theatre-hopkins-follies-concert-version

Thanks to Jeff Burch for sending the following information about the Theatre Hopkins performances. Jeff, who lives on Pill Hill, is starting in the upcoming production of Follies: Concert Version:

Celebrating its 88th season, Theatre Hopkins will present two musicals in the winter and summer of 2010 at the Swirnow Theater on the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Opening in February will be Follies: Concert Version, and in June, the Maryland premiere of The Glorious Ones.

The concert version of Follies, featuring Stephen Sondheim’s celebrated score and lyrics, with book by James Goldman, will open Friday, Feb. 19, running weekends through Sunday, Feb. 28. Directed and choreographed by Todd Pearthree, the company portrays a host of players who have assembled to bid adieu to the ruin of a vaudeville theater. They caress memories of faded youth accompanied by Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning score. The cast includes Jeff Burch and Patty Coleman. Also included in the cast are Nancy Asendorf and Amy Pierson, who, as mother and daughter, led the cast of last season’s The Light in the Piazza.

Curtain time for Friday and Saturday performances is 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. Ticket prices are $20. If space permits, student rush tickets will be available the hour before show for $5. For reservations or further information, contact Theatre Hopkins at (410) 516-7159 or by e-mail at thehop@jhu.edu, or visit http://www.jhu.edu/~theatre

February 19 – 28, 2010
The Swirnow Theater, at the Mattin Arts Center
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus.
Tickets $20
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A Note about the Swirnow Theater: The Swirnow Theater in the Mattin Center, is “black box”, meaning that the audience and performing areas can be altered in size & shape for each production. In the case of Follies and The Glorious Ones, there will be 5-6 rows of free-standing seats, totalling about 100 seats, facing the stage in a traditional proscenium-style arrangement. Seat locations are not reserved in advance, known as “open seating”. Patrons choose their own seats when they arrive.