The 2007-2008 Theatre and Dance season marks the first season at the new Southeast River Campus.

"Big River," the premiere performance in the Bedell Performance Hall, will open the Theatre and Dance season Oct. 24-28. It is a hugely popular musical adapted from the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Then on Nov. 8-10, the Fall Dance Concert, an informal, in-studio performance, showcases the creative and sometimes avant-garde inspirations of aspiring student choreographers' works-in-progress.

"Coyote Ugly" will be performed Nov. 28-Dec. 2 in the Flexible Theatre. It explores the twisted psyches of its unique, damaged characters and will fascinate audiences with its audacious wit and wild swings between outrageous humor and chilling violence.

"Crimes of the Heart" comes to the Flexible Theatre Feb. 6-10. The story of three sisters who reunite at their family home in Mississippi, "Crimes of the Heart," tells how they begin to make their tearful, hilarious way to a better day as they revisit long-ignored familial issues.

Dance-apalooza 2008 is slated for Feb. 28 to March 2 in the Bedell. Dance-apalooza is the larger dance concert of the season and will feature faculty and guest choreographers, state-of-the-art professional lighting, music and costume design. It will be a feast of the senses for all ages and an inspiring collaboration of theatre, dance, art and music.  It may even feature the final, polished version of one of the studio performances seen in the Fall Dance Concert.

Closing out the Theatre and Dance season will be "Biloxi Blues" April 10-12 and April 18-20 in the Bedell Performance Hall. "Biloxi Blues," the second of Neil Simon’s trilogy of semi-autobiographical plays, is a coming-of-age story of Eugene Jerome, a New York City Jew who is uprooted and transplanted to Biloxi, Miss., for basic training in the U.S. Army in the final years of World War II.

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