Page 15 - Priorities #30 2005-April

Priory’s First-Ever Broadway Musical Created Fairytale Magic
Cinderella’s evil stepsisters, the Wolf that ate Granny, and Rapunzel of the lengthy tresses —allofthefamiliarfairytalecharactersappearinStevenSondheim’s“IntoTheWoods.” Butwhatstarts
as a simple journey into the woods changes as the fairytale stories go awry and the journey wanders far away from “happily ever after.”
WPS’s Theater Arts and Music departments presented this Tony award-winning musical on March 3-5 in the campus Assembly Hall, with sets and props made by the Visual Arts department. Alumna Amanda
Davison, Class of 2000, returned to the campus to help out as assistant director/producer.
This production was at least two years in the making—more than five years if one counts the
increase in number and quality of classes and performance opportunities. This department may not have a “real stage” or the audience “real seats” but they are experiencing “real theater.”
—C. Dobervich
Photos by Jennifer Hammer, Amanda Davison, and Father Martin Mager