Hi, interested in which schools have announced shows for next year. Thanks!!
Ithaca has announced their season for 2016-17:
Fall:
Play 1: Blood Wedding
Musical: Company
Play 2: Aliens with Incredible Skills
TBA Dance Show
Winter:
Opera: Midsummer
Spring:
Musical: The Cradle Will Rock
Play 2: Servant of Two Masters, a commedia dell’arte-inspired farce by Goldoni
Play 3: The Rover
This does not include the graduate student and student-directed shows, or the staged readings.
There is a thread on this already, but I searched and cannot find it. Perhaps a more senior member can find it.
Fredonia’s Department of Theatre and Dance:
Godspell - October 2016
The Man Who Came To Dinner -December 2016
The Illusion - February 2017
Seussical - April 2017
The Fredonia Dance Ensemble -April 2017
Southeast Missouri State’s season is as follows:
A Chorus Line
A Streetcar Named Desire
Fall for Dance 2016
Big River
Spring into Dance 2017
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
The Diviners
Last Chance to Dance (Fall & Spring).
Ohio Northern University:
SEPTEMBER
Dancing with the Ada Stars
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
Lysistrata, the classic comedy by Aristophanes
OCTOBER
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
The Holiday Spectacular
FEBRUARY
Choreographer’s Showcase
FEBRUARY
“New” Musical directed by Guest Director
APRIL
The Pirates of Penzance
APRIL
International New Play Festival: New Translations of World Voices - multiple readings with a variety of guest directors
2016/2017 Nebraska Wesleayn
West Side Story
Romeo & Juliet
Boeing Boeing
Rocky Horror
The Taffetas
Christmas Carol
Lion In Winter
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Shawl
Noises Off
Electra
Into The Woods
(Not a full list - doesn’t include Cabarets and smaller shows.)
Wright State is No No Nanette, Heathers and Restoration King Lear (which is some weird version of King Lear that has songs and doesn’t include the last act where everyone dies) in the fall…
9 to 5, MacBeth & The Children’s Hour in the spring.
Montclair: I’m hearing West Side Story, Aida, Songs of a New World, and 25th…Spelling Bee. Don’t quote me. Things change. And that doesn’t include the straight plays that they can also audition for.
@Calliene Songs for a New World is one of my favorite theatre-going experiences! Love that music.
Rider is doing Of Thee I Sing, She Kills Monsters (play) White Christmas in the fall/winter. Inherit the Wind (play), Once On This Island and The Tempest plus cabarets and new plays/reading each semester
@cellomom51, Ithaca did She Kills Monsters earlier this year! I didn’t see it, but the kids said the costumes and characters were fun, and it was a good show for a tween/teen audience but that older people, like us, just didn’t get it…it’s all about virtual reality and gaming and avatars. I had never heard of it before this year.
CCPA did it last year, too. (Also Western Illinois) Seems to be a very popular option. Has a female lead, doesn’t it?
CCPA did it last year, too. (Also Western Illinois) Seems to be a very popular option. Has a female lead, doesn’t it?
Sorry, I keep repeating myself.
Yes, 2 female leads!
A little birdie told me that Hartt is slated to do 42nd Street and A Little Night Music in the fall…no word on straight plays or anything for Spring yet.
Point Park’s season has been announced!
Fall
The Who’s Tommy
The Sea
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Playhouse Jr.)
Spring
Big Love
Sweet Charity
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Revisited
Remaining May Playhouse shows TBA
Directors TBA
What an amazing season at Point Park! Tommy and Big Love are two of my dream shows.
At Viterbo, we will present an (all female!) Romeo and Juliet as our fall mainstage production, and our remaining three productions will all play in our midsize space: Merrily We Roll Along in November, Dancing at Lughnasa in January, and Avenue Q in March. The Department of Theatre & Music Theatre will also co-produce Orpheus and the Underworld in conjunction with the Music Department as the mainstage grand opera in February.
I’m also pitching a student production…so stay tuned.
Western Michigan 2016-17 Season
Fall
Baby with the Bathwater
by Christopher Durang
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
The Foreigner
by Larry Shue
Show Boat
music: Jerome Kern
book & lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Next Stop, Broadway!
MT Class of 2017 Cabaret Show
Spring
Women of Lockerbie
by Deborah Brevoart
Water by the Spoonful
by Quiara Alegría Hudes, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, adapted from Bruce Coville’s book. A collaboration with KRESA & EFA
The Wiz
music: Charlie Smalls
book & lyrics: William F. Brown