Posts Tagged Wausau East High School Drama
Twelfth Night | Wausau East High School | East End Players
Posted by Eric Brandt in High School Theater Departments on October 19, 2011
Wausau East High School’s East End Players present William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will on Friday through Sunday, October 21-23, 2011, at the Wausau East High School Theater. Shows are at 7:00 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings, and at 1:00 pm on Sunday afternoon. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors, and are available at the door. The run time for the show is estimated to be just under two hours, including time for intermission.
Let’s be honest with each other. This is Shakespeare, and we’re drama geeks. Ipso facto, we want to be cool and like this show. But here’s the thing. Read Full Article −>
High School Drama | Fall Lineup 2011
Posted by Eric Brandt in High School Theater Departments, Upcoming Show on October 3, 2011
It’s a new school year, and the drama departments at Wausau West, Wausau East, Edgar, and DC Everest are all gearing up for their fall shows. Through a variety of styles and time frames, all four are performing comedies. Conveniently, if you want to catch them all, the productions are on consecutive weekends.
The East End Players hit the stage first, and they’re taking us back to the roots of comedy with William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a lovely counter-point to UWMC’s recent production of Shakespeare’s tragic Romeo and Juliet. The following weekend, Edgar Theatre Company (ETC) jumps into the 1940s with their production of Mary Chase’s classic, Harvey, the first production to be staged in Edgar High School’s brand spanking new auditorium.
Hitting the fast forward button again, Wausau West brings us the 2005 nouveau classic, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a musical comedy performed in one act. Finally, DC Everest Drama goes forward and backward in time with a 2006 show that centers around a fictional 1928 Jazz Age musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, leveraging a variation on the show-within-a-show device that worked so nicely in Wausau East’s spring production of Kiss Me Kate.
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Arts Education In Action – Wausau East 2011 Graduation
Posted by Eric Brandt in TheTheaterCommunity.com on June 6, 2011
With the looming cuts to Wisconsin’s education budget, schools state-wide are facing some difficult financial decisions. Traditionally, when schools go into budget cutting mode, arts programs suffer. The Theater Community, though, believes that the arts add tangible value to our lives, our communities, and even our buinesses, and that cutting arts programs in schools may be penny-wise, but is certainly dollar-foolish.
And sometimes, a healthy arts environment just plain improves our quality of life in ways that you can’t put a dollar amount on. The 2011 graduating class of Wausau East High School has graciously provided a case in point.
The Back Story of a Flash Mob
–The Circle of Trust–
It started in December of 2010. Read Full Article −>
Wausau East Presents Kiss Me, Kate
Posted by Eric Brandt in High School Theater Departments, Upcoming Show on April 11, 2011
Wausau East High School’s East End Players will be performing the Cole Porter classic, Kiss Me, Kate at the Wausau East High School Theater on April 15-17, 2011. Shows will be at 7:00pm on Friday and Saturday evenings and at 1:00pm on Sunday afternoon. Tickets are $8.00 for adults, $7.00 for students and seniors, and will be available at the door.
Kiss Me, Kate is classic musical theater on a number of levels. In 1947, Cole Porter’s career had been suffering. The music he was writing for Hollywood films was profitable, but the shows he was writing for Broadway were not well received by audiences or critics. Following a series of lukewarm shows, Read Full Article −>
