This is re-blogged (is that a thing?) from our College website.........

In the large photo above the headline, Patrick Vassel meets with students lined up after his talk to have a word with him in McCarthy Recital Hall. The photo directly above shows him speaking from the podium. Below are other scenes from the evening. (photos by Danielle Joubert '20)

In the words of well-known lyrics from the show, Saint Michael’s College students were “offered some free advice” on Tuesday evening by Patrick Vassel, associate and supervising director of Hamilton. Vassel currently works on the show on Broadway, in Chicago, and on the national tour.

"Hamilton - the Musical" was chosen as the Common Text for the First Year Seminar program at Saint Michael's College this year! This means that every incoming student was required to listen the music, read the lyrics, and complete a summer writing assignment about the show, in preparation for discussion in class this week.

Every Theatre Major at SMC enrolls in a Senior Seminar course, and prepares a major projects to showcase skills they have developed or polished in their time here. These "Sem" projects take many forms. With nine members in the Class of 2018, we needed to start early to accommodate all the productions.

Demora Dessert (Directing) and Patrick Cornacchio (Playwriting and Acting) presented their projects in the Fall Semester.......

Last night was the opening for our Spring MainStage production of "Fuddy Meers" by David Lindsay-Abaire. Audience members were greeted by cast-member-ushers - who silently brought them through the back hallways and stairwells of McCarthy Arts Center - which had been filled with reflective installations by Scenic Designer Lauren Sousa '18.

Professor of Fine Arts John Devlin accompanied 16 Saint Michael’s College students to the annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Danbury, CT, from January 30-February 4, 2018.

The play Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, now in rehearsal at Saint Michael’s College for four performances March 21- 24 at 7 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center, jars and challenges its audience’s sense of reality; but ultimately, this “darkly comic thrill-ride” coaxes viewers toward “positivity and a sense of wonder,” says director Peter Harrigan of the College’s Fine Arts/Theatre faculty.

"Mill Girls", the original play with music by Composer Tom Cleary and Writer/ Director Peter Harrigan, was wildly successful - playing to standing-room-only crowds at every performance.

A 14-member student cast at Saint Michael’s College started work on Labor Day, which felt appropriate, for a new original play with music about the lives of 19th century girls who worked the mills of New England towns like Lowell, MA, and Winooski, VT. 

That rehearsal launched preparations still under way for performances on November 2, 3,4,10 & 11 at 7 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center Theater. All performances are free and open to the public. 

Created and directed by St.

Last night we held a short preview performance of "Mill Girls." Tom Cleary & I are collaborating on this verbatim play about the exceptional young women who worked in New England’s textile mills in the early 19th century; it will serve as the Mainstage Production this fall.

Jenny Burke is a sophomore from Hampton Falls, NY with a double major in Theatre and Elementary Education. 

What drew you to Saint Michael's College to study theatre and education? 

I have known what I wanted to major in for a long time, but looking for a school that could accommodate both majors was fairly difficult.  My uncle graduated from Saint Mike’s, so it was on the list of colleges I was interested in.  When I came to visit the first time, I had a gut feeling that I felt at home here.
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