Holiday Concert
December 8, 2011
Songs of the season featuring Monmouth University's choirs, bands, orchestra, and combined community choir, hand bell choir.
Crimes of the Heart
at the Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Playwright Beth Henley won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best play. A warm and irreverent comedy, Crimes of the Heart tells the story of three Mississippi sisters dealing with a family crisis and personal passions. NY Magazine said of the play, “From time to time, a play comes along that restores one’s faith in our theatre”; the NY Post said it has “heart, wit, and surprisingly zany passion…. It would be a crime…not to see this play!”
GODSPELL
at the Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Godspell is the first hit musical by Stephen Schwartz (composer of Pippin and Wicked), which marks its 40th anniversary with the Music & Theatre Department's production. Based loosely on the Book of Matthew, it tells the story of a disparate group of young people, from different cultures and backgrounds, forming a community when inspired by an intelligent, charismatic leader.
Holiday in Song
Thursday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m.
at Wilson Hall Grand Staircase
An evening of holiday poetry and music for choir, orchestra, and handbells was performed in the majestic festive atmosphere of Wilson Hall. The concert was conducted by Professor Michael Gillette and Dr. David M. Tripold, and featured the Colts Neck Reformed Church Exultation Ringers conducted by Maggie Tripold.
The Music and Theatre Arts Department presentsTotally Mozart
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Pollak Theatre
PROGRAM
Ave Verum Corpus K. 618
– W. A. Mozart
Monmouth University
Chamber Choir
Dr. David Tripold, director
Mass in C “Coronation” K. 317
– W. A. Mozart
Monmouth University
Concert Chorus
Monmouth University
Chamber Choir
The Senior Choir of the Colts Neck Reformed Church
Dr. David Tripold, director
Erin Barnett, soprano
Sara Killough, mezzo soprano
Neal Harrelson, tenor
Matthew Goetke, bass
Intermission
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro K. 492
– W. A. Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C “Jupiter” K. 551
– W. A. Mozart
The Monmouth University Symphony Orchestra
Ronald Frangipane, conductor
With period orchestra and 120 voices, there is no venue like it this side of New York City.
Roasting Alice:
A New Musical Revue
PLEASE NOTE: The Friday performance has been rescheduled for Sunday evening, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. No need to exchange tickets. They will be honored on the new date.
RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, FEB. 28 AT 7 P.M.!
SOLD OUT!
George Wurzbach
Sheri Anderson
The Monmouth University
Department of Music and Theatre Arts
Presents
After Juliet
By Sharman Macdonald
Directed by Nicole Ricciardi
Petruchio: This feud began not in our father's time
But in our father's father's ...
And yet our young men die
In the service of this fierce fate
Which Rosaline believes gives our lives meaning.
Written by Sharman Macdonald, a well-known playwright and the mother of Keira Knightley, this is a moody, atmospheric play that takes a long hard look at the tense peace that is barely holding between the Montagues and the Capulets following the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Set in a city (could be any city), in an undetermined time in history (or it could be modern), it's a scenario all too familiar to us—a conflict that has raged for many generations and continues to breed hate and resentment that is not easily healed.
There is a cast of fifteen—theatre majors and minors—and a drummer.In ninety minutes, the intriguing answers to many of the unanswered questions of the Bard’s play are played out on the Woods Theatre Stage.
November 11 - 14 and 18 - 21, 2009
8 p.m.
Matinee: November 15, 2009
3 p.m.
THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC AND THEATRE ARTS PRESENTS
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
