Wed, Jul 11, 2007
July 9 - 13, 2007
LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, THURS 9PM
Movies On The Green Series Opens With Kramer Vs Kramer
The stars will shine again on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus when the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and University Program Council unspool the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection Movies on the Green series. The series opens this Thursday evening with Robert Benton's moving and well-received adaptation of Avery Corman's novel, "Kramer vs. Kramer," starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.
Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.). Popcorn and soda are sold at the screenings. Film commentary written by Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection donor Jerry Jensen will be distributed free of charge. more...
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, STARTING JULY 11
Repertory Theatre Presents Moonlight And Magnolias
Opening July 11 in Howell Theatre is Moonlight And Magnolias, a farce about the creation of the film Gone With The Wind by Ron Hutchinson. Famed movie producer David O. Selznick (played by Kevin Paul Hofeditz, Dallas, TX) has shut down the filming of Gone With The Wind. He's fired the director and dumped the screenplay. Losing fifty 'grand' a day, he quickly hijacks Victor Fleming (played by Richard Marlatt, Chicago, IL) right off The Wizard Of Oz set and grabs successful screen writer Ben Hecht (played by Alan Ball, Chicago, IL) to try to save his big-budget epic. With the trio locked in his office for five days with nothing to eat but "brain food," bananas and peanuts, we watch the re-imagined birth of one of the most beloved movies of all time. The cast also includes Leta Powell Drake of Lincoln as Miss Poppenghul, Selznick's secretary
Dan Yurgaitis from Aberdeen, South Dakota, directs the production. The production is designed by Steve Shelley from New York City (lighting), Ahna Packard from Vermillion, South Dakota (scenic), Janice Stauffer from UNL (costumes), and Jeff O’Brien of Lincoln (sound). Performances are July 11, 12, 13, 24, 28 and August 2, 3 at 7:30 p.m. and July 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Season passes are $50, $45 faculty/staff and senior citizens, $30 student/youth. Each season pass allows the pass-holder unlimited attendance to all three NRT 2007 productions, one free admission to each Destinations performance, and one free admission to the special screening of the film Gone with the Wind. Individual performance tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and $10 student/youth.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
La Vie En Rose, Severance Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents La Vie En Rose and Severance. Severance will show through July 19, while La Vie En Rose will play through July 26.
A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars 2005 Cesar Award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Born into abject poverty, surrounded by street performers, hookers, and pimps, Piaf's magical voice made her a star on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Severance, a team-building holiday goes takes a change for the worse in the mountains of Europe. Seven employees of the international weapons manufacturer Palisade Defense (global suppliers of innovative weaponry for the past 75 war-torn years) are being treated to a retreat weekend at the company's newly built luxury spa lodge by their president, George Cinders. But things quickly go awry as the colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics, only the smartest will survive this bloody office outing.
More information is available at the Ross website.
