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Miss Julie
 This week is your FINAL CHANCE to see August Strindberg's Miss Julie! Get your tickets before they sell out!
Set on the estate of a Swedish count in 1894, Miss Julie explores the interplay of love and lust, social mores and class struggle, power and choice. Miss Julie, the Count's strong-willed daughter, dreams of escaping the constraints of her social station. Jean, the Count's worldly valet, aspires to manage his own inn. During the course of one fateful Midsummer's Eve, their relationship flows from flirtation to passion, kindness to cruelty, hope to despair. This intense psychological drama exposes the underlying forces in the battles of the sexes and classes.
Balcony Theatre
September 29-October 2 at 7:30 and October 4 at 2:30
Tickets: $8, $12, $14
Click Here to purchase tickets, or visit any Missouri State Box Office.
Also- click the video to the right to check out the Miss Julie web promo!
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Miss Julie Review
 Congratulations to the cast and crew of Miss Julie, who earned a glowing review in the Springfield News-Leader!
Reviewer Larry Colins wrote of the production,
"Missouri State University opens its fall season with an intimate Balcony Theatre staging directed with restraint and cool objectivity by Telory Davies... Even near the end of the play, when Julie's 'No Way Out' dilemma invites the conventions of the traditional 'mad scene,' Lauren Sweetser makes her more dazed-and-confused than outright delirious... Andrew Venneman is effective as a low-key and soft-spoken Jean, a man whose dispassionate cockiness shows equal disdain for women of all classes."
Click Here to read all of Larry Colins review!
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Upcoming Events
Miss Julie
September 29-October 2, 7:30 PM
October 4, 2:30 PM
Balcony Theatre
Student Caucus
October 1, 5 PM
Coger Theatre
Inertia Auditions
October 6, 5:15 PM
McDonald 203
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Student Caucus
Attention Theatre, Dance and Musical Theatre Student:
Department Head Dr. Bob Willenbrink would like to invite you to attend the Theatre and Dance Student Caucus on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 5 pm in the Coger Theatre.
Please join us for dinner, dialogue, and fun! You will get to meet, know and talk to majors from all programs in the Department of Theatre and Dance!
Learn all about the upcoming events in the department. Have a discussion with the Head about the aspirations, concerns, and accomplishments of the department and its students!
Join us for free food and friendship at the Theatre and Dance Student Caucus!
See You There!
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Inertia Auditions
Auditions for Inertia Dance Company will take place on Tuesday, October 6 at 5:15 PM in McDonald 203.
Inertia Dance Company seeks 8-10 dancers for the 2009-2010 season:
To develop a lecture/demonstration for area High Schools
To perform in regional dance concert venues
To give dance workshops for the community
To attend American College Dance Festival Association Regional Conference
For more information, please contact Sara Brummel at SaraBrummel@MissouriState.edu.
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Incognito
Save the Date!!
Thursday October 8th at 7:30pm in Carrington Auditorium
Incognito written and performed by Michael Fosberg
FREE!!!
Writer/performer Michael Fosberg began a personal search for his biological father at age 34 that turns up a whole lot more. Armed with only the name of his father and the knowledge that he lived in the Detroit area two decades earlier, Fosberg makes a miraculous call which sets in motion a series of discoveries of family -- of secrets and lies, confrontation and reconciliation. Incognito balances humor and emotion as it deals with race, prejudice and life's difficult choices.
Michael Fosberg, a Chicago native, has been writing, acting, and directing for more than twenty-five years. He has performed in Chicago as an actor at the Steppenwolf & Goodman Theatres, having worked with directors Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, and Robert Falls. He received a Jeff Citation for Best Actor for his performance in Sam Shepard's Savage/Love. His memoir, Incognito, on which the play is based, will be published next fall by Chicago Review Press. The film company NUMBER 8 is currently making a documentary about his life and play.
Click Here for more information on Incognito.
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Directing II One-Act Auditions
Town Hall Productions presents the Directing II One Act Auditions!
Location: Balcony Theatre in Craig Hall
Dates: Wednesday, October 7th, 5pm-10pm
Callbacks: Thursday, October 8th, Various times
This semester's One-Acts include:
The Dress Rehearsal by Marisa Smith, directed by Ashley Kile
Poof by Lynn Nottage, directed by Jessica Lewis
Philosophical Inquiry at the Edge of a Cliff by Matthew Calhoun, directed by Rachael Shepard
Bitter Sauce by Eric Bogosian, directed by Geovonday Jones
Words, Words, Words by David Ives directed by Eric Morrow
The Most Massive Woman Wins by Madeline George, directed by Whitney Ice
See the Balcony Callboard for more info!
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Headshot Workshop
Jeff Nicholson, from The Shot Photography in Los Angeles, will be coming in to present a headshot workshop on October 9th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Carrington Auditirium (BFA Acting Lab).
This workshop is open to all students and faculty in the department of Theatre & Dance. No appointment is needed for the workshop.
For more information, please contact Kurt Heinlein at KurtHeinlein@MissouriState.edu.
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Public Affairs Opportunity
The Boys & Girls Club of Springfield is hosting a Haunted House on Thursday October 29th from 6pm-9pm. They are looking for some actors to volunteer at the Haunted House "in character". You would need to provide your own costume and make-up.
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Ticket Giveaway
 This week, you can win two tickets to see the Michael Wolff Trio on Friday, October 2nd at 8:00 PM at the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts.
If you wish to enter in this giveaway, please reply to this e-mail OR send an e-mail to Matt Tassell (Tassell65456@Live.MissouriState.edu) with "Michael Wolff Trio" in the subject field by Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 12:00 PM.
Hailed by The Oakland Tribune as "one of the most engaging all-around performers in the jazz game", pianist/composer Michael Wolff brings a strong mix of straight-ahead original instrumental jazz and a foot-stomping funky New Orleans vibe to the Hammons Hall stage - as he and his sidemen Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Victor Jones on drums feature music from Wolff's new jazz album Joe's Strut. ALLMUSIC notes "an assured quick-mindedness, full of surprises" in his music...JAZZTIMES magazine praises Wolff as "a musical renaissance man"...Metaljazz.com calls him "a man whose recorded history shows he can absorb any form, from Indian raga to urban blues, and make it sound effortless"...and critics agree that Michael Wolff has "found his groove" with this funky new album. Come check it out!
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The TAD eUpdate does not replace the department's callboards. Continue to check the callboards every day for more information.
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