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2008 Musical to open Friday

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By Laura Acuff, Opinion Editor The Elvis-themed 2008 Homecoming Musical, All Shook Up, opens Friday at 8 p.m. at the Abilene Civic Center. Tickets range from $5 to $18 for the opening night performance and successive performances, Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The musical features 24 Elvis Presley songs, creating the soundtrack for the ... [Read More…]

‘Moonlight’ shines on ACU Theatre

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By Laura Acuff, Opinion Editor ACU Theater's Moonlight & Magnolias opens Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Fulks Theatre, located in the Williams Performing Arts Center. The comedy details the efforts of producer David O. Selznick, screenwriter Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming to write the screenplay for Gone with the Wind in the late 1930s. Locked ... [Read More…]

‘Aida’ comes together

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By Laura Acuff, Student Reporter Aida, a production about a racially-charged love triangle in Ancient Egypt and this year's Homecoming Musical, opens Friday and will give additional performances Saturday and Sunday. Although Aida was scheduled to be the Homecoming musical two years ago, leading actress Jasmin Richardson, junior musical theatre ... [Read More…]

Theatre Department takes second chance with ‘Aida’

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The Theatre Deparment has proven it is more couragious than to simply walk away from a controversial situation. Two years ago, Adam Hester, chair of the Theatre Department, pulled the Homecoming musical, "Aida," after four months of production because of concerns from the community that a white actress would play the lead role as a Nubian ... [Read More…]

Video: Little Shop of Horrors

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Several ACU students have spent many late nights preparing for ACU Theatre's production of Little Shop of Horrors. Lines are practiced and costumes are finalize, as the cast and crew prepare for opening weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu2qq7Tfhsk Video/editing by Cody Veteto ... [Read More…]

Faculty, student actors collaborate on stage

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By Mitch Holt, Copy Editor The Theatre Department combines student and faculty actors in the department's comical fall dinner theatre production, Brighton Beach Memoirs, by Neil Simon, which opened Aug. 24 after less than a month of rehearsal. The last two shows of the production are Friday and Saturday. Adam Hester, director of the production ... [Read More…]

Dr. Seuss books, characters come to life in ‘Seussical’

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By Mallory Sherwood, Managing Editor Audience members can return to childhood and arrive in the magical and imaginative world of Dr. Seuss and his beloved characters with the opening of the Homecoming Musical, Seussical. Seussical, created by Tony Award winners, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, weaves together famous characters and stories from ... [Read More…]

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