Mainstage, Masterpiece Theatre Season
Theatre and Dance, Spring, 2012
DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO THE new  FORBES CENTER 

Tickets to Theatre and Dance performances at the Forbes Center are available 24/7 online at www.jmu.edu/JMUArts where you can select and print your tickets at home, by phone @ 540-568-7000 (Monday – Friday from 10:00am to 5:30 pm)
or in person at the Forbes Center box office
(147 Warsaw Avenue, Harrisonburg, VA).  

 

Winner of the Tony Award for Best
Musical

Sweeney Todd has returned to London
after serving a prison sentence for a
crime he did not commit. The now
revenge-obsessed Todd embarks on
a bloody killing spree with the help of
Mrs. Lovett, a London pie-maker who
has some creative ideas about how to dispose of his victims. Contains adult situations, violence.

SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by Hugh Wheeler. From an adaptation by Christopher Bond. Originally produced on Broadway by Harold Prince. Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.

Tuesday–Friday, February 21–24 @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 25 @ 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 26 @ 2 p.m.
Mainstage Theatre

Ticket prices: $16–$18 Advance tickets can be purchased online, by phone or in person at the box office (Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. and 1½ hours prior to performance). Major credit cards, cash, checks and JACards accepted.
JMU student tickets: $13 in person at box office only with student ID.
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Contemporary Dance Ensemble

Thursday–Saturday, March 29–31 @ 8 p.m., Sunday, April 1 @ 2 p.m.
Mainstage Theatre

This annual concert features the premiere of a new work by JMU faculty member Cynthia Thompson, plus choreography from guest artist Robin Harris and JMU alumnus Henry Hill, and a student–choreographer selection chosen by audition. 

Ticket prices: $13–$14 Advance tickets can be purchased online, by phone or in person at the box office (Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. and 1½ hours prior to performance). Major credit cards, cash, checks and JACards accepted. 
JMU student tickets: $11 in person at box office only with student ID.

The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni

Tuesday–Saturday, April 24–28 @ 8 p.m.,
April 29 @ 2pm - Mainstage Theatre

Chaos reigns as the wily (and always hungry!) servant Truffaldino tries to keep two masters happy while keeping them blissfully unaware of each other. Written in the style of commedia dell’arte, Carlo Goldoni’s classic — with its plot twists, mistaken identities, unrequited love and wildly irreverent comedy — has been making audiences laugh for more than 250 years.

Ticket prices: $13–$14 Advance tickets can be purchased online, by phone or in person at the box office (Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. or 1½ hours prior to performance). Major credit cards, cash, checks and JACards accepted. JMU student tickets: $11 in person at box office only with student ID.


DRIVING DIRECTIONS
TO THE FORBES CENTER

This page was last updated  3/19/2012

STUDIO THEATRE PRODUCTIONS,
FALL, 2011

 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 audiences only .


POE
A collaboratively composed piece based on original texts written by Edgar Allan Poe

 

 Jan. 31- Feb. 4 @8pm with a matinee on Feb.4 @ 2pm
Tickets: $6 per person
Rating:  Mature Audiences (Suggested violence that avoids literal interpretation)


In this original production, an ensemble collaboratively re-creates four Poe stories exploring the theme of manipulation of the human character found in Poe’s works.  It incorporates a stylistic interpretation of Bunraku puppetry (puppeteers function as manipulators and live characters). Human and puppet performers interact in this production to raise the question of who manipulates whom and why.

 

TWO WEEK THEATRE

 

March 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, all at 8pm
Tickets: $8 per person (1 ticket is valid for both shows)
Rating:  Mature Audiences

 

Two Week Theatre is a workshop production where students write, direct, design and perform a short play all within a two-week time slot. These two productions will be written with an overarching theme of “What do we fear?” and be open to audiences for two nights each.


THEA 488 Experimental Theatre Class  Production
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April 12, 13, 14 at 7:00 PM, April 14 at 2:00 PM
Tickets: Pay what you can at the door: Suggested $2 admission
Rating: Mature Audience: (Adult content)

 

This envelope-pushing work is devised by the students of the course Experimental Theatre.  While it incorporates ideas and techniques used by artists who have explored the extent and possible means of theatre expression over the past thirty years, it puts the students themselves in the role of creators and explorers rather than re-creators.  What they produce in this boundary-crossing work, therefore, will be an inevitable expression of their and their generation’s ideas, concerns, hopes, and sensibilities.

 

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Story and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe

 

April 25 – 29 at 8:00 PM, April 28 at 2:00 PM
Tickets: $8 per person
Rating: Mature Audiences (Sexual Content, Language, Violence)

Based on a 1992 story in Weekly World News (“Nothing but the truth”), BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL follows a half-bat, half-human found in a cave in Hope Falls, West Virginia. Taken in by the family of the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, Bat Boy learns to become an acceptable member of their society. As Bat Boy begins to fit in with the veterinarian’s family, wife Meredith and daughter Shelley, he finds it more difficult to be welcomed by the outrageous townsfolk of Hope Falls, including Dr. Parker, who secretly loathes Bat Boy. However, when a dark secret is revealed in Hope Falls, everything is turned upside down in this hilarious horror musical, including Bat Boy’s relationships with his new lover, Shelley, and his foster mother, Meredith.

 

Earlynn  J. Miller Dance Theatre Productions. Spring, 2012

Senior Dance Concert
They are on the verge of graduation and entering into their careers as dance artists.  The JMU Dance Program’s seniors present an evening of bold new choreography.
February 9-11  8 p.m.
Earlynn  J. Miller Dance Theatre
Tickets:  $10/Adults, $6/Students, Youth
 
Spring Student Dance Concert
April 18-21  8 p.m.
Earlynn J. Miller Dance Theatre
Once again the beautiful and intimate Earlynn J. Miller Dance Theatre is the setting for this exciting concert featuring the Dance Program’s talented young dancers and choreographers.
Tickets:  $10/Adults, $6/Students, Youth