The OCU campus has turned festive with the advent of the holiday season. Buildings across campus have blossomed with holiday cheer. Take a virtual tour of the bedecked campus with Student Publications.
Prospective students visit campus for National Auditions
National auditions are scheduled this weekend for incoming theater and music students.Students get a chance to volunteer and help guide future students through the audition process.
Two operas open this weekend, sharing the stage
The first production of the mainstage opera season will open Friday, Nov. 14.The production will differ from past shows, as two one-act operas will be performed on the same evening, instead of one.
Network access issues reported across campus
Campus Technology Services has sent out an email regarding network internet issues this morning.
Play focused on virtual support group opens
Water By the Spoonful, the second mainstage of the TheatreOCU season, will open Friday Oct. 31 in the Black Box Theatre in Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center. The play features themes dealing with substance abuse and addiction.
Project 21 Musical
Students perform the finale in Project 21 The Musical: Standing Alone in Petree Recital Hall of the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center on Wednesday, April 23rd. The musical was written by composition students in the Project 21 organization.
Photo: Anna Ediger
Senior King and Queen
Dance performance seniors, Caleb Dicke and Ali McCurdy, have their hands full after being awarded the titles of senior king and queen on February 26 in the Petree Recital Hall of the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.
Photo: James Murphy
Designing with Light
Ryan Plunkett, design and production senior, and Rob Brodersen, Scenic Technician, set lighting cues for the upcoming opera Our Town Thursday afternoon in the Kirkpatrick Auditorium of the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.
Photo: James Murphy
Broadway Fun for Funds
Members of OCUpella perform at the dress rehearsal for Broadway Fun for Funds, a fundraiser in support of Aids and HIV awareness and testing, Friday evening in the Burg Theatre of the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.
Photo: James Murphy
Masterclass
Diana Doussant, a New York legit agent with Leading Artists, and Tiffany Canfield, a New York casting director with Telsey + Company, answer questions before critiquing several singers during their masterclass on January 17th in the Petree Recital Hall of the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center. Canfield and Doussant we brought to OCU to cast the New York Showcase, which highlights a handful of graduating seniors.
Photo: James Murphy
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Ian McGee, acting sophomore, performs into a microphone while Alex Enterline, acting senior, Bridget Deely, acting senior, and William Lowe, acting junior, look on during the final dress rehearsal of TheatreOCU’s production of It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play wednesday evening in the Burg Theatre of the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center. The play, based on the 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life, tells the story through the conventions of radio with each actor voicing multiple characters and live sound effects. Performances are December 5-14 in the Burg Theatre.
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
‘Violet’ to open this weekend
Violet the Musical, one of the most acclaimed Broadway shows of the ’90s, will be presented this weekend at OCU.
The show will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in Burg Theater in Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.
Senior dancers prepare for capstone performance
The Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management’s student-directed choreography show will open Oct. 11.
The show, which serves as a senior capstone project for dance performance majors, will feature original dances created by senior dance performance majors. All of the seniors prepare one number to be performed during the show.
Movie-turned-musical ‘9 to 5’ prepares for opening weekend
The Wanda L. Bass School of Music’s first musical of the semester, 9 to 5, will show this weekend.
The show is an adaptation of the 1980 movie, which starred Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin as frustrated office workers who kidnap their obnoxious, sexist boss and run the company themselves.
