2024-2025 Season

This season we are delighted to be welcoming back students, friends, family, and community members to our stages. The 2024-2025 season is sure to delight!

Season Overview

(they say…)  a devised piece

Directed by Jeffrey Beam

Colman Theater

October 3, 4, 5  at  7:30

October 6 at 2:00

“they say…” explores the many dimensions of gender fluidity and the non-binary experience. It is an original performance piece based on texts and personalities drawn from youtube and other social media platforms.

Smash by Jeffrey Hatcher

Directed by Sean Dooley

Gorecki Theater

November 7, 8, 9 and 14, 15, 16 at 7:30

November 10 at 2:00

SMASH is a wonderfully high-style British comedy of manners adapted from a novel by George Bernard Shaw that evokes Shaw’s high-minded heroes and heroines but is shaped by a postmodern sensibility. Sidney Trefusis, a millionaire socialist infiltrates a women’s college in order to plant the seeds of socialism in the brains of the future consorts of cabinet ministers and kings. His revolution goes awry as Henrietta, Sidney’s ex-wife, arrives to lead the women towards a future of their own making.

SHE LOVES ME

Book by                                              Music by                                 Lyrics by
JOE MASTEROFF                             JERRY BOCK                        SHELDON HARNICK

Based on a Play by Miklos Laszlo
Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Originally Produced on Broadway by Harold Prince
in Association with
Lawrence N. Kasha and Philip C. McKenna

Original Orchestrations by Don Walker
Adapted by Frank Matosich, Jr.

She Loves Me

Is presented by special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI)
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI
www.mtishows.com

Gorecki Theater

April 24, 25, 26 and May 1, 3, 4 at 7:30

April 27 at 2:00

Ticket information will be posted with Fine Arts Programming. For questions on specific performances, please call the CSB and SJU Box Office at 320-363-5777.

https://www.csbsju.edu/fine-arts/performances/

She Loves Me is a musical romantic comedy with a soaring score based on the same play as the films The Shop around the Corner and You’ve Got Mail. Amalia and Georg work together at a modest Hungarian parfurmerie and have disliked each other from the very beginning. He thinks she’s stuck up, and she thinks he’s arrogant and mean. At the same time each rapturously writes to a lonely-hearts pen pal and it doesn’t take long for the audience to see that they’re in love without realizing it. Through some of the most iconic songs in the musical theatre canon (“Vanilla Ice Cream”, “She Loves Me”, “Will He Like Me?”), Georg and Amalia discover the truth and rejoice in their love for each other at the story’s sweet and musically delightful conclusion.

Directed by Sean Dooley

Musical Direction by Gyehyun Jung

Choreography by David DeBlieck

College of Saint Benedict
Saint John’s University

Amelia Cheever
Chair, Theater Department

[email protected]
320-363-5785