Kelli O’Hara, Broadway performer, four time Tony Award nominee, and OCU alum, works with Julianne Reynolds, music junior, as she sings “The Spark of Creation” from the musical Children of Eden during O’Hara’s masterclass Monday afternoon in the Petree Recital Hall of the Wanda L. Bass Music Center.
Photo: James Murphy
Kelli O’Hara Masterclass
Kelli O’Hara, Broadway performer, four time Tony Award nominee, and OCU alum, shows the different vocal techniques used differing styles of music while working with Sarah Feist, vocal performance and musical theatre freshman, while Jan McDaniel, professor of music, looks on during O’Hara’s masterclass Monday afternoon in the Petree Recital Hall of the Wanda L. Bass Music Center.
Photo: James Murphy
Student Life
Jacob Bogart, dance performance sophomore, and Dominic Rosas, acting freshman, find creative ways to defeat the freezing temperatures. The university closed at 4:00 pm Friday, November 22nd, due to the severe weather. Photo: Clinton Foster
Festive Feast
Phi Mu members Kaitlyn Rice, dance performance soph. Shannon Beshears, dance performance fr., and MaryAnn Grover, economics/finance soph., under the advisement of Elise Bradshaw, present a Christmas wreath to the other sorority houses on campus. They are welcomed to the annual Festive Feast, held Thursday Nov. 21 in the Great Hall of the Tom and Brenda McDaniel University Center, by Panhellenic head, Franchesca McDowell, a junior marketing major.
The Campus/Clinton Foster
Tried and True
Ian Maryfield, acting junior, Lucas Haupert, acting sophomore, Jasmine Richman, acting sophomore, Amanda Ack, acting senior, and Lilly Lantigua, acting junior, share an intense moment during the final dress rehearsal of Tried and True Wednesday evening in the Black Box Theatre of the Wanda L. Bass Music Center. OCU’s production of Tried and True, a translation of the Spanish play La Firmeza an la Ausencia, is the first time the play has been presented in English.
Photo: James Murphy
Festive Feast
Members of campus sororities wait in line for the chocolate fountain during the Festive Feast held Thursday evening in the Great Hall of the Tom and Brenda McDaniel University Center. The Festive Feast is an annual event to bring the campus sororities together in celebration of the Holidays.
Photo: Clinton Foster
Home For The Holidays
Megan Brophy, dance performance senior, and Keyna Hoselton, dance performance sophomore, rehearse a dance during a run through of this year’s production of Home For The Holidays Wednesday evening in Studio J of the Edith Kinney Gaylord Center. Home For The Holidays performs in the Kirkpatrick Auditorium December 5th-8th.
Photo: James Murphy
Home For The Holidays
Members of the American Sprit Dance Company rehearse the final dance during a run through of this year’s production of Home For The Holidays Wednesday evening in Studio J of the Edith Kinney Gaylord Center. Home For The Holidays performs in the Kirkpatrick Auditorium December 5th-8th.
Photo: James Murphy
Street Scene
Lucas Tarrant, vocal performance senior, Brett Bode, vocal performance and musical theatre senior, Brennan Martinez, vocal performance and musical theatre freshman, Anna Bookout, vocal performance senior, and Shannon Rookey, vocal performance senior, gossip about the possibility of their neighbor having an affair during a dress rehearsal for Kurt Weill’s Street Scene Wednesday night in the Kirkpatrick Auditorium of the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.
Photo: James Murphy
Master Class with Michael Cassara
After performing a monologue, acting junior, Clair Thomson, listens to critiques from New York casting director, Michael Cassara as part of his master class Friday afternoon in the Petree Recital Hall located in the Wanda L. Bass Music Center. Through the course of the four hours class, Mr. Cassara discussed his career, answered questions, and provided feedback to songs and monologues performed by students.
Photo: James Murphy
Wild Art
Tender Napalm
Cria Ama, acting and music senior, listens as Hunter Paul, acting senior, explains how he was eaten by and subsequently defeated a monster during the final dress rehearsal of the TheatreOCU Out of the Box production Tender Napalm, by Philip Ridley Thursday night in room 405 of the Clara E. Jones Administration Building.
Photo: James Murphy
Homecoming Float Construction
Ali McCurdy, dance performance senior, Elise Mestichelli, dance performance junior, Prisca Lynch, dance performance freshman, and Emily Tanner, dance performance senior, share a laugh while painting the bottom of their float during the allotted time for homecoming float construction early Friday morning on the quad.
Photo: James Murphy
Homecoming Window Painting Competition
Chris Cox, marketing senior, cleans brushes while his teammates work on their design during the homecoming window painting Sunday night in the Tom and Brenda McDaniel University Center.
Photo: James Murphy
First OCU Improv Show of the Semester
Members of the OCU Improv Team perform during their first show Friday night in the Administration Building. The OCU improv team is completely student run and performs four shows each semester.
Photo: James Murphy
Music Assembly
Travis Burch, musical theatre sophomore, takes a bow with his accompanist, Jake Johnson, adjunct instructor of music, after performing Rogers and Hart’s The Lady Is a Tramp during Tuesday’s Music Assembly in Petree Recital Hall. Music Assembly takes place every Tuesday and features students and faculty performing their recent musical endeavors.
Photo: James Murphy
Out of Class
Acting juniors, Tanner Bradshaw, Ian Maryfield, and Kate Robison, leave the fine arts building after class Wednesday evening.
Photo: James Murphy
Rev. Lorenza Andrade Smith
Rev. Lorenza Andrade Smith, a homeless pastor, answers questions that students and faculty asked her during the Q and A session that took place Tuesday October 1st in the lower level of the Chapel. Smith is here speaking for DAX Homeless Awareness Week. Smith is a pastor who since 2001 has taken a vow of poverty, sold her belongings, refused a salary and lived with the homeless all in an effort to advocate for the poor. She will be speaking again at Chapel Thursday at 1 as well as later that night with Dan Straughan, executive director of the OKC Homeless Alliance at 7:00pm in the lower level of the Chapel.
Photo: Teddie Bemis
Homecoming Theme Reveal
Caleb Dicke, dance performance senior, presents this years homecoming theme at the reveal Monday September 30 in the Great Hall. The theme this year is Start. Leaders from participating organizations gathered to hear about important dates and most importantly about the new theme. This years theme, Start, is a simple one word theme that the committee said ties all of the new changes OCU has seen this year, including the addition of a sorority and a new logo.
Photo: Teddie Bemis
Kelsey Griswold’s Homecoming
Senior acting major, current Miss Oklahoma, and second runner up in the Miss America completion, Kelsey Griswold, cuts the first slice of her “Welcome Home” cake for Oklahoma City Mayor, Mick Cornett, while State Senator, David Holt and President of the University, Robert Henry, look on during Griswold’s homecoming event Friday afternoon in the University Center.
Photo: James Murphy
OCU Student Reads on Campus
John Hiller, religion sophomore, relaxes Sept. 10 in a hammock that he hung from two trees on The Quad. Students will take their midterms during the week of Oct. 7. Photo: Farris Willingham
OCU law student
Patricia Burke, third-year law, checks her phone Sept. 10 on The Quad during a study break. Photo: Farris Willingham
OCU Law Student
Patricia Burke, third-year law, rests Sept. 10 on The Quad following a study session for classes. Photo: Farris Willingham
OCU Student Hammock
John Hiller, religion sophomore, reads Sept. 10 in a hammock that he hung from two trees on The Quad. Photo: Farris Willingham
OCU law student rests
Patricia Burke, third-year law, relaxes Sept. 10 on The Quad following a study session in The Gold Star Memorial Building, which serves as the university’s law library. Photo: Farris Willingham
OCU student studies
Katey McMahan, dance management sophomore, scrolls through her laptop Sept. 10 on The Quad. Photo: Farris Willingham
