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OC to present play during homecoming BY JOSH WATSON NewsOK.com Contributor
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Oklahoma Christian University will present the musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie” at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday as a part of homecoming weekend. The show, with a cast of 25, will be performed in the school’s Hardeman Auditorium. The story focuses on Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to New York to start a new life during the 1920s. The show is directed by OC alumnus Chad Anderson. “We have a lot of dance talent in our cast this year,” Anderson said. “That’s great because there are some challenging tap numbers in this show.” He said choreographer and dance instructor Barbara Berard was instrumental in helping the cast
Tickets are $12 or $10 for seniors and groups of 20 or more. On Thursday, OC employees and students receive free admission with valid school identification. To reserve tickets, call 4255540. The show is appropriate for children age 10 and older.
UCO to host dance festival FROM STAFF REPORTS
EDMOND — The University of Central Oklahoma Department of Dance will host more than 180 high school students and their teachers for two days of classes, workshops and performances during its first Oklahoma High School Dance Festival on Friday and Saturday. Participating high schools are Bishop McGuinness High School, Classen School of Advanced Studies, Harding Fine Arts Academy, John Marshall High School, Luther High School, Norman High School, Norman North High School, Putnam City North High School, Southeast High School and U.S. Grant High School. In addition to taking classes in ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, flamenco and aerial dance from UCO faculty and alumni, six of the participating high schools will have the opportunity to join the UCO Kaleidoscope Dancers in performance. Dancers from Southeast, Norman North and Norman will perform with Kaleidoscope at 7:30 p.m. Friday, while students from Harding Fine Arts Academy, Bishop McGuinness and John Marshall high schools will perform with Kaleidoscope at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The festival also will include instructional workshops for high school dance teachers. UCO art students also will be involved in the festival, custom painting and adorning ballet pointe shoes that will be for sale before the evening performances. Tickets to the concert are $14 for adults, $10 for seniors and non-UCO students and $4 for UCO students. To reserve tickets, call the box office at 9743375. Reservations are recommended, as the performances are anticipated to sell out.
MORE INFORMATION For more information about the festival, call 974-5231 or e-mail jjacob son@uco.edu.
learn the tap numbers. “She had so much work to do, especially at the beginning of rehearsals,” Anderson said. “She is a wonderful person to work with and a great asset to OC.”
The leading cast members are mostly upperclassmen from across the country. “This is the first chance OC has had to produce this show,” theater professor Phil Reagan said. “It’s an award-winning musical set in the jazzy, flapper days that will be a lot of fun to watch. It’s really a wonderful, comic love story.” Audiences also will see an elaborate set and production, Anderson said. “There are more wigs in this show than any I’ve been a part of. We have an elaborate set, and we rented costumes from Music Theater of Wichita. It is a very professional production. Each year we try to raise the bar for the homecoming musical,” he said.
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