‘The Little Dog Laughed’ opens to a pleased crowd

Sande said.

“Timing is different with a larger audience,” Sande said.

The play “The Little Dog Laughed,” performed by the Pierce College Theater Department, was well received by a full house on opening night April 28.

The Broadway play had a soft opening April 27 and was performed for a much smaller crowd of 40 people, Theater Manager Michael

Fred and Dolores Halbeck of Woodland Hills said they like the feel of the community theater.

“It’s small but the play was just as good as those in larger theaters,” Fred Halbeck said.

Diane, played by Holly Eisman, is an ambitious Hollywood agent and the main character of the play.

“I thought it [the play] was well performed,” Halbeck said. “The agent [Diane] had so many lines. I don’t know how she remembered them but it was great.”

Eisman got a lot of laughs during the play and connected well with the audience.

“It’s going really well,” Sande said.

For others, it was the brief nudity, which makes the play unsuitable for children under 17, that caught their attention.

“I was really surprised,” said Shawna Adler, an addiction studies major. “But in a good way.”

The play also starred Jordan Jones, Vince Cusimano, and Shannon Mary Dixon.

The critically acclaimed Broadway comedy “The Little Dog Laughed” was written by Douglas Carter Beane and premiered in 2006.

“I thought it was a really great film and I like the fact that they have a panel discussion afterwards and they give you a little more insight into the film,” said Gordillo.

She also had no prior knowledge about the artist or his works.

“A very different artist and high personality type of person,” Gordillo said.

Photography major, Calamoni Trejo also enjoyed the film and spoke about the artist’s rise and fall.

“It kind of sucks to see that a lot of artists start in a black hole and its interesting to see that art takes them into another level but then to see the fame, money and corruption bring them back down to that black hole,” Trejo said.

Furthermore, Trejo said the film made her realize that today’s art is defined by what makes money or what is more mainstream, that art in our generation has taken a new form with phone applications like ‘Instagram’ or ‘Tumblr’.

“I feel like if you want to find art you have to go into the past,” said Trejo. ”To find art nowadays is kind of like finding treasure.”

Moreover, Professor of Philosophy, Malanie McQuitty wants students to discuss different perspectives and opinions on the film.

“I hope students that aren’t familiar with art have gotten some familiarity and maybe now some interest to go out to museums and look at art on their own time,” McQuitty said.