DePauw Theatre to
Premiere Alumni Musical

•AUDITION INFORMATION•
Principal Character Auditions
March 18, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
March 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Room 1118, Green Center for the Performing Arts
Sign up for an audition appointment at the Green Center Box Office. Auditionees are requested to prepare a one to two-minute song, and a short monologue. In lieu of a prepared monologue, auditionees may perform a selection available at the audition. Perusal copies are available at the Music Library and the Communication and Theatre Office. Contact director Andrew Hayes for additional information

February 12, 2008, Greencastle, IN - In conjunction DePauw's annual Old Gold Alumni Weekend, DePauw Theatre will premiere Einstein and the Roosevelts, a new musical written by DePauw alumni Nancy Ford ('57) and Gretchen Cryer ('57), the award-winning team best known for the long-running Broadway hit I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road. The production will run October 10-12.  Preview performances will be held on DePauw's Family Weekend, September 26-27, and on October 3-4.

Einstein and the Roosevelts is a quirky fantasy presenting an alternative history of one of America’s most influential couples. The musical takes place at a birthday party thrown for Eleanor in the cosmos after they are all dead. Albert Einstein has been invited to play the violin at the party and is able to summon up moments from the past by playing certain musical phrases. As the past floats through the party, secrets and passions that had remained buried during Franklin and Eleanor's lifetimes are revealed. The production promises to both educate and entertain by combining history and fantasy to illuminate the characters’ past decisions surrounding love, marriage, and politics during wartime.

The Cryer and Ford lyricist/composer team is probably best known for I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road, which premiered in 1978 and ran for three years. The hit musical was subsequently produced around the world and recorded in 5 languages. Their latest success is the musical adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, which played in New York in 2007, and is currently on tour to schools across the country. Two musicals written for The American Girl Company are currently running in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Other successful collaborations include Now Is the Time for All Good Men; the critically acclaimed, award-winning off-Broadway show The Last Sweet Days of Isaac; and the Broadway show Shelter. Between the two of them Cryer and Ford have garnered numerous awards including a Grammy nomination, an Obie, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics' Circle Award, two Emmys, and four honorary doctorates. 

The production is directed by Andrew Hayes, associate professor of Communication and Theatre. Orchestrations will be created by Lindsay Adams ('07), a Vocal Performance major now residing in New York City.

 

DEPAUW THEATRE TO PREMIERE ALUMNI MUSICAL
in Fall 2008

ON CAMPUS:
Judith Malina
Co-Founder of The Living Theatre

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