Tickets and season

Department of Drama productions are held in the Regent Theatre Complex, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse. Individual tickets may be purchased online via the "buy tickets" link posted with each show below or by calling the Box Office at 315-443-3275. Season packages for the 2012-13 season are available at the Box Office at 820 East Genesee Street from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday or by telephone at 315-443-3275.

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Merrily We Roll Along

September 28-October 7, 2012
Storch Theatre, Department of Drama/Syracuse Stage Complex, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
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Presented by the Department of Drama
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
From the play Merrily We Roll Along by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by and Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet
Choreographed by Andrea Leigh Smith

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary musical charts the rise of a songwriting team during the years of Sondheim’s own young career. Starting in 1976 and running backward in time to 1955, this lively musical focuses on three individuals whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. A masterly work by a master composer, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Sondheim’s most brilliant and bruising songs, including “Not a Day Goes By,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time,” and “Opening Doors.”

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

November 2-November 11, 2012
Storch Theatre, Department of Drama/Syracuse Stage Complex, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
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Presented by the Department of Drama
By John Ford
Directed by Celia Madeoy

After the death of her mother, Annabella is left to face adolescence alone. When her elder brother Giovanni returns home, he propels them both into a dangerous world of sexual transgression and youthful revolt. Together they crash through the boundaries of what can be said, what can be read, what to believe, and who can be loved. This passionate Jacobean drama is as shocking and controversial today as it was almost 400 years ago.

White Christmas

November 23-December 30, 2012
Archbold Theatre, Department of Drama/Syracuse Stage Complex, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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A co-production of Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama*
Based on the Paramount Pictures film
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
Directed by Paul Barnes
Musical Direction by Christopher Drobny
Choreographed by David Wanstreet

*This play is part of Syracuse Stage's 40th anniversary season subscription package. This play is not part of the Department of Drama season subsciption package, though tickets will be available at a discount to subscribers.

The title song alone is a holiday celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army commander. Along the way they find, lose, and find romance, have plenty of laughs, and demonstrate what it means to be loyal. The score is filled with favorites—“Happy Holiday,” “Sisters,” “Blue Skies,” “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”—and the choreography calls for plenty of tap. Winter may not deliver a White Christmas, but director Paul Barnes (The Miracle Worker) and a talented cast sure will.

Top Girls

February 15-February 24, 2013
Storch Theatre, Department of Drama/Syracuse Stage Complex, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
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Presented by the Department of Drama
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Tim Davis-Reed

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, Top Girls flashes with Caryl Churchill’s razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful businesswoman Marlene, and Joyce who has stayed true to their working class background in rural Suffolk. It famously opens with Marlene’s fantastic dinner party, celebrating her promotion with women from myth and history. As the action swings from a smart London Women's Employment Agency to a cottage in rural East Anglia, Top Girls considers the personal sacrifices and compromises women must endure in the pursuit of “success.”

A Midsummer Night's Dream

March 6-March 31, 2013
Archbold Theatre, Department of Drama/Syracuse Stage Complex, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
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A co-production of Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Fennelly

In Shakespeare’s hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) ‘cause it’s off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. “All shall be well!” Puck bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and laughter by the bushel before that happens.

Violet

April 19-April 28, 2013
Storch Theatre, Department of Drama/Syracuse Stage Complex, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
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Presented by the Department of Drama
Book by Brian Crawley
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics by Brian Crawley
Based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts
Directed by Rodney Hudson
Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet
Choreography by Andrea Leigh Smith

With an energetic, gospel, rock, country, and rhythm and blues score by Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change), Violet was one of the most critically acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the ’1990s. Set in 1964 in the South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the growth and enlightenment of a bitter young woman accidentally scarred by her father. Hoping that a TV evangelist can cure her, she embarks on a journey by bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Oklahoma. Along the way, she meets a young black soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage and what it means to be an outsider.