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Show review: “Pipeline” depicts a beautiful yet chilling struggle on the main stage

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Reading Time: 4 minutesRAE WIESER Special to The Leader “We will die soon.” The last three words in Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “We Real Cool,” are the hardest words to come out in “Pipeline,” written by Dominique Morisseau.  Fredonia Main Stage’s guest director, Yao Kahlil, beautifully brought Dominique’s play to life with a cast......
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“The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera” review 

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Reading Time: 4 minutesLYDIA TURCIOS Art Director Is that the call of the great beyond, or an operatic high C? Trick question; it’s both! The SUNY Fredonia Performing Arts Company has just wrapped up their rendition of “The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera,” an audioplay written by Paul Shapera.  This opera......
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Movie review: “Tick, Tick… BOOM!”

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Reading Time: 3 minutesERIN MOSHER Special to The Leader The tell-tale life of Tony award-winner Jonathon Larson, as told and adapted by director Lin-Manuel Miranda, was released onto Netflix Nov. 19, 2021. Andrew Garfield portrays Larson perfectly to all extremities, from the personality to the same love of music and work.  Miranda said......
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SUNY Fredonia’s Mainstage Series ‘The Wild Party’

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTheater Review LYDIA TURCIOS Art Director The doors of SUNY Fredonia’s Robert W. Marvel have burst back open with passionate and campy aplomb, thanks to the efforts of the Department of Theatre and Dance in producing Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party,” directed by Professor Jessica Hillman-McCord.  Much like the musical’s......
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Costume Cleanout: Vests, tights and frills

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLYDIA TURCIOS Art Director The Department of Theatre and Dance hosted a Costume Cleanout last week, Friday Oct. 15, to fundraise for the Laurel Walford Costume Scholarship. The event lasted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and took place in the Rockfeller Arts Center Atrium. The event was a success;......
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Theater review: “Ordinary Days”

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLYDIA TURCIOS Art Director This week PAC — the Performing Arts Company, a student run organization here at SUNY Fredonia — performed Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon, with great success. This production was their first in person event since February 2020, and set the tone for a brilliant year of......
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[SATIRE] What’s that, Fredonia? What do YOU think about musical theatre majors?

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJAY BYRONStaff Scallywag Lean Man Mamanda Junior American history “not throwing away my shot” major. “Generally speaking, they blow us all away. Wait for it — history has its eyes on you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.”  (Scallywag note: I threw up after speaking to him.)......
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I’m an acting major in quarantine. This is my story.

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Staff Scallywag Before I begin, I have to preface this article with the fact that everything I’m about to say is true. There is nothing in this article that has been fabricated or exaggerated in any way, and I am living in Hell.  I am an acting major.......

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