ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Theatre opens 2021-2022 with live productions
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Theatre is proud to open its 2021-22 season with a return to live performances! The first production of the season, The Mad Ones, is a new musical written by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk and directed by ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Associate Professor of Theatre Eric Altheide. The production runs from October 14-17 in the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Performance Center located in University Center East on the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï campus.
Concord Theatricals, the producing company of The Mad Ones, writes: "Eighteen-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam's well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it's her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not - impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly is killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision: Will she follow her mother's dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can't imagine?"
Altheide is joined by a design team including ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï faculty member Paul Weimer as scenic designer; ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï staff members Joshua Stallings as sound and lighting designer, Shan Jensen as costume designer and Andy Hammond as technical designer; Patrick Ritsch as orchestra conductor; and ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students Cole B. Henrich as choreographer and Amelia Schmitz as production stage manager.
The cast of The Mad Ones includes ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students Evelyn Pigman, Clare McGregor, Grace Koltz, Nate Jenkins, and understudies Madalyn Cottrell, Blair McKown, and Gavin Carter.
Tickets are $2 for ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students, $10 for ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï employees and alumni, $4 for non-ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students with student ID, $10 seniors (60+), and $12 for adults. Tickets are FREE to ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students with ID one hour before the show begins based on availability. Shows start at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. for the Sunday matinee. To purchase tickets, or for more information, visit ºÚÁϳԹÏ.edu/liberal-arts/usi-theatre or call the Box Office at 812-465-7110. Follow us on Facebook at and Instagram for updates and photos.
Tickets are also now on sale for the rest of the 2021-22 season. Join us for A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Professor of Theatre Elliot Wasserman, from November 18-21, 2021. The first show of the Spring Semester will be Stop Kiss by Diana Son and directed by Altheide, running from February 17-20, 2022. Our final show of the season will be William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which will run from April 21-24, 2022. For more information on the remainder of the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Theatre season visit ºÚÁϳԹÏ.edu/liberal-arts/usi-theatre or call 812-465-7110.