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January 14, 2007

ISU Theatre announces spring season

A Broadway musical classic and an original production highlight the spring 2008 ISU Theatre season at Iowa State University.

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is this year's Stars Over VEISHEA production. This year, the musical farce will be performed over two weekends in Fisher Theater.

ISU Theatre's Jane Cox has written an original play about four young men from Iowa and their journeys through the American Civil War. "Love and Honor" will be performed in late February and early March and is part of the ISU Sesquicentennial celebration.

ISU Theatre will also present two other shows this spring including "The Boys Next Door," which opens the spring season in early February and the student production of "Anton in Show Business."

Tickets for "The Boys Next Door" and "Love and Honor" are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for students and children. Tentative ticket prices for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" range from $12 to $18. Admission to "Anton in Show Business" is $4 for students and $6 for adults.

Each production will be held in the Fisher Theater on campus with the exception of "Anton in Show Business" which will be performed in the Maintenance Shop in the Memorial Union.

All ISU Theatre tickets are available at the Iowa State Center Ticket office at 515-294-2479.

The 2008 spring ISU Theatre season includes:

THE BOYS NEXT DOOR
By Tom Griffin
February 1-2 @ 7:30 p.m.
February 3 @ 2 p.m.

In a New England town four mentally challenged young men are living in a communal residence. The story of their daily life is told through the perspective of Jack, the increasingly "burned out" social worker who teaches and looks after them. Filled with humor, the play is also marked by compassion and understanding; it touchingly communicates that these four men are like the rest of us who want to love and be loved and find some meaning and purpose in the too brief time we are allotted on earth.

LOVE AND HONOR
By Jane Cox
February 29, March 1, 7-8 @ 7:30 p.m.
March 2 & 9 @ 2 p.m.

Four young men from Iowa volunteer for a period of three years to protect and preserve the Union during the Civil War. Two are brothers, one is a young married father and one, a young farmer, who is engaged to be married. The four struggle with boredom and loneliness as well as the terrors of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Andersonville and Sherman's March to the Sea. This script is based on letters, diaries, and narratives of the time period of men who made the vow to serve and defend their families and their young country. This ISU Theatre production is part of Iowa State University's 150th anniversary celebration.

ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS
By Jane Martin
March 27-29 @ 7:30 p.m.
March 30 @ 2 p.m.

This madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre and the resemblance is uncanny! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they're whisked through a maelstrom of "good ideas" that offer unique solutions to the Three Sister's need to have life's deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains and absurdities of "putting on a play" at the turn of the century.
The play is the winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Book by Burton Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
Music and Lyrics  by Stephen Sondheim
April 11-12 & 18-19 @ 7:30 p.m.
April 13 & 30 @ 2 p.m.

This musical is one of Broadway's greatest farces and combines situations from the 2000-year-old Roman comedies with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. It tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo one of the courtesans who lives next door. As things go wrong, Pseudolus is forced to keep changing his complicated and ludicrous plans if he wishes to be a free man. This musical won five Tony awards including best musical and best book.