Theatre school brings
old favorites to town


Season's greetings from the FSU School of Theatre.

The 1996-97 season- "Theatre for the Whole Community" - will include four shows on the Mainstage in the Richard G. Fallon Theatre and two works in The Lab.

"Each year we attempt to produce a variety of period, styles and types of dramatic literature on our stages," said School of Theatre Dean Gil Lazier.

The season opens Oct. 17 with Lerner and Loewe's musical Brigadoon, an adventure in the Scottish Highlands featuring the classic song "Almost Like Being in Love."

The holiday season will be celebrated with an original adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

August Wilson's Fences, winner of the 1987 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, will be directed by Ed Smith, former associate artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and a new member of the theatre school faculty. The play will be performed in February.

The final play of the season is Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, presented in April.

Two plays will be offered in The Lab Theatre: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls in November and a yet-to-be-named spring musical in February.

The School of Theatre offers two types of subscriptions: the Mainstage subscription for the four Mainstage productions and the six-pack subscription for all six productions. Subscription packages offer a savings of up to 15 percent off the single-ticket price.

For the first time, the School of Theatre will offer special discounts to senior citizens and to FSU and state employees. Student and children's discounted subscription packages are also available.
Members of the School of Theatre Patrons Association will now receive season subscriptions and guaranteed parking as part of their membership. Patrons can also purchase additional subscriptions for $25.

The school will offer subscribers a Mainstage parking permit. The $8 permit guarantees parking close to the Fine Arts Building for all four Mainstage productions.

For more information about the 1996-97 season, call the Fine Arts Ticket Office at 644-6500.

'The Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe' opens FSU's Theatre Southeast


A new theatre comes to campus this summer: Theatre Southeast, a professional extension of the School of Theatre. Theatre Southeast will emphasize new works, Southeastern writers and plays set in the Southeast, said Dean Gil Lazier. The theatre will give faculty members a professional outlet for their talents and bring alumni back to the FSU stage.

Its first production will be Robin Swicord's The Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe. Swicord, a product of FSU's theatre school, wrote the screenplay for the recent film adaptation of Little Women. The play will be directed by George Judy, an associate professor in the School of Theatre.

A comedy-drama set in Bainbridge, Ga., in the early 1980s, Last Days will have a limited run of two weeks in the Fallon Theatre on the FSU campus June 7, 8, and 13, 14, 15. For ticket information, call (904) 644-6500.