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The New Moon

7/28/2015

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Besac (Erik Dohner) and the Seamen with Marianne (Maggie Langhorne).
The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present The New Moon as its upcoming production. 

The New Moon begins in New Orleans (a French Colony until 1803) at the Beaunoir home.  There, Robert Mission, a nobleman in hiding due to a murder committed in France, pretends to be a bondman on Monsieur Beaunoir.  Robert has fallen in love with Marianne, Beaunoir’s daughter, before the play begins.  At the curtain, the Vicomte Ribaud arrives to find and arrest Robert.  He tracks him first to the Beaunoir house, then to a café, where he finds the revolutionary Philippe with his peers, and finally to a masked ball where Robert is captured with the seeming help of Marianne.  Marianne feigns love with Captain Duval so she can sail to France on the ship “The New Moon” with Robert, Ribaud and the comic pairs of Julie, Alexander, Besac, and Clotilde.

In Act II, the ship is taken by Philippe and his men.  Robert and Philippe set up a free colony on the Isle of Pines where, one year later, Julie and Alexander and Besac and Clotilde live together as loving couples.  Marianne and Robert, although married by island law, do not live together, until Ribaud re-unites them in a ploy to hand the island over to a French ship in the harbor.  This he does, but the King is dead, France has entered revolution, Ribaud is arrested and all others live happily ever after.

Stage director Mark Pearson and music director David Weiller lead this production. This production will be followed this season by Hello, Dolly! in two weeks. Pearson, originally from Hull, Massachusetts, holds degrees from Boston College and Boston University.  David Weiller, originally from Fullerton, California, holds degrees from Occidental College and the University of Illinois.
 
The cast is full of new and returning CLOC vocal company members. Talents to look forward to include Erik Dohner as Besac (from Chicago, IL - DePaul University ’16), Maggie Langhorne as Mariane Beaunoir (Santa Barbara, CA – Oberlin Conservatory ’16), Jim Miller as Vicomte Ribaud (Fort Wayne, IN - Wright State University ’16), Abigail Rice as Julie (Canandaigua, NY – Gettysburg College ’16), Christopher Sapp as Robert (Resaca, GA – University of Georgia ’16), Steven Telsey as Alexander (New Hyde Park, NY – Elon University ’18), and Anna Tobin as Clotilde (St. Petersburg, FL - Elon University ’18).

The New Moon  will run Tuesday, July 28th  through Saturday, August 1st at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $36 and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.

The College Light Opera Company is an independent nonprofit educational theatre produced by Robert A. and Ursula R. Haslun now in its 47th season in Falmouth. The Company seeks to provide high-quality musicals and operettas to summer audiences on Cape Cod, while at the same time giving young talent from across the country a chance to begin a career in music theatre. The group consists of 32 talented singers, a fine 18-piece orchestra, and 12 dedicated technicians. The Company is selected annually from applicants in colleges and universities all across the country. The members of the Company are dedicated to refining their craft under the guidance of a trained professional staff.
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The Boys From Syracuse

7/17/2015

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The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present The Boys from Syracuse as its upcoming production. 

Identical twins, Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, were separated from each other in a shipwreck as young children. Their servants, both named Dromio, are also long-separated identical twins. When the pair from Syracuse come to Ephesus, a comedy of errors and mistaken identities ensues when the wives of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husbands. Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus fall in love, but all gets resolved in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors.

Stage director Mark A. Pearson and music director Beth Burrier lead this production. This production will be followed this season by Oklahoma! in two weeks. Pearson, originally from Hull, MA, received his degrees from Boston College and Boston University and current resides in Germany. Burrier, from State College, PA, holds degrees from Otterbein University and Ithaca College.

The cast is full of new and returning CLOC vocal company members. Talents to look forward to include Jake Bell as Dromio of Ephesus (from Collierville, TN - University of Memphis ’16), Matthew Brennan as Antipholus of Ephesus (Chicago, IL - Vanderbilt University ’14), Evan Woods Gunter as Antipholus of Syracuse (Rainbow City, AL – Stamford University ’17), Helen Knudsen as Courtesan (Elmhurst, IL - Chicago College of Performing Arts ’17), Maggie Langhorne as Adriana (Santa Barbara, CA – Oberlin Conservatory ’16), Jim Miller as Dromio of Syracuse (Fort Wayne, IN - Wright State University ’16), Katharine Nunn as Luce (Haslett, MI - Michigan State University ’16), Abigail Rice as Luciana (Canandaigua, NY - Gettysburg College ’16), Christopher Sapp as Sergeant (Resaca, GA - University of Georgia ’16).

The Boys From Syracuse will run Tuesday, July 14th through Saturday, July 18th at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $35 plus a $1 facility fee, and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.
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West Side Story 

7/7/2015

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The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present West Side Story as the second production of its 2015 season. 

West Side Story, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, opened on Broadway in 1957 and ran for 732 performances.

The story revolves around rising tensions between two New York City street gangs, the American born “Jets” and the Puerto Rican “Sharks.”  The Jets’ leader, Riff, has arranged to challenge Bernardo, the Sharks’ leader, for a rumble.  He tries to convince the co-founder of the Jets, Tony, to attend a drugstore war council with him.  Tony has matured beyond gang activities, but agrees to attend a dance at the gym where the first confrontation will take place.  There he falls in love with Maria, Bernardo’s sister, and both, completely enamored with each other, become oblivious to the mounting tension and hatred at the dance.  When he leaves Maria later that evening, Tony expresses his newfound love for her, and promises to meet Maria at her place of employment the next day.

The next day, at the meeting, Maria expresses her fear to Tony for the ensuing rumble.  Tony goes to the rumble later that evening and, after Riff is killed by Bernardo’s switchblade, stabs Bernardo in blind revenge.  The new Sharks’ leader, Chino, swears retribution and returns to Maria’s apartment.  He explains what has happened and leaves to hunt down Tony with a gun. 

Tony arrives at Maria’s apartment soon afterwards and tries to explain the gruesome turn of events to the agonized Maria.  They cling to each other, drained of everything but their love.  As Maria’s friend Anita arrives, Tony slips out the window to the fire escape, promising to meet Maria later that evening in another part of the city.

The police arrive to question Maria, and Anita must relay the reason for Maria’s delay to Tony and the rest of the Jets.  Taunted and harassed at the drugstore, Anita lies, stating that Maria has been shot dead by Chino in a fit of jealousy. Tony bolts from his hiding place to find his supposedly dead beloved and as he sees she lives, the final and ultimate tragedy occurs.  Stunned and silent, the gangs join together in mourning. 

Stage director Jacob Allen and Music Director Jonathan Edward Brennand lead this production, which will be followed this season by The Boys from Syracuse opening July 14th.  Allen, originally from Oxford, Maine, received his degrees from Lawrence University and the Eastman School of Music.  Brennand, originally from Middlesex, England, studied at Drew University and UMass: Amherst.

The company is filled with both new and returning members.  Some talents to look forward to are Jake Bell as Action (University of Memphis ’16), Nicholas Boudreaux as Officer Krupke (Crane School of Music ’16), Blake Gronlund as Tony (Western Michigan University), Evan Woods Gunter as Bernardo (Samford University ’17), Maggie Langhorne as Maria (Oberlin Conservatory ’16), Phillip Lopez as Chino (Millikin University ’16), Tom McKinney as Doc (Ohio State University ’16), Christopher Sapp as Lt. Schrank (University of Georgia ’16), Alyson Snyder as Anita (Wright State University ’16), and Steven Telsey as Riff (Elon University ’18). 

West Side Story will be running from Tuesday, July 7th through Saturday, July 11th at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $35 and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., 2:00–5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit 

www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.

 
The College Light Opera Company is an independent nonprofit educational theatre produced by Robert A. and Ursula R. Haslun now in its 47th season in Falmouth. The Company seeks to provide high-quality musicals and operettas to summer audiences on Cape Cod, while at the same time giving young talent from across the country a chance to begin a career in music theatre. The group consists of 32 talented singers, a fine 18-piece orchestra, and 12 dedicated technicians. The Company is selected annually from applicants in colleges and universities all across the country. The members of the Company are dedicated to refining their craft under the guidance of a trained professional staff.

CLOC is the largest resident theatre company in the United States. Located in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the company performs nine operettas and musicals each season with full orchestral accompaniment. CLOC is one of the only summer theatres that performs with a full pit orchestra. The 86 members of the company spend the summer working in a professional atmosphere free of other academic responsibilities. CLOC welcomes both younger applicants seeking to gain experience in musical theatre and the more mature performer, musician, or technician seeking to polish his or her craft working with a professional staff and participating in nine different productions. The company performs at the air-conditioned Highfield Theatre in Falmouth and plays to enthusiastic standing-room-only audiences throughout the season.

 

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July 3rd,  2015

7/3/2015

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Yum-Yum (Isabella Dawis), Ko-Ko (Jim Miller) and Nanki-Poo (Marcus Lee) discuss their problematic marriage situation.
 The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado to kick off its 47th season.

            Nanki-Poo—the son of the Mikado—has fled the imperial court in order to escape the amorous clutches of the overbearing Katisha.  Disguised as a wandering minstrel, he arrives in Titipu in search of his true love, Yum-Yum, only to find her engaged to Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor recently raised to the exalted rank of Lord High Executioner.

A letter arrives from the Mikado threatening to reduce Titipu to the rank of a village unless someone is executed at once.  Nanki-Poo agrees to be the victim in exchange for one month of married happiness with Yum-Yum.  Marriage preparations are halted by the unexpected arrival if Katisha, who claims Nanki-Poo as her own.

Eager to comply with the imperial will, Ko-Ko supplies the Mikado with a false certificate of Nanki-Poo’s execution, unexpectedly incurring the wrath of both the Mikado and Katisha.  To save everyone’s neck, the only solution is for Ko-Ko to woo and wed Katisha.  The Mikado is appeased by the reappearance of Nanki-Poo with his new bride Yum-Yum, and the curtain falls on yet another topsy-turvy plot filled with pithy lyrics and glorious music.

Stage director Mark A. Pearson and Music Director Jonathan Edward Brennand lead this production.  This is their 13th production together, and will be followed this season by West Side Story in two weeks.  Pearson, originally from Hull, MA, received his degrees from Boston College and Boston University and current resides in Germany. Brennand, originally from Middlesex, England, studied at Drew University and UMass: Amherst.

The company is full of new CLOC members.  Talents to look forward to are Matthew Brennan as Pooh-Bah (from Chicago, IL - Vanderbilt University ’14), Isabella Dawis as Yum-Yum (Minneapolis, MN – University of Minnesota ’13), Marcus Lee as Nanki-Poo (Minneapolis, MN - Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University ’18), Phillip Lopez as The Mikado (Avon, IL - Millikin University ’16), Patrick Lynch as Pish-Tush (Kansas City, MO - Northwestern University ’16), Jim Miller as Ko-Ko (Fort Wayne, Indiana - Wright State University ’16), Katharine Nunn as Katisha (Haslett, MI - Michigan State University ’16),  Abigail Rice as Pitti-Sing (Canandaigua, NY - Gettysburg College ’16), and Alyson Snyder as Peep-Bo (St. Joseph, MI - Wright State University ’16).

The Mikado will be running from Tuesday, June 30th through Saturday, July 4th at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $35 and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.
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