Ride the Cyclone
Book and Music by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Evenings March 30-31 and April 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinee April 2 at 2:00 p.m.
The Pit - O'Kane 37
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other – the chance to return to life. A funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived! An Alternate College Theatre production, directed by Blake Sheridan.
Rasa
Music by Shirish Korde
Libretto and direction by Lynn Kremer
Suggested by the novel Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee, with poems by Robert Bly
April 20-22 and 27-29 at 7:30 p.m.
Prior Performing Arts Center Luth Concert Hall
A remounting of Lynn Kremer and Shirish Korde’s extraordinary music-theatre piece, previously produced at Holy Cross in 1991 and 1998. Rasa is a large-scale multi-media production yet, as The American Record Guide has written, it is “remarkable in its beauty and subtlety . . . of considerable musical richness.” A young woman escapes her native India for America after her fiancé is killed, relocating first in Manhattan, then in the heartland, and each time reinventing her identity. This is a story of startling metamorphoses and unexpected resurrections.