Arts at ASU
2011-12 University Theatre Season
Information
A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE ARTS@ASU…
…is an extraordinary opportunity to attend six University Theatre productions and ten music events for only $30!
Reservations
- Call the University Theatre Box Office at 942-2000 approximately 10 days before the opening of a show.
- Subscribers may make reservations two days prior to the general public.
- Advanced ticket reservations are highly recommended.
- Cancellations must be made in advance.
Seating
- Reserved seating is necessary for dinner theatre productions .
- Other performances are general seating.
Dinner Theatre
- Subscribers pay only $15 for dinner theatre tickets, to cover the cost of dinners.
- Only Subscribers may opt out of dinner service.
- Reservations must be made in advance and be paid within 48 hours to guarantee meal counts.
Subscriber Benefits
- Call for last-minute reservations.
- Be placed on top of a waiting list if the event is sold out.
- The Box Office opens two days early for subscribers.
- Notifications by mail and e-mail in advance of all theatre and music events.
Music Events
- Performances from the Concert Choir, Concert Band, Jazz Band, and various ensembles.
Facilities
- Enjoy performances in the one of a kind University Modular Theatre and the Eldon U. Black Recital Hall.
Cost
- 2011-2012 Subscription is $30.
- Dinner Theatre tickets are only an additional $15.
Payment Options
- Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover.
- Cash or Check.
- Tickets purchased by credit card must be signed for in person, as per ASU policy.
Donations
- Patrons wishing to donate to one of our endowed scholarships will be listed in the donors section of the theatre program
- It is asked that donations are made by a separate form of payment
SUBSCRIBERS…
…help Angelo State University fulfill our mission of providing the best educational experience for our students and allow us to provide the community with quality arts and entertainment opportunities.
For more information contact: artsASU@angelo.edu or 325-942-2146
The Arts at ASU 2011-2012 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.
Summer 2011
Dinner Theatre 1
“Barefoot in the Park”
Comedy
June 23-26 and June 30-July 2, 2011
ASU Modular Theatre
Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does. Paul just doesn't understand Corie, as she sees it. He's too staid, too boring and she just wants him to be a little more spontaneous, running "barefoot in the park" would be a start...
"A bubbling, rib-tickling comedy."-The New York Times
"Critic weeps joyfully...I don't think anybody stopped laughing while the curtain was up last evening."-New York Daily News
Dinner Theatre 2
“Butterflies are Free”
Comedy
July 28-31 and August 4-6, 2011
ASU Modular Theatre
Young Don Baker, hero of his mother's children's book series, "Donny Dark" has been blind since birth, his overprotective mother following his every move. Don finally decides to take his own apartment in Manhattan and pursue his songwriting ambitions. When she meets his kooky neighbor, sexy actress Jill, Mrs. Baker's controlling instincts go into overdrive with hilariously touching results.
"A lovely play. It is funny when it means to be, sentimental when it is so inclined, and heartwarming." —New York Daily News
"A charming play...humorous, winning and quietly moving." —New York Post
Fall 2011
“All My Sons”
DramaOctober 6-9 and October 13-15, 2011
ASU Modular Theatre
During World War II, Joe Keller and Herbert Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost unbearable power. The climax showing the reaction of a son to his guilty father is a fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity.
A tremendously impressive drama that received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
Holiday Dinner Theatre
“The Foreigner”
Comedy
November 17-19 and December 1-3, 2011
ASU Modular Theatre
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.
Winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. An inspired comic romp, equal in inventive hilarity to the author's classic comedy The Nerd.
"…a constant invitation to relax and laugh at the foolishness of life…" —Village Voice.
Spring 2012
An Evening of One-Act/Short Plays
The plays will be announced and will vary in style and genre from the work of various playrights.
March 1-4 and 8-10, 2012
ASU Modular Theatre
“The Tempest”
By William Shakespeare
April 26-29 and May 3-5, 2012
ASU Modular Theatre
One of Shakespeare's final texts, The Tempest, is a wondrous tale about the inhabitants and castaways on a magical island. Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda were abandoned to sea and have spent the past twelve years secluded from the world. Miranda is coming of age and has never seen other men except her father, Caliban, a brute in their servitude, and Ariel, their magical indebted servant.
As the play begins, a storm sinks the ship carrying the King of Naples, Alonso, and others on their way home from his daughter's wedding. Amongst the ship's survivors is Prospero's brother Antonio who conspired with Alonso to take the Dukedom.
Prospero charms his daughter to sleep and calls forth his magical agent Ariel to draw Ferdinand, the son of Alonso, away from the others. Miranda and Ferdinand meet and are immediately smitten by each other. Not wanting the couple to move too quickly, Prospero imprisons Ferdinand, while Alonso, Antonio and the others fear Ferdinand has died at sea.
Among other intrigues of those who survive the shipwreck, struggles for power erupt, multiple spirits arise and eventually all are reunited, Ferdinand and Miranda are wed and Prospero is restored to his Dukedom. The seas are calmed by Ariel, who is set free from bondage to Prospero, and all are released to return home. Prospero delivers an epilogue to the audience that sends the audience home with a light heart.
