5-PLAY SUBSCRIPTION
• For the 26/27 Season: the Syracuse University Department of Drama is offering a 5-Play Subscription which includes: Rent, Henry V, Private Eyes, An American in Paris, and Before the Bone Breaks.
• Please Note: This package does not include the holiday co-production, Les Misérables. However, discounts are available to Department of Drama Subscribers.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA
The Department of Drama in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (SU:VPA) offers conservatory-style training combined with a level of integration with a professional theatre company that is unparalleled among undergraduate programs. Each season Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama co-produce a show, and during that process students have the opportunity to work with professional actors, directors and designers, and earn points toward membership in Actors' Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers.
RENT
Book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larson | Musical arrangements by Steve Skinner | Original concept/additional lyrics by Billy Aronson | Music supervision and additional arrangements by Tim Well | Dramaturg Lynn Thompson | Directed and choreographed by Lainie Sakakura | Music direction by Brian Cimmet | Oct 16 - 25 | Opening Night: Oct 17
La Vie Boheme!
Jonathan Larson’s iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical showcases a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan’s East Village: Aspiring filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, free-spirited Mimi and Angel, buttoned-up Joanne and wild-child performance artist Maureen. Their dreams, losses and loves weave through this bohemian portrait of 1980’s New York City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS.
HENRY V
By William Shakespeare | Directed by John Tufts | Nov 13 - 21 | Opening Night: Nov 14
Courage. Loyalty. Power.
Pressed by powerful nobles and church leaders to reclaim England’s sovereignty over France, the young, rebellious King Henry V of England raises an army and carves his way to Agincourt, where his troops, depleted and exhausted, must face the enemy head-on. But with dissension in the ranks, Henry will have to prove himself a strong and legitimate ruler if he’s to inspire his men to lay down their lives for their country, and their king. Shakespeare’s thrilling history play ponders the true cost of winning in the epic game of thrones.
LES MISÉRABLES
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg | Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer | Original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel | Additional Material by James Fenton | Orchestrations by Stephen Metcalfe, Christopher Jahnke, and Stephen Brooker | Original Orchestrations by John Cameron | Based on the novel by Victor Hugo | Directed by Robert Hupp | Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International and Cameron Mackintosh LTD | Co-produced with Syracuse Stage | Nov 27 - Jan 3 | Opening Night: Dec 4
The legendary hit musical like you've never seen it.
This production of Victor Hugo’s sweeping tale of romance, rebellion, and redemption will bring you closer to the agony, the ecstasy, and the action than ever before. Experience the operatic heights of this grand, Tony Award-winning musical adaptation from Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil as Jean Valjean, a former convict, is relentlessly pursued by Javert, an unforgiving police officer, while he struggles to lead an honorable life and care for the orphan Cosette amidst the growing revolution of 19th century France. Featuring scores of classic and beloved songs, including “I Dreamed a Dream,” “Master of the House,” “Bring Him Home,” “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” and “One Day More.”
* Please Note: Les Misérables is not included in the Department of Drama subscription package. However, discounts are available to Department of Drama subscribers.
PRIVATE EYES
By Steven Dietz | Directed by Ricky Pak | Feb 19 - 28 | Opening Night: Feb 20
A comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems.
Matthew's wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Adrian, a British theatre director. Or perhaps the affair is part of the play being rehearsed. Or perhaps Matthew has imagined all of it simply to have something to report to Frank, his therapist. But then what’s with Cory, the mysterious woman who seems to shadow the others and brings the story to its surprising conclusion. Or does she? A hilarious and twisty “relationship thriller” that playfully blurs the lines between fact and fiction, theatre and reality.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin | Book by Craig Lucas | Originally produced on Broadway by Stuart Oaken, Van Kaplan and Roy Furman | By special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical and Pittsburgh CLO and Théâtre du Châtelet | Directed and Choreographed by David Lowenstein and Felipe Panamá | Mar 26 - Apr 4 | Opening Night: Mar 27
A young American soldier, a beautiful French girl, and an indomitable European city.
Jerry, an American veteran, is still reeling from the war when he discovers the girl of his dreams: Lise, a captivating young dancer at the ballet. By chance or fate, Jerry also catches the eye of Milo, an American heiress. To add more confusion to this love triangle, Lise is already engaged to marry Henri, a rich young businessman, who still dreams of being a performer himself. Does Lise truly love Henri, or is the American stranger the man of her dreams? As the weight of the Nazi Occupation begins to lift, the inhabitants of Paris come alive and rediscover life’s grandest possibilities in this fanciful classic.
BEFORE THE BONE BREAKS
By Zizi Majid | A Department of Drama commissioned first production | Directed by Katherine McGerr | Apr 23 - May 2 | Opening Night: Apr 24
How can you show resilience in the face of oppression?
In tents raised haphazardly between broken streets and crumbling buildings, women fight for their lives. Nadine makes videos that report the truth while Hannah makes music from the most unlikely instruments – drones and crackling generators. Together they try to find what is wholly their own despite all that stands in their way. An expansive story of the power of dreaming in vivid colors despite the gray of pain and warfare.
Rent is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com | Les Misérables is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com | Private Eyes is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing , LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com) | An American in Paris is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.com
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