January 2, 2007
ISU Theatre announces 2007 spring season
Four productions highlight the spring 2007 Iowa State University Theatre's
spring schedule including the quintessential Iowa musical.
To help kickoff Iowa State's 150th anniversary celebration, ISU Theatre will
present Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" as the Stars Over VEISHEA
(SOV) production.
Other works to be presented this spring include "Arcadia," a New York
Drama Critics' Circle Award winner for Best Play, the new American drama "Intimate
Apparel" and "Waiting for Godot," this year's student-produced
play.
Ticket prices for "The Music Man," which will be held in Stephens
Auditorium, will be announced later.
Tickets for the other ISU Theatre presentations are $13 for adults, $12 for
seniors and $7 for students and children. Both "Intimate Apparel"
and "Waiting for Godot" will be held in the Maintenance Shop of the
Memorial Union. "Arcadia" will be performed in Fisher Theater.
All ISU Theatre tickets are available at the Iowa State Center Ticket office,
all TicketMaster locations, on-line at www.ticketmaster.com
or charge by phone at 515-233-1888 (Ames) or 515-243-1888 (Des Moines).
The 2007 spring ISU Theatre season includes:
ARCADIA
By Tom Stoppard
February 23-24, March 2-3, 7:30 p.m.
February 25 & March 4, 2 p.m.
The setting is a single room in a large country house in Derbyshire. The scenes
alternate between the present and the 19th century until they converge in the
end. In a play that many regard as a masterpiece, Tom Stoppard's characters
discuss questions of science, art, history, and even gardening, but most of
all the nature of truth and time and the relationship between the rational order
and shimmering uncertainty.
INTIMATE APPAREL
By Lynn Nottage
March 22-24, 7:30 p.m.
March 25, 2 p.m.
Esther is an African-American seamstress who creates exquisite lingerie. Her
artistry is much in demand and this allows her to save a large sum of money.
Her loneliness is lessened when she falls in love with a handsome Barbadian
laborer. Although they have never met, he writes beautiful, romantic letters.
When the two meet, he turns out not to be the man the letters suggested. This
acclaimed new American drama is the winner of five national awards for Best
Play.
THE MUSIC MAN
By Meredith Willson
April 20-21, 7 p.m.
Follow fast-taking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River
City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to
organize – despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef.
His plans are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms
him by curtain's fall. Full of touching and hilarious moments, this classic
musical has a score that features such Broadway standards as "Till There
Was You," "Goodnight My Someone" and of course, "Seventy-Six
Trombones."
WAITING FOR GODOT
By Samuel Beckett
April 26-28, 7:30 p.m.
April 29, 2 p.m.
Absurdist Samuel Beckett's most famous play will be brought to the M-Shop stage
by ISU Theatre in this student-produced production. Two tramps are waiting by
a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate
suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. Two other
characters appear, a master and a slave, to say that M. Godot will not come
today. The two tramps resume their vigil by the tree.
