Any university\u2019s theatre department should be something to be proud of and McMurry\u2019s Theatre Department is no different. Every year without fail, McMurry\u2019s theatre students and staff work hard to create simultaneously both thoughtful and entertaining productions throughout the year. This 2019 fall semester featured vivacious, high-spirited plays that were sure to make an engaging night for any audience. With the return of the Homecoming musical, and the quick-witted humor of Neil Simon, fall 2019 was filled with many laughs and good cheer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first play was during McMurry\u2019s Homecoming celebration and\nwas the first musical to be produced at McMurry in six years. You\u2019re A Good\nMan, Charlie Brown,<\/em> directed by Kerry Goff, brought livelihood and\npure-hearted joy centerstage for the Abilene community to enjoy. With a bright,\ncolorful set and a cast of both new freshman and seniors alike, the show took\nan endless amount of hands and hours to create, but the result was four\nfabulous performances that received no small amount of applause at each end.\nThe small but talented cast of Charlie Brown, Sally Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy,\nand Schroeder were played by Jared Hainsel, Madi Melbourne, MaKenna Arispe,\nKevin Roberts, Victoria Picon, and Elmer Mejia, respectively. Along with an\nexceptional technical crew working behind the scenes to create a fantastic show\neach night, McMurry\u2019s theatre students deserve every last bit of the applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To finish off the fall season, the McMurry Theatre\nDepartment put on Neil Simon\u2019s The Odd Couple<\/em> directed by David\nAinsworth. A laughter-filled romp with non-stop jokes, quips, and witty remarks\nthat lit up audience\u2019s faces night after night. There wasn\u2019t a dull scene to be\nfound in this particular play, and as the female version of the original The\nOdd Couple<\/em>, the production allowed the spotlight to shine on many of the\ntheatre department\u2019s actresses, both new and old. The two main characters,\nOlive and Florence, were played by Hayli Isbell and Holly Bentea, both of whom\nput on excellent performances. Their eccentric group of friends amped up the\ngiggles and were portrayed excellently by actresses Symone Fiedler, Hailey\nRodgers, Bailee Walker, and MacKenzie Farias alongside two Spanish brothers\nplayed by Jared Hainsel and Elmer Mejia. Neil Simon plays often require many\ntight and fast reactions on the actors\u2019 parts, but the McMurry Theatre Department\ndefinitely did not fail to deliver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the fall semester is coming to a close, McMurry\u2019s\nTheatre Department\u2019s theatrical season isn\u2019t over yet! Starting off 2020 is the\nesteemed Luigi Pirandello\u2019s Cap and Bells<\/em> to be directed by David\nAinsworth and is sure to be an intriguing watch. Later The Cocktail Hour<\/em>\nby A. R. Gurney is to be directed by student Kevin Roberts, as a senior\nproject; and, finally, the 2019-2020 year shall end with a collection of\nstudent directed plays as the capstone to the Directing I class in the spring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Any university\u2019s theatre department should be something to be proud of and McMurry\u2019s Theatre Department is no different. Every year without fail, McMurry\u2019s theatre students and staff work hard to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/73165702_443675462949062_3927777403560001536_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}