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2009-2010 Season
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MU Theatre Events
All weekday and Saturday performances,
unless otherwise noted, are at 8 P.M.
All Sunday performances,
unless otherwise noted, are at 2 P.M.
Information
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or
through the theatre box office
573-882-PLAY
Main Office Telephone
573-882-2021
Please note:
Tickets for the season will not be available for purchase until September 14, 2009, 3 PM
Ticket Prices
General Public Rhynsburger $12 ($14 musicals)
Faculty/Staff Rhynsburger $10 ($12 musicals)
Students/Seniors Rhynsburger $8 ($10 musicals)
All tickets to Corner Playhouse $7
All categories of ticket buyers:
Buy the entire season at one time and save $11
($2 off each Rhynsburger show,
$1 off each Corner Playhouse show.)
Call the Box Office at 882-PLAY for details.
11 events including 4 free events
Unless otherwise indicated, all performances are at 8 P.M. with the exception of 2 P.M. Sunday matinees.
January 15, 2010, 8 PM, Rhynsburger Theatre
Additional performance for the Kennedy Center American College
Theatre Festival, January 20, 2010, Johnson County Community
College, Kansas City, Kansas
September 17-20
Heather Carver, Producer/Artistic Director
Emily Rollie, Managing Director
Corner Playhouse
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This series celebrates its lucky seventh season with student-authored and directed comedic and dramatic adaptations of poetry, prose, autobiography, history and ethnography.
October 7—11
A musical based on a novel by Truman Capote
James Miller, Director
Rhynsburger Theatre
An enchanting Southern folk tale with exuberant comic characters, foot-thomping and joyous songs!
October 21-25
and
By Edward Albee
David Crespy, Director
Corner Playhouse
Two one-acts by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author. His earliest 1960s drama, The Zoo Story, is a riveting, relentless assault on the lies and complacency of American society. His ferocious, hilarious, abdsurdist farce, The American Dream, is a satire of family values.
October 29
By Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Artist-in-Residence Caridad Svich* (staged reading)
Cfrancis Blackchild, Director
Corner Playhouse
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
A strong-willed young wife fights her timorous husband for control of their marriage under the malicious scrutiny of lascivious suitors and judgmental neighbors in this surrealist farce.
November 12-15/ 17-19
World Theatre Workshop
By Milbre Burch
Clyde Ruffin, Director
Artist/Composer-in-Residence Tori Meyer*, Original Score
Rhynsburger Theatre
Life is created and then nearly destroyed by the selfish actions of one individual. Adapted from traditional tales, this emotionally compelling story follows the survivors of war as they journey toward wisdom, wholeness and the power of reconciliation.
February 4-6/ 11-14
By Paula Vogel
Frank Lasik, Director
Corner Playhouse
Six wigs. Five actors. Four dreams. Three different eras. Two kids. One set of twins. A gender-bending comedy of people and politics, showing us how different we all can be, and how that makes us all alike.
February 25-27/ March 4-7
By Neil Simon
James Miller, Director
Rhynsburger Theatre
The coming-of-age comedy that explores the universal and heart-warming family sage of the Jerome family in 1937 Brooklyn, New York.
March 4 4-6 PM (please note time)
An Evening of Improv with MU Theatre Alumnus, Emily Wilson, star of The Second City Mainstage, now celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
Ms. Wilson, along with the MU Improv troupe under the direction of doctoral student, Matt Fotis, will create a show entirely on the spot without a script, using the tools, techniques, and skills of Chicago-based improvisational theatre.
Performance on Thursday, March 4, 4PM, Jesse Wrench Auditorium, Memorial Union
Reception immediately following.
With Emily Wilson*, Visiting Scholar and MU alumna, and Brian Wilson, MU alum
March 18-21/ 23-25
By Maxwell Anderson
Fonzie Geary, Director
Corner Playhouse
A woman's struggle against her personal desires versus societal expectations highlights this domestic satire of love, marriage, and sex.
April 13-18
David Crespy, Producer/ Artistic Director
All performances are in the Corner Playhouse
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
MIZZOU NEW PLAY SERIES 2008
MONDAY, APRIL 12-SUNDAY-APRIL 18
Monday, April 12th, 8PM
Parabolis by David & Jules Crespy, directed by Emilie Rollie
Tuesday, April 13th, 8PM
Pittsfield by Matt Fotis, Directed by Noah Lelek
Wednesday, April 14th, 8PM
In the Blood by Heidi Schmidt, Directed by David Marcia
Thursday, April 15th, 8PM
One Act Festival:
—Where There’s a Will by Hannah Baxter**, directed by Sky Robinson
—Day Drive by Dannah Moore*, Directed by Brian Vandevender
—Trouble the Mash by Michael Miller**, directed by Jason Christian
Friday, April 16th, 8PM
Lust of the Flesh and the Wiles of Sin written and directed by David Marcia
Saturday matinee, April 17th, 2PM
The Big One by Frank Lasik, Directed by Matt Fotis
Saturday evening, April 17th, 8PM
Bud's Last Prayer by Bill Doan (Guest Artist), directed by Kevin McFillen
Sunday matinee April 18th, 2PM
10 Minute Play Festival:
• Day of Years by Steve Robertson*, directed by Matt Davis
• An Old Car by Fonzie Geary*, directed by Brian Kirn
• The Fence by Amanda Newman**, directed by Steve Robertson
• Swing LifeAway by Sky Robinson directed by Hannah Baxter
• Vulpicide by Tearrance Chisholm, directed by Zachary McDowell
• Steve Hires a Prostitute by Chelsea Almany, directed by Jason Christian
• Maggie’s Song by Andrew Pierce, directed by Yan Wen
• Post Secret by Dannah Moore*, directed by Chelsea Almany
Sunday evening April 18th, 8PM
Sima by Amanda Newman, Directed by Bryan Vandevender
SYNOPSES WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE AFTER FEBRUARY 1st.
Auditions will take place during the second Week of March on a date TBA. April 22-24/ April 29- May 2
By Sarah Ruhl
Guest Director Hayley Finn*
A magical journey of love, loss, and the power of memory that binds us through time and space. Whimsical, poetic, and transporting. Eurydice is a surprising and poignant re-imagining of the classical Orpheus story.
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