Hey everyone! Have you bought your tickets for Ravenswood yet? Well don’t forget, ’cause it opens tonight!
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A NEW YEAR STARTS WITH A NEW BAD HABIT AT THE STUDIO
DETROIT – Looking for a New Year’s resolution? Consider visiting an institution that will break you of your bad habits. All you have to do is take the twisted route played by Nurses Benson and Hedges in the Terrence McNally penned tale, Ravenswood, which plays at The Studio Theatre January 28-30 and February 4-6, 2010.
Ravenswood is the facility across the lake from Dunelawn. Unlike Dunelawn, these patients and nurses aren’t curing themselves of their problems at a retreat. They’re emerging into their “true selves” at a bizarre mystical asylum where injections and straitjackets are normal fare. Gone is the comical glee of Dr. Pepper at Dunelawn; he has been replaced by Dr. Toynbee, who whispers gibberish into his patients’ ears.
Britta Peele as Nurse Benson; Back, Kelli Sarakun as Nurse Hedges
Directed by first-year WSU PhD candidate Aaron Westlake (Saint Joseph, MO), Ravenswood marks his first production at The Studio Theatre.
The cast of Ravenswood includes Alexandre Bleau, (Bruno/Montreal, Quebec), Steve Carson, (Ponce/Detroit, MI), David Cowan, (Blum/Grosse Isle Township), Britta Peele, (Nurse Benson/Harrison Township), Justin Sandelin, (Dr. Toynbee), Kelli Marie Sarakun, (Nurse Hedges/Grosse Pointe), Andrew Sheldon (Hugh Gumbs/Milan) and Justin Wagner (Yamadoro/New Baltimore).
The production team includes Susan Campbell as Set Designer (Marysville), Anthony Karpinski as Properties Master (Grosse Pointe Woods), Colin Mallory as Stage Manager (Lansing), Anne Suchyta as Costume Designer (Dearborn) and Michael Thomas as Lighting Designer (Dearborn).
Ravenswood plays at The Studio Theatre January 28-30 and February 4-6, 2010. The Studio Theatre is located downstairs at the Hilberry Theatre at 4743 Cass Ave. in Detroit. Ticket prices range from $10-$12. Discounts available.
For tickets and more information please call (313) 577-2972, log on to www.wsushows.com or visit the Wayne State University box office at 4743 Cass on the corner of Cass and Hancock.
We’re in for another laughter-filled weekend of Dunelawn at the Studio! Hope you can join us for it!
Still need tickets? They’re still available and can be purchased the night of the show.
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Opening Nov. 27th, Terrence McNally’s Dunelawn will close the Studio Theatre’s Fall Semester.
In Dunelawn, we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married, where the wheel-chaired director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence of such “bad habits” as smoking, drinking and sexual promiscuity – which seems to work wonders for his patients, whose wacky case histories are each examined in hilarious detail.
Featured in the cast are Kerianne Furgerson as Dolly, Joseph Gehart as Harry, Andrick Siegmund as Dr. Pepper, Jonathan Hoopingarner as Roy, Ivy Haralson as April, Robbie Dwight as Otto, Zachary Hordynski as Hiram and Derrell Jones as Francis.
The production team includes director Michael Butterworth. Costume Designer Tracy Machak. Lighting Designer Chelsea Carter. Set Designer Anthony Karpinski, Assistant Set Designer Susan Campbell. Prop Designer Katya Feldman.
The WSU Bonstelle and Studio Theatres at Wayne State 