The Miller Studio Theatre

Starting
Starting
The Theatre Conservatory
Presents its 2007-08 Season
here
now ...
http://ccpa.roosevelt.edu/theatre
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The Theatre Conservatory
Mainstage Theatre Season - 7th Floor
Chicago College of Performing Arts
Studio Theatre Season - 9th Floor
Roosevelt University
For Both: Enter at 431 S. Wabash Avenue
430 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Box Office: (312) 341-3831
Chicago, IL 60605
BRPA050601
... we’re “on the road”
to a wild party!
The Theatre Conservatory
2007-08 Season at a Glance
[Note all performances are at 7:30 p.m., except all Sundays are at 2 p.m.]
Dear Patrons,
Welcome to The Theatre Conservatory, Chicago College of
Performing Arts at Roosevelt University’s 2007-08 season. This year
our season begins in October with a new musical adaptation of works
of Edgar Allan Poe and concludes in May with the musical The Wild
Party. Along the way we have an exciting combination of classics,
contemporary dramas and challenging musical works. The O’Malley
main-stage season is complemented by the season of Miller Studio
Theatre workshop productions, shows that combine experimental
and classical forms.
One of the most significant contributions of theatre is that it opens
up the world of the audience through the immediacy and intensity
of the encounter with the actors and the text. The great German
dramatist Bertolt Brecht wrote: “We need a type of theatre which not
only releases feelings, insights, impulses possible … but employs and
encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the
field itself.” It is our hope that this year’s season of performances by
The Theatre Conservatory will challenge you and inspire you to see
the world around you from new perspectives, through the artistry of
our student-performers.
Theatre could not exist without the essential role played by you, the
audience. Our productions serve as the laboratories for our studentartists who are training for professional careers as performers. We
thank you for supporting them and for helping to nurture the next
generation of great American actors. We look forward to welcoming
you back soon … and often.
Sincerely,
Joel G. Fink
Director of The Theatre Conservatory
Associate Dean, Chicago College of Performing Arts
Chicago College of Performing Arts provides professional
conservatory training in theatre, musical theatre, music, and music
education within the context of a university in a world-class city.
It includes two college divisions: The Theatre Conservatory and
The Music Conservatory. Five-hundred-fifty students come from
more than 40 states and 25 countries to study at CCPA. The College
offers Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Music,
Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Arts degrees.
The O’Malley Theatre
Enter at 431 S. Wabash Avenue
O’Malley Theatre - 7th floor
Box Office: (312) 341-3831
Oct. 12 - 14 An Unkindness of Ravens
Director Joel G. Fink
Nov. 2 - 4 God’s Country
Director Steve Scott
Fall 2007
Dec. 7 - 9 Starting Here, Starting Now
Director Ray Frewen;
Music Dir. Bonnie Shadrake
Feb. 29,
March 1 - 2 Peer Gynt
Director Sean Graney
April 11 - 13 Visions of Kerouac
Director David Zak
Spring 2008
May 1 - 4 The Wild Party
Director Luis Perez;
Music Dir. Bonnie Shakrake
The Miller Studio Theatre
Fall 2007
Enter at 431 S. Wabash Avenue
Miller Studio Theatre - 9th floor
Box Office: (312) 341-3831
Sept. 26 - 30 The Freshmen Showcase
Director Sean Kelly
Chor. Luis Perez
Oct. 24 - 28 October Performance Project
Director TBA
Nov. 7 - 11 Musical Theatre Showcase
Director June Compton
Nov. 14 - 18 All in a Day’s Work
Written and Directed
by Luther Goins
Feb. 13 - 17 The American Song Book, Book Four
Director Dan Stetzel
Feb. 20 - 24 Freshmen Performance Project
Director TBA
March 5 - 9 The Circus Project
Director Keland Scher
April 2 - 6 Spring Musical Theatre Showcase
Director Ray Frewen
April 16 - 20 April Performance Project
Director TBA
Spring 2008
Individual ticket prices and ordering information for the
2007-08 Theatre Season
O’Malley Theatre Productions: General Admission - $10 / Students and Seniors - $6
Miller Studio Theatre Productions: All Seats - $6
http://ccpa.roosevelt.edu/theatre
For individual tickets call: (312) 341-3831.
For O’Malley season membership, see brochure envelope insert.
An Unkindness
of Ravens
God’s Country
By Steven Dietz
From the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
October 12-13, 7 p.m. / October 14, 2 p.m.
November 2-3, 7:30 p.m. / November 4, 2 p.m.
An Unkindness of Ravens
God’s Country
Adapted and Directed by Joel G. Fink
Music and Sound Score by Richard Thomas
“It was many and many a year ago
in a kingdom by the sea ...”
Some of Poe’s most powerful works, including the lyrical poem Annabel Lee and the classics
of horror, The Mask of the Red Death and The Cask of Amontillado, will be included in this
stage adaptation. With his themes of jealousy, revenge and murder, Poe created dramatic
images that continue to haunt the imagination with their intensity and originality.
In 1998, Mr. Louis Lerner commissioned The Theatre Conservatory to create a musical version of one
of his favorite poems, E. A. Poe’s Annabel Lee. This newly revised and expanded production of that
work is presented in honor of the memory of Mr. Lerner and his many contributions to Chicago College
of Performing Arts.
Directed by Steve Scott
“These are not stories.
These things exist.”
Adapted from court testimony, news accounts and first-person interviews, God’s Country
focuses on the white-supremacist movement in the 1980s and its spread in society and
through different generations. In dramatizing the forces that led up to the murder of the Denver radio-show host, Alan Berg, the playwright Steven Dietz brings dark and violent aspects
of American society clearly into the spotlight.
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The Musical Review
Starting Here,
Starting Now
Peer Gynt
By Henrik Ibsen
By Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire
December 7-8, 7 p.m. / December 9, 2 p.m.
February 29 - March 1, 7:30 p.m. / March 2, 2 p.m.
Starting Here, Starting Now
Peer Gynt
Directed by Ray Frewen
Musical Direction by Bonnie Shadrake
“Did I think that you were springtime,
It’s all vanished in the blue,
Cause I don’t remember Christmas
And I don’t remember you!”
Directed by Sean Graney
“What should a man be?
Himself, is my concise reply.”
Struggling with the problems of identity and life-choices, Peer Gynt travels the globe attempting to escape the confines of society and its attempts to “define” him. Like a medieval
Maltby and Shire collaborated to write the hit show Closer Than Ever, as well as the Broad-
“Everyman,” Peer faces a series of adventures that take him around the world. But all of his
way shows Baby and Big. Earlier in their careers, in 1977, they wrote the off-Broadway
dreams ultimately lead to nothing, and Peer, like an onion, is pared away only to discover
review Starting Here, Starting Now. Although not a traditional “book” musical, the show
there is nothing at his center. One of the greatest works by one of the world’s greatest play-
chronicles every aspect of relationships from dating to divorce. Each of their songs is a
wrights, Peer Gynt combines fantasy and philosophy in a magical evening of theatre.
“mini-musical” of its own and their music captures the range of emotions that go along with
learning to live with … or without … all of our significant others!
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Visions
of Kerouac
The Musical!
The Wild Party
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Story adapted from the poem by Joseph Moncure March
By Martin Duberman
April 11-12, 7:30 p.m. / April 13, 2 p.m.
May 1-3, 7:30 p.m. / May 4, 2 p.m.
Visions of Kerouac
The Wild Party
Directed by David Zak
“Started life a sweet child believing everything
beneath his father’s roof; went from that … to that mask
of disgusted flesh called a face
but not the face that love had hoped for ...” From Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac’s life, from the 1940s until the 1960s, is brought to the stage through his relationships with the Beat Generation and many of the preeminent artists of his time: Allen
Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Neal Cassidy. Kerouac’s book On the
Road captured many of these personalities, and in Visions of Kerouac, his own complex and
compelling persona is puzzled together on the stage. Kerouac’s writings, his sexuality, his
friendships and his influence on several generations of artists all form a fascinating dramatic
and moving tapestry.
[*Note: This production opens on a Thursday evening.]
Directed by Luis Perez
Musical Direction by Bonnie Shadrake
“Queenie was a blonde, and her age stood still,
And she danced twice a day in vaudeville.”
Adapted from the book-length poem about the Jazz Era of the 1920s, The Wild Party is
peopled with an unforgettable assortment of Roaring Twenties characters. The score by
Andrew Lippa captures the sounds of the period and the voices of the party-goers, all living
on the edge, but some not living by the next morning.
Join us as we end The Theatre Conservatory’s 2007-08 season
with one wild party of a musical!
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Our Wild Party continues...
...in the Miller Studio Theatre!
Fall Semester
Workshop Productions
SPRING Semester
Workshop Productions
Freshmen Showcase Workshop
The American Song Book, Book Four
Directed by Sean Ryan Kelley
September 26, 27, 28, 29
September 30
7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
Directed by Dan Stetzel
February 13, 14, 15, 16
February 17
7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
This special showcase will give you the opportunity to meet our talented new freshmen
An evening featuring musical theatre songs and other music from the cabaret tradition, this
class and to welcome them to The Theatre Conservatory. Join us as The Freshmen
workshop will showcase intimate songs in the intimate setting of the Miller Studio Theatre. Wel-
Showcase launches our 2007-08 production season in the Miller Studio Theatre!
come in the spring season with the wonderful performers from our Musical Theatre Program.
October Performance Project Workshop
February Performance Project Workshop
Director TBA
October 24, 25, 26, 27
October 28
7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
Director TBA
February 20, 21, 22, 23
February 24 7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
The first in our fall series of Performance Workshops in the Miller Studio Theatre, this will
The February version!!! A performance project developed specifically for the Miller
also be a fully-staged workshop production in the intimate setting of our studio theatre.
Studio Theatre, this will be a fully-staged workshop production of a new or newly adapted
work. Join us for an evening of challenging theatre with a contemporary perspective.
Fall Musical Theatre Showcase Workshop
Directed by June Compton
November 7, 8, 9, 10
November 11
7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
The Circus Project Workshop
Join us for an evening of exciting theatre music featuring our musical theatre performers
Directed by Keland Scher
March 5, 6, 7, 8
March 9
7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
in the intimate setting of the Miller Studio Theatre.
The magic of juggling and the mayhem of clowning are among the many delights in this
Miller Studio Theatre workshop production. If you have joined us for one of our previous
one-ring circuses, you know that you will be in for a truly unforgettable evening!
All in a Day’s Work
Written and Directed
by Luther Goins
November 14, 15, 16, 17
November 18 7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
Spring Musical Showcase Workshop
The second in our fall series of Performance Workshops in the Miller Studio Theatre, this
Directed by Ray Frewen
special “outreach” production will be developed as a collaboration with Chicago’s Jobs
Join us for an April evening of exciting show songs featuring our musical theatre perform-
for Youth program, which helps to prepare people from a broad range of backgrounds to
enter the workforce in Chicago.
April 2, 3, 4, 5
April 6
7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
ers in the intimate setting of the Miller Studio Theatre.
April Performance Project Workshop
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Director TBA
April 16, 17, 18, 19
April 20
7:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
The April version!!! A performance project developed specifically for the Miller Theatre,
this will be a fully-staged workshop production of a new or newly adapted work. Join us
for the final production in the Miller Studio Theatre for the 2007-08 season.