if you choose to bring a guest to the first production, you may do so using two (2) of your six (6) season subscription admissions, thus, having four (4) remaining admissions. Reservation cancellations must be made in advance of the performance for which the reservation is made in order to maintain those admissions. Subscribers may make reservations two days before general admission tickets go on sale by calling 942-2000 (dinner theatre reservations must be paid within 48 hours of the reservation due to the need to guarantee meal counts to catering service, these can be paid by Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express provided we have a signature on file.). Theatre tickets sold in advance are available at the Arts at ASU Box Office, located in the north foyer on the main floor of the Robert and Nona Carr Education-Fine Arts Building on the Angelo State University campus. Tickets purchased in addition to subscriptions will be sold at general admission prices. The Box Office is open 2-6 PM weekdays beginning approximately ten (10) days before opening to help accommodate our subscribers. Subscribers receive notification by mail in advance of all events, including the seven theatre events listed to the left and ten music events. Music events include notable performances from the Concert Choir, Concert Band, Jazz Band, and various ensembles. Subscribers may call for last-minute reservations to performances and can have your name placed at the top of a waiting list in the event of a sold-out house. (Reserved seating for dinner theatre productions and productions staged in the Auditorium. Other performances are general admission seating. Advance ticket purchase is highly recommended and necessary for dinner theatre productions.) Subscribers enjoy outstanding ASU facilities for music and theatre events in the University Modular Theatre, Recital Hall, and the ASU Auditorium Theatre. The Arts at ASU 2009-20010 Season will continue to present the very best in music and theatre entertainment to the Concho Valley. Join us for a season of great music events, comedies, musicals, and drama. That's a complete season of six theatre productions and 10 music events! Join us for a season filled with laughter, thought, tears and fine music when you subscribe to the ARTS AT ASU. Subscribers rest in the knowledge that your support allows us to maintain our mission of providing the best educational experience for our students, while providing the community with quality arts and entertainment opportunities. Subscribers may attend the dinner theatre productions as a part of the season package with no dinner service or additional charges. Admission will use one of the six (6) admissions that are a part of the season subscription. We recognize this will affect a limited number of special needs subscribers who will be seated in their reserved seats 15 minutes before curtain time. Subscribers may purchase season subscriptions and additional tickets per production (as they go on sale) with cash, check, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express. Tickets purchased by telephone require a signature on file, which subscribers will have by virtue of signing the subscription application.
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Ticket Prices:General Admission: $8 for plays and musicals, $20 for dinner theatre Patrons wishing to dontate to one of our endowed scholarships will be listed in the donors section of the Theatre program for the season in which the donation is made. Present Endowment scholarships are:
University Theatre productions run two weekends. Tentative dates are listed above. Please note: all Sunday theatrical performances, including dinner theatre, will curtain at 2:00 P.M., all other theatre performances begin at 8:00 P.M. For dinner theatre, dinner is served one hour before curtain time and doors open one hour and 15 minutes before curtain. (Give us an email address, and we'll even give you advance notice via an email in addition to the postcard!) Remember that s ten music and six Drama/Musical productions! Contacts:Arts at ASU University Theatre Contacts: 942-2146 ext 246, bill.doll@angelo.edu 942-2146 ext 241, james.worley@angelo.edu 942-2146 ext 248, maggie.blair@angelo.edu
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