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For Immediate Release
June 26 , 2007
nebraska wesleyan announces 2007-2008 theatre season
LINCOLN, Neb. —Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its 2007-2008 theatre season.
The upcoming season will feature several award-winning favorites including Aida, Our Town, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing, and Into The Woods.
All shows are held in either McDonald Theatre or Miller Theatre, both located at 51st and Huntington Ave. Admission is $10 for adults, $7.50 for 12-18 years and senior citizens, and $5 for youth under 5 years. Admission for musical productions is $15 for adults, $10 for 12-18 years and senior citizens, and $7.50 for youth under 5 years. Season passports are available for $100, which provides 10 reserved seats to any shows. A season passport is available to senior citizens for $75. The theatre box office can be contacted at 402.465.2384.
The following is a complete schedule for the 2007-2008 theatre season:
- Aida: August 23-25, August 30-September 2
Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida is a classic love triangle of loyalty and betrayal. The production is a complex saga of three people forced to make choices that will change their lives and alter the course of history.
- Our Town: September 27-29, 30First produced in 1938, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Our Town has become an American stage treasure and is Thornton Wilder’s most renowned and frequently performed play.
- Applause! Applause! A Celebration of the American Musical: October 4-7, 11-14
This production will feature a variety of songs from your favorite Broadway musicals. The talented cast of students will share a different assortment of songs at each performance so no two performances will be the same.
- Lieutenant of Inishmore: November 1-4, 8-11
On a lonely road on the island of Inishmore, someone killed an Irish Liberation Army enforcer’s cat. He’ll want to know who when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland. He loves his cat more than life itself, and someone is going to pay.
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night: November 15-18
The proceedings take place in the living room of a summer house in 1912. In short order you will learn that the father — although well off — is a confirmed miser; one son is a drunk, the younger one is tubercular, and the mother is a drug addict. These are dimensional characters trying desperately to keep their doomed household together.
- A Christmas Carol: November 29-December 2, 6-8, 13-15
An adaptation of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a giving, caring human being at the hands of three spirits who, on Christmas Eve, show him what life means.
- A Jungle Book: February 7-10Torn from his mother’s side by a hungry tiger, Mowgli is adopted by a loving wolf pack that teaches him the law of the jungle. This production — adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s book by April-Dawn Gladu — immerses itself in the beauty and culture of India.
- Much Ado About Nothing: February 28-March 2
A comedy by William Shakespeare that remains one of his most enduring plays on stage. Stylistically, it shares many characteristics with modern romantic comedies including two pairs of lovers and their comic counterparts.
- The Last Five Years: March 27-30
This production chronicles a young couple’s romance in a new and exciting way. Her story starts at the end of their relationship; his begins on the day they met. Funny and uplifting, the show captures some of the most heartbreaking and universally felt moments of modern romance.
- Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: A Woman’s Translation: April 3-5, 10-13
This is the only modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ classic comedy written entirely in rhyme. Lysistrata, an Athenian woman fed up with war, rallies together the women of Greece to seize the treasury, stage a sex strike, and force the men of each warring faction to come home and sign a truce.
- Into the Woods: May 1-4, 7-10
This show blends various familiar fairytales with an original story of a childless baker and his wife, who catalyze the action of the story by attempting to reverse a curse on their family in order to have a child.
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