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 Director's Note

This cast had big shoes to fill. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a story that is near and dear to me. It was one of the very first Shakespeare plays that I ever performed and includes some of my favorite characters. 

When I arrived at M-A in August, I had grandiose plans for what this production would be. What it would look like. What it would sound like. How the costumes would glisten. How the fairies would flit about the stage. 

What I imagined was great. What we achieved is even better. I am so proud of all of these students and I truly think that these young performers and designers are some of the most professional and hardworking young adults that I have ever had the pleasure to work with. 

In the fourth act of the play, when the lovers are discovered, Demetrius asks, "Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream." To have arrived at this moment, with the show open, with you - the audience - reading this as you wait for the action to commence, seems like a dream. Wasn't it just yesterday that I was just meeting these students for the first time? Wasn't it yesterday that we cast the show?

I hope that two hours from now, when you rise from your seats, you feel as though you have stepped out of a dream as well. When Puck sends you on your merry way, home for the night, remember "that you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream."

Cheers!

 Alison Sundstrom

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INTO THE WOODS

Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by James Lapine

Performances are Febuary 26-27 & March 3-5. 

Auditions: November 23rd & 24th

 From 3:30-7:00 pm

In the Performing Arts Center

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