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Theatre Majors & Minors: Preview God of Carnage
Theatre Majors & Minors:
Per the Marketing Office, you are invited to the free final dress/preview of God of Carnage on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30pm. No guests. There will be a list at the door.
Cast Lists Spring 2014
THANK YOU to everyone who spent their evenings in Nichols Hall this week, especially TAP! Many talented students auditioned. We had 28 roles to cast from 51 majors and about 20 non-majors who auditioned. No student was cast in more than one show this semester. If you are not cast, there will be other performance opportunities throughout the semester. Watch the Virtual Callboard for more info.
Please initial or comment below to accept your role. Remember, do not to cut your hair or change your appearance in any way until you speak with your costume designer. Measurements will be done in groups not individually. The costume shop has been moved, you’ll be informed of where the fittings will take place…NOT in the costume shop in McCain.
GOD OF CARNAGE
By Yasmina Rez; Directed by Jerry Jay Cranford. Performance Dates: February 6th-16th in Chapman Theatre
VERONICA: Amanda Garvey
MICHAEL: Mark Young
ANNETTE: Dani Golway
ALAN: Clay Massingill
God of Carnage rehearsals begin January 7 with a table read on December 15 at 6pm.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
By Oscar Wilde; Directed by Charlotte MacFarland. Performance Dates: April 24th-May 4th in Chapman Theatre
“Thank you all for auditioning and for sharing your talent with me.” – Charlotte McFarland
LADY BRACKNELL: Cat Huck
JACK: Sam Massey
GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX: Bella Alonso
ALGERNON: Mat Ellis
CECILY CARDEW: Hannah Miller
DR. CHASUBLE: Sean Matthews
MISS PRISM: Kelsey Coffroth
LANE: Logan Jones
MERRIMAN: Mitch Ward
THE STORY
By Tracey Scott Wilson; Directed by Shon Ruffin. Performance Dates: February 20th-23rd in The Purple Masque.
YVONNE: Erika Williams
JEFF: Corey Jennett
NEIL:Darrington Clark
PAT: Angelica McKinnis
JESSICA: Eugenia Frey
ASSISTANT/ENSEMBLE: Daja Bressette
REPORTER/ENSEMBLE: Audrey Artis
DETECTIVE/ENSEMBLE: Nicole Casonhua
ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS
By Jane Martin; Directed by Libby Uthoff Stratton. Performance Dates: April 3rd-5th in The Purple Masque.
HOLLY: Sarah Stoulil
LISABETTE: Lizzy Cook
CASEY: Ellyn Calvert
T-ANNE: Dai’jah Porchia
ACTRESS #1: Shannon Madden
ACTRESS #2: Laura Vallejo
JOBY: Sydney Normile
THANKS AGAIN! Please accept your role by commenting below or sign your initials to the paper cast lists on the physical call board in Nichols Hall- they will be posted by 9:30AM, Friday, November 22, 2013.
Scripts for Fall Shows Available in McCain Office
The scripts for Chicago, Columbinus, Detroit and Rx are available in the McCain office to check out and read. They will be available in the McCain office for your review all summer and at the start of the semester.
The Mandatory Cattle Call for Theatre majors with an Acting/Directing emphasis are on Tuesday, Aug. 27th at 6:30pm in Nichols Theatre. Music Theatre majors are highly encouraged to attend this cattle cattle.
Please prepare a one- minute monologue. 16 bars of a song will also be accepted in addition to (not instead of) the monologue.
AUDITIONS FOR ALL K-STATE STUDENTS:
Wed, Aug. 28, 7-10pm Chicago by Kander & Ebb (directed by Dwight Tolar) & Detroit by Lisa D’Amour (directed by Dylan Rogerson)
Thurs, Aug. 29, 7-10pm Columbinus by PJ Paparelli & Stephen Karam (directed by Jennifer Vellenga), Rx by Kate Fodor (directed by Amanda Garvey), & Stigma written and directed by Britt Burr
CALLBACKS:
Fri, Aug. 30, 6:30-9pm Chicago & Rx; 8-10:30pm Columbinus, Detroit, & Stigma
Free McCain Tickets to Joe Goode Performance Group on Feb 22
Send an email to John Uthoff (jsutd@k-state.edu) for your free ticket by this Friday, February 1st.
Todd Holmberg is generously offering all (Music, Theatre, & Dance) students complimentary tickets to the Joe Goode Performance Group performance of “The Rambler” on February 22 at McCain at 7:30 pm. As you may know, the JGPG is an ensemble on the cutting edge of blurring the lines between music, dance, and theatre. The ensemble members engage in dancing, singing, acting, and spoken word. The ensemble also collaborates with award-winning scenic artists, puppeteers, and costume designers. Here is more info:
Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG) promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater, as interpreted by the artistic vision and work of Joe Goode. In Goode’s words:
We want to be a site for innovation, to take dance theater out of the traditional theater setting and to place it in a more living, breathing relationship to the viewer.
In 1979, Joe Goode began synthesizing a genre of dance theater that combined text, gestures, and humor with deeply physical, high velocity dancing. In 1986, JGPG incorporated with the mission of providing a support structure for Goode’s artistic work. Over the past 26 years JGPG has performed annually in the San Francisco Bay Area and has toured throughout the U.S. JGPG has appeared in Canada, Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa, including the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater in 1999.
Joe Goode has been recognized nationally and internationally as an innovator in the development of contemporary dance theater. Goode’s signature work, 29 Effeminate Gestures , was produced by PBS and aired nationally on “ Alive from Off Center. ” In 1995, Goode was one of the first ten choreographers to receive a prestigious National Dance Residency Program grant.
Joe Goode was named a United States Artists Fellow for 2008, one of only five national dance artists so honored. Goode was selected for his unflagging commitment to innovation and experimentation in dance/theater. In 2007 Goode received the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Goode has a 26-year history of creating new work. During the past several seasons he has been alternating between proscenium work and walk-through, multimedia performance installations as a way to open audiences’ minds to the limitless potential of where and how dance theater can be experienced. Humansville (2007) was an installation in which the audience was able to proceed through multiple rooms, encircled by video, dance and music, which wrapped around them in an exploration of the flailing, absurd condition of being human. The highly theatrical piece played to near sell-out houses for 12 performances.
Wonderboy (2008) was a collaboration with world renowned puppeteer Basil Twist. It was an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero isolated by his gift of super sensitivity, in which Goode integrated yet another art form into his innovative cross-disciplinary work. 2009 saw Goode’s most ambitious undertaking to date – a site-specific installation at the Old San Francisco Mint. Traveling Light was a critical success, played to near capacity audiences, and was remounted for 28 performances in 2010.
Goode’s latest work, The Rambler (June 2011) continued his collaboration with Basil Twist, who designed both puppetry and scenic elements; Twist’s ingenious use of moving vertical and horizontal curtains caused a visually striking effect of constantly changing scope and perspective.
Benaiah Anderson and Theatre Forum News
Benaiah Anderson will be our guest in Theatre Forum on April 9th. He is an alum, a stage combat choreographer, an actor and a stage weapon artisan. He is located in the Denver area. Last year he staged 3 PETER PAN productions and is presently working on BLOOD WEDDING and OTHELLO. He just finished a Colorado Shakespeare Festival sponsored school tour of 12th NIGHT using the wacky hijinks of Malvolio and friends to teach kids about bullying. He has just been hired to do his 16th ROMEO AND JULIET. This summer he will return to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in RICHARD III and TREASURE ISLAND. Please come and meet Benaiah and bring your friends.
Also, please note that there will be a SPECIAL THEATRE FORUM on Friday, April 13th at 12:30 and a Workshop that afternoon about ACTING FOR THE CAMERA. Alums Chance Mullen and Fran Albright Mullen will be visiting. We will post much more about these events in the near future.
SpringDance 2012
March 30-31 in McCain Auditorium at 7:30 pm.
Tickets are $8/$14.
Call 532-6428 or visit the McCain Box Office.
SpringDance 2012 will feature a wide and refreshing variety of dancing and live music. Guest artist Nela Nieman will show a classical ballet work. Guest Artist Darwana Tijan from Ghana will visit during the production to teach and set a traditional West African dance set to an African xylophone ensemble. Faculty choreographers David Ollington, Julie L. Pentz, and Jennie Stout (adjunct) will present choreography in the styles of modern, jazz, and tap. Highlighted work will include “The Black Hole” by David Ollington (2010), which will travel to the American College Dance Festival (ACDFA) this semester. A new work by Julie L. Pentz will feature excerpts from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, which will be played by the Kansas State Orchestra, directed by Dr. David Littrell. The K-State Percussion Ensemble, directed by Dr. Kurt Gartner will join the stage for performances of “Gahu,” a traditional West African social dance new to the K-State Dance Ensemble. The Percussion Ensemble will also join the stage for “Echo,” a 2008 work by Julie L. Pentz that is set to Neil Dunn’s award winning composition. Student work also shown at ACDFA will be seen at SpringDance.
For more information contact neildunn@ksu.edu.
Lee Soroko in Theatre Forum
REMINDER! Something Gonna Change TONIGHT!
Something Gonna Change: Nikki Renee Daniels and Joshua Henry On Broadway
Nichols Theatre, Monday Feb. 27th at 7:30pm
Free to all students, courtesy of Ebony Theater
Tickets handed out in the Nichols Atrium starting at 7:00
Opening Night for “Madwoman”!
Break-A-Leg and Congrats to the Cast and Crew of “Madwoman of Chaillot”!
For more information on this Show please visit:
https://kstatetheatredance.wordpress.com/theatre/the-madwoman-of-chaillot/
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