Lots of love, loss, missed connections and new relationships in Department of Music and Theatre's spring opener.
The Department of Music and Theatre opens it spring season with the perfect post-Valentine's Day dose of love - John Cariani's Almost, Maine.
Showtimes are 7 p.m. March 1-2, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. March 3 in the Gerald and Carolyn
Blaney Theatre in Steele Hall. Performances are open to the public.
Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple
at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.
On one deeply cold and magical midwinter night, the citizens of Almost - not organized
enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness - experience the life-altering power
of the human heart.
Relationships end, begin or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends,
friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers.
Directing the show is Dr. John Paul Staszel, assistant professor in the Department
of Music and Theatre.
"Almost, Maine is a very fun and exciting, yet relatively simple show," Staszel said. "Almost is
really about almost anywhere in small-town America, and I think a lot of the narratives
will resonate with almost any viewer.
"There is a lot of love, a lot of loss, a lot of missed connections, and a lot of
new relationships."
Tickets are $12. Students with valid CalCards are admitted for 50 cents; a $5 deposit
will be returned when the student attends a performance.
For more information or to order tickets by phone, call the Steele Hall Box Office
at 724-938-5943.