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TADA gives a behind-the-scenes look at backstage elements of a production

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMIA CIECHALSKI Life & Arts Editor Design Elements from the TADA production of Book Women Photo by DREW PALUCH | Photo Editor Until April 17, students are receiving a sneak peek at the behind-the-scenes elements of the university’s biggest productions. Through their newest exhibit, the Emmitt Christian Gallery is giving......
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TADA to perform “Legally Blonde: The Musical”

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAMARAH GHORI DEI Chair & Asst. Opinion Editor This fall, the courtroom is coming to Fredonia. “Legally Blonde: The Musical” will be performed by SUNY Fredonia’s Department of Theatre and Dance at the Robert W. Marvel Theatre, inside Rockefeller Hall. Performances will be held on Oct. 25, 26, 27, 31......
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Nyles Emile presents commentary on race and identity in directorial debut Fairview

Dan Quagliana
Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor PAC’s poster for Fairview. Designed by Alyssa Regrette. For first-time director Nyles Emile, SUNY Fredonia’s Performing Arts Company’s (PAC) production of Fairview is a dream come true. A 2018 play written by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Fairview confronts the......
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Dr. Rob Deemer — Fredonia’s new faculty maestro

Drew Paluch
Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor Dr. Rob Deemer is a name that most students have probably heard floating around campus, even if they don’t know exactly who he is.  Finding out all that he does will take a long time, simply because he accomplishes so much around the university. Deemer is,......
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Fredonia shows PACing a punch

EJ Jacobs
Reading Time: 3 minutesEJ JACOBS  Life & Arts Editor What makes a story timeless?  Some students say Fredonia’s Performing Arts Company (PAC) has perfected the answer. Every year, PAC puts on five productions: two main stage productions, two experimental productions and one collaborative production, which is usually written by a student. Students create......
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[SATIRE]: Lauren Boebert … Maybe don’t do that.

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMEGAN KIDBY Scallion Editor and Theater Nerd Hey Girly Pop! I’m so happy you decided to either randomly pick up this student-run newspaper from a state you’re not even in or search “Lauren Boebert Leader” on Google only to find this! I wanted to reach out and ask about your......
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Preparing for the role: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMICHAEL WILLIAMS  Staff Writer Audiences packed Marvel Theatre this past weekend for the second to last show in the Walter Gloor Mainstage Series, “Romeo and Juliet,”  When preparing to play Juliet, junior musical theatre major Jules Pearson had to do things a little different.  “Shakespeare is very informed to the......
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Gen. E represents Gen Z in Broadway’s ‘Les Miz’

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Reading Time: 8 minutesWILL KARR Editor in Chief In 2019, Fredonia alum and former theatre student Genevieve Ellis was warming up for her senior recital and preparing for life after graduation. But, one microscopic medical discovery put a halt to all of her future plans. As she approached graduation, she explained how “things......
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Take a magical journey ‘Into the Woods’ in Marvel Theatre

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Reading Time: 5 minutesWILL KARR  Life & Arts Editor  From the story of Little Red Riding Hood, to the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, many fairy tales have been passed down to children from generation to generation. James Lapine’s and Stephen Soudheim’s “Into the Woods” embeds multiple children stories into one single......
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PAC presents ‘A New Brain’ + photo gallery

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDREW PALUCH Special to The Leader SUNY Fredonia’s Performing Arts Company showcased “A New Brain” in the Bartlett Theatre on Sept. 30, Oct. 1 and Oct. 2. The musical was directed by Alice Khekht, a senior musical theatre major. Described as “a strange and chaotic musical” by Vincent Canale-Rouse, who......

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