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Main
Stage Masterpiece Theatre,
Musical Theatre, & Dance Productions, Spring 2008
These productions are presented in The
Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre in Duke Hall, at the corner of Main
Street and Grace Street on the James Madison University campus.
Masterpiece Season box office, (540) 568-7000
Toll-free (877) 201-7543; TDD (800) 828-1120
Harrison Hall, Room 1107, open Mon. through Friday, noon to 4
p.m.
JMU School of
Theatre and Dance - Performances
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Experimental
Theatre Productions, Spring 2007
Presented in Theatre II, located on South
Main Street, Beside Kinko's. Since these are student produced
productions, they tend to explore a wide range of issues and
material. The productions are thus usually intended for mature
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THEATRE
SPRING 2008
Urinetown,
the Musical
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollman
Tuesday – Saturday;
February 19 – 23, 2008
8 p.m. and Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $12 for the general
public and $8 for senior citizens and JACard holders.
With its terrible title and three
Tony Awards (one for book, one for score, and a third for
direction), Rex Reed of The New York Observer called Urinetown
“fresh, unique, original, impudent, colorful, exciting,
irreverent, surprising and wonderful”! Urinetown is an
uproarious story of dishonesty, insurrection, heroic valor, and
love set in a city where, after a 20-year drought, all public
amenities are controlled by an all controlling corporation.
Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill,
Urinetown is an absurdist, satirical piece of musical theatre,
which will make your cheeks ache with laughter! Urinetown opened
Off-Broadway at the American Theatre of Actors on May 6, 2001,
at the Henry Miller on Broadway, September 20, 2001, and it will
hit the Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre stage February 19, 2008.
Urinetown – the hit you shouldn’t miss!
Twelfth Night,
by William Shakespeare
Tuesday – Saturday;
April 22 - 26, 2008
8 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for senior
citizens and JACard holders.
Ticket information 540-568-7000.
Assumed and mistaken identities,
gender-crossing disguises, roguish behavior and all other manner
of mischief stir the emotions in this romantic Elizabethan
comedy that explores the madness, obstacles, and desire involved
in the search for “true” love. Twelfth Night concludes the
Theatre Series.
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DANCE
SPRING 2008
The Contemporary Dance Ensemble in Concert
Thursday – Saturday, March 27 – 29, 2008 at 8
p.m.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for senior
citizens and JACard holders.
Ticket information 540-568-7000.
The final dance concert of the
year will showcase new work by JMU dance students, a guest
artist and faculty members Cynthia Thompson and Suzanne Miller-Corso.
This year’s guest artist is choreographer and former Erick
Hawkins protégé Todd Rosenlieb of Norfolk, Va.’s Todd
Rosenlieb Dance. The CDE concert concludes the Dance Series.
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SPRING 2008
GODWIN DANCE CONCERTS:
Senior Dance Concert Godwin Studio Theatre 355 Feb. 15-16th,
2008 at
8 p.m.
Tickets are $8 for the general public and $4 for senior
citizens and JACard holders.
Student Concert Godwin Studio Theatre 355 April
17-19th,
2008 at 8 p.m
Tickets are $8 for the general public and $4 for senior
citizens and JACard holders.
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THEATRE II
Spring 2008 Experimental Theatre Season Information
Staged Readings Woyzeck (George Buchner) and
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Woyzeck Jan. 23 and Jan. 25 at 8:00 PM
Agamemnon Jan. 24 and Jan. 26 at 8:00 PM
Tickets: $3.00
Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams)
Feb. 12 – 16 at 8:00 PM
Feb. 16 matinee 2:00 PM
Tickets: $3.00
The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh)
March 11-15 at 8:00 PM
March 15 matinee 2:00 PM
Tickets: $3.00
Edges
(Benj Pasek and Justin Paul)
April 15 – 19 at 8:00 PM
April 20 matinee 2:00 PM
Tickets: $5.00
Tickets for all Theatre II shows may be purchased in
advance on the Monday before the show opens between the hours of
4pm and 7pm. Enter Theatre II by the side door to purchase
advanced-sale tickets.
Tickets may also be purchased at the main doors to Theatre II
on the day of the show, starting two hours before show-time.
Seating is limited and some shows may sell out, so purchase
in advance is encouraged.
There is no late seating in Theatre II
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