Planning for the College of Fine Arts 1999-2000 Mainstage Season is well under way. Both Lyric Opera Theatre and ASU Dance have announced their upcoming productions, while ASU Theatre is putting the final touches on its roster of plays. Detailed information is contained in the 1999-2000 Mainstage Season brochure slated to be available in mid spring. To be put on the mailing list for a brochure, call the College of Fine Arts, 480-965-6447.
Lyric Opera Theatre
Bye Bye Birdie ::
Friday, October 1, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, October 2, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Saturday, October 2, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, October 3, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Sunday, October 3^+, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Wednesday, October 6, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, October 8, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, October 9, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Saturday, October 9, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, October 10, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Music Theatre
Music: Charles Strouse
Lyrics: Lee Adams
Book: Michael Stewart
Energy and laughs are the order of the day when Strouse and Adams satirize the rock & roll recording industry in L.O.T.'s season opener, Bye Bye Birdie.
When singing idol Conrad Birdie is drafted, his manager, Albert, concocts a sure-fire publicity stunt: Some lucky young lady, selected from his fan club, will win Conrad's last civilian kiss which will be televised on the Ed Sullivan Show. Complications arise when Albert's secretary, Rose, tries to get him out of the music business and into the church. Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, and Paul Lynde starred in this 1960 Broadway hit which was directed by Gower Champion.
Songs include: "The Telephone Hour," "Put on a Happy Face," "One Last Kiss," and the hilarious "Shriner's Ballet."
Lyric Opera Theatre
The Coronation of Poppea ::
Friday, November 19, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, November 20, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, November 21, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Wednesday, December 1, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, December 3, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, December 4, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Pre-Show Lecture; Sunday, November 21,1999 -- 6:30 PM
Music Theatre
Music: Claudio Monteverdi
Libretto: Giovanni Francesco Busenello
English Translation: Arthur Jacobs
Edited by: Alan Curtis
Claudio Monteverdi's historical placement in music can be compared to Shakespeare's in literature. He made a mark in every genre in which he worked, including his operas. The Coronation of Poppea, which was written in 1642, contributed to the development of the dramatic opera. It is set in imperial Rome in the time of Nero, whose love for the Courtesan Poppea is the subject of the opera.
Lyric Opera Theatre
Pippin ::
Friday, February 25, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, February 26, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Saturday, February 26, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, February 27, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Wednesday, March 1, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, March 3, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, March 4, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Saturday, March 4, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, March 5, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Pre-Show Lecture; Sunday, February 27, 2000 -- 6:30 PM
Signed Performance: Sunday February 27, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Music Theatre
Music and Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
Book: Roger Hirson
Pippin, son of Charlemagne, is certain that he is destined for greatness. He seeks his fame and fortune in the glory of war, then as a lover, and finally as the leader of social causes. After experiencing painful failure in all three, he accepts the fact that the price of fame may be too high and that happiness can also be found in ordinary places.
Bob Fosse, director / choreogarpher and uncredited co-librettist of this Stephen Schwartz musical, put his conceptual stamp on the work by developing it as a "magic" show in a commedia dell'art style and by infusing it with his unique shimmer, flash and trademark sensuality.
The original cast included Ben Vereen as the Leading Player, John Rubinstein as Pippin, and Irene Ryan, who stopped the show nightly as Pippin's grandmother, singing "No Time at All."
Other hits from the show: "Magic to Do," "Corner of the Sky," and "Simple Joys."
Lyric Opera Theatre
H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass That Loved a Sailor ::
Saturday, April 22, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Saturday, April 22, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Wednesday, April 26, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, April 28, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, April 29, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Saturday, April 29, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, April 30, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Sunday, April 30, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Pre-Show Lecture; Sunday, April 30, 2000 -- 6:30 PM
Music Theatre
Libretto: Sir William S. Gilbert
Music: Sir Arthur S. Sullivan
One of the duo's best known comedic operas, H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass That Loved a Sailor, was first performed in 1878 for an unprecedented 700-night run at the Opera-Comique Theatre. They combined romantic stories and settings, caustic wit and parody, plus lilting song and rollicking rhythms; H.M.S. Pinafore contains some of Gilbert's most clever sallies of wit and some of Sullivan's most charming melodies. The action takes place on the quarterdeck of the ship with a cast of colorful characters from able seaman Dick Deadeye to bumboat woman Little Buttercup. This satire on matters nautical in Victorian England, as well as the accompanying parody of "sea music," is timeless and is as well appreciated by contemporary audiences.
ASU Dance
'Til Death Do Us Part ::
Thursday, September 16, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, September 17, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, September 18, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, September 19, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Dance Theatre, PE East 132
Dance professor Ann Ludwig brings her company, A Ludwig Dance Theatre, to the Mainstage season to perform 'Til Death Do Us Part, a series of matrimonial vignettes exposing events from the lives of people who chose to say "I do." Choreography is by Ludwig, text and lyrics by Candace St. Jaques, music by Brian M. Kunnari, and video by Tom Eldridge.
ASU Dance
DanceWorks I ::
Wednesday, October 20, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, October 21, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, October 22, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, October 23, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, October 24, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Dance Theatre, PE East 132
The Department of Dance's graduate students have gained a reputation as among the finest in the country. These thesis
performances will show why they deserve such accolades.
ASU Dance
Fall Concert ::
Wednesday, November 17^, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, November 18, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, November 19, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, November 20, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, November 21, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Dance Theatre, PE East 132
ASU Dance once again brings one the nation's top choreographers, David Dorfman, to the Mainstage Series. Dorfman, a six-time Bessie award-winner, has shown his work at such prestigious venues as The
Joyce Theatre, The Dance Kitchen, The Lincoln Center and LaMama. The program will also feature works set by faculty members and students who have worked with such dance greats as Paul Taylor, Susan Marshall and Alvin Ailey.
ASU Dance
DanceWorks II ::
Thursday, January 27, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, January 28, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, January 29, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Dance Theatre, PE East 132
Once again the Department of Dance graduate students get to show off their talents. This progrm promises a number of new and refreshing works.
ASU Dance
Emerging Artists::
Wednesday, February 9, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, February 10, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, February 11, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, February 12, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, February 13, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Dance Theatre, PE East 132
Always a favorite, the department's seniors have their abilities highlighted in this no-holds-barred program.
ASU Dance
DanceWorks III ::
Wednesday, March 1, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, March 2, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, March 3, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, March 4, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, March 5, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Dance Theatre, PE East 132
As one of the largest graduate programs in the nation ASU's Dance department attracts some of the very finest young dancers and choreographers. The work they create will influence the future of dance.
ASU Dance
Spring Concert ::
Wednesday, April 26, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thurday, April 27, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, April 28, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, April 29, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, April 30, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Galvin Playhouse
ASU Dance's series finale will feature the premiere of a new work by Former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dancer Sean Curran. Curran, a Bessie-Award winner, has been a member of dance percussion extravaganza Stomp for the past four years and has become renowned nationally and internationally for his highly energetic and athletic choreography. Chosen works from acclaimed faculty and students will also be performed.
ASU Theatre
Skin 2000: The Skin of Our Teeth ::
Friday, October 1, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, October 2, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, October 3+, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Wednesday, October 6, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, October 7, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, October 8, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, October 9, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, October 10, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Wednesday, October 13, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, October 14, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, October 15, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, October 16, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, October 17, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Lyceum Theatre
by Thornton Wilder
directed by Mark Armstrong
The Antrobus family has
survived flood, fire, pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the double feature, a dozen wars and as many depressions. Now they're about to face
the biggest test of all: The Twentieth Century. In a vibrant production homeless people, beauty queens, wild hippies, angry radicals and a Big Dinosaur join the Antrobuses as they make their way through the latter half of the century. Winner of the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Thornton Wilder's satiric story of the extraordinary adventures of the Antrobus family down through the ages is given an exciting overhaul by a new generation of theatre artists -- struggling through the calamities of the millennium by the skin of their teeth! This production is suitable for middle school through adult audiences.
ASU Theatre
A New Play ::
Wednesday, December 1, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, December 2, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, December 3, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, December 4, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Saturday, December 4, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, December 5, 1999 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Sunday, December 5, 1999 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Galvin Playhouse
by Lanford Wilson
directed by Marshall W. Mason
In a full production premiere of a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, directed by Marshall W. Mason, ASU continues its public celebration of the playwright/director collaboration process. This production is part of ASU's unique tribute to Circle Repertory Company, one of the most celebrated companies in American theatre history. Founded in 1969 by Wilson, Mason, and others, Circle Rep dedicated itself to rediscovering "lyric realism as the native voice of the American theatre."
ASU Theatre
Measure for Measure ::
Friday, February 25, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, February 26, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, February 27+, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Wednesday, March 1, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, March 2, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, March 3, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, March 4, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, March 5, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Wednesday, March 8, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, March 9, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, March 10, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, March 11, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, March 12, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Galvin Playhouse
by William Shakespeare
directed by Beverly Smith-Dawson
Galvin Playhouse
An innovative staging of one of Shakespeare's most disturbing and enduring plays, presented in contemporary New Orleans during Mardi Gras, Measure for Measure is a "comedy" that defies that classification, with themes as topical as tomorrow's headlines: freedom and license, justice and mercy, morality in government versus conservative backlash -- proof positive that Shakespeare is still one of our greatest living playwrights! On an amoral playground in which the social fabric, never well-woven, is coming apart at the seams, Measure for Measure plunges us into discomforting confusion about our own moral certainties.
ASU Theatre
The Origin of The Sea ::
Friday, April 14, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, April 15, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, April 16+, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Wednesday, April 19, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, April 20, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, April 21, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, April 22, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Tuesday, April 25, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Wednesday, April 26, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Thursday, April 27, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Friday, April 28, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, April 29, 2000 -- 7:30 PM Performance
Sunday, April 30, 2000 -- 2:00 PM Performance
Lyceum Theatre
written and directed by Oscar Giner
This rich and magical masterpiece is a fascinating reconstruction of the mythical Creation Story of the Caribbean Taínos, the first native culture that Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas. Meticulously developed from surviving historical sources and through comparison with other Native American Creation Stories, The Origin of the Sea proposes for family audiences the creation of the sea by ancient divinities, the formation of the islands, and how the Place of the Dead came to be.
Call 480-965-6447 for tickets.
All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. except dates marked with *, which are matinee performances that begin at 2 p.m.; + indicates signed performance; ^ indicates pre-performance lecture one hour before curtain.
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