<p>anothermom-w-q,</p>
<p>What fun that Muhlenberg is doing Zanna, Don't! I know the rights are available now but it's mostly being done in regional theatres. I wonder if Muhlenberg is the first college to do it. It's a fun show with a great message. A few family friends were in the production at the Houseman, wow, it must be close to five years ago now. I'm happy to see that a college program is doing it!</p>
<p>My D is really excited that they are doing it. I took her to see it this summer in L.A., and it is a fun show, with a worthwhile message about acceptance. She is just bummed that there are only three or so girl parts, as she wants to audition for it.</p>
<p>PSU:
In addition to the School of Theater Productions, the MT students will be producing 2 new original musicals. The site is <a href="http://www.psunewmusicals.org%5B/url%5D">www.psunewmusicals.org</a>.
The shows are Ordinary Days Dec. 12, and Dec. 15, and Group, Dec. 14 and 15th. Graduate student production of Company starts Dec. 12. One more TBA in spring.
Student Choreography Show: Nov. 27-29, Spring Dance Show TBA. Student run shows: Assasins, Nov. 8-10, Jekyll and Hyde, Apr. 3-5.</p>
<p>It would be impossible to list all the shows at Tisch as there are approximately 100 productions per year there at different levels. There are the Mainstage shows, of which one is a musical per year. Then, each studio has their own productions for their own studio students. Next are the GAP shows under the umbrella of the student Program Board, and are student directed shows. And there are also student directed productions, such as those directed by the directing students/seniors at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. </p>
<p>Since this is a MT forum, and to limit listing all the possible shows to see, I'll stick mostly with the musicals. </p>
<p>Mainstage (open to all Tisch students): one musical/year
This year the musical is the premiere of a new musical called Only Children.
It is written by two alum of Tisch's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, Michael R. Jackson and Rachel Peters. It is a cautionary tale of a slicked down, contemporary America, inspired by a Newsweek Article about young well-to-do suburban girls turning "tricks" for "stuff" (like designer clothes) at the Mall of America and a New York Times op-ed by Frank Rich discussing the contradictory need for Americans to demonize "fallen" celebrities as pedophiles, while at the same time openly sexualizing children in ad campaigns, on TV, in music, and beyond. It follows three seventh graders (1 girl + 2 boys) and is an update of Wedekind's Spring Awakening set in today's hypersexual America where adulthood and childhood clash and blur. This show runs Feb. 21-24, 26-29, March 1.
My daughter is playing the lead, Wendy. :)</p>
<p>I'll mention the other Mainstage shows which are plays:
Gailieleo - 10/17-10/20
Saint Joan - 11/29-12/2 and 12/2-8
The Visit - spring</p>
<p>The fall GAP show is a play: Deporting the Divas, Oct. 22-27
Not sure the spring GAP shows or if any will be musicals. </p>
<p>CAP21 has a fall musical open to the whole studio, and it's Urinetown, Oct. 25-Nov. 4, with matinees on Sat. and Sunday. </p>
<p>CAP21 has a musical for second year students in spring. This year is Boys from Syracuse. Not sure the dates. </p>
<p>CAP21 has a musical for third year students in spring. This year is Into the Woods. Not sure the dates. </p>
<p>CAP21 has a "reading series" that is sung of A Little Night Music. Act I on Oct. 15 and Act II on Oct. 29. </p>
<p>Strasberg puts on occasional musicals and is doing Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Dec. 5-8. </p>
<p>Playwrights Horizons Theatre School has senior directed shows and two of them this fall are musicals.
One is Little Shop of Horrors, Nov. 15-17.
My daughter is playing Audrey. :)
The other is In Trousers, Dec. 6-8. </p>
<p>I'd like to also mention that at CAP21, my D's close pal, and recent graduate, is putting on a one woman show she wrote and will star in:
One Child: Music and Life of Laura Nyro, Oct. 22. </p>
<p>For anyone seeing Urinetown, amongst many classmates and friends in it, my D's best pal and roomie for two years, with whom she was in many shows since childhood in our state, took voice together, roomed together at theater camp, is playing Hope. My D could not audition as one of her own performances of a professional piece she is musically directing in the city conflicted with one of the Urinetown performances. </p>
<p>Also, while NOT a school show, my D has been musically directing (as well as arranged and plays piano for) the premiere of Liz Swado's theatrical oratorio, Atonement, in which some of the singers are Tisch students or recent graduates. It opened at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, just played St. Marks Church Holy Wow Festival, and has two more upcoming performances at other venues, if anyone wants to catch that. </p>
<p>If anyone is interested, as well, my D is the musical director/arranger (and performs with) NYU's N'Harmonics, an award winning coed a capella group that is a pretty hot rock/pop group and the majority of the singers attend Tisch and so if you are making a visit, you may want to find out when they perform at NYU in concert or occassionally have gigs in the city such as Joe's Pub, CBGB, and The Box. </p>
<p>Lots going on!</p>
<p>Gee whiz -- my original Syracuse list looks pretty paltry cause I only listed the musicals -- so here's the complete list. To explain, SU Drama is the undergraduate theater. Syracuse Stage is an Equity theater located in the same building. Students are often cast in roles in this theater, and are able to accrue Equity points. In addition, the entire Equity cast is understudied by students, who have the opportunity to do one performance of the production.</p>
<p>SU Drama:</p>
<p>Lucky Stiff, Oct. 5 - 14
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Nov. 9 - 18
Fiddler on the Roof, Nov 28 - Dec 30 (joint production with Syracuse Stage)
Arabian Nights, Feb. 15 - 24
Servant of Two Masters, March 21 - 30
Sweeney Todd, Apr. 25 - May 10</p>
<p>Black Box Theater: 4 productions per year
Student-Directed shows: many productions per year
Children's theater: several productions per year</p>
<p>Syracuse Stage:</p>
<p>Les Liasons Dangereus, just ended
Misery, Oct. 24 - Nov. 11
Fiddler, Nov. 28 - Dec. 30
Lieutenant of Inishmore, Jan. 16 - Feb. 3
Doubt, Feb. 13 - March 2
The Bombi-itty of Errors, March 13 - Apr. 12
The Fantasticks, Apr. 23 - May 17</p>
<p>Onstage's post reminded me that I forgot, and only listed the Conservatory Season at Webster in my earlier post. The St. Louis Rep also attends the auditions at the beginning of each semester and often casts students in some of their shows. So here is a link to the Rep season as well. The Browning Mainstage & Emerson Studio Theatres listed on the Rep schedule are the theatres which are in the Loretto Hilton Center at Webster (same theatres as used for Conservatory productions; Conservatory also uses Stage III)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.repstl.org/season/%5B/url%5D">http://www.repstl.org/season/</a></p>
<p>I know that there were Webster students cast in History Boys and will also be some in Kiss Me Kate. There might be more students cast in the other shows as well, those two just happen to be the ones I know about. :)</p>
<p>Here's Conservatory link again (so everything is in one spot!):</p>
<p>One more link (to explain relationship of the on-campus Equity theatres):</p>
<p>IMHO, seeing a show (even if it's just a preview or a dress rehearsal) is one of the most important aspects of an on-campus visit. You could be surprised (pleasantly or unpleasantly)! ;)</p>
<p>All of this information is pretty overwhelming -- it's a great idea to have it listed in one place! I would suggest, though, that if you are planning to visit a school, contact the theater office and ask them what's going on. In addition to the mainstage productions, I'm sure all of the schools have smaller venues like black box or cabaret shows that don't get listed in the website. These can be just as interesting and informative as the big productions.</p>
<p>Updated Baldwin-Wallace list:
(Bolded are MT events)</p>
<p>THE EXONERATED - Done
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - November 6-18 (Sold out)
MT SONGWRITER'S SHOWCASE - November 18
MT SENIOR RECITALS - December 7-9
24-HOUR THEATRE PROJECT - January 26
SEMELE - February 7-10
DANCE CONCERT - February 14-16
A NIGHTMARE OF CRIME - February 27-March 2
MT SENIOR SHOWCASE - March 31 **
ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL - April 2-5
MACBETH - April 17-20
**BROOKLYN: THE MUSICAL - April 24-26 @ B-W, May 1-3 @ Playhouse Square in Cleveland</p>
<p>kyle style - What exactly is a 24-Hour Theatre Project? A different show every hour by a different director/cast? It sounds interesting...</p>
<p>lynn, I'm not sure if it's done this way at BW but the 24 Hour Plays project has been done in NYC for a while now. It's a fun project! Here's the description of how it works:</p>
<p>The one-day process of The 24-Hour Plays begins at 10 PM the night prior to the performance. Traditionally, a group of theatre artists (playwrights, directors, actors and designers) meet and are briefed and photographed. The writers are then left to create a ten-minute play overnight. Come morning at 7 AM, the directors give the scripts a once-over, divvy them up and cast them. Actors are called for 8 AM and rehearse through the day. Technical rehearsals run from 5 PM to 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7:45 PM, and curtain rises at 8 PM and there it is: six shows, all in a day's work. </p>
<p>Here's a link to this year's info and cast list. The date is 10/22 for anyone interested and it's a fundraiser!</p>
<p>alwaysamom - I love that idea! I think when we toured Carnegie Melon they mentioned something along those lines, too. It might have been a little different, but they had a special weekend of newly written works. So creative!</p>
<p>Lynn....CMU has something called Playground but it is not overnight, but similar idea.</p>
<p>Actually it takes place over a full week. There are over 40 productions created independently by the students in collaboration.</p>