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Cabrini’s Theatre seating not adequate for audience members

One event that can be looked forward to every spring is the Cabrini College Theatre’s spring musical production. This year audiences will be able to enjoy the Steven Sondheim musical, “Merrily We Roll Along.”

The Loquitur believes the theatre program at Cabrini is one of the most hardworking and dedicated programs we have seen.

It works with its small space and produces extraordinary shows, creating full houses plus extra attendees every night.

At times, more seats are added to our 80-seat theatre in order to accommodate more people. Last year’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee” fit over 100 people by placing audience members on the stage to watch the show. With “Spelling Bee,” placing audience members on the stage worked because of the story line and high level of audi-ence participation. With “Mer-

rily,” it’s different. It is impos-sible to fit more people than the theatre capacity allows due to the nature of the show and cast members entering and leaving from everywhere.

The cast and crew work hours upon hours to perfect their lines, practice their blocking and work with props. It saddens the Loquitur to think that for how much hard work the cast and crew put in, there is only a tiny theatre for them to show off.

Imagine what the produc-tions here would be like if we had a giant stage. The theatre’s set designer designs marvelous sets for huge theatres and has pulled off many illusions with his designs. He leaves the audi-ences in amazement when they walk in. The current theatre has definitely served its purpose and has impacted the lives of many students, but the students and directors have outgrown the cur-rent space and deserve some-thing more.

Yes, the saying rings true that “it’s the company that makes the theatre and not the building,” but the students and directors have poured their hearts and souls into these shows and they are limited by the space. The company is bursting with talent and it only gets better every year with their hard work and dedica-tion.

By performing a complex and difficult show such as “Mer-rily,” the company has excelled and has proven that they can do any show they put their minds to.The effect that the theatre has on some of the cast has made a lasting impact. Some have incorporated theatre skills into their futures after college. Now as a senior and four-year Cabrini theatre member, Mad-die Iacobucci has been accepted into Villanova’s M.A. theatre program.

Unfortunately, due to the space, the theatre group has to make sacrifices in that there

are certain shows they can’t produce. With a bigger space, there is no show that this tal-ented group of people couldn’t perform, especially with their amazing director, Dr. Thomas Stretton, who dedicates count-less hours to the theatre.

Another tribute to the success of the theatre is Alpha Psi Ome-ga, which is the new national theatre honors society. The new charter members recently held their induction ceremony that officially started the Cabrini chapter, Alpha Zeta Phi.

The Loquitur feels that the theatre brings confidence to students who are a part of any show. We feel it brings all dif-ferent kinds of people together. It is something that students are proud of when they complete a show. The theatre is a place where you make new friends along with being with the old.

Cabrini, it’s time. Build a theatre.

Top: Cabrini’s theatre holds a maximum of 80 audience mem-bers. The cast of ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ practices their music with Director Thomas Stretton and Music Director Adeline Bethany. Bottom: Cast members run through lines on stage. all photos jenna bertino / staff photographer

The Loquitur 11Thursday, March 31, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

This spring, the Cabrini College The-ater will be presenting “Merrily We Roll Along,” by Steven Sondheim. The musi-cal is unlike many other shows in that it is played going backward in time. The very fi rst scene of the show is the fi nale and the fi nale is the very fi rst scene of the story.

The show is about three friends’ jour-ney through life achieving all of their hopes and dreams. But do these achieve-ments leave them with the lives they really wanted? The show opens at a Hollywood premiere party in 1976 at the home of pro-ducer Franklin Shepherd, played by senior

Michael Krencicki. At the party, Shepherd is surrounded by some of the biggest ce-lebrities and socialites of the time as well as his best friend, Mary Flynn, played by sophomore Kate Finegan.

The audience soon learns that Shep-herd’s life as a Hollywood superstar is not as glamorous as one of the opening num-bers makes it out to be. His long-time friendship with Flynn seems to be on the rocks as well as his second marriage to Broadway legend, Gussie Carnegie, played by senior Maddie Iacobucci. The audience witnesses an abrupt ending to the Holly-wood party that consisted of both ultimate success and misery.

The cast then poses a question to the au-dience in the form of a transition that takes

them back in time saying, “how did you get to be here?” This question is carried though the rest of the play revealing the exact mo-ments in Shepherd’s life that led him to the fateful Hollywood party.

The next scene, three years before the fi rst scene, introduces the audience to Shepherd’s third long-time friend and part-ner in composing music, Charlie Kringas. This scene takes place in a television stu-dio during a news broadcast that quickly takes a turn for the worst for both Shepherd and Kringas, ending their friendship.

Audience members are then taken on a journey even further back in time through the defi ning moments and people in Shepherd, Kringas and Flynn’s lives that brought them to where they are in the pres-

ent.The show ends with the three friends on

a rooftop during a landmark time in history in the year 1957 when they are just starting to realize their hopes and dreams for the future.

“Merrily We Roll Along” opens in the Grace Hall Theater Wednesday, March 30 at 8 p.m. and runs April 1 and April 2 at 8 p.m. and April 3 at 2 p.m. It then runs the following weekend, Thursday, April 7, April 8 and April 9 at 8 p.m. The show closes with a performance on Sunday, April 10 at 2 p.m. All tickets are free.

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By Danielle AlioManaging Editor

Roll Along... Synopsis

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The cast of the 2011 spring production of “Merrily We Roll Along” during the March 28 dress rehearsal. The musical opens on March 30 at 8 p.m. at the Grace Hall Theater.