Performing Arts

The Department of Performing Arts brings to the stage this weekend 110 in the Shade, a musical that takes the audience into Depression-era Texas where one woman rediscovers love when a con man comes to town with promises to end a drought. The show opens Thursday night in McCrary Theatre.

Cathy McNeela will present a seminar on auditioning and healthy vocal production in the day-long workshop on Vocal Health in Musical Theater: Singin' on Broadway, on Saturday, February 27, at Duke University.

Lauren Kearns, assistant professor of dance and head of the dance program, was the 2009-2010 guest artist for the Winston-Salem All County Dance Consortium.

A 2007 graduate of Elon University represented North Carolina in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas on Jan. 30. Katherine Southard, a double major in business administration and dance, won the North Carolina contest in June.

The Department of Performing Arts on Thursday night opens its latest show, the critically acclaimed "The Time of Your Life," which tells the story of a man searching for happiness who encounters characters in a waterfront saloon that are on the same journey. Through the duration of the production, from Jan. 21-25, the department will collect canned goods for the Loaves & Fishes Christian Food Ministry in Burlington.

Professors Catherine McNeela and Lynne Kurdziel Formato presented at the Music Theatre Educators Alliance International Conference held Jan. 7-10, 2010, at NYU Steinhardt in New York City.

Lynne Kurdziel Formato recently taught a weekend of master classes in theatre dance as part of the national faculty for Dance Masters of America Chapter #3 in Houston, Texas.

From participating in family talent shows to working at Flat Rock Playhouse in North Carolina, Elon senior Christopher Staskel has always bled theatre, whether acting, dancing or singing. The North Carolina native, the fourth student to be featured in a monthly series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of the university's Lumen Scholars, is now at it again – this time as the mastermind behind an original stage production.