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  • Scapino

    Scapino, by director Frank Dunlop and actor Jim
    Dale, is an outrageous comedy adapted “a long way off from Moliere” but
    exhibiting the classic elements of the French master and the Italian
    “commedia d’ell arte.” Scapino is the wily servant who twists the rules
    to trick his master’s father into allowing him to marry the girl of his
    dreams while the waiters, waitresses and customers of a seaside
    restaurant sing parodies of “O Solo Mio” and the names of menu items
    like “veal scallopine.”

    Preview: June 23 at 8 p.m.

    Opening Night: June 24 at 8 p.m.

    Performances: June 25, 29 and 30, July 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m.; June 26, July 3 and 10 at 7 p.m.

    Cost: Preview night – Adult/Senior $20; Student $10; June 24 through July 10 – Adult $35; Senior $30; Student $15

  • Molly Sweeny

    Molly Sweeny is by the prize-winning Irish playwright, Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations).
    It is the story of Molly Sweeny, a woman who has been blind since
    childhood, who undergoes an operation to restore her vision. Based
    loosely on an essay by Oliver Saks (Awakenings), the tale is told by Molly, her husband, and the doctor.

    Preview: July 14 at 8 p.m.

    Opening Night: July 15 at 8 p.m.

    Performances: July 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, and 30 at 8 p.m.; July 17, 24 and 31 at 7 p.m.

    Cost: Preview night – Adult/Senior $15; Student $10; July 15 through July 31 – Adult $30; Senior $22; Student $15

  • Season’s Greetings

    The Department of Music and Theatre Arts presents

    Holiday Concert

  • Spring Musical: Working

    The Department of Music and Theatre Arts presents

    Spring Musical: Working

    Monmouth University’s Department of Music & Theatre
    will present the first East Coast production of the newly revised
    musical, Working, based on the book by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Studs Terkel. Adapted by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell) from his original version with Nino Faso, the new Working recently completed a run in Chicago. Monmouth’s production will be the first by any university in the country.

    Directed by Nicole Ricciardi, Working
    is the working man’s A Chorus Line. A musical exploration of twenty-six
    people from all walks of life, with songs by all-star composers Craig
    Carnelia (Sweet Smell of Success), Micki Grant (Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope), Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), Mary Rodgers (Once Upon A Mattress), Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), Stephen Schwartz, and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, James Taylor. The musical director is George Wurzbach.

    Working celebrates
    everyday people in a genuinely funny and touching way, and has been
    called “the perfect musical for everyone who has ever worked a day in
    their lives.” Updated to fit 21st century audiences, cast members sing
    and dance with cell phones and laptops as they tell the tales of
    traditional careers: teacher, waitress, firefighter; and more modern
    additions: hedge fund manager, UPS delivery man, and a customer service
    representative in India.

  • Rule Americana: Spring Concert

    Cost: $30 (adults), $20 (seniors), $5 (non-MU students), MU students with ID get one free ticket

  • The Foreigner

    The Foreigner by Larry Shue

    **Please take note of the new dates:

    November 16-19 & 29- December 1, 2012 | 8:00 p.m.

    November 18, 2012 | 3:00 p.m.

    Lauren K. Woods Theatre

    Directed by John J. Burke

    Winner of 2 Obie (Off-Broadway) awards and two Outer Critics Circle awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway production, The Foreigner is an inspired comic romp. Set in rural Georgia, this comedy investigates what can happen when a group of people encounter a stranger who (they think) neither speaks nor reads English. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the “bad guys” and the “good guys” emerge triumphant.

    “I laughed from start to finish…” The New Yorker

    “A constant invitation to relax and laugh at the foolishness of life…” The Village Voice

    “Shue’s comedy is positively antic…” The Bergen Record

  • Holiday Joy – Winter Concert

    HOLIDAY JOY

    Department of Music and Theatre Arts Winter Concert

    Under the Grand Staircase of Wilson Hall

     

  • Twelfth Night, or What You Will

    Location: Lauren K. Woods Theater

    Twelfth Night, or What You Will

    by William Shakespeare

    Please note that the March 6th performance has been cancelled due to the weather.

    March 6-9 & 12-14, 2013 | 8:00 p.m.

    March 10, 2012 | 3:00 p.m.

    Directed by Nicole Ricciardi

    Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night combines high comedy with some of the subtlest poetry and most beautiful songs Shakespeare ever wrote. The Department of Music and Theatre Arts presents Shakespeare’s epic tale as a wildly theatrical and innovative production, performed by a company of singers, actors, and musicians. with original music by George Wurzbach, whose compositions are “Stunningly original…” – Back Stage Magazine

  • Senior Recital – Meredith Calcagno

  • Senior Recital – Jonah Santorello