May 4, 2009
University Center for the Arts
1400 Remington Street
Fort Collins, CO 80524
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Our spring semester performance season at the University Center for the Arts has just a few more events left to go!
This Wednesday and Thursday evening, enjoy a FREE Opera Theatre presentation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway Musical, A Little Night Music. A late-night Tenor Aria Spectacular follows Thursday's performance.
This weekend, celebrate the enthusiasm of spring at the Senior Dance Showcase.
See you at the UCA soon!
Sincerely,
Marketing and Publicity Director, School of the Arts |
| SPRING SENIOR DANCE SHOWCASE |
 The CSU Dance Program Presents The Annual Spring Senior Dance Showcase, Levels of Perception, highlighting the choreographic and performance talents of Colorado State University Dance majors Mary Wilson, Karleen Hughes, and Mallory Buffer.
The dance majors invite audiences to experience their own perception of dance during this collaborative event involving a number of dancers, designers, and technicians, creating an outstanding and original dance showcase. As a graduation requirement, they each choreographed a group piece and a solo performance. The presentation represents the training and education these dancers have received at Colorado State.
Friday, May 8, 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, May 9, 2:00 and 8:00 p.m., University Dance Theatre, UCA. $8/CSU students, $8/youth (ages 6 - 17), $11/public. BUY TICKETS |
| FREE PRESENTATION of SONDHEIM'S "A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC" |
 Join CSU Opera Theatre for a special presentation of A Little Night Music, the 1973 Tony Award-Winner for Best Musical.
Based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, Stephen Sondheim's intricate, romantic tale features a beautiful score, written almost entirely in waltz time, including the classic song Send in the Clowns.
A Little Night Music has been described as "an invitation to a past era of elegance and enchantment at the turn-of-the-century where love, laughter, and music float through the air on evening breezes in a land where the sun never sets."
Offsetting the romance are situations of human drama where relationships are examined through perceptions of societal status. Once characterized by Sondheim as "whipped cream and knives" the tension of multiple scandals and heartbreak is broken by witty one-liners and comedic interplay.
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Wednesday, May 6, and Thursday, May 7, 5:00 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, University Center for the Arts. FREE EVENT - seating is first come, first served.
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| NIGHT MUSIC CAST COMMENTS |
Performing the role of Madame Armfeldt, the grandmother, is CSU Vocal Coordinator Janet Morrow King, who will retire in May after 24 years at CSU. "It has been a real honor and pleasure, both for me and for the students, to have the opportunity to work with Janet Morrow King on this show - her Madame Armfeldt is full of dry wit and sass!" says director Tiffany Blake.
 Says graduate student Mary Beth Eversole, who plays the role of the Countess, "It's the most decently indecent fun I've ever had." "Yet," she adds, " A Little Night Music cries out for us to recognize that life is fleeting...make something of yourself...don't throw yourself away." |
| TENOR ARIA SPECTACULAR |
 Seven Tenors Concert. Following the Thursday presentation of A Little Night Music - and a spread of snacks and coffee - CSU tenors James Baumgardner, John Lindsey, Craig Blackard, Andrew Diessner, Cody Laun, Joshua Savage and Andrew Lunsford will each sing in a spectacular round of arias. Dr. Todd Queen, Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance, will also give a short lecture on the tenor voice.
During the hour-long event, next year's CSU Opera Theatre season will be announced along with a special announcement of CSU's new voice teacher selection.
Don't miss this evening chock full of of "inside information"!
When & Where
Thursday, May 7, 8:00 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, UCA - FREE
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| TRIVIA ~ TICKETS AND A RESTAURANT GIFT CERTIFICATE |
 Question: What is the name of the Spring Senior Dance Showcase being performed this coming weekend in the University Dance Theatre?
Send your answer to jennifer.clary@colostate.edu by noon on Thursday, May 7, and you'll be entered to win 2 free tickets to the Spring Senior Dance Showcase, plus a $5 gift certificate from Mugs Coffee Lounge.
Thank you Mugs Coffee Lounge for your kind donation!
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