In reality, the nude scene is super short and usually done with lighting that reveals virtually nothing. At least it was in the latest B’way incantation.
Surprising in 2017 that a college is requiring clothing in the nude scene in Hair.
I saw Hair at NYU when my D attended (though she was not in it), and they had much more nudity in their production than what the show usually calls for in that one scene (I saw the national tour when I was growing up). That said, my D was topless in scenes as the lead in a MainStage musical at NYU and also fully naked in a studio production with her entire cast for an opening (the cast of this workshop chose to do that). This really is not high school any more.
It has yet to be seen how much or little nudity will be in the production. I have seen other shows (in collaboration with the same theater) where there has been some nudity. There was more in the latest national tour (as I understand it) than in the B’way version.
Hartt’s lineup for fall has changed. Evita and Most Happy Fella are the musicals (Urinetown is out), Crucible, August:Osage County, Reasons to be Pretty and The Diviners are the plays. Still only rumors for Spring - will update when I hear confirmation.
Well, scratch NYU off the list for us. :)) :))
Montclair did Hair with the nudity. Of course you could opt out of being in the show. Personally I don’t think colleges should do shows with nudity. The kids (yes, I know they’re not really kids) want to impress their professors and not be seen as unwilling to do anything. I felt that some kids would fear they would be seen as “uncool” if they didn’t want to do it and that doing something like that before they were ready could be traumatizing (hey, I’m a psych nurse). It is different than in the real world where no one really knows what you do or don’t audition for. So I had issues with it (and my kid was not in the show) but I know there are parents who completely disagree with me, felt this prepared kids for the real world, and were fine with it.
CCPA also did Hair with nudity and it was also possible to opt out if that was a problem.
SEMO is staging American Hero for the first time as the fall musical. (Music and lyrics by a SEMO student, book by the head of the program. It has had several staged readings including one in New York this past winter). Other fall plays are Dracula, Dog Sees God and reasons to be pretty. The Spring shows are Mary Poppins, Raisin in the Sun and two plays others to be announced later. There will also be fall and spring dance concerts.
2017-2018 Baylor University Theatelre Schedule
Crazy For You - Sept 27-Oct 8
This Random World - Nov 7-12
Anna Karenina - Feb 6-11
Romeo & Juliet - March 20-25
Mr. Burns - April 24-29
SUNY Fredoinia Mainstage:
Peter and the Starcatcher October 20 - 22, 2017
Much Ado about Nothing - November 30, December 1 - 3, 2017
Daisy Pulls it Off - February 23 - 25, March 1 - 3, 2018
Spring Awakening - April 6 - 8, 12 - 14, 2018
I have never heard of Daisy.
@techmom99 I remember being in London many years ago and it was running in the West End at the time. I didn’t see it but I believe it’s a comedy.
James Madison University:
Fall–
New Dance Festival (Guest & Faculty Choreographed) – September
Revolt. She said. Revolt, Again (Student Directed) – Sept.
Equus (Faculty Directed) – Sept.
Bridge to Terabithia (Student Directed Musical) – October
Out of Line original musical – October
The Women (Student Directed) – October
School of Scandal (Faculty Directed) – November
Blood Run original student written play – November
Student Dance Concert (Student, Faculty, and Guest Choreographed) – November
Cosi Fan Tutte (Faculty Directed Opera) – November
DFEST (festival of student directed 10-minutes plays written by JMU students) – December
VA Repertory Dance Ensemble Concert (Guest & Faculty Choreographed) – December
Spring–
Parade (Faculty Directed) – February
New Voices in Dance (Student, Guest, and Faculty Choreographed) – March
Stained Glass original play – April
HMS Pinafore (Faculty Directed Opera) – April
Ruling the Great White Way: BWay Legend Hal Prince Up Close and Personal (Performances from Hal Prince musicals by JMU alumni and students, interspersed with commentary and discussion with Harold Prince) – April
An additional 4 - 6 fully produced student directed plays and musicals for the spring semester Studio Theatre season which will be chosen in October. 8 - 12 workshops & readings of original plays, musicals, and other experimental projects as part of the 29 hour staged reading/ workshop series during fall and spring semesters which will be chosen on a rolling basis throughout the year.
Coastal Carolina
Arms and the Man
Violet
Our Country’s Good
Julius Caesar
35 mm Performance
? Bullets Over Broadway
You always have such a wonderful line-up at JMU! Great and diverse opportunities for your students. Bravo.
Ball State University
Fall:
University Theatre:
Damn Yankees
Pride and Prejudice
It Can Happen Here (A Modern Dance Concert)
Strother:
Twilight: Los Angeles '92
Bunkerville (A Post-Apocalyptic Musical) (New Work)
Cave:
Crooked
Billy the Girl
The Tall Girls
Spring:
University Theatre:
Detroit '67
A Chorus Line
Cinderella (Ballet)
Strother:
Pericles Prince of Tyre
Dry Land
Cave:
10 Minute Play Fest
Julie Johnson
The New Play Project
@KatMT …Harold Prince at your school and the project sounds quite exciting!
I see the play with music of Bridge to Terabithia on your line up. My D was in the premier (it toured) of that when she was 11, but I didn’t know that it is now performed elsewhere.
@soozievt and @alwaysamom – we are excited for the season next year, lots of varied kinds of projects and opportunities for the students.
Very cool that your D was in the premiere of Bridge to Terabithia!! I will let you know how it goes! 
@KatMT Slightly OT, but do you ever go to the NAMT Festival?
Western Carolina’s season was just announced.
“This is our most ambitious and thrilling season yet,” said Jayme McGhan, director of the School of Stage and Screen.
The season opens with Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches,” a fantastical drama set in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis. “Angels in America” will be directed by Dustin Whitehead, assistant professor of theatre at WCU, with guest costume design by Rien Schlecht, a New York City-based designer. The production will run Wednesday, Sept. 20, through Saturday, Sept. 23, with shows at 7:30 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium.
“The School of Stage and Screen is thrilled to produce this important work, especially given Tony Kushner’s visit to campus in the spring of 2018,” McGhan said. Kushner will be interviewed at WCU on Thursday, April 5, through a collaboration of the annual Spring Literary Festival and the Performance Series of WCU’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Next up on the theatre schedule is “God Save Gertrude,” an offbeat punk rock riff on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” written by Deborah Stein. Ashlee Wasmund, WCU assistant professor of dance, will direct. “God Save Gertrude” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, through Saturday, Oct. 7, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, with all shows in the studio theatre of the Bardo Arts Center.
The season’s first offering in the Niggli New Works Reading Series, a program intended to help develop new works for the American stage, will be London-based playwright Ross Howard’s “The Amazing Always,” a comedy about a failing book club. Howard’s work will be presented as a free staged reading at 7:30 p.m. on both Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28, in Niggli Theatre.
Stephen Sondheim’s beloved musical, “Company,” the hilarious story of a habitually single man who is forced to confront his bachelorhood over the course of one evening, is up next, McGhan said. The show will be directed by guest artist Sarah Norris, a New York City-based director and artistic director of New Light Theater Project. Bryan McAdams, visiting assistant professor of musical theatre at WCU, will serve as musical director, and D.J. Williams, a senior in the School of Stage and Screen, will oversee choreography. “Company” will run at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, through Saturday, Nov. 18, with a 3 p.m. show on Sunday, Nov. 19, in Hoey Auditorium.
The last production of the fall semester will be a Fall Dance Showcase, a collaborative effort featuring the best dance pieces from dance classes, as well as student- and faculty-choreographed works. The showcase will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, in Hoey Auditorium.
Archibald Macleish’s Pulitzer Prize-winning verse play “J.B.” will open the spring semester. Set in a circus tent, “J.B.” is the story of the Biblical Job, with God and the devil doing battle for one man’s soul. “Filled with beautiful language, circus imagery, acrobatics and aerials, this production is sure to enthrall,” McGhan said. “J.B.” will be directed by Claire Eye, assistant professor of theatre, and will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, through Saturday, Feb. 10, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, with all shows in Hoey Auditorium.
The second offering of the Niggli New Works Reading Series is “Cheer Wars,” a musical by Karlan Judd and Gordon Leary that is “a hysterical look at the murderous ambitions of cheerleaders and their parents,” McGhan said. “Cheer Wars” will be presented as a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, and Saturday, Feb. 24, in Hoey Auditorium.
“Really Really,” a timely and edgy drama dealing with sexual assault on a university campus and written by Paul Downs Colaizzo, is up next. Guest artist Colin Wasmund will direct the production, which will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, through Saturday, March 24, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, at the Bardo Arts Center studio theatre.
Terrence Mann, WCU’s Phillips Distinguished Professor of Musical Theatre and a three-time Tony Award nominee, will direct “Spring Awakening,” the final stage offering of the Mainstage season. “‘Spring Awakening’ is the sensational Tony-Award winning story of 19th-century German teenagers discovering the tumult of sexuality in a heavily repressed society,” McGhan said. Bryan McAdams, WCU visiting assistant professor of musical theatre, will serve as music director, with Wasmund overseeing the choreography. The play will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, through Saturday, April 14, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at the Bardo Arts Center.