TOO DARN FOSSE, Zach Theatre Performing Arts Students, April 14 - May 5, 2013

(Zach Theatre, S. Lamar at Riverside (parking on Riverside and on Toomey Rd, one block south),

presents

Too Darn Fosse

A Musical Revue

Direction and Choreography by: Jennifer Young Mahlstedt
Guest Choreography by: Robin Lewis
Musical Direction: Ammon Taylor
April 14, 21, 28 and May 5 on ZACH’s Kleberg stage

Click to purchase tickets on-line

ZACH’s Pre-Professional School is proud present Too Darn Fosse! highlighting the famous choreographer, Bob Fosse. Students will be performing numbers in the distinct style of Fosse-dancing, singing and acting his most credited musicals including DAMN YANKEES, KISS ME KATE, CABARET, THE PAJAMA GAME, BIG DEAL and CHICAGO.

Tickets: zachtheatre.org or (512) 476-0541 X1

$10.00 Adults $8.00 Youth

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Upcoming: Ten-Minute Play Festival, St. Edward's University, December 6 and 7

Found in Hilltop Views, St. Edward's University, November 29:

Students in theater major to direct 10-minute plays at MMNT

By Jenna Jaco

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The St. Edward's University theater department has yet another production currently in the works. The Ten Minute Play Festival is a free-admission collection of short plays showing at the Mary Moody Northen Theater Dec. 6-7.

All of the 10-minute plays are student-acted as well as student-directed. Instead of having a faculty member as the director like a typical MMNT production, the plays are headed by undergraduate theater majors in the directing class offered by the St. Edward's theatre department.

The directing class is comprised mostly of seniors, and the plays they direct are part of the Ten Minute Play Festival and serve as a kind of final project for the class. This annual event allows students to apply everything they have learned in class and exhibit their own work and directorial style.

Unlike the New Works Festival put on by Transit Theatre Troupe in October, the Ten Minute Play Festival consists of student directors working with short plays that are already published and that do not necessarily share a common theme. Also, the Ten Minute Play Festival is performed on the St. Edward's main stage — in the round at the Mary Moody Northen Theater.

Read more at Hilltop Views, online . . . .

Upcoming: Curtain Up! Broadway Show Tunes, University of Texas, December 8 and 9

Found on-line:

presents

Curtain Up!

An evening of Broadway showstoppers by Department of Theatre and Dance students
December 8 and 9, 8 p.m.

Lab Theatre (LTH), between the Jackson Geological Sciences Building (JGB) and the F. Loren Winship Drama Building (WIN) near 24th and San Jacinto (click for map)

Free admission

Parking available in the San Jacinto Garage on San Jacinto near Dean Keeton.
For further information contact Theatre and Dance Info Line 512-471-5793 or e-mail inquiry@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Upcoming: Oedipus for Kids, Broccoli Project, University of Texas, October 21 - November 5

Found on-line via Facebook:

The Broccoli Project, a UT student organization

presents

Oedipus for Kids!

Directed by Alex Reynolds and Laura Wright
Musical Direction by Lucy Junker
Staring Griffen McDonald, Glenn Miglin, Megan Rabuse, and Katherine Kling with Angus McLeod as understudy and Edgar Walters on Piano

Please note: this play is not for young audiences

October 21, 22, 28, 29, and November 4 and 5 - Curtain at 7:30 P.M
Tickets $5 at the door - T-shirts and posters will be sold as well

Unfolding in real-time, Oedipus for Kids! turns the audience into attendees of the latest performance of the Fuzzy Duck Theatre Company, a three-person troupe dedicated to performing the classics for children. Having had success with previous offerings such as Uncle Tommy’s Cabin, company founder Alistair has decided that the next logical step is tackling Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex with songs such as “What’s It Like When Ya Get The Plague?” and “A Little Complex.” But all is not as pleasant as it seems with the Fuzzy Ducks: Alistair is in the middle of a bitter divorce with troupe member Catalina, who suspects something is up when she learns that tonight’s audience includes the executives from sponsor Beanz! Coffee for Kids. Evan, the third troupe member, is a newly-trained recent hire with questionable acting methods. He uses these to play Oeddy, “a little boy a lot like you,” who runs away from home when he finds out that he is destined to do something terrible to his Mommy and Daddy.

Blog for a Musical Theatre Work in Progress: "Rosie" at UT, April 9 - 17

Found on-line, along with three posts by participants:

The making of a musical

Rosie, a new musical based on the iconic character Rosie the Riveter, is being workshopped April 9 – 17 at the Department of Theatre and Dance of the University of Texas at Austin . This blog is a collection of behind-the-scenes experiences of the student cast members as the musical is shaped by the creative team. Please visit regularly and share your thoughts.

Click to go to the homepage for Rosie at UT blogs