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Fall 2024: Into the Woods

November 7-9, 2024 at Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall.

Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.

Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine.

Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine. Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.

INTO THE WOODS was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials were also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim/Book by James Lapine/Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine/Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.

Directed by Davis Robinson. Music Director: Jeff Christmas.  Conductor: Courtney Babbidge  Photographs by Alex Cornell du Houx ’06 for Into the Woods, November 7-9, 2024 at Pickard Theater, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College.  Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.  

CAST:  The Narrator- Anna Monaghan ’27; Cinderella - Iris Guo ’27; Cinderella’s Stepmother - Peyton Jones ’27; Cinderella’s Father/ Puppeteer (and Wolf on Saturday) - Blake Covert ’27; Florinda - Lindsay Golan ’27; Lucinda - Katie Tran ’27; The Witch - Sree Kandhadai ’27; Rapunzel/The Giant/Puppeteer - Amaya Reddy ’27; The Baker - Emmanuel Nwodo ‘27; The Baker’s Wife - Eleanor Beyreis ’25; Jack - Declan O’Connell ’27; Jack’s Mother - Franceska Drejaj ’27; Milky White - Saruul-Erdene Jagdagdorj ’27; The Wolf - Jed Hoggard ’25; Little Red Riding Hood - Molly Richardson ’25; Granny - Nikki Harris ’26; Rapunzel’s Prince - EJ Esmas ’27; Cinderella’s Prince - Dylan T. Beckett ’27; The Steward - Jayden Vazquez ’27; Cinderella’s Mother/Puppeteer - Maya Tokioka ’27; The Mysterious Man - Micah Sher ’27

Fall 2024: December Dance Concert

December 5-7, 2024 - Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall

Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance

Six classes performed:

Introduction to Modern Dance (Gwyneth Jones) - Dancers: Dominic Ashinze ’28, Angelica Gordon ’27, Kaylee Hale ’28, Molly Reed ’27, Danielle Simon ’25, Jack Twining ’27, Xan Vella ’28, Mariana Vidaurri ’26

Introduction to Hip Hop (Lindsay Rapport) - Dancers: Alex Cephas ’27, Simon Davis ’25, Tamara Gisiger ’28, Max Grad ’28, Elinor Hershkowitz ’28, Phoebe Kolff ’26, Avery Kyle ‘28, Dani Musry ’28, Reilly Parga ’28, Vanessa Partida-Saucedo ’28, Gianna Randazzo ’26, Saniya Ridley ’25, Markiane Rivers ’27, Anindita Saha, Jackie Shores ’28, Sydney Starks ’24, Sierra Walters ’28, Elizabeth Wire ’28, Maeve Woodruff ’28

Afro-Modern II: Techniques and Histories (Adanna Jones) - Dancers: Maya Le ’25, Iran Pacheco Martinez ’26, Siena Harrigan ’25, Ray Mitchell ’28, Tatiana Allen ’27 Eleanor Beyreis ’25, Mariela Francois ’26, Breanna Hurd ’26, Timothy Ignacio ’26, Mitch Ishimwe ’26, Miriam Oliveri-Schneider ’28, Lily Shelley-Kodroff ’26, Beatriz Solis ’26, Gavin Sychterz, ’25, Vilma Valera ’25, Seamus Woodruff ’26

Making Dances in the Digital Age (Aretha Aoki) - Dancers: Kelsey Crawford ’25, Jasmine Decrem ’28, Andrea DiTeodoro ’26, Anushka Elavia ’27, Andrew Hoadley ’25, Lily Huynh ’25, Ryan Kang ’25, Harry Millspaugh ’25, Jondall Norris ’25, Yesfreily Rodriguez ’27, Mukudzei Seremani ’28, Callie Smith ’28, Josh White ’28, Maile Winterbottom ’25                                                             

Modern II: Repertory and Performance (Gwyneth Jones) - Dancers: Josefina Cachuela ’27, Zach Green ’28, Saniya Ridley ’25, Sage Tonomura-MacDonald ’27, Vilma Valera ’25, Gabrielle Waller-Whelan ’25

Advanced Modern Dance (Aretha Aoki) - Dancers: Sara Coughlin ’26, Charlie Meyer ’28, Fernanda Rodas ’27, Julia Smart ’25, Gabrielle Waller-Whelan ’25

Liturgy|Order|Bridge by Scapegoat Garden

Nov. 15-16 /7:30 p.m. / Wish Theater, Memorial Hall

Liturgy|Order|Bridge is a participatory dance ritual that fuses sacred traditions and secular performance modalities to make porous the border between “audience” and “performance.”