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ENTERTAINMENT
AUGUST 30, 2010
University prepares for fall season: Pajama Game, Athol Fugard in line-up
Above: the University Theatre 2010-2011 Executive Council, who is responsible for running the student organization.
By Tara Tanzos Editor-in-Chief
After ending the 2009-2010 theater season with two Shakespearean shows, West Chester’s University Theatre is now focusing on auditions and rehearsals for their fall semester events. The Executive Council of the UT 2010-2011 Council are: Peter Collier, President; Jim Vadala, Vice-President; Frank Schierloh, Treasurer; Doug Atkins, Secretary; Briana Choynowski, Historian, and Kristie Perrotti, Parliamentarian. Each officer holds their own responsibilities; for example, the president position is generally in charge of the organization and creates the semester’s schedule, while the vice-president is in charge of organizing each production’s set strike. Now that the school year is beginning, the council and the rest of University Theatre are preparing for auditions for each respective production. The first of these auditions will be held Tuesday, Aug. 31st at 7 p.m. for “Reception/Perception.” This dance show will include choreography from WCU students and faculty, as well as several guest artists from the Philadelphia area, and will open on November 19th. On September 1-2, auditions will be held for the season’s musical, “The Pajama Game.” Taking place in the Sleep-Tite
Pajama Factory, this musical focuses on the ups and downs of office (or factory) relationships, culminating in conflict during a worker’s strike. The play is originally based off of the novel “7½ Cents” by Richard Bissell, which is named after the pay increase the workers in The Pajama Game are striking for. The musical will open on October 22nd and run for two weekends. Continuing in a department tradition, UT will hold their student-written one acts from November 11-13. This shorter series of shows features one-acts written, performed, and directed by WCU theater students. Each show is written and graded in the previous spring semester, and a small handful of shows are picked by theater department faculty to perform in the fall showcase. Auditions for these shows will be held October 6-7, leaving just over a month for each act to cast, design and perfect their scenes. The fall production that will be performed last in the fall semester is Sorrows and Rejoicings, written by South African playwright Athol Fugard. This production will be the first completed show this season, with shows starting September 29. Directed by professor Leonard Kelly, this production revolves around the complexities of grief and joy, as an exiled man passes to death, leaving his wife and his mistress to reflect upon their
lives and memories of him. Due to the renovations at the E.O. Bull Center over the past few semesters, theater classes were moved to other academic buildings, mainly in Anderson Hall. The theater department has also been forced to find new production venues for shows and events, reaching out the theater space in Brandywine Hall and using a classroom on the first floor of Goshen for rehearsals. These spaces will be used again this season while renovations continue on the E.O. Bull Center. Sorrows and Rejoicings, along with the student-written one-acts, will be held in the Goshen studio theatre. Students interested in participating in University Theatre may contact any of the officers, or attend one of the organization’s weekly meetings, which take place at 10 p.m. on Mondays on the first floor of Anderson. Tara Tanzos is a fourth-year student majoring in English and minoring in creative writing. She can be reached at TT649875@wcupa.edu.
The latest on Lohan By Angela Thomas Staff Writer
Everyone remembers her as the cute redhead from the 1998 version of the classic film, The Parent Trap. Now all anyone hears about is Lindsay Lohan’s many trips to rehab, mess-ups, and jail time. 24-year-old American actress and singer, Lindsay Lohan has been a hot item in the press since she turned the legal age of 18. Magazines and photographers everywhere have followed Lohan’s every move, from entering and leaving nightclubs to documenting her very public relationship with singer-songwriter and DJ, Samantha Ronson. Lindsay Lohan is known for her many trips to rehabilitation centers for drug and alcohol recovery and anorexia but disaster and trouble seemed to have followed Lohan again this summer. Lohan was scheduled to attend a DUI progress report early May 2010. However, when Lindsay didn’t show up, the judges did not smile in her favor. Lohan and representatives claimed that Lohan’s passport was stolen while she was attending the Cannes Film Festival. Rumors spread rapidly about Lohan’s constant partying in Cannes, therefore at her rescheduled progress report hearing, she was required to wear a bracelet that monitored her alcohol level, attend alcohol education classes, and refrain from consuming any alcohol. On July 6, 2010, Lindsay Lohan’s world spun frantically out of control as her court session did not go as she had hoped.
Lohan was charged with violating her probation. Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail for the violation. Rumors told of Lindsay tearing through her house, throwing items, and threatening her life.
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With all the drama stirring her emotional and mental stability, a judge also ordered her to attend an inpatient clinic for three months after her jail time. On July 20, Lohan was escorted into custody to attend her jail time, which was shortly outlived. Fourteen days after being in jail, Lohan was released after the facility she was attending was deemed “overcrowded” and therefore void of any non-violent offenders. However, Lohan was still required to attend an inpatient facility. Lohan was sent to UCLA, where she was released 23 days later for having served as much time as she could have. UCLA doctors claimed that Lohan “had done everything required of her there.” She will still attend outpatient facilities in order to get her life back together. Angela Thomas is an English major who can be reached at AT683005@ wcupa.edu.