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Below is a list of some of our music and theatre majors. We're ready to serve you as you prepare for your college career. For more information on each degree, please click on the name of the degree you're interested in. You'll see we provide a showcase of artistic excellence, and we're thrilled to have the opportunity to share the enthusiasm, energy and artistry with you! 
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Music Performance
Theatre
Speech/Theatre Education 

The Friends University Theatre Department presents an assortment of shows each season to entertain audiences of all ages. Come enjoy a theatre or music theatre production in our main Sebits Auditorium.

FALL 2012 EVENTS

CURTAINS - HOMECOMING MUSICAL
Oct. 19-20, 2012 @ 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 21, 2012 @ 2 p.m.
Sebits Auditorium
$16 adults, $13 seniors/students 

It's 1959 and the Boston Colonial Theatre is set to debut a new musical, "Robbin Hood of the West", only to find their questionably talented leading lady murdered after curtain call on opening night. Much to everyone's surprise the game is afoot and a murderer is amongst them! (Presented by special arrangement with Theatrical Rights, Worldwide.)

THE STAR SPANGLED BANDANNA II
Nov. 16-17, 2012 @ 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 18, 2012 @ 2 p.m.
Cornerstone Studio Theatre, D-6
Free Admission

Works from Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Charles Dickenson, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, Carrie Nation and more will be part of this theatre production.

 

SPRING 2013 EVENTS

ARMS AND THE MAN
by George Bernard Shaw
Jan. 25-26, 2013 @ 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 27, 2013 @ 2 p.m.
Sebits Auditorium
$11 adults, $9 seniors/students 

Raina Petkoff is rapturous about the romance of war and idolizes one of its ostensibly heroic warriors until a weary and desperate enemy soldier climbs into her bedroom window to hide. Her world and those who live in it will just have to change as they take a new look at "arms and the man." 

THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
by C.S. Lewis/adapted for stage by Joseph Robinette
Feb. 21-24, 2013 @ 7:30 p.m. (Thursday performance canceled due to inclement weather)
Alumni Auditorium 
$11 adults, $9 seniors/students

Share in the heroic tale of good vs. evil, calling and promise in this timeless allegory adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette from the beloved family classic by C.S. Lewis, and enjoyed by audiences of all ages. (Presented by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing Co.)