POSTCARDS by Ken Atkins

POSTCARDS

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This night in September of 1934 is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. World famous tenor Tito Morelli is to by Ken Ludwig Directed by Jim Hesselman perform Otello, his greatest role, at the gala season opener. Saunders, the General Manager, hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli’s Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he’s Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

Oct. 25, 8:00 p.m. (Preview Night) Oct. 26-27, 8:00 p.m. • Oct. 28, 2:30 p.m. Nov. 1-3, 8:00 p.m. • Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m. Robinson Theater

Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center

$10 Adults / $6 Students, Seniors, IU Southeast Faculty and Staff Tickets are available at the Ogle Center Ticket Office, by calling Ticketmaster at (502) 361-3100, or online at ticketmaster.com

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Michael Cristofer

Directed by

Jim Hesselman

In this Pulitzer Prize winning play, three terminally ill patients and their loved ones come to terms with life while facing the inevitable. “There are five different stages that a person will go through when they face their own death: denial, anger, bargaining, depresssion, and acceptance. These stages will last for different periods of time, they will replace each other, or exist at times side by side . . . but the one thing that usually persisits through all these stages is hope.” —E.Kubler-Ross, M.D. “An important, touching and courageous play....” –N.Y. Times

Oct. 24-25 • 8:00 p.m. Oct. 31-Nov. 1 • 8:00 p.m. Oct. 26 • 2:30 p.m. Nov. 2 • 2:30 p.m. Robinson Theater Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center Indiana University Southeast 4201 Grant Line Road • New Albany

$12 Adults / $6 Students, Seniors, IU Southeast Faculty & Staff Tickets are available at the Ogle Center ticket office, at all Ticketmaster locations, by calling 502.361.3100, or online at ticketmaster.com

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9/23/2008 2:43:54 PM

to our production of the stephen sondheim musical,

COMPANY

Provide the following information to join the IU Southeast Theatre Department’s mailing list. By joining our mailing list, you will be entered in a drawing for two free tickets to our production of the groundbreaking musical by Stephen Sondheim, COMPANY, coming in February of 2009. Name:________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________ City: _____________________State: _____ Zip: ________ E-mail: ________________________________________ Return this card to: IU Southeast Theatre Department 4201 Grant Line Road New Albany, IN 47150 Or simply give this card to an usher at one of the performances of THE SHADOW BOX. Drawing will be held at the end of the run of THE SHADOW BOX. Winners will be notified by mail.

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4/14/2009 3:46:25 PM

Larry Shue

Directed by Stephen Minotti

2009 Linda Brengle Memorial Student Showcase Production

Now an aspiring architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends of the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI he has never met but who saved his life after he was wounded in Vietnam. He has written to Rick to say that, as long as he is alive, “you will have somebody on Earth who will do anything for you”—so Willum is delighted when Rick shows up unexpectedly at his apartment. But his delight soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless “nerd”—a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact. April 23-25 • 8:00 p.m. April 26 • 2:30 p.m.

Robinson Theater

Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center Indiana University Southeast 4201 Grant Line Road • New Albany $12 Adults / $6 Students, Seniors, IU Southeast Faculty & Staff Tickets are available at the Ogle Center ticket office, at all Ticketmaster locations, by calling 502.361.3100, or online at ticketmaster.com

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Provide the following information to join the IU Southeast Theatre Department’s mailing list. By joining our mailing list, you will be entered in a drawing for two free tickets to one performance of our upcoming 2009-2010 season. Name:________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________ City: _____________________State: _____ Zip: ________ E-mail: ________________________________________ Return this card to: IU Southeast Theatre Department 4201 Grant Line Road New Albany, IN 47150 Or simply give this card to an usher at one of the performances of THE NERD. Drawing will be held at the end of the run of THE NERD. Winners will be notified by mail.

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2/7/2008 2:07:10 PM

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The House of Blue

Leaves

A late middle aged zoo attendant still has lingering visions of being a songwriter, and these hopes are buoyed by his mistress who by John Guare Directed by Jim Hesselman lives downstairs. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to New York, the mistress talks him into calling his old school chum, now a big Hollywood producer, for a job writing music for films. At the same time his son comes home AWOL from Fort Dix carrying a bomb with which he intends to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. The songwriter has meantime called for the jiffy wagon to come and take away his cuckoo wife (her name is Bananas). The big time producer arrives shortly after his fiancée, who has broken her hearing aid, and at about the same time that three sightseeing nuns drop in from the roof. The son’s bomb goes off prematurely, killing a bunch of these characters, and the producer ends by eloping to Australia with the songwriter’s mistress. “A brilliant play... beautifully fashioned.... Wacky and sometimes sad [with]... combined hilarity, poignancy, outrageous stage aside and tragedy.” - N.Y. Daily News

February 29 & March 1, 8:00 p.m. • March 2, 2:30 p.m. March 7-8, 8:00 p.m. • March 9, 2:30 p.m. Robinson Theater Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center

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2/6/2009 9:45:02 AM

George Furth

Directed by Jim Hesselman

Music & Lyrics by

THE NERD

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An honest, witty, sophisticated look at relationships, Company is as contemporary and relevant as ever. It features a brilliant energetic score containing many of Sondheim’s best-known songs (including “Another Hundred People,” “The Ladies Who Lunch” and “Being Alive”) and an ensemble of quirky, memorable Woody Allen-esque characters which doubles as the show’s chorus. Feb. 27-28 • 8:00 p.m. Feb. 20-21 • 8:00 p.m. Feb. 22 • 2:30 p.m. Mar. 1 • 2:30 p.m. Robinson Theater Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center Indiana University Southeast 4201 Grant Line Road • New Albany

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2/6/2009 9:45:04 AM

COMPANY

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LEE MERIWETHER

Lee grew up in San Francisco, attended high school with Johnny Mathis, and was a student at City College when she heard that she had been nominated to be a contestant in the Miss San Francisco pageant. She won, and kept right on winning up through Miss California and eventually Miss America, 1955 (the first Miss America pageant to be televised). She then became the first permanent “Today Girl” with Dave Garraway (and Fred J. Muggs, the chimp) on THE TODAY SHOW, which lead to numerous guest starring roles on television (LEAVE

IT TO BEAVER, PERRY MASON, THE FBI, THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW, THE FUGITIVE, F TROOP, THE DORIS DAY SHOW, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, LAND OF THE GIANTS, STAR TREK, MATCH GAME, CIRCUS OF THE STARS) and eventually regular roles on series like THE TIME TUNNEL, THE NEW ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, BARNABY JONES, THE NEW MUNSTERS, and ALL MY CHILDREN (on which she still plays matriarch Ruth Martin).

Lee was also on the big screen; most notably as Catwoman in the 1966 feature, BATMAN with Adam West, NAMU, ANGEL IN MY POCKET with Andy Griffith, and as Rock Hudson’s wife in THE UNDEFEATED starring John Wayne. Throughout her career she has never lost her love of the stage. Having studied with Lee Strasberg, one of the founders of The Actor’s Studio in New York, she has continued to work and study her craft as long-time member of Theatre West, a nationally known performance workshop and theatre in Los Angeles where the original SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY— starring her friends, Joyce Van Patten and Betty Garrett—was created and eventually sent to Broadway. Lee understudied both women in that cast and starred in an anniversary production directed by Ms. Garrett.

An Evening with Lee Meriwether

THE WOMEN OF SPOON RIVER: THEIR VOICES FROM THE HILL

Lee Meriwether has adapted SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY into a one-woman show, THE WOMEN OF SPOON RIVER: THEIR VOICES FROM THE HILL, in which she brings to life over twenty different women from the pages of Edgar Lee Masters’ epic collection of poems. Each poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen of the fictional Illinois town of Spoon River, delivered by the dead themselves. They speak about the sorts of things one might expect: some recite their histories and turning points, others make observations of life from the outside, and petty ones complain of the treatment of their graves, while few tell how they really died. Speaking without reason to lie or fear the consequences, they construct a picture of life in their town that is shorn of façades. The interplay of various villagers — e.g. a bright and successful man crediting his parents for all he’s accomplished, and an old woman weeping because he is secretly her illegitimate child — forms a gripping, if not pretty, whole. Developed in collaboration with the Indiana University Southeast Theatre Department — with direction by Jim Hesselman, scene and lighting design by Rebekkah Meixner, and original music by Kenneth Atkins — Ms. Meriwether will premiere this new production in the Robinson Theater on the IU Southeast campus in New Albany, Indiana, as ACT I of the evening. For ACT II, Ms. Meriwether will discuss her life and career and take questions from the audience.

FRIDAY, MAY 7 8:00p.m.

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SATURDAY, MAY 8 2:30 & 8:00p.m.

ROBINSON THEATER

Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center Indiana University Southeast • 4201 Grant Line Road • New Albany, IN 47150

$15 Adults / $10 Students, Seniors, IU Southeast Faculty & Staff. No reserved seating.

Tickets are available at the Ogle Center ticket office, at all Ticketmaster locations, by calling 1-800-754-3000, or online at ticketmaster.com.

The Mousetrap

directed by

Agatha Christie

Jim Hesselman

Agatha Christie’s hit play about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions that are in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, than the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer’s pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. The Mousetrap opened in the West End of London in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. With well over 24,000 performances so far, it is the longest running show of the modern era. “One of the most skillfully written murder mysteries ever produced.” —The New York Times

October 28 & 29 • 8:00 p.m. November 4 & 5 • 8:00 p.m. November 6 • 2:30 p.m. October 30 • 2:30 p.m. Robinson Theater Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center Indiana University Southeast • 4201 Grant Line Road • New Albany $12 Adults / $6 Students, Seniors, IU Southeast Faculty & Staff

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book and lyrics by

music by

TOM JONES

featuring

directed by

JIM HESSELMAN

JOANNA GOLDSTEIN, piano production design REBEKKAH MEIXNER-HANKS

HARVEY SCHMIDT with

ERIN CARLISLE, harp costume design NATALIE BOWMAN

technical direction HERB CALDWELL

The original production of The Fantasticks opened May 3, 1960 in a small theatre in New York’s Greenwich Village. The musical tradition created by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt continues to this day. In addition to its near constant presence Off-Broadway, The Fantasticks has been performed in every state and nearly every corner of the world. It’s the longest-running show in the US, and the longest-running musical in the world. The Fantasticks tells the story of a young man and the girl next door, whose parents have built a wall to keep them apart. The youngsters nevertheless contrive to meet and fall in love. Their parents, meanwhile, are congratulating themselves, for they have erected the wall and staged a feud in order to achieve, by negation, a marriage between their willfully disobedient children. The Fantasticks features iconic songs such as, “Try To Remember” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain.”

“...in a world where it’s increasingly difficult to find anything to believe in,

The Fantasticks reminds us that its sunny outlook is exactly what we all need.” —Michael Criscuolo, NYTheatre.com

February 10 & 11 • 8:00 p.m. February 17 & 18 • 8:00 p.m. February 12 • 2:30 p.m. February 19 • 2:30 p.m. Robinson Theater Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center Indiana University Southeast • 4201 Grant Line Road • New Albany $12 Adults / $6 Students, Seniors, IU Southeast Faculty & Staff

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THEATRE

2013–2014 SEASON

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DAMN YANKEES

Words and Music by RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS · Book by GEORGE ABBOTT and DOUGLASS WALLOP Based on the novel by Douglass Wallop, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant

NOVEMBER 7, 8 & 9, 2013 8pm • NOVEMBER 10, 2013 2:30pm NOVEMBER 14, 15 & 16, 2012 8pm • NOVEMBER 17, 2013 2:30pm Faust meets professional baseball Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. As young baseball sensation Joe Hardy, he transforms the hapless Washington Senators into a winning team, only to realize the true worth of the life he’s left behind. “A great national entertainment.” —New York Mirror

“A truly tremendous musical, a brilliant song-and-dancer.” —Journal American

GOD OF CARNAGE

By YASMINA REZA

Translated by CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

FEBRUARY 20, 21 & 22, 2014 8pm • FEBRUARY 23, 2014 2:30pm FEBRUARY 27 & 28, MARCH 1, 2014 8pm • MARCH 2, 2014 2:30pm A comedy of manners... without the manners A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. As the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off. “[A] streamlined anatomy of the human animal…delivers the cathartic release of watching other people’s marriages go boom. A study in the tension between civilized surface and savage instinct, this play is itself a satisfyingly primitive entertainment.” —New York Times

“Elegant, acerbic and entertainingly fueled on pure bile. It’s Reza’s sharpest work since Art.” —Variety

INDIUCKY

APRIL 25, 2014 8pm APRIL 26, 2014 2:30pm & 8pm APRIL 27, 2014 2:30pm Fables, fairy tales, and folklore An original musical comedy created by IU Southeast students and faculty. Creative dramatic techniques, adapted from Paul Sills and Viola Spolin’s work in developing stories for the stage will be employed to “mine” our local area’s news, folk tales, legends, society, and politics and present an original production aimed to teach and entertain all ages.

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TheaTre 2013–2014 SeaSON

www.ius.edu/theatre Book by

George Abbott and Douglass Wallop Music and Lyrics by

Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

Based on the novel by Douglass Wallop, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant Directed by

Jim Hesselman

Faust meets professional baseball Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. As young baseball sensation Joe Hardy, he transforms the hapless Washington Senators into a winning team, only to realize the true worth of the life he’s left behind.

“A great national entertainment.” —New York Mirror

“A truly tremendous musical, a brilliant song-and-dancer.” —Journal American

NOVEMBER 7, 8 & 9, 2013 8pm NOVEMBER 10, 2013 2:30pm NOVEMBER 14, 15 & 16, 2012 8pm NOVEMBER 17, 2013 2:30pm Robinson Theater

Paul W. Ogle Cultural & Community Center Indiana University Southeast 4201 Grant Line Road · New Albany

Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for students, seniors, IU Southeast faculty & staff, and are available at the Ogle Center ticket office or by calling (812) 941-2525.

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Arts Institute Ogle Center 051 • 4201 Grant Line Road • New Albany, IN 47150

Offering outstanding instruction in Music, Art, and Theatre for all ages

Non Profit Org. U S Postage Paid IUS

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• Programs, private lessons and classes for almost every age • Summer music and art camps • Most instructors are IU Southeast college faculty with advanced degrees and extensive experience in

the field of arts education • Arts Institute students have access to IU Southeast facilities: practice rooms with pianos, studios, classrooms, and performance halls • Programs for the beginner, preparation for college arts programs, and everything in between!

YOUNG ARTISTS WORKSHOPS Ages 5–7 and 8–12 4201 Grant Line Road New Albany, IN 47150

Play, exploration, and development within the visual arts. Fundamentals of sculpture, fiber arts, drawing, and painting complement the encouragement of creativity, the development of basic and advanced skills, and an understanding of the history and traditions of art.

SONGWRITING Ages 15 and up

For the novice as well as those with songwriting experience. Covers key topics such as song structures, lyrics, melodies, chord progressions, making demos, and copyrighting.

INTRO TO DIGITAL AUDIO Ages 15 and up

Hands-on study of computer hardware and current popular audio software. Topics such as MIDI, capturing audio, mixing, using virtual instruments, an overview of mastering, and digital audio for the web. Professional software packages such as ProTools and GarageBand.

PRIVATE COACHING FOR THE ACTOR Ages 12 and up

Individual coaching to increase your basic skill level in warm-ups, physical and vocal technique, finding and understanding material, auditioning, choosing a career path, or simply making your performance technique more saleable and exciting.

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PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS Ages 4 and up (min. age varies by intstrument)

Violin • Viola • Cello • Bass • Guitar • Harp • Suzuki Violin • Suziki Viola • Suzuki Cello Suzuki Piano • Flute • Clarinet • Saxophone • Trumpet • Horn • Trombone • Tuba Drums/Percussion • Piano • Organ • Voice

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