“Willkommen! And bienvenue! Welcome!” The opening lines of “Cabaret,” Concordia’s fall musical, invite the audience into the dark underworld of a Berlin nightclub in 1930. On Thursday, Nov. 8, the Concordia theatre department will perform “Cabaret,” a musical created by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff. The show is set at the Kit Kat…
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Concordia performers go on a ‘First Date’ in student-directed musical
The realities of the dating world, from awkward first encounters to uncomfortably long moments of silence, will be brought to the stage in Concordia College Theatre’s upcoming production of “First Date.” Senior theatre arts major Nick Brandt is directing “First Date,” opening on March 22 and running through March 24. The musical is Brandt’s senior…
MSUM student cast in Concordia Theatre’s production of ‘Company’
Concordia College theatre’s first production of the 2015-2016 season featured vampires. Their second show, opening Nov. 12, will feature a Dragon. Director Sally Story said the department’s upcoming production, Stephen Sondheim’s Tony award-winning “Company,” tells the tale of Bobby, a 30-something New Yorker attempting to navigate the single life while surrounded by couples. “Company” may…
Music, Theater Departments collaborate to produce musical
Concordia College – As Concordia’s theater program kicks off November with the popular musical “Les Misérables,” cooperation between the theater and music departments becomes the key to putting on the best show possible. Though Karen Hamilton, the musical’s vocal director, said the bridge between the theater and music departments has been building for four years,…
A disenchanted forest
Concordia’s decision to put the musical, “Into the Woods”, onto its main stage this fall has been a dream come true for many members of the Cobber theater community. Based off of six well-known fairytales, “Into the Woods” connects the different tales through a traditional story of a baker and his wife that have been…