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REVIEW | Anything Goes

Nothing goes wrong in staging of 'Anything Goes' Larry Collins Springfield News-Leader 've enjoyed many productions of "Anything Goes" over the years, but Tent Theatre's sparkling new staging of Cole Porter's 1934 classic is the most flat-out entertaining of the bunch. It's...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 07-11-2008
'Anything Goes' is last show this summer at Tent Theatre

Steve Grant KY3 News SPRINGFIELD -- A jazz-age musical comedy is the last show of the 46th season of Missouri State University's Tent Theatre. The curtain goes up on "Anything Goes" on Wednesday. Natalie Hiatt from New York City is one of the featured performers. She graduated from MSU...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 07-10-2008
Sing along at next Tent show

Sony Hocklander Springfield News-Leader "This production will have the audience saying 'Oh, that's where that song is from'," says Carol J. Maples, director of " Anything Goes ," now playing at Tent Theatre. Some famous songs in the musical include "I Get a Kick Out...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 07-10-2008
REVIEW | You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

'Charlie Brown' charms audience Larry Collins Springfield News Leader "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," the second entry in Tent Theatre's 2008 summer season, offers a high-spirited evening of song and dance that will entertain and perhaps even enlighten the entire family...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 06-27-2008
Spend an evening with that round-headed kid

"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" second production at Tent. Sony Hocklander Springfield News-Leader "Get your tickets today if you want to see the Peanuts gang come to musical life at Tent Theatre. They're selling faster than Lucy's 5-cent psychiatric sessions. "You're...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 06-26-2008
MSU alumns on Great White Way

Sony Hocklander Springfield News Leader Watching tonight's Tony Awards on CBS? Keep an eye out for Kyle Dean Massey, who graduated from Missouri State University's musical theater program in 2004. The actor performs during the televised ceremony with the cast of "Xanadu," nominated...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 06-22-2008
REVIEW | Cyrano de Bergerac

Larry Collins Springfield News Leader Actor/writer Steve Martin struck a blow for the feminine heart and soul of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by titling his 1987 movie update "Roxanne." Director Robert Westenberg does something similar at Missouri State University's Tent Theatre...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 06-22-2008
"Swordplay and wordplay"

Sony Hocklander Springfield News Leader The 46th season of Tent Theatre opens this week with "Cyrano de Bergerac," the classic love story full of swashbuckling swordplay and poetic dialogue set in 1600s France. That Robert Westenberg, who teaches at Drury University, directs the play at Missouri...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 06-22-2008
"Under the big top"

Sony Hocklander Springfield News Leader It wouldn't be summer without a sizzling season of Tent Theatre, Missouri State University's outdoor repertory program. It kicks off its 46th season on Wednesday with a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac." And it wouldn't be Tent without a...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 06-22-2008
Bread & Puppet Theatre Trip

On September 24-28, 2008 (Wed-Sun), Professor Heinlein will be taking a group of students to Maryland to participate in rehearsals and a performance with the iconic Bread and Puppet Theatre. B&P will be performing a short residency at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland, and the faculty at SMCM have...

Posted to Theatre and Dance (Weblog) by ThespianDave on 06-22-2008

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