Southeastern Louisiana University

'Songs for a New World' at Pottle Oct. 18-21

Contact: Christina Chapple

10/17/06

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(1) SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD OPENS WEDNESDAY – Songs for a New World, the Southeastern Louisiana University Opera/Music Theatre Workshop’s contribution to Fanfare 2006, opens Wednesday at Pottle Music Building Auditorium. The musical review by the Tony award-winning Jason Roberts Brown will run through Saturday, with curtain time at 7:30 p.m. “Songs for a New World” fuses pop, folk, rock, jazz, gospel, funk, and cabaret with sometimes dramatic and poignant, sometimes comic and delightful, but always theatrical lyrics. The show is rated “R” and contains adult language. Tickets are $14, adults; and $10, senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni, and non-Southeastern students. Admission is free for Southeastern students with university I.D. From left, front, are Charlene Robinson of Saint Rose, Travis Bush of Bogalusa, Tiffane “Suga” Henry of Jamaica, W.I.; back, Skyler Stroup and Sarah Kennemer of Mandeville.

(2) IN THE SPOTLIGHT – Betty Turner of Hammond rehearses for one of her solos in the Southeastern Louisiana University Opera/Music Theatre Workshop Fanfare production of Songs for a New World. A vocal performance major, Turner has been in a number of Southeastern productions and was a student last summer at the Oberlin in Italy program in Urbenia, Italy.

(3) STARS AND THE MOON -- Tiffane “Suga” Henry, a communication graduate student from Jamaica, W.I., by way of Queens, N.Y., sings “Stars and the Moon” from the Southeastern Opera/Music Theatre Workshop’s Songs for a New World, opening Wednesday at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Curtain is 7:30 p.m.

(4) ON THE DECK OF A SPANISH SAILING SHIP – Rehearsing the number “On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship” are, from left, Betty Turner of Hammond, Christopher Griffin of Baton Rouge, and Skyler Stroup and Sarah Kennemer, both of Mandeville. The four are among the nine-member cast of the Southeastern Opera/Music Theatre Workshop’s production of the Jason Robert Brown musical review, Songs for a New World, which will be on stage Wednesday-Saturday at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.

(5) MUSICAL KISS – Skyler Stroup of Mandeville and Charlene Robinson of Saint Rose share a kiss as they rehearse “The Next Ten Ninutes,” one of the numbers in the Southeastern Louisiana University Opera/Music Theatre’s musical review Songs for a New World.