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A...My Name is Alice
March 3, 7:30 PM
Balcony Theatre
UTD Meeting
March 4, 10 PM
Craig Hall
Dance Film Festival
March 4-5, 6-8 PM
March 7, 10 AM-12 PM
Craig 204
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Missouri State University
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A... My Name is Alice Closing Night!
 Tonight is the CLOSING NIGHT for A... My Name is Alice!
Prepare for a lyrical, outrageous musical with A...My Name is Alice.
Discover a select group of women doing what they do best...being women.
Originally composed through a group of comedy writers, composers, and
directors, the play is a wonder to behold with quick song and a powerful
production. Find out how women react to the catastrophes of
parent/teacher conferences, the joys of a male strip club, the horror
of losing a parent, to a girl screaming at her soon to be
ex-boyfriend's jockstrap in a washing machine. The songs will liven
your step and quicken your mind. From songs with random French words to
a canticle about drinking, this show will uplift man or woman.
Balcony Theatre
March 3, 2009, at 7:30 PM
Tickets: $12 (MSU advance purchase), $14, $16
For tickets, call 417-836-7678; or toll-free 888-476-7849; or go to missouristatetix.com
Be sure to click on the image above to watch our web promo!
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UTD Updates!
 It's a busy time for UTD! Here are a few updates:
-There will be a UTD Meeting on Wednesday, March 4th, at 10:00 PM in Craig Hall.
-The 2nd UTD Chili-Feed of the semester will take place on Tuesday, March 10th, from 11:30 AM-2:00 PM. The first round went incredibly well, with UTD raising over $100 within 30 minutes! This time, we're making it a little more interesting - it's an official competition! For
$1, you will get a sample of each chili and may vote for which you
think is the best. For an extra $2, you get a full bowl of your
favorite plus cornbread and soda galore. Once again, all proceeds will
go to the Clint Overstreet Scholarship. And of course, there will be an
awesome prize for the winner!
To participate as a cook for the Chili Feed, or for more information on the UTD Meeting, please contact Addie Barnhart at Barnhart421@MissouriState.edu.
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Directing I Scene Auditions
 Auditions for Directing I scenes will
be on March 17 in Carrington Auditorium from 3 - 4:50 pm. Callbacks
will be the 19th, same time and place (or TBD by each director).
Sign-up form will be placed outside the Balcony theatre.
We request that all those interested
in auditioning be available for a minimum of one hour during our
regularly scheduled class time (T/TH 3 - 4:50) and they MUST be
available for our FINALS time period: Tuesday, May 12th - 3:30 - 5:30pm.
If there are those interested in
participating but cannot meet during our class period, we ask they sign
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Workshop Opportunity: "Taking the Reins"
Kevin Rich will be holding a workshop, "Taking the Reins: Creating Your Own
Opportunities," centered on providing ideas and motivation for those
first few years out of college. It will be held on Friday, March 13th, in Carrington Auditorium, from 12:00-1:50 ALL THEATRE & DANCE Majors are invited to this FREE Workshop.
If you are not enrolled in THE 398/THE 498, PLEASE RSVP to Stacy Joyce ( stacyjoyce@missouristate.edu) if you plan to attend and what time you will be joining us. Following is a list of primary topics: 1. The Audition 2. Alternatives to the Audition: Original Work, Adaptations and Public Domain, Childrens' Theatre 3. Finding Your Playground: Fringe Festivals, Theatre Spaces, Coffeehouses, Church Basements, Schools 4. Once You Have Their Attention, How To Keep It 5. Pathways: LA, New York, Everywhere Else 6. More Pathways: Graduate School, Grants, Unions, Sideline Careers 7. Ten Things To Do Before You Graduate 8. The Importance of Self-Ignition Part 2: 2:00-3:50 Q& A with Kevin and some one on one monologue coaching.
Kevin Rich works as an actor, director, and educator in the
Chicago-Milwaukee area. He's an active member of the Actors' Equity
Association and the Screen Actor's Guild with over ten years of
professional acting experience for such companies as Chicago
Shakespeare, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Company, Portland
Center Stage, San Jose Rep, and Yale Rep, as well as film and
commercial television. He is a member of the adjunct theatre faculties
at Carthage College & UW-Parkside, and was named Milwaukee
Shakespeare's National Endowment for The Arts Education Associate for
their 2008/9 season. His company, Rich Workshops, has created
custom-designed theatre workshops for both teachers and students
(elementary, high school & college levels) nationally. This summer,
he will be playing Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the title role
in Richard III at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Kevin received a
BA in Theatre from Grinnell College and an MFA in Acting from the Yale
School of Drama.
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Vote Tent Theatre!!
 Tent has advanced to the second round of 417 Magazine's "64 Greatest Things About 417-Land! Now we need your help getting to the next round!
Let's get to the Sweet Sixteen!
Please Click Here to visit the "64 Greatest Things" site, then click on the bracket to vote. You can vote as often as you want!
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Arts in Action: The 10 Weeks Festival
 Springfield Arts Organizations Come Together to Present Arts in Action: The 10 Weeks Festival
The Arts Programming Sustainability Initiative (APSI), an effort led by
the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, announces Arts in Action: The
10 Weeks Festival, a collaborative event that highlights ten weeks of
over 100 arts events and performances throughout the city to raise
money for arts in education and children in Springfield Public Schools.
The 10 Weeks Festival will run from March 14, 2009 through May 31, 2009
and will feature existing arts events, festivals, performances and
concerts by the following arts organizations:
· Artsfest presented by the Springfield Regional Arts Council
· Boys Choir of Springfield
· Children's Choirs of Southwest Missouri
· Drury University Art and Art History, Music and Theatre Departments
· First Friday Art Walk
· Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts
· Missouri State University Theatre and Dance Department
· Poor Thespians Theatre at The Gillioz
· SATO (Springfield And The Ozarks) 48 Hour Film Challenge
· Self-Employment in the Arts OzArts Conference
· Springfield Ballet
· The Skinny Improv
· Springfield Little Theatre
· Springfield Playhouse
· Springfield Regional Opera
· Springfield Symphony Orchestra
· Swan Repertory Theatre
Attendees will be asked to donate $1 (or more) per ticket throughout
The 10 Weeks Festival with a goal of raising at least $10,000 in 10
Weeks. Donated funds will then be split evenly between a new Arts in
Education Endowment at the Community Foundation of the Ozarks that will
provide funding for arts organizations to take programs into area
schools and the Care to Learn Fund (with a fund match of 3 to 1),
established to help meet the basic needs of Springfield Public School
students directly aiding in the mission of the Mayor's Commission for
Children.
Arts in Action: The 10 Weeks Festival provides an opportunity for
arts organizations to come together in a series of events linked under
one umbrella and tangibly benefit children and the arts, believing that
to sustain the arts, the arts have to help sustain the community.
For more information, call 417-862-ARTS. The festival's website,
The10Weeks.com, will launch when the festival begins on Saturday, March
14.
Arts in Action: The 10 Weeks Festival was created by the Arts
Programming Sustainability Initiative (APSI) as an effort funded by the
Community Foundation of the Ozarks.
APSI Panel Members include Dr. Carey Adams - Missouri State University dean of the College of Arts and Letters, Katie Cornwell - Springfield Ballet business affairs manager, Beth Domann - Springfield Little Theatre artistic/managing director, Dr. Gloria Galanes - MSU professor of communication studies and Springfield Regional Arts Council president, Jan Hyde - Hyde Gallery owner/director, Jeff Jenkins - Swan Repertory Theatre executive managing director and Skinny Improv Creative CEO, Jane Munson-Berg - Springfield Regional Opera general director, Kay Osborne - Drury University special instructor of arts administration, Lil Olive - Good Girl Art Gallery owner, Dr. Thomas Russo - Drury University professor of art and art history, Ron Spigelman - Springfield Symphony Orchestra music director. |
MS Awareness Week: Freeze Mob
 The National Muscular Sclerosis
Society (MS) is planning a "Freeze Mob" scheduled for March 6
and the First Friday Art Walk.
The week of March 2
- March 6 is MS Awareness Week. MS is a chronic, unpredictable disease of
the central nervous system (the brain, optic nerves, and spinal cord). MS can
cause an abundant number of side effects such as numbness, extreme fatigue,
loss of balance and many more that can be permanent or come and go.
We want to
try and put a stop to this disease so, in doing this we are trying to gather as
many volunteers as possible to participate in our three minute "FREEZE MOB." We are looking for some
awesome drama students that would be willing to stand in a dramatic pose for
three minutes and then break out at the sound of a whistle and hand out MS
literature to everyone at the First Friday Art Walk. The purpose of this event
is to attract as much attention as possible so people engage themselves in what
is going on. Our mission is that we support a world free of MS.
This is for a GREAT
cause and it also fulfills Missouri State University's Public Affairs
Mission. This event will be tons of FUN to participate in and after the event
all volunteers will be welcome to eat at Riads or Trolley with a discounted
coupon.
ALL volunteers are asked
to please wear ORANGE.This is the color of the Walk MS Season and we
want you to join the movement. If you are interested, please respond with your
name and a contact number and we will let you know all the details.
For those interested, please e-mail Ashley Brendel at abrendel@nmsskc.org
MS
stops
people from moving...We exists to make sure it doesn't!
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Dance Film Festival
 The L.A. Jazz Tap Ensemble will be sponsoring a Dance Film Festival in Craig Hall, room 204.
The festival runs March 4-5 from 6:00-8:00 PM, and March 7th from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
http://www.jazztapensemble.org/
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TAD Ticket Giveaway: The Rat Pack is Back!
 This week, you can win two tickets to The Rat Pack is Back at the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts. The tickets will be good for opening night, Friday, March 6th, at 8:00 PM.
If you wish to enter in this giveaway, please send an e-mail to Matt Tassell (Tassell65456@MissouriState.edu) with "Rat Pack" in the subject field by Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 11:30 AM.
This spirited tribute recreates one of the famous "Summit at the
Sands" hotel shows - with Vegas' four favorite sons: Frank Sinatra,
Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Joey Bishop. The show features
uncanny vocal recreations, unbridled humor and a hot, live big band
that sends audiences straight back to the coolest time in history!
Songs include "That's Amore", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Mr. Bojangles".
www.bbonyc.com
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TAD Ticket Giveaway: Blackout Sketch
 Also this week, you can win two tickets to see Blackout Sketch Presents: The 2009 Spring Collection at the Vandivort 2nd Stage. The tickets will be good for any opening weekend performance, March 5-7, at 7:30 PM.
If you wish to enter in this giveaway, please send an e-mail to Matt Tassell (Tassell65456@MissouriState.edu) with "Rat Pack" in the subject field by Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 11:30 AM. You MUST include which date(s) you are available to see the show!
A collection of sketches ranging in a variety of content from
accountants, to babies, to spring break, to leprechauns! You don't know
what we will throw at you!*
This show contains "adult" language and content!!!
*might include chairs
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The TAD eUpdate is released every Tuesday at 5:00 PM. Should you have any new or updated information, perhaps something you want to share, please contact Matt Tassell (Tassell65456@MissouriState.edu).
The TAD eUpdate does not replace the department's callboards. Continue to check the callboards every day for more information.
This is an official publication of the Missouri State University Department of Theatre and Dance.
Please send corrections or comments to Matt Tassell (Tassell65456@MissouriState.edu).
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