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Calendar of Arts - November
Lucky Stiff
Friday, October 29, 8p.m.
Saturday, October 30, 8 p.m.
Monday, November 1, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, November 2, 8 p.m.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB).
$5; $3 for student advance purchase.
Based on the Michael Butterworth novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, Lucky Stiff is a madcap musical with chases, mistaken identify, confused criminals, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair. Lucky Stiff marked an auspicious debut for the celebrated musical theatre team of Lynne Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, who went on to write music and lyrics for productions such as Ragtime, Suessical, and Once on this Island. When mild-mannered shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon is required by a last will and testament take his uncle's embalmed corpse on vacation, you'd think the plot of this comedy would be about as crazy as it could get, but the complications are only starting. Join us for this tuneful, laugh-filled evening of fun that the New York Post called "a delicious, zany throwback."
Guest Artists Third Coast Percussion
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Third Coast PercussionFriday, November 5, 7 p.m.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free.
Participants: Owen Clayton Condon, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore. The sonically spectacular musicians combine the driving intensity of drums, the beautiful warmth of marimbas and the surprisingly exotic sounds of everyday objects to make music that is playful, memorable and profound.
Noonday Concert
Thursday, November 11, noon
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Dickinson College Orchestra Concert
Dickinson College OrchestraSunday, November 14, 4 p.m.
Carlisle Theatre, 44 West High Street. Free.
The Orchestra, led by Robert W. Pound, associate professor of music, will perform two foundational works of German Romanticism, Of Heroes and Devils: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony and Weber’s Der Freischütz, Overture. Theprogram also features Ryan Karr ’13 as soloist on Weber’s first clarinet concerto. Karr is a student concerto-competition winner for 2010.
Senior Studio Art Seminar: Works In Progress
November 16-December 10
Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 16, 5-7 p.m.
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building. Free.
Senior studio art majors will exhibit their works in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, video and ceramics. The artists will be at the opening reception to discuss their ideas for a body of work to be exhibited in the Trout Gallery in April 2011.
An Inconvenient Dance
Dance Theatre GroupFriday, November 19, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 20, 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 21, 2 p.m.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). $5; $3 for student advance purchase.
Presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Dance Theater Group, An Inconvenient Dance asks, “What do we ‘dance’ about in these disastrous times?” Issues such as excess, waste, consumption and our human misstep on the environment will be explored. Choreography by Director of Dance Sarah Skaggs, postgraduate fellow Dawn Springer and New York choreographer Bill Young, with sections from the Katrina project, Unmoored: Love Letters to New Orleans, by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig. Funded by Sustainability Education Fund through the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education.
An Afternoon of Choral Psalms
Dickinson College Choir and CollegiumSunday, November 21, 4 p.m.
First Lutheran Church, High and Bedford streets, Carlisle. Free.
Dickinson College Choir and Collegium, Amy Wlodarski and Sean Parr, directors. The Choir and Collegium present several beloved settings of psalm texts from various faith traditions, including works in Latin, Hebrew, and German.