The 2007-2009 VSU Theatre & Dance Season
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Once again VSU Theatre and Dance presents a seven-production season offering a variety of styles and genres of performances. Advance reservations are strongly encouraged. The VSU Theatre & Dance Box Office is open from 2 - 5 P.M. Mondays through Saturdays. Contact the box office for advance reservations and information about season memberships. The Box Office phone number is (229) 333-5973. VSU Students must stop by the Box Office to make their reservations. The Box Office is located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building, next to Sawyer Theatre across from the Art Office. All evening performances are at 7:30 P.M. Matinees are presented on Sundays at 3:00 P.M. The Fantastic Return of the Fabulous Fable Factory will be presented Saturday, February 2 at 10:00 A.M. Tickets can be picked up outside the production's specific performance venue approximately 30 minutes prior to curtain. Please note: the Lab Theatre is on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building. RESERVED TICKETS Visitors to the campus should allow sufficient time to travel, park, and walk to the theatre. Due to construction in the Oak Street lot, available parking may be found in the Toombs Street lot, 1/2 block south of the Fine Arts Building, the University Center lot 1 block east of the Fine Arts Building or in the west portion of the Oak Street lot, the Azalea City Trail is open past the construction site.
Thank you for your patience, while this important growth is underway for our campus.
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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Margaret
Edson’s extraordinary first play is as intellectually stimulating as
it is emotionally moving and satisfying. Over the course of an
aggressive experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching
hospital, Dr. Vivian Bearing, a renowned scholar and professor of
English who has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, comes
to reassess her life and her work with profundity and humor. From
the metaphysical sonnets of John Donne to the theological
implications of Margaret Wise Brown’s The Runaway
Bunny, Edson’s play traverses the distance from erudition
to experience, from wit to wisdom, with simplicity, imagination, and
kindness. The New York Times called this play a “brutally
human and beautifully layered new play… you feel both enlightened
and, in a strange way, enormously
comforted.”
VSU Repertory Dancers present their 22nd annual
dance concert entitled Steps in Time. This year’s
concert travels along with our faculty’s world dance experiences
sharing ritual, folk, traditional and modern artistic
expression. Combining new and restaged choreographic works
from our repertoire, audiences will be taken on a breathtaking
journey that explores and identifies cultures through the power,
pleasure and art of dance. Come join us for one of season’s most
popular productions. 
This
delightful 1939 comedy explores the hilarity surrounding a man who
came for dinner and unexpectedly stayed for six weeks! A
living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid and a household
is turned upside down. There is mistaken identity, the arrival
of a group of ex-convicts and transatlantic phone calls galore as
business is conducted before the age of the computer. Prepare
for an evening of madcap fun and laughing out loud. It’s one
you won’t want to miss. 
It is the
mid 1880’s and Bulgaria is at war with Serbia. Raina, a young
lady of Bulgarian society, learns her fiancé is the hero of the most
recent battle. Her joy is damped when her room is invaded by
Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary, fleeing the victorious
Bulgarians. The play unfolds from here.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND RAISING PERFORMANCES - 2007-2008
Tickets for both events will be available for purchase in December, 2007, at the College of the Arts Outreach Office. Please contact Linda Mullins at (229) 333-2150 for details.VSU CABARET FUNDRAISER: BROADWAY OLD AND NEW
St. John Catholic Church Parish Hall
January 26 & 27, 2008
VSU Cabaret - 2006-2007 Season
Photo by Dean Poling
CINDERELLA - PRODUCED BY VALDOSTA SCHOOL OF BALLET
Valdosta High School Theatre
January 19, 2008 at 7:30 P.M.
January 20, 2008 at 3:00 P.M.
Cinderella - 2006-2007 Season
ANNOUNCING THE 2008-2009 Season
PLAY ON!
DOUBT, A PARABLE
By
John Patrick Shanley
September 18-24, 2008
Lab Theatre
BEYOND THE
FOOTLIGHTS
The VSU Repertory Dancers' Annual Concert
October 23-26,
2008
Sawyer Theatre
TWELFTH NIGHT
By
William Shakespeare
November 13-19, 2008
Sawyer Theatre
Annual Theatre-for Youth
Production: TBD
February 19-25, 2009
THE GRAPES OF
WRATH
By Frank Galati, from the novel by John Steinbeck
February
19-25, 2009
ON THE VERGE or The Geography
of Yearning
By Eric Overmyer
March 26 - April 1, 2009
Lab
Theatre
FOOTLOOSE
Stage
Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie
Based on the Original
Screenplay by Dean Pitchford
Music by Ton Snow
Lyrics by Dean
Pitchford
Additional Music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and Jim
Steinman
April 16-22, 2009
Sawyer Theatre