theatre & dance season
May - A fundraiser for Artisan Dance and a BBQ!
Carroll College Performing Arts - End of season BBQ
Each year the theatre department hosts a BBQ, where we eat, play, announce awards and scholarships, and announce plans for next years season. We invite friends from the Fine Arts and Helena theatre community, cuz we like and appreciate them and this is a way to show it.
Here are the details:
1 - Date: Sunday May 4, we start around 3, and last until about 6 or 7 or whenver.
2 - Location: Memorial Park, because it is convenient to campus. In the picnic area behind the Bandshell.
3 - Consumables: The department can spring for Burgers and Dogs, and buns and fixings. Also some soft drinks. Bring your own chips, veggies, deserts (those wicked brownies last year were great!) and special beverages. If you want chicken, fish or veggie-burgers, bring 'em. We will have at least two grills going.
The goal is to have as many of us attend as is possible, family and friends are welcome too. We know you have finals coming up, but you still gotta eat and have some stress relief! This is a great time to get together and relive the work we did together, before we all go away for the summer. I hope to hear from you and see you all there!
Artisan Dance to present a night of live Tango Music and Dance
On Friday, May 9, Artisan Dance, Montana's professional ballet troupe in residence at Carroll College, will hold a fund-raiser to support its upcoming summer season with a night of live tango music and open dancing, with special guest tango performances. Five members of the Helena Symphony's award winning, nationally recognized ensemble will play tango classics of Astor Piazzolla on piano, cello, violin, bassoon and clarinet.
This night of live tango takes place in the Carroll College (Helena, MT) Arthur Vining Davis dance studio in the Campus Center. This event marks the first time the studio has opened to the public for a night of dancing. Artisan Dance founding director Sallyann Mulcahy, a professional choreographer and the host of this event, invites all tango dancers.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m., with live music starting at 8. Refreshments and dessert will be served. Tickets are $25 per person.
This event will benefit Artisan Dance in its upcoming summer season, featuring professional ballet dancers from national troupes. In recent years, Artisan Dance productions have included principal dancers from the Smuin Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Metropolitan Classical Ballet (Ft. Worth, TX), Louisville Ballet, Dayton Ballet and Northern Plains Ballet, plus other U.S. dance companies and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet of Canada.
Artisan Dance is a nonprofit organization, and all support, including admission to this event, is tax deductible.
Tango lessons in advance of this event are scheduled for April 6, April 30 and May 7. For more info about all of these events, contact Sallyann Mulcahy at 447-5508 or Ashley Oliverio at 447-5415.
Plans for 2008-09 productions...
A full and exciting year is shaping up as plans are being discussed by the staff and students. So far we have made the following decisions:
- Mainstage - The Producers - a musical comedy straight from Broadway! This will be a joint production with our friends from Helena Theatre Company and Myrna Loy Center. Fall, 2008.
- Mainstage - Shakespeare, anyone? Then it shall be As You Like It. Spring 2009.
- Theatre for Children - Peter Pan and Wendy - directed by Carroll Senior, Bre Wong.
- Senior Showcases - three of them, to be directed by Carroll seniors. Ryan Pfeiffer will direct the Mystery of Attraction, Jocelyn Bjornstad will direct American Roulette, and Ryan Danielson will direct When the Rainbow Bends.
- Night of One-Acts, as usual, each December.
- Improv Nights in the Merton, of course!
- A Carroll Family Christmas, to include the following: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (radio play), A Childs' Christmas in Wales, and maybe music sung by the Carroll Choir.
- Spring Dance Performance - This is in the plans, as we hope to reinvent an old tradition.
Reservations/Ticket sales
Old North - The Performing Arts Center does not have assigned seating available, nor can we hold seats. Arrive early for the first choice of seats, we open the auditorium 1/2 hour before the show begins. We do not pre-sell tickets, purchase the night of performance. If you have any questions about the show or our theatre call our part-time Box Office representatives at 447-4304, and they will call you back as soon as possible.
Merton & Davis Studios - These spaces have an open seating policy, first-come-first-served. As studio spaces they have temporary seats only. Capacity is limited to about 70 chairs/audience members. The box office is usually pass-the-hat, free-will admission. Come early to sit in a chair! No late arrivals admitted.