Adding updates for James Madison, Northwestern, Pace, Point Park, Rider, TCU
List of Productions for 2015-16
Main Stage Musicals, Plays, Dance
Arizona State School of Music Lyric Opera Theatre: Company, Guadalupe, Grease, L’esir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), The Drowsy Chaperone
Ball State: House of Blue Leaves; Mad World; Merrily We Roll Along; As You Like It; Clebrating the Past and Present of BSDT; Jungalbook; Alias Grace; Hairspray; A Devised Piece
CCM: Carousel 10/29-11/1; American Idiot 3/3-3/13
CCU: Spring Awakening; Sleepy Hollow; 1940’s Radio Hour; How To Suceed In Business Without Really Trying; Pride and Prejudice;Dance Company Showcase; Class Showcase
Hartt School: Small Town Story (Musical), Nicholas Nickleby (Play - 6 hour abridged version - yowza), Robber Bridegroom (Musical), Metamorphosis (Play), Titanic (Musical), Arcadia (Play), Reefer Madness (Musical) & Much Ado about Nothing (Play)
Ithaca: As You like It 9/29-10/10; She Kills Monsters TBD; A Chorus Line 11/3-11/12; Anon(ymous) 12/1-12/6; Il Viaggio a Reims (opera) 2/24-3/5; Dogfight 3/29-4/9; Saviana (devised piece) TBD; Arcadia 4/26-5/1
James Madison University: New Dance Concert (Sept.), Aliens student directed, Anton in Show Business (Sept.), First Lady Suite (Oct.), Roof! staged reading, Voices of America student directed workshop production The Pillowman student directed, Dogfight student directed, Sakuntala (Nov.), The Barber of Seville school of music opera, Into the Sun A reading of a new musical, which had an initial reading at the NYMF this past summer, Director’s Fest 10-minute play festival of plays written by and directed by students, VA Repertory Dance Concert (Dec.), Beaux’ Stratagem student directed, Sound of a Voice student directed, Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged student directed, Lippa’s Wild Party (Feb.), Contemporary Dance Ensemble Concert (March), Little Women student directed, The Merry Widow school of music opera, The Yellow Boat student directed, Pretty Theft (April).
University of Michigan: American Idiot, The Light in the Piazza, Guys and Dolls. These are through the MT department and there is another that is escaping me at this moment.
Montclair: The Producers, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Boys from Syracuse, and Triumph of Love.
Nebraska Wesleyan University: Chicago, August Osage County, Suddenly Last Summer, Thoroughly Modern Millie, It’s Only A Play, Christmas Carol, Desdemona, Othello, Illyna, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Mrs. Shakespeare the Poet’s Wife, Taming of the Shrew, Kiss Me Kate
Northwesterm: GREEN DAY’S AMERICAN IDIOT 10/16-25, AS YOU LIKE IT 11/20-12/6, BIG LOVE 1/29- 2/7, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM 2/12-28, DANCEWORKS 2016 2/26-3/6, THE TEMPEST 4/22-5/1, ANNA IN THE TROPICS 4/13-22, GYPSY 1/22-30, A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD 11/6-22, The 85th Annual Waa-Mu Show (Largest student-written show in the country) 4/29-5/9, Assassins 10/1-3, A Streetcar Named Desire 5/5-7, **** 11/15-17, The Drowsy Chaperone 2/4-6, Wonder of The World 2/25-27, Stunning 5/12-14, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; 10/8-10, Titus Andronicus 2/25-27, Twelfth Night 4/28-30, She Kills Monsters 10/29-31, See What I Wanna See 9/17-19, Blue Lights 2/4-6, The Maids 3/10-12, Next Fall 5/2016 (site specific), Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues 10/22-24, A Bright New Boise 2/18-20, Project NU 2016 5/12-14, Festival of Devised Works 2016 4/7-9, Boomer’s Story, The Alexander Litany, A Feast , Strangers of Intimacy, Dear Twig, Minnesota, Vote For Me, Wrestlepocalypse X, 7th Annual Ten Minute Play Festival, Incest Show, Clothes For a Summer Hotel, The Secret Garden
Oklahoma City University: Musicals/Operas: RENT October 2-14, NINE October 9-11, DON PASQUALE November 20-22, THE MAGIC FLUTE,February 19-21, JACKIE O March 4-6, EVITA April 22-24 Straight Shows: Peter and the Starcatcher (in conjunction with City Rep), Oxygen, Festival of Solo Performances, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Giver, As You Like It, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot OCU STRIPPED - Fall: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Otterbein: “Rent” 9/24-10/3; “Much Ado About Nothing” 10/22-31; Dance Concert 11/19-22; “Is He Dead?” 2/18-27; “Fiddler on the Roof” 4/7-16.
OU (University of Oklahoma): Arcadia (Sept.18-20,24-27); Acts of War (Sept.24-27); Ragtime (Oct.15-18); The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Oct.30-31, Nov.5-7); The Trojan Women (Feb.12-14 & 18-21); Eugene Onegin (Mar. 3-6); Thoroughly Modern Millie (April 8-10, 15-17). Plus OULABTHEATRE: Stepping Out (Sep.29-Oct.4); Laramie Project (Nov.10-15); Recent Tragic Events (Dec.9-12); Student Playwright’s Festival (Mar.8-10); The Flick (Mar.29-April 3); Waiting for Godot (April 19-24) & Distracted (April 27-30)
Point Park - Into the Woods Oct 16-25; The Wild Duck Nov 6-22; Our Lady of 121st Street 12/4-13; The Bluest Eye 2/26-28, Mar 10-13; Drowsy Chaperone 3/18-3/27
Rider: “Catch Me If You Can”, “A Little Night Music” and “Spring Awakening”. (From: http://www.rider.edu/academics/colleges-schools/westminster-college-of-the-arts/school-of-fine-performing-arts/undergraduate-programs/theatre The 2015-2016 theatre season includes productions of The Penelopiad, Ubu Roi and Gallathea, as well as the new play festival. Musical theatre productions are Catch Me if you Can, A Little Night Music and Spring Awakening, as well as the fall and spring cabarets.)
Roosevelt CCPA: She Kills Monsters, Plough and the Stars, Hair (MT), 39 Steps, Bakers Wife (MT), Road, Elegies for Angels, Punk and Raging Queens (MT) plus showcases and one more musical TBD.
Shenandoah University: She Loves Me, The Trojan Women, Romeo and Juliet, City of Angels, Illyria and Savage in Limbo
Theatre TCU: A Day in Hollywood/A Night in Ukraine, A Lovely Sunday in Creve Couer, Everyman, Readings of The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden & Pullman Car Hiawatha, Women of Lockerbie, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Heir Apparent
Temple University: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf (9/16-26), Anything Goes (9/30-10/11), A Free Man of Color (11/11-21), Two Gentlemen of Verona (2/3-14), The Odyssey (3/16-26), Godspell (4/13-24)
Texas State University: Black & Latino Playwrights Conference (9/7-13), A View From the Bridge (10/6-11), Sunset Baby (10/22-25), Marisol (11/5-8), Evita (11/17-22), Fool For Love (2/4-7), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2/16-21), Belleville (2/25-28), A Flea in Her Ear (4/5-10), Romeo & Juliet (4/21-24)
UArts: (taken from comment by current student in Facebook group!) Marie Christine, Rocky Horror, Twelfth Night, a senior project play called “I know the way home”, a devised collaboration with a Philadelphia company called “Applied Mechanics” and a 90’s cabaret with Philly artist Michael Friedman
Viterbo: Fall semester: Oklahoma! on the Main Stage and Girls Like That by Evan Placey in the Black Box; Spring semester: Crow and Weasel by Jim Leonard Jr. at the Weber Center, Mrs. Packard by Emily Mann in the Black Box, Altar Boyz and Shout! in repertory at the Weber Center, and our dance show in the Black Box.
Western Kentucky University: Into The Woods, Guys and Dolls, Our Town, Another play not yet named, and a couple of dance shows.
Western Michigan: Our Town (October); Ameriville (October); The Country Wife (October/November); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (November); A Beheading in Spokane (November); Next Stop, Broadway (December); A Soldier’s Play (February); Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (February); Big Love (March); Thoroughly Modern Millie (April).
Wright State: The Great Gatsby 9/24 - 10/4; Chicago 10/29 - 11/15; A Streetcar Named Desire 1/28 - 2/7; The Music Man 3/17 - 4/3