FALL 2007

Friday/Saturday, October 12, 13, 2007 at 8 pm
STUDENT 1-ACT PLAYS
Ron Scarlata, Bill Georges, faculty advisors

A full-evening of exciting and diversified student-directed plays presented in the intimacy of the Campus Theatre. Students, actors, directors and playwrights who have participated in previous “Student One-Act Plays” have been recognized for "outstanding achievement" by judges from the American College Theatre Festival.

 The Other Side Of The Wall by Madeena Nolan
    Directed by Thea Maddox
          
          The time, the future, after the great light when the old world was lost in one searing moment. The place, the Barrier, where a wall divides two groups. The man's group is militant. The woman's group is beautiful. Neither group realizes its need of the other, but perhaps there is hope in a young boy and a girl who are suddenly attracted to each other.


 The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang
    Directed by Jenna Bellucci

          George Spelvin is an accountant. Unfortunately for George, he is apparently the lead of a play he has never rehearsed. This hilarious spoof details the plight of a stranger who is suddenly pushed on stage to replace an ailing actor.


 Adaptation by Elaine May
    Directed by Christian LeMay

          Our life as a TV game show!  Phil Benson is everyman, the John Q. Public, symbolic of every one of us in this American life. His life unfolds onstage through the game show “Adaptation”, where Phil spends the different phases of his life in a search for meaning, while rolling with the punches that this world delivers him. Often hilarious, this insightful play also provides great insight into the human condition.


Campus Theatre $8
 

Friday/Saturday, November 2, 3 / 10, 11, 2007 at 8 pm
Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 3 pm 
THE HOT L BALTIMORE
By Lanford Wilson 
John J. Demita, director
HOT L BALTIMORE takes place in the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the "e" from its marquee.  As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day.  The drama is of passing events in their lives, of everyday encounters, and of the human comedy, with conversations often overlapping into a contrapuntal musical flow.  In the resulting mosaic, each character emerges clearly and perceptively defined, and the sum total of what these characters are - or wish they were - becomes a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world's eyes.

Campus Theatre $12  •  contains adult language & brief nudity

Friday/Saturday, March 15, 21, 22, 28, 29, 2008 at 8pm
Sunday, March 16, 23, 30, 2008 at 3pm 
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT 
Words by Tim Rice
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Caryn Desai, Director
Ron Scarlata, Artistic Director
Brian Paul Mendoza, Choreographer
Joanna Nachef, Vocal Director
Hector Salazar, Musical Director/Conductor

South Bay Children's Choir
Diane Simons, director
 

With its family-friendly storyline, universal themes, and catchy music, the Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable.  Joseph's 11 brothers become jealous of the favored son and sell him into slavery.  A series of misfortunes befall him until his gift of interpreting dreams raises him to great power and reunites him with those he loves.  Andrew Lloyd Webber's music, composed in a variety of styles, includes Any Dream Will Do, One More Angel In Heaven and Go, Go, Go Joseph.

Campus Theatre $24  (Children 12 and under - $18)

Please see the note below for children 5 and under.

This production is being funded, in part, from the Musical Theatre Fund established in 2005 through the generous donations from the Les Thomas Family and Hamilton M. Maddaford.  We would like to acknowledge and thank the generous donors who attended previous musicals and contributed to the Musical Theatre Fund.  Proceeds from the March 15 through 16 performances benefit the El Camino College Foundation Musical Theatre Fund.