The Director's Box
John Shearin
Announcing the new 2008-09 ECU/Loessin Playhouse season:
The Playhouse 2008-09 season will open with George and Ira Gershwin’s brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Of Thee I Sing (Oct. 2-7), one of the funniest and most-tuneful musicals ever wrought and an uproarious spoof on presidential election politics. Next comes the The Imaginary Invalid, a comedy by Moliére in a raucous and risqué new adaptation (Nov. 20-25); then Bat Boy, a contemporary musical, on Feb. 12-17; then William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy All’s Well That Ends Well (April 2-7), and the always beautiful and stirring Dance Theatre’s DANCE ’09 (April 23-28).
Auditions for Of Thee I Sing will be held in the Archie Burnette Studio Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, August 20-21, with call-backs on the following two days. All students, faculty and community-based actors-singers-dancers are welcome and encouraged to participate. Auditions for subsequent productions will be posted as appropriate.
Congratulations:
KUDOS and salutations to Howell Binkley, ECU Theatre Alumnus and Tony-Award winning, internationally-renowned lighting designer, for his latest nomination for another Tony for “Best Lighting Design for a Musical” for In the Heights.
ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre 2008 Season:
Sandy Wilson’s marvelous 20’s-style musical THE BOY FRIEND -
June 26-July 5,
Comedy Classic ARSENIC AND OLD LACE - July 10-19, and
THE ALL-NIGHT STRUT, a rollicking, swing-era, song-and-dance revue
July 24-Aug 2.
This season, we will perform at the beautiful, newly-and-completely renovated and restored Turnage Theatre in Washington, NC, while our own McGinnis Theatre undergoes extensive backstage renovations and gets new landscaping.
