At a glance
Alfred State College's student drama club will present
the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, written by Steve Martin, Friday,
April 3, at 7 p.m. (a dinner performance at the Lake Lodge), Saturday, April 4,
at 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 5, at 2:30 p.m. at the Orvis Activities Center
Auditorium. Admission to the play is $3 for ASC and AU students and
senior citizens; $5 for the general public.
Alfred State College's student drama club will present
the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, written by Steve Martin, Friday,
April 3, at 7 p.m. (a dinner performance at the Lake Lodge), Saturday, April 4,
at 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 5, at 2:30 p.m. at the Orvis Activities Center
Auditorium. Admission to the play is $3 for ASC and AU students and
senior citizens; $5 for the general public. Dinner theater admission will
be $17 for ASC and AU students (or two ASC meal swipes + $3) and $19 for the
general public. Menu items that night will include choice of chicken
French or salmon with dill sauce, pasta primavera, orange herb rice, mixed
vegetables, and assorted desserts.
Tickets are on sale at the Orvis Activities Center and the Pioneer Center
Bookstore on Alfred State College campus, and at Student Activities in the
Powell Center at Alfred University.
Picasso at the
Lapin Agile is a fantasy in which Picasso and Einstein and others meet in
1904 Paris at the Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), a dive of a bar at a time when both men are on the verge of an amazing
idea (Einstein is just about ready to submit his first paper on
relativity for publication in 1905
and Picasso is ready to enter his Rose Period, painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907).
The two brilliant
minds meet amidst regular patrons of the bar and have a lengthy debate about the value of genius and talent while
interacting with a host of other characters. Hilarity ensues, with
Steve Martin's humor ranging from the subtle and sophisticated to the absurdly
outrageous.
This play may be
considered PG-13 because of language.
Cast members
include Freddy, the owner and bartender of the Lapin
Agile, played by Jon Butts, Rochester, mechanical engineering
technology; Gaston, an older man, played by Schnaider
Polynice, NYC, liberal arts and sciences: humanities; Albert Einstein, age 25, played by Matt Brumagin, Angola,
construction management engineering technology; Germaine, waitress and Freddy's girlfriend, played by Deirdre Keating, Rochester,
digital media and animation; Suzanne/Countess, played by Autumn Kaiser, Grand
Island, business administration;
Sagot, Picasso's art
dealer, played by Jeremy Mieczkowski, Durhamville,
architectural technology; Pablo
Picasso, age 23, played
by Seth Kramer, South Lima, culinary arts; Charles Dabernow Schmendiman, a young man, played by Doug
Draper, Millerton, PA, architectural engineering technology; a female admirer, played by Katy Mormino, Alfred, liberal
arts and sciences: social science; and a visitor, played
by Justin Stark, Fort Ann, liberal arts and sciences: humanities.
Production
assistants include Mormino, costume and prop design; Ashley Knights, Dansville,
court and realtime reporting, assistant to costume/prop designer; Derek
Muscato, Angola, mechanical design engineering technology, stage manager; and
Draper, assistant stage manager.
For more information, call ASC Student Activities at (607) 587-4075.