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North
Carolina
Wesleyan
College
Theatre Season
2003-2004
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MAIN STAGE
SEASON
"Have a Nice
Day: a flashback to the '70s"
By Rick Lewis
Garner Lobby of the Dunn Center for the
Performing Arts
October 3-5 @ 7:30 pm
A traveling youth group who seeks to get people high through song is giving its
final performance. Before they are through, however, the five members of HAVE A
NICE DAY! will share their experiences with the group, their plans for the
future, and over forty familiar songs from the 1960's and 70's.
Performing songs originally recorded by The Mamas and the Papas, Cher,
and The Brady Bunch, the HAVE A NICE DAY! cast promises a performance you
won’t soon forget. For anyone
familiar with the hit songs and culture of this era, HAVE A NICE DAY! is sure to
spark a smile.
"Proof"
By David Auburn
Minges Auditorium,
Dunn Center for
the Performing Arts
February 26 - 29 @ 7:30 pm
A brilliant mathematician leaves his daughter with two legacies: his genius, and
his madness. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play,
Proof is a play full of life, laughter, and hope.
The New York Times called it
“An exhilarating and assured new play . . . accessible and compelling
as a detective story." Contains some adult language.
READING SERIES
"Count
Dracula"
By Ted Tiller, adapted from the Bram Stoker novel
Minges Auditorium,
Dunn Center for
the Performing Arts
ONE NIGHT ONLY, October 30th @ 7:30 pm
A timeless thriller, adapted by
Ted Tiller. The doctor's asylum is dark, but busy, and in residence is his
lovely daughter -- the object of affection for her fiancé and for Count
Dracula. In the distance, the Count's eerie castle can be seen. The
wolves howl, the bats fly, the lights flicker ... and the legendary story
unfolds.
"O'Henry
Christmas"
Lyrics and music by Peter
Ekstrom, adapted from the O. Henry
short stories
Powers Recital Hall, Dunn Center for the Performing Arts
ONE NIGHT ONLY, December 5 @ 7:30 pm
Two one act dramas with music and
song, both set in New York in 1905 ... The Last Leaf - tells the story of
two impoverished young women, struggling to keep faith and establish themselves
as artists in Greenwich Village. The
Gift of the Magi, set during Christmas Eve, tells of a young couple so much
in love that they each sell their most prized possession to buy the other a
Christmas present. Heartwarming
tales and beautiful music make this a Christmas offering you won’t forget.
"Our Town"
By Thornton Wilder
Powers Recital Hall, Dunn Center for
the Performing Arts
ONE NIGHT ONLY, February 4 @ 7:30 pm
This
classic play expresses with warmth and humor the eternal truths of human
existence. It is a heartening, compassionate glimpse of that time before the
Great Wars; before our innocence was lost forever.
It is a story of a small town called Grover’s Corners and a big country
called America. “Our Town” remains one of the touchstones of
American drama and a continuing favorite of audiences and theater companies
alike. As the Stage Manager says: "This is the
way we were in our growing-up and in our marrying and in our living and in our
dying."
An original script!
The winner of the 2004 NCTC New Play Award
Powers Recital Hall, Dunn Center for
the Performing Arts
ONE NIGHT ONLY, April 21
@ 7:30 pm
We have arranged with North Carolina Theatre Conference to be one of the first
theatres to stage a reading of the winner of their Play Award.
We don’t know what it is yet, but we guarantee that it will be hot off
the presses. Be a part of history.
Be sure to catch this never-before-seen play.
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE
SERIES
"Wright
Brothers"
By EBzB
Powers Recital Hall, Dunn Center for the Performing Arts
ONE NIGHT ONLY, November 14
@ 7:30 pm
"The Gospel
According to St. Mark"
Powers Recital Hall, Dunn
Center for the Performing Arts
ONE NIGHT ONLY, in March [time and date to
be determined]