‘Vote Smart’ takes stage

MARIA D’ALESSANDRO STAFF WRITER MAD724@CABRINI EDU

Propaganda litters the media due to this year’s presidential election. The opposition digs up some dirt, and voters are stuck between selecting a candidate who they have heard lies about or never end up voting at all.

Cabrini’s theater group plans to set the record straight by performing “Vote Smart: The Musical” from Oct. 27 to Nov. 1.

Directed by Neal Newman, the theater students rehearse three times a week, working mostly on staging, and as the performance dates creep closer, the cast will have full runs and dress rehearsals of the show.

The musical addresses the issues behind the current campaigning of Bush and Kerry and also former presidents, including a song about former-President Herbert Hoover. The lyrics to the songs have been changed to tell a story to the audience, parodying popular songs and addressing stereotypes of each political party.

The musical is in an “SNLformat,” Jen Clark, sophomore and cast member, said. She said that the actors play more than one character and use masks to portray each character.

“Vote Smart: The Musical” is Clark’s first play at Cabrini, but she has been a part of the choir on campus. Clark said that, to her, the play is just like another performance. When asked about her favorite part of rehearsals, Clark said, “At rehearsals we can mess up and laugh about it and just start again. It’s like bloopers. You think you have it, and then you miss a step. But you get it done and you feel better.”

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The play is student-written, and the input of the cast helps in changing the lines to make the play more enjoyable, funnier and more clear for the audience.

Director Neal Newman hopes a lot of people attend the shows from Oct. 27 through Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. and on Oct. 31 at

2 p.m. “We have a unique approach. It’s different and unusual. We want the people who are tired of elections or (those) staying away because they’re confused to come out to see the show,” Newman said.

The opening night of the play, Oct. 27, will be a free performance for the audience. All fol- lowing shows will be $5.

Fall musicals at Cabrini typically hit the stage right before Thanksgiving, but because of the timeliness of the election, the cast has been rushing to get the show together and present it to their audience. Newman hopes that the audience will see this at the last minute and go out and vote.

Club Demarara holds ‘Mystery Machine Halloween Masquerade’

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Halloween is not just a holiday for kids. Getting dressed up only once a year is really not enough anyway. What are you planning this Halloween? Maybe you will sit around with friends, the usual, or maybe you’re too cool to get dressed up. Perhaps you will just wait to see what will happen. Boring!

Now I know what you’re saying “but Chris Halloween is on a Sunday.” Well there are a whole lot of parties going down on Saturday …… I do mean real parties! Not twenty dudes and six girls doing the same routine. It’s time to reclaim Halloween!

One party that is sure to be on fire is The First Annual Mystery Machine Halloween Masquerade! This party will take place at New York City’s own club Demarara from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Tickets are only $15 which is extremely cheap for a Halloween event in New York City.

Yours truly, Cabrini’s C-Otter, will be there dancing the night away in full costume. You can expect wild costumes, contests, giveaways and three floors of some of the areas craziest DJ’s. They’ll be spinning house, drum n’bass, and trance.

All Cabrini students that come are invited to go to the after party which is disclosed at this point in time. Well, we wouldn’t want to blow it up. I am currently working on getting a VIProom which all fellow Cavaliers would certainly be invited to but consider that a rumor for now.

This is going to be big! The same promoters that brought Pennsylvania “Whistle Four” last week, which was Philadelphia’s biggest party this fall are sponsoring this event.

If you think that you might be interested in going you can email me and I will tell you how you can get to Demarara and I will reveal my mystery costume so you can find me in the crowd. As for the rest, I’ll tell you about it on Monday!

For more information go to http://www.synergynyc.net/.