EXPERIMENTAL THEATER OF VASSAR COLLEGE
Spring 2008 Drama Department Productions
Fall 2008 performance schedule to be announced.
Reservations for The Experimental Theater of Vassar College Drama Department performances are available through the Box Office located at the Powerhouse Theater (Next to the Admissions Building.)
Joan Gerardi House Manager and Publicity Director
Box office Information:
Walk-In: Monday-Friday 11:00am-2:00pm
Email the box office: boxoffice@vassar.edu
Telephone: 845-437-5584
Reservations are available three weeks prior to opening night. All drama department productions are complimentary admission.
Reservation details:
- Name of the performance
- Date you are requesting a reservation
- Time (matinee or evening)
- Your full name
- Status (faculty, student, family, community guest etc.)
- Phone number with area code
As a courtesy, please contact the box office if you are unable to attend a production you reserved. Your reservation will be voided 10 minutes prior to curtain if you and your guests have not checked in.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact the Box Office in advance before the performance. Without sufficient notice, appropriate accommodation and/or assistance may not be available.
DYNAMO THEATER LAB
A Repertory Company performing three original plays
A bold experiment with the process of theater making, inspired by legendary Vassar professor Hallie Flanagan. Neither workshop readings nor polished productions, the work we create in this condensed period will invite our audiences into a dynamic, immediately imaginative experience.
*Produced by Molly Stewart-Cohn ’08, Thane Floreth ’08, Rachel Lee ’08, and Marissa Skudlarek ’08
Supported by The E.J. Safirstein ’83 Memorial Fund
BASTARD NATION by guest playright John Christian Plummer
THERE WAS NO TIME BEFORE THE WAR by Jason Platt ‘06
THE ROSE OF YOUTH by Marissa Skudlarek ’08
- Powerhouse Theater
February 22, 29, March 7, 28, April 4, 11
Fridays only – 5pm and 9pm
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
By Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Directed by Christopher Grabowski
Supported by The Joan Kostick Andrews ’52 fund
- Martel Theater
April 24, 25, 26
8pm
Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a book by George Furth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Furth and Sondheim retained the basic structure and overall theme of the play but updated it to encompass the period from 1955 to 1976. Its main protagonist is Franklin Shepard who, in 1976, is a one-time composer of Broadway musicals who has become a highly successful but cynical and jaded film producer who has lost his friends, including longtime collaborator Charley Kringas. Like the play, the musical moves backwards in time showing how Frank has become the man he is today.
This drama dept production of Merrily We Roll Along has been made possible by funding from the Joan Kostick Andrews ’52 fund for Musical Theater. Mrs. Andrews, a dedicated patron of the arts, established this endowment to provide opportunities for Vassar students to participate in musical theater productions while at Vassar. The drama department is indebted to Mrs. Andrews for the important support generated by the fund.
* Denotes Senior Project in Drama