Check out this year’s WCU ACE & Special Events
Palenque Rojo: A theater performance inspired by a historic event.
Improv comedy show. Presented by ACE
This play will feature 20 Mayan actors, live preHispanic music, dance, rituals and magnificent
costumes. Palenque Rojo will prove to be a
fascinating performance full of colors, aromas and
sensations that will transport us into the heart of
the Mayan world. Tickets go on sale Aug. 7.
America’s premier school for improv comedy, the
Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company brings
the very best of the UCB theatres in NYC and LA
directly to you. It’s your chance to see the stars of
tomorrow live on stage! Tickets go on sale Sept. 4.
September 11, 7:30pm
October 11, 7:30pm
Location John W. Bardo Fine & Performing Arts Center Theatre
TICKETS Adults $15 | Faculty/Staff $10 | Students $5
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MUSICALS (Pump Boys and Dinettes, Drowsy Chaperone)
Savion Glover
Savion Glover: Tap dancer/performer. Presented by ace
One of the best tappers in the world, Savion Glover
has been wowing audiences for years with his
unbelievable sounds and rhythms. Unlike anything
you have seen or heard before, he is a performer of
tap on film and TV. Not to be missed. Tickets go
on sale Dec. 3.
January 24, 7:30pm
Location John W. Bardo Fine & Performing Arts Center Theatre
TICKETS Adults/Faculty/Staff $15 | Students $10
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Presented by the School of Stage & Screen’s Motion Picture
& Television Production Program and hosted by motion
picture students
$20
$15
$10 ($7 in advance)
PLAYS (Once in a Lifetime, Rashomon)
Come and join us at the fifth annual Controlled
Chaos Film Festival. Share a night filled with the
best films written, directed and produced by this
year’s motion picture and television production
student filmmakers.
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$15
$10
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May 3, 7pm
Location John W. Bardo Fine & Performing Arts Center Theatre
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This year’s series includes the musical comedies
Pump Boys and Dinettes and The Drowsy Chaperone;
a comedy, Once in a Lifetime; and drama, Rashomon.
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Controlled Chaos Film Festival. We have something
for everyone.
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BY John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan,
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DIRECTED BY Brenda Lilly
Music Director Jan Powell
Presented by The School of Stage & Screen’s Musical Theatre Program
High-octane fun, this down-home revue is a solid mix of country western, rock and
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fun takes place on Highway 57 between Frog Level and Smyrna, N.C., where you
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Sept. 26-29, 7:30pm | Sept. 29, 3pm matinee
LOCATION Hoey Auditorium
TICKETS $20 Adults | $15 Faculty/Staff/Seniors | $10 Students ($7 in advance)
by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Director Claire Eye
Presented By The School of Stage & Screen’s Theatre Program
Inspired by the rise of “the talkies,” Once in a Lifetime launched the first
collaboration between Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, who went on to
write 80 projects together. Once in a Lifetime follows three members of a failing
vaudeville act who head to the bright lights of Hollywood to cash in on the
conversion to sound by posing as elocutionists. There they attempt to teach silent
stars to speak on camera, and a series of blunders plunges them into the excesses
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PALENQUE ROJO
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES
THE UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE
ONCE IN A LIFETIME
SAVION GLOVER
RASHOMON
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
CONTROLLED CHAOS FILM FESTIVAL
SEPT. 11
SEPT. 26-29
OCT. 11
NOV. 8-10
JAN. 24
FEB. 20-23
APRIL 11-14
MAY 3
and neurotic screenwriters. Can they convince them all that they are the “next
big thing”? Once in a Lifetime is a romping, satirical love letter to the golden
age of movies.
“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” ~
silent screen star Mary Pickford
November 8-10, 7:30pm
LOCATION John W. Bardo Fine & Performing Arts Center Theatre
TICKETS $15 Adults | $10 Faculty/Staff/Seniors | $10 Students ($7 in advance)
2012 / 2013
of the madcap, glittering world of inflated film stars, megalomaniacal producers
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by Fay and Michael Kanin
based on stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Director D.V. Caitlyn
Presented by The School of Stage & Screen’s Theatre Program
Based on a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa the title Rashomon was
popularized by a Noh play of the same title (written by Kanze Nobumitsu,
1435–1516). Rashomon is a brilliant and stark examination of the limits of human
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February 20-23, 7:30PM
LOCATION Hoey Auditorium
TICKETS $15 Adults | $10 Faculty/Staff/Seniors | $10 Students ($7 in advance)
Music and Lyrics By Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar
Director Terrence Mann
Music Director Nathan Thomas
Choreographer Karyn Tomczak
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