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2008-09 SEASON

Dearly Departed ( Second Stage production)
By David Bottrell and Jessie Jones
September 4 - 7 2008

Place: Spotlight Arena Theater, Bliss Hall

Time:  September 7 at 3 p.m.; all other performances at 7:30 p.m.

How His Bride Came to Abraham
By Karen Sunde
October 2 - 5, 10 - 12, 2008

Place: Spotlight Arena Theater, Bliss Hall

Time: October 5 and 12 at 3 p.m.; all other performances at 7:30 p.m.

Little Women
Music by Jason Howland, Lyrics By Mindi Dickstein, Book by Allan Knee
November 13- 16, 21- 23, 2008

Place: Ford Theater, Bliss Hall

Time:  November 16 and 23 at 3 p.m.; all other performances at 7:30 p.m.

 

Almost, Maine (Second Stage production)
 By John Cariani
January 22 - 25, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place: Spotlight Arena Theater, Bliss Hall

Time:  January 25  at 3 p.m.; all other performances at 7:30 p.m.

The Servant of Two Masters
By Carlo Goldoni
February 12 - 15,  20 - 22, 2009

Place: Ford Theater, Bliss Hall

Time: February 15 and 22 at 3 p.m.; all other performances at 7:30 p.m.

Miss Julie
By August Strindberg
March 26 - 29 April
3 - 5 , 2009

Place: Spotlight Arena Theater, Bliss Hall

Time: March 29 and April 5 at 3 p.m.; all other performances at 7:30 p.m.

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The Tender Land    (opera)

Music by Aaron Copland, Libretto by Horace Everett
April 16-19,  2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place: Ford Theater, Bliss Hall

Time: April 19 at 3 p.m.; all other performances at 7:30 p.m.

YSU Dance Ensemble  April 30, May 1 - 2, 2009

Place: Ford Theater, Bliss Hall

Time: all  performances at 7:30 p.m.

 

PAST PRODUCTIONS

2007- 08 SEASON

THE MIRCLE WORKER, by William Gibson

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL  by T. S. Elliot

URINETOWN: The Musical  Music an Lyrics by Mark Hollmann, Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis

AN EVENING OF TWO ONE-ACTS: 

       THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE UNIVERS by Christopher Durang

       ROULETTE by Douglas Hill

THE RIVALS  by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

LOBBY HERO,  by Kenneth Lonergan

AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL, an Opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE

2006- 07 SEASON

LOVE OF A PIG, by Leslie Caveny

FLATSPIN  by Alan Ayckbourn

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING  by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert and Frank Loesser

PROOF  by David Auburn

HAMLET  by William Shakespeare

THEOPHILUS NORTH,  by Matthew Burnett, based upon the last novel of Thornton Wilder

SECRETS EVERY SMART TRAVELER SHOULD KNOW, a musical review by various artists

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE

2005- 06 SEASON

THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS

ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS  by Paul Zindel

FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS  by Alan Ball

THE MISER  by Moliere

POLISH JOKE  by David Ives

SEUSSICAL: The Musical,  by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.

J. B. , by Archibald Macleish

THE GOLDEN APPLE   by Jerome Moross and John Latouche

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE

2004- 05 SEASON

ROMANCE IN D  by james Sherman

SIDE MAN  by Warren Leight

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS  by William Shakespeare

ALL OVER  by Edward Albee

ANYTHING GOES by Cole Porter, Timothy Crouse, John Wiedman, et. al.

SPINNING INTO BUTTER , by Rebecca Gilman

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE   by Gilbert and Sullivan

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE

2003- 04 SEASON

THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE by Neil Simon

NOISES OFF  by Michael Frayn

GOOD THING  by Jessica Goldberg

COMPANY  by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

ZASTROZZI, by George Walker

HANSEL AND GRETEL  by Englebert Humperdinck

THE UNDERPANTS by Steve Martin

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE

 

2002- 03 SEASON

 

OVERTIME by A.R. Gurney

DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe

PRAYING FOR RAIN  by Robert Lewis Vaugn

SIDE SHOW  by Bill Russell and Henry Krieger

STOP KISS  by Diana Sun

MADAMA BUTTERFLY  by Giacomo Puccini

MOON OVER THE BREWERY  by Bruce Graham

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE

 

2001- 02 SEASON

 

COMMUNICATING DOORS  by Alan Ayckbourn

A FITTING CONFUSION  by Georges Feydeau

BETTY'S SUMMER VACATION  by Christopher Durang

SWEET CHARITY by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields

PAINTING CHURCHES  Tina Howe

THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF  by Gian Carlo Menotti

GUN SHY  by Richard Dresser

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE
 

2000- 01 SEASON

 

LEND ME A TENOR  by Ken Ludwig

OEDIPUS REX by Sophocles

MEMORY OF WATER  by Shelagh Stephenson

INTO THE WOODS by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

TWO ROOMS by  Lee Blessing

XERXES  by George Frideric Handel

YSU DANCE ENSEMBLE