What a week!

As expected, this week has felt endless for the UT staff, but we have also gotten the season underway!


On Monday, the Cates Crawl brought out the best of Cates Ave. University Theatre, the Craft Center and ARTS NC State all made an appearance to help get student involved on campus.
George giving a demonstration on the lathe.

ARTS NC State booth.

University Theatre's booth, with a little help from our blow up dolls to promote The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. (Shamless plug: call 919.515.1100 for tickets, show runs from October 1 - 5, 2008 in Stewart Theatre).

There were many other organizations represented and I was excited that Da Chen (the author of this summers freshman reading, Sounds of the RIver) made an appearance since I read the book too!
Da Chen meeting students.

The arts had a pretty good turn out and the dolls definitely generated some interest, especially from our Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Tom Stafford...
Dr. Tom Stafford.

Tuesday, University Theatre and the Craft Center held an Open House for students (at this point I had forgotten all about the camera; sorry, no pictures! I'll work on that...)

We had a decent group of students show for food and mingling. It was great to see most of them show up later in the evening for our audition workshop for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (our office still struggles to figure out the best way to abbreviate this show title. I am choosing to just write it all out). The students learned a few song selections from the show to prepare them for the auditions over the next couple of days.

We also had a good number of new and veteran students audition for the show (cast list will hopefully be posted later on today... keep an eye out). I'm excited to see this show come alive!

On that note, don't forget that in only 3 short weeks (September 15 & 16) we have auditions for Christmas Belles, so if you're not in (oh what the heck...) Whorehouse, start preparing for the next show. Christmas Belles is written by the same author of Dearly Departed, which was a complete hit on campus (and the rest of the community that put it on) last year, so you don't want to miss being a part of this one either!

Our Christmas Belles logo - 919.515.1100 for tickets. They went like hot cakes last year, so get 'em while you can!

That's it for this week, but who knows what will come in the following weeks. Stay with me to find out!