Theatre Arts
Drama
2008-2009
FALL QUARTER 2008
Theatre Arts/Drama
7 Minutes to Midnight
World Premiere
Conceived and directed by Dennis Schebetta
developed with the actors
Stop Gap Theatre
Nov. 14, 15, 21, 22 - 8:00 pm
Nov. 20 - 7:00 pm
$10 Students, $12 General
Tickets available through 
www.brownpapertickets.com 1-800-838-3006
Using text, movement and music, this ensemble-based play examines the creation of the atomic bomb, the scientists who tried to warn the world about its power and how this one invention continues to affect everyone on this planet. The clock is ticking…And the battles of power between truth and lies could result in a chain reaction of destruction or peace.
Please join a panel of BCC scientists and artists for a discussion following the Thurs. Nov. 20 performance.
Stage Fright Student Drama
DIRECTions
Student Written and Directed Ten Minute Plays
Stop Gap Theatre
December 6 and 7 - 8:00 pm
All Tickets $5
The evening of short plays is always fun and usually surprising as students direct, write, design and perform dramas and comedies that take the audience from beginning to end in ten short minutes.
Stage Fright Student Drama tickets available at the door.
WINTER QUARTER 2009
Theatre Arts/Drama
The Music Man
Book, music and lyrics by Meredith Wilson
Directed by Tammis Doyle
Musically Directed by Julie Denninghoff
Carlson Theatre
March 5, 6, 7 - 8:00 pm
March 7 - 2:00 pm
$12 Student, $15 General
Tickets available through www.brownpapertickets.com 1-800-838-3006
This multiple Tony Award winning musical concerns the fast talking
con man Harold Hill. His attempt to fleece the good people of River City Iowa is challenged by the cynical but compassionate librarian, Marion Paroo. Will Harold get the parents to pay for band instruments, lessons and uniforms that will never come? Will Marion expose Harold? Or might a turn of the century miracle of morality and faith intervene? Join us for this classic combination of song, dance and story that is The Music Man.
Theatre Arts/Dance
Student Choreography Workshop
Carlson Theatre
March 13 - 8:00 pm
Free
BCC Dance students choreograph to some of the best and some of the newest music around. Many different styles will be represented as they try their hands...and feet and bodies at creating dances.
SPRING QUARTER 2009
Stage Fright Student Drama
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Heather Amos
Stop Gap Theatre
April 9, 10, 11 - 8:00 pm
All Tickets $5
Once a year a student is chosen to lead of group of student designers, actors and technicians toward a full production. In 2007 Heather Amos was the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Inge Directing Competition First Alternate. Now she is at the helm of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. The Stop Gap Theatre will erupt with techno music as the young lovers' passion leads to tragedy in this contemporary cyberpunk retelling of timeless love.
Theatre Arts/Dance
The Eastside Moving Company
directed by Betty Ann Platt
Carlson Theatre
May 8 and 9 - 8:00 pm
$7 Students $8 General
Tickets available through www.brownpapertickets.com 1-800-838-3006
Each spring BCC's dance ensemble, The Eastside Moving Company thrills with choreography by its director Betty Ann Platt and noted local, national and student choreographers. This year will prove to delight with jazz, ballet, modern and some surprises as well!
Theatre Arts/Drama
The Dining Room
by A.R, Gurney
directed by Tammis Doyle
Stop Gap Theatre
May 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 - 8:00 pm
$10 Student, $12 General
6-10 actors will portray 57 characters through 17 scenes all set in a traditional American family dining room. Love, loss, hope, betrayal, and friendship: all are portrayed around, atop, under and at the dinner table. The Dining Room is one look at our culture as it has evolved over the past 50 years in that place of formality, rebellion and family.
