Pygmalion Opens Friday April 23rd!

Siena College Creative Arts Department and Stage III Present

Pygmalion

Written by George Bernard Shaw

Directed by Paul Ricciardi

April 23 at 8pm, April 24-25 at 2pm, April 29-30 at 8pm, May 1 at 2pm

FREE to Siena Students

$10 General Public

$2 Siena Community

$8 Other Students

For Tickets Call 783-4242

Our director Paul Ricciardi.

Tech is almost here!

This will be the schedule for our tech weekend in which all of the technical issues are worked out in preparation for opening weekend.

April 15th Thursday:

Crew/designer run starting at 7

April 16th Friday:

6-10: dry tech with ASM's, ME, AME, and sound op

ACTORS: You will have run throughs in Foy 107

April 17th Saturday:

10-1: finish dry tech/notes with ASM's, ME, AME, and sound op

ACTORS: You will meet at townhouse 137 at 10 (the ten minute rule applies!) You will run through the first half of the play over breakfast and then go to Foy 107 at 11 to run through the last bit of the play.

1-2: lunch for the techies

1:30: Actors called

2-6: cue to cue with everyone except wardrobe

6-7: dinner

7-10: cue to cue with everyone except wardrobe

April 18th Sunday:

10-11: Actors in costume/tech notes with everyone

11-2: Full run with everyone

2-3: lunch

3-3:30: Actors in costume/tech notes with everyone

3:30-6: Full run with everyone

Progress Update: Easter Break

It's now less than a month to opening!

We just finished the Fourth Week of Rehearsal.

Two weeks until Tech Rehearsal.

The Set and Costumes are in

Construction.

George Bernard Shaw: Just the Facts!

George Bernard Shaw: Irish Playwright

Shaw Portrait 1914 New York Times

-Born: July 26th 1856 – Died: November 2nd 1950.

-Born into a poor family in the city of Dublin, Ireland.

-Shaw was a dedicated Socialist: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the m

eans of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. (Dictionary.com).

-First worked as a Journalist and Music Critic and eventually a Drama Critic.

-He married Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898.-In 1913 Shaw wrote Pygmalion, which satirizes the English class system through the story of a cockney girl's transformation into a lady at the hands of a speech professor. The latter has proved to be Shaw's most successful work—as a play, as a motion picture,

and as the basis for the musical and film My Fair Lady (1956; 1964) (Encyclopedia.com).