2017-2018 Production Schedule

Nicely done. I wish all colleges provided that kind of detail on the plays they’ve chosen.

TCU
The Playwrights Stage - September 10
Tom Kellogg in B Flat - September 26-30
Sylvia - October 19-21
Fiddler on the Roof - November 14-19
Love Loss and What I Wore - March 21-25
Bat Boy, the Musical - April 24-28

I forgot to post this before it happened, but we started our season with a group of students performing a reading of a new musical, Into the Sun, at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival on September 2.

The 14 students started rehearsals the Saturday before and over the course of 29 hours during the first week of classes rehearsed for the 2 invited “dress rehearsals” at JMU on September 1, and the September 2 performance at the Kennedy Center. It was a super crazy first week of the semester, but a terrific opportunity for the students!

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.

This year is a little different for Tisch’s Stageworks (mainstage) productions.

One was announced and cast as last year ended - a new work by artist in residence Young Jean Lee called “Safety Net”. As I understand it, the cast are collaborators on the piece itself.

Announced this week were auditions for “The Festival of Voices” - which is a combination of works, both individual and collective, which come together to form a theme: equality and inclusion. Haven’t heard a ton of details from the kid.

The rest of the stageworks season will be announced at the all Tisch drama meeting being held tomorrow morning at the Gershwin theater. (home of Wicked) I will update on shows… but wanted to share as I kinda fell in love with the image of all these students sitting together in a broadway house…

Only in the theater - right?

Here is the updated 2017-2018 theatre production schedule for Hartt:

The Crucible (October)
August: Osage County (October)
Evita (October)
The Diviners (November)
Reason to Be Pretty (November)
Most Happy Fella (December)
Glengarry Glen Ross (February)
9 to 5 (March)
Man of La Mancha (April)
Little Women (April)
Julius Caesar (May)

The University of the Arts, Fall Semester (more details about the productions and dates online):

The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière–My D and another CCer’s daughter are main characters in this. In fact, the other daughter is cross-cast as a boy, and my D’s character is his love interest, lol!

It Takes One-- a deeper look into Into the Woods

These Terrible Things–for the 2017 Philly FringeArts Festival–Student-creators will work alongside the company in crafting this new comedy

American Idiot

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Workshopped Works:
A new musical by Michael R Jackson
Acedia

As always, there are also student productions, as well.

Ithaca College’s 2017-2018 season (mainstage & black-box/studio):

Fall 2017

  • Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches - Oct. 3-Oct. 13
  • Wonderful Town - Oct. 31-Nov. 11
  • In the Red and Brown Water - Dec. 5-Dec. 10
  • Luna Gale
  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton

Spring 2018

  • Cendrillon (opera) - Feb. 21-Mar. 3
  • Sense and Sensibility - Mar. 27-Mar. 31
  • Cabaret - Apr. 17-Apr. 28
  • black-box/studio shows TBA