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Contact: Bruce Conley
Associate Director of College Relations
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
www.augie.edu
March 29, 2006
SIOUX FALLS – Augustana Theatre’s final production of the 2005-2006 season, Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, is the most popular operetta of all time.
Performances are April 26-29 at 7:30 p.m. and April 29-30 at 2:30 p.m. in the main theatre of the Edith Mortenson Center. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and non-Augustana students/children, and $1 with a valid Augustana ID. Beginning April 6, the box office will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets can be reserved by calling 274-5320, or by going online at www.augie.edu/theatre
Wacky, irreverent, and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened in 1879, The Pirates of Penzance spins a hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the often ridiculous dictates of honor and duty.
Dan Workman is the guest director with choreography by Deb Workman. The Workmans own and operate the Children’s Theatre Company of South Dakota and are recent graduates of the University of South Dakota.
The cast features Augustana students Joe Gentzler (Indianola, IA), Chapman Riedel (Fort Collins, CO), Jared Miller (Alexandria, MN), Chase Kramer (Sioux Falls), Marty Reichert (Hartford, SD), Lindsay Ammann (Sioux Falls), Alyssa Nance (Sioux Falls), Anna Miller (Plymouth, MN), Jillian Besemer (Blaine, MN), Taylor Swartz (Sioux Falls), David McCoy (Fort Collins, CO), Jesson Vogt (Magnolia, MN), Josh Schoenfelder (Iroquois, SD), John Wilkening (Appleton, MN), Charlie Bahnson (Hartford, SD), Michael Stangeland (Westbrook, MN), Andrew Erickson (Humboldt, SD), Heather Barthelman (Sioux Falls), Andrea Krahling (Sibley, IA), Amanda Korth (Forest City, IA), Caitlin Sellnow (Rochester, MN), Laura Nary (Belle Fourche, SD), Katie Henrichsen (Sioux Falls), Meagan Booth (Cedar Rapids, IA), Kari Rasmussen (Hurley, SD), and Molly Buyske (Shelby, MT).