2008-2009 SEASON
THE SHADOW BOX
by Michael Cristofer
Directed by Jim Hesselman
October 24, 2008, 8:00 p.m. (Opening Night)
October 25, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
October 26, 2008, 2:30 p.m.
October 31, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
November 1, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
November 2, 2008, 2:30 p.m.
Robinson Theater
Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center
$12.00 Adults
$6.00 Senior Citizens, Students, IU Southeast faculty & staff
In this Pulitzer Prize winning play, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds. The play dramatizes their anxieties and their coming to grips with the finality of their condition a preordained future whose only imponderable is its exact length. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends.
"An important, touching and courageous play.... Triumphantly turns up.... Cristofer writes with the compassion of the undamned. An extraordinarily good Broadway play with meaty roles for actors." N.Y. Times.
"Thunders with life." ABC TV.
"By far the finest play of the New York season, beautifully realized drama of sensitive perceptions often as funny as it is moving." Washington Post.
"Extraordinary. An overwhelming emotional experience. Truly startling and in its uncompromising way, very funny." Boston Globe.
Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and a 1977 Pulitzer Prize.
COMPANY
A co-production of the IU Southeast Music & Theatre Departments
Book by George Furth
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Jim Hesselman
February 20, 2009, 8:00 p.m. (Opening Night)
February 21, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
February 22, 2009, 2:30 p.m.
February 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
February 28, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
March 1, 2009, 2:30 p.m.
Robinson Theater
Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center
$12.00 Adults
$6.00 Senior Citizens, Students, IU Southeast faculty & staff
The clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City underscore this landmark "concept" show, considered by many to have inaugurated the modern era of musical theatre. Company follows our anti-hero bachelor Robert as he makes his way through a series of encounters with April (the stewardess), Kathy (the girl who's going to marry someone else), Marta (the "peculiar" one), as well as with his married friends.
On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state. In vignette after hilarious vignette, we are introduced to "those good and crazy people," his married friends, as Robert weighs the pros and cons of married life. In the end, he realizes being alone is "alone, not alive."
An honest, witty, sophisticated look at relationships, Company is as contemporary and relevant as ever (witness the recent hit revivals on Broadway and the West End). It features a brilliant energetic score containing many of Sondheim's best-known songs (including "Another Hundred People," "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive") and an ensemble of quirky, memorable Woody Allen-esque characters which doubles as the show's chorus.
2009 Linda Brengle Memorial Student Showcase Production
THE NERD
by Larry Shue
Directed by Stephen Minotti
April 23, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
April 24, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
April 25, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
April 26, 2009, 2:30 p.m.
Robinson Theater
Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center
$12.00 Adults
$6.00 Senior Citizens, Students, IU Southeast faculty & staff
Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life after he was seriously wounded in Vietnam. He has written to Rick to say that, as long as he is alive, "you will have somebody on Earth who will do anything for you"—so Willum is delighted when Rick shows up unexpectedly at his apartment on the night of his thirty-fourth birthday party. But his delight soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless "nerd"—a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact. And Rick stays on and on, his continued presence among Willum and his friends leading to one uproarious incident after another, until the normally placid Willum finds himself contemplating violence—a dire development which, happily, is staved off by the surprising "twist" ending of the play.
ASHLEY McMURTRY'S
GREAT AMERICAN PEEP SHOW
Written by Ashley McMurtry
and Jim Hesselman
May 8, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
May 9, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Robinson Theater
Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center
FREE ADMISSION
Donations at the door are accepted an appreciated
A musical one-woman show of EPIC proportions!
TICKETS
Single Tickets
Unless otherwise noted, tickets are $12.00 for adults and $6.00 for senior citizens, students, and IU Southeast faculty and staff.
To Purchase Tickets
Single tickets are available at the Ogle Center Ticket Office, all Ticketmaster locations, by calling Ticketmaster at (502) 361-3100, or online at ticketmaster.com.
Location
All performances are held in the Robinson Theater of the Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center on the IU Southeast campus, 4201 Grant Line Road in New Albany.
Directions
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More Information
For more information on the Theatre Department schedule, IU Southeast Theatre degree programs and scholarship information, contact the IU Southeast Theatre Department at (812) 941-2655, or visit www.ius.edu/theatre.
