Fine Arts

Year: 2011

  • Rob Berdahl ’90 Captains Guthrie Theatre’s H.M.S. Pinafore

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    As Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore drops anchor on the Guthrie Theatre Stage June 18 – August 28, 2011, she will be captained by Twin Cities actor/vocalist Robert O. Berdahl ’90. Guthrie Artistic Director Joe Dowling directs this splash hit musical which features Berdahl as Captain Corcoran and Christina Baldwin as Little Buttercup. Pinafore opens…

  • Erin Belpedio ’11 Lighting Footloose

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    Lighting Designer Erin Belpedio ’11, honored for her work by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology in 2010, is living proof that the show must go on. Instead of resting on her past honors and taking a well-deserved rest following graduation in May, Belpedio is back in the booth at the Anoka (Minnesota) Lyric…

  • Stacey Lindell ’00 in Broadway Musical

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    Stacey Lindell, a 2000 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, is starring in the Minneapolis premiere of the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The show will be performed by the Minneapolis Musical Theatre (MMT), at the Illusion Theatre on the eighth floor of the Hennepin Center for the Arts, June 10-26.

  • Violinist Taylor Frey ’14 Featured in Fairbanks News

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    It was only natural Taylor and Kendra Frey would be introduced to classical music at an early age. The daughters of two classical musicians, teacher Sheryl Frey and the late John Frey, they began learning the violin as preschoolers.

  • Huff Wins Playwrighting Award

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    Doug Huff, Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, was recently named the winner of the 2010 Hidden River Arts Playwrighting Award for his play A Far Shore. For winning the award, Huff will receive a monetary award, the manuscript of A Far Shore will be published by Hidden River Arts, and the play will…

  • Jussi Bjorling Centennial Celebration at Gustavus

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    As part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jussi Bjorling, the Jussi Bjorling Society-USA, in cooperation with Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, will present a concert in memory of the legendary Swedish tenor on Friday, June 24. The performance will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Jussi Bjorling Recital…

  • Gustavus Hosts Minnesota All-Lutheran Choir

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    The 40-voice Minnesota All-State Lutheran Choir will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 24 in Christ Chapel on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College. The concert is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be collected.

  • Alumni & Faculty in Chanhassen’s Superstar

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    Beginning in March and running through July 30, Minnesota’s Chanhassen Dinner Theatre is presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s classic ’70s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Among the large cast on stage and in the opera’s band are Gustavus graduates Nickie Kromminga ’98 and Chad M. Anderson ’08. Adjunct professor of music Paul Hill…

  • Dawn Gehlhar Williams ’06, Music & Story-Telling

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    Dawn Michelle (Gehlhar) Williams ’06 reveals her true heart and soul at the piano. She states that in many ways, her music is like her dad’s story telling.  Using notes instead of words, Dawn draws on her own experiences as she strives to write music that includes bits of her — her feelings, heart, dreams—and…

  • Gomez Dance Group ‘Reunions’ Includes Gustie Alumni

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    Gomez Dance Group will present Reunions – a show that reunites past and present company members for a concert with tremendous range of physicality and emotion at Patrick’s Cabaret in Minneapolis, June 3 & 4 at 8:00 p.m. Artistic Director Maria Gomez Tierney, former member of the Gustavus Department of Theatre & Dance, has invited…