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A "Second Stage" Production:
"The Small World of Millie McIvor"
by Ronald Burke
Friday Sept. 23
directed by Speech & Theatre Faculty member Jan Jones

Johnathan Crooker, played by Justin Cavazos, and Toby Ebers, played by Steven Lasiter, sneak off from their work to see a ball game and the fireworks start from there in the Tyler Junior College “Second Stage” production of THE SMALL WORLD OF MILLIE McIVOR , a comical farce written by Ronald Burke. On the boys’ journey to the baseball stadium they slip under a fence and Jonathan rips his britches!

Ducking for cover into Millie McIvor’s dress shop, they convince Millie, played by Holly Bell, and her impressionable young help Lucy, played by Lynsey Jones, to mend them.

While in his under shorts, Johnathan is forced to dive for cover when stuffy old Mrs. Hornbuckle, played by Daniel Frost, and her spry but lecherous husband, played by Zach Nichols, drop in to see Millie’s dresses. In a hilarious hiding scene-done in slow motion to heighten the suspense - Toby slides under the table and Johnathan hops into a closet to be discover by Millie’s worldly friend Jennie Gifford, played by Suzy Cedillo. The Hornbuckles stalk out to Jennie’s delight, making Millie realize that she is missing the fun in the great big world outside her dress shop.

Quality Street
by J.M. Barrie
October 6-10, 2005
Jean Browne Theatre
Directed by Clarence L. Strickland
Written by James Barrie, who also wrote Peter Pan. The subject of the movie "Finding Neverland".

Barrie’s ageless storytelling reached new heights with this “beautifully written” period comedy detailing two wealthy sisters who are flung into poverty after several bad investments. The younger sister’s love interest runs off to fight Napoleon. Ten years later the soldier returns to find his love destitute, aging badly, having lost all hope of happiness. How the two will find each other comes as a result of pure poetry as the author of “Peter Pan” winds a spell of humor, intrigue and romance.

Scapino
by Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale
December 1-4, 2005
Jean Browne Theatre
Directed by Victor L. Siller

Rave reviews from “virtually every critic on Broadway” heralded this new English version from Moliere as a “must see” “farcical romp with no reverence for anybody” except those who voted it a Tony nomination, The Outer Circle Critic’s Award, and the Drama Desk Award. The age-old story focuses on rascal Scapino helping two sets of young lovers to come together despite the protestations of their Neanderthal fathers.

The Annual Spring Musical... Peter Pan
book by J.M. Barrie
Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh
Music by Mark Charlap
Additional Music by Jule Steyne
Additional Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolf Green
February 22-25, 2006
Wise Auditorium
Stage Direction by Rebecca Faulds
Music Direction by Dr. Cheryl Rogers

Meet Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, the darlings, and, of course, Peter! Steer to the second star to the right and straight ahead till morning... to hear favorites like “I Won’t Grow Up”, “I’m Flying”, “I’ve Gotta Crow”, and “Ugh A Wug”. And... Peter will fly!!! View the PDF flyer

Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer
April 27-May1, 2006
Jean Browne Theatre
Directed by Jacque Shackelford

• Premiered in London in 1979, starring Paul Scofield
• Premiered on Broadway in 1980 with Ian McKellen

Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can't understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.

Amadeus tells of the rivalry between two men, and the vengeance of the lesser on the greater: Salieri, a seemingly refined and elegant court composer- a mediocrity who wrote music as society said it should be written-and a coarse and vulgar genius named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who flouted the rules of both society and music-and in the process created art.

"Amadeus" is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Mozart and Salieri. Mozart is shown as a prodigious musician, considered today by some cognoscenti to be the greatest of all geniuses in his field, having knocked out compositions for assorted solo instruments, opera and symphonic orchestras by the time he was thirty-five years old. Salieri was not exactly chopped liver and, had Mozart never lived might have been selling CD albums like crazy today.

The story is told from Salieri's point of view as he recounts his grievances in a talk with the chaplain of an asylum for the insane, where Salieri landed after having tried to do himself in by slashing his wrists and his neck. As the story unfolds from Salieri’s point of view, Miroslav Ondricek’s lens shifts regularly from that composer, sitting with makeup that ages him a quarter century, to the court in Vienna (actually filmed in Prague, which according to Mr. Forman seems to have been frozen in time).

Salieri had worked his way up as an Italian kid from the town of Legnago, eager to serve God through his music, to become the court composer to Emperor Joseph II in Vienna. He is astonished when he hears Mozart’s music performed for the Archbishop of Salzburg but even more amazed when he notes that the 26 year old prodigy is playing cat-and-mouse games with his girl friend Constanze (Elizabeth Berridge) when he should have been conducting his chamber group. The Austrian Emperor invites the young genius to play for him but the envious Salieri blocks his appointment to become the teacher to the emperor’s niece. From then on, the cat-and-mouse games are between Salieri and Mozart, the former pretending to be a confidant and supporter while all the while plotting against Amadeus. Ultimately the rumor spreads after Mozart’s death–a rumor still alive today in some circles but highly unlikely to be true-–that Mozart was poisoned by the envious Salieri.