Our very own Joshua Boone opens on Broadway in June!

This week Playbill.com made the announcement that Joshua Boone (BFA, Performance, Theatre VCU 2010) will be a principal player in Holler if Ya Hear Me - the new Broadway musical inspired by the lyrics of Tupac Shakur!


This is what Playbill.com says about this groundbreaking musical:

Holler If Ya Hear Me, the world inside Tupac Shakur’s music and lyrics, “blazes to life in a non-biographical story about friendship, family, revenge, change and hope. Inner city lives struggle for peace against the daily challenges they face in this entertaining and original musical,” according to press notes. “Through the poetry of one of the 20th century’s most influential and culturally prominent voices, we are given a window into realities of the streets still relevant today.”

Theatre VCU patrons will remember Josh tearing down the house in the 2009 production of Ain't Misbehavin' - highlighting the great music of Fats Waller.

Since graduation Josh has been hard at work at his craft. His resume already includes:

Choir Boy at Alliance Theatre; In the Heights at Pioneer Theatre Company; Well at Virginia Repertory Theatre; Cutman: A Boxing Musical at Goodspeed. Off-Broadway: Felony Friday at Fringe Festival Encores; Central Avenue Breakdown at New York Musical Theatre Festival/Daegu International Musical Festival. Television: Law & Order: SVU. 

View the wonderful VCUArts video interview with Joshua Boone in the Blorinator's last post.

Go get 'em Josh - we are all very proud of you!

Joshua Boone, VCUarts Theatre, Performance Alumnus

Arabian Nights on Channel 6's Virginia This Morning show!

We love the CBS/Channel 6 show Virginia This Morning!

Yesterday Theatre VCU's cast of Arabian Nights were asked to visit Virginia This Morning to perform scene from the play, which is opening FRIDAY NIGHT at 7:30 in the Singleton Performing Arts Center!!

FIRST the fabulous David Toney & Ciara McMillan spoke with the lovely Cheryl Miller

Followed by a wonderful performance

Go HERE to see our actors on television!

We got to watch it later in the green room. It was a fun morning!

Hey Theatre VCU performance majors - in case you haven't signed up for the Fall MainStage Shows Audition - here's the skinny:

Mainstage Audition Sign Up Sheet for

Macbeth & 

Man of La Mancha

 Cattle Call for Both Shows 

Friday April 18, 1pm - 6pm • Shafer 302

REQUIREMENTS: Please come prepared with a one non-gender specific minute monologue from Macbeth and 16 bars of a song (bring the sheet music with you). Songs from “the Golden Age” are recommended. IF YOU PLAY THE GUITAR - bring the instrument & 16 bars of music & be prepared to play.

All performance majors are expected to audition with a monologue and a song

 Arabian Nights cast members - please sign up for an early slot on Friday so as not to conflict or 

cut it too close to your call for the performance that night.

Call backs (including a dance call) will be posted Friday night on the callboard and on the

SM Blog (http://vcucastlist.blogspot.com/ ). It will begin Sat., April 19 at 10 am in Shafer 302.

Copies of both scripts will be available in the main office to be signed out for 24 hours.

PLEASE ARRIVE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TIME SLOT YOU HAVE SIGNED UP FOR. THANK YOU!

Sign-up sheet on the board across from the elevator - 2nd Floor PAC

Important stuff you need to know RIGHT NOW if you are Theatre VCU student.

(not necessarily in order of importance)

1 Fabulous Guest Artist Lynn Thomson is here now until Friday! Nationally-known Dramaturg and author. Her Friday workshop on Theatrical Collaboration is open to both grad and undergrad students and should not be missed.

Pearls, people, we are laying pearls before you - 

please take advantage!

Here is her information:

2. There is a Masquerade Ball bakesale right this minute in PAC. Deliciousness (there are homemade Truffles on the table y'all) And HOT cocoa and HOT coffee - come on… you need these things.

3. David Leong is hoping EVERYBODY is coming to B72 at 5:00 today to eat (FREE) pizza this afternoon, and talk about Theatre VCU and you. Very important to your future here, right?

4. Sign-up sheets are UP for the Fall MainStage shows - Macbeth & Man of La Mancha. Get those Macbeth 1 minute monologues polished, and be ready to sing 16 bars. Play the guitar? Then bring it and strum your little heart out.

5. Posters. We are two weeks away from the Opening Night of Arabian Nights. We have hundreds of posters and postcards just sitting here in the office waiting for YOU to hang them up. Don't you have Volunteer Credits you need to earn in order to graduate? This is how you do it baby! Hang up 20 posters and BAM you are DONE!

6. The Ball - 39 Days Away!!! Woo Hoo (Who are you going to be?)

Theatre VCU (and Morgan Meadows) make it real

This is from one of our seniors, Morgan Meadows:
"I haven't been able to talk about it for almost a month, but now that is airing, I am SO excited to announce that I am the new voice of Virginia Commonwealth University. Here is one of two commercials I did, and they will be airing nationally on television as well as at all the VCU Basketball games! This is truly a full-circle moment for me because if it wasn't for my training, teachers and mentors at VCU, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to get the job of dreams.
Check out this gorgeous commercial! I am so proud to be a Ram. VCU. Make It Real."

GO HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4C-IegZmHg

SETC 2014 - Theatre VCU showed up and won big!

The ENTIRE SETC Design Competition Winners

Undergraduate Costume Design Awards in Honor of Irene Smart Rains 
Honorable Mention
Emily Faulkner, The Comedy of Errors, Berry College

Third Place

Kiyoshi Shaw, Dracula, Virginia Commonwealth University 

Second Place
Matt Adkins, Miss Witherspoon, Francis Marion University 

First Place
Sophia Choi, Love Never Dies, Virginia Commonwealth University


Undergraduate Scenic Design Award Sponsored by Sculptural Arts Coating, Inc. 
Third Place
Jacob Sailer, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Virginia Commonwealth University 

Second Place
Benjamin Burke, Other Desert Cities, Virginia Commonwealth University 

First Place
Matthew Buttrey, The Tempest, Southeast Missouri State University


Undergraduate Lighting Design Awards Sponsored by Electronic Controls, Inc. 
Honorable Mention
Tyler Rowe, The Sweetest Swing In Baseball, Centre College

Third Place
Elisabeth Becraft, Psycho Beach Party, Frostburg State University 

Second Place
Luke Cresson, Hairspray!, Virginia Commonwealth University 

First Place
Margaret Peebles, Legally Blonde, Kent State University


Costume Crafts and Technology Awards Sponsored by Norcosto
Third Place
Annie Rupprecht, 19th Century Hand Embroidery Silk Shoes, Florida State University 

Second Place
Grace Mimbs, Baroque Wired Whisk Collar, Savannah College of Art and Design 

First Place
Lindsay Austria, 18th Century Woman’s Gown, Virginia Commonwealth University


Properties Design and Construction Awards Sponsored by Friends of Props 
Second Place
Kristin Viola, Scenic Art for Dancing at Lughnasa, University of Southern Mississippi 

First Place
Christopher Foote, Confetti Canon for Hairspray!, Virginia Commonwealth University


Sound Design Sponsored by Shure, INC. 
Honorable Mention
Joseph Palermo, The 30 Steps, Stetson University 

Third Place
Andrew Crews, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Florida School of the Arts 

Second Place
Kurt Davis, Marisol, University of Mississippi

First Place
William Wacker, Sweeney Todd: The Melodrama, Virginia Commonwealth University


Graduate Lighting Design Awards Sponsored by Electronic Controls, Inc. 
Third Place
Cyndi Hoffman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kent State University

Second Place
Jacquelyn Cox, Tribes, University of Arkansas

First Place
Kenneth Forster, The Whipping Man, University of Tennessee
(no VCU entries)


Graduate Scenic Design Awards Sponsored by Sculptural Arts Coating
Honorable Mention
Christian Hershey, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety, Virginia Commonwealth University 

Third Place
Jason Ammons, The Whipping Man, Universityof Tennesse

Second Place
Christopher Rhoton, Chicago, Indiana University

First Place
Josafath Reynoso, The Hairy Ape, University of Tennesee


Graduate Costume Design Awards In Honor of Irene Smart Rains 
Three Way Tie For First Place


Alyssa Couturier-Herndon, Rocky Horror Show, University of Florida 

Isabela Tavares de Melo, Harspray!, Virginia Commonwealth University 

Poua Yang, Mary Stuart, University of Tennessee

Theatre VCU went up against schools from Florida to Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana to South Carolina.

TEN Theatre VCU students won awards. (the next closest school was Univ of Tenn with 4 awards total)

PLUS THESE GUYS WERE THERE:

LIGHTING & SOUND!!

SCENE DESIGN TECH!!

STAGE MANAGERS!!!

What's not to love!