Aaron Berkowitz – General Assignments Writer
People who love theater cannot stay away, said Katherine Sedlock, the president and a member of the Crescent Players for the past four years.
Sedlock said the club is a way for anyone interested in theater to network with others while gathering some experience in any aspect of the field at the same time. According to the club’s mission statement, the theater department’s job is to provide theater education and training of the highest quality within a liberal arts setting, while fostering students’ personal, artistic development, and engaging with the community at large.
“I’ve met a lot of friends that I am still friends with today,” said Sedlock. “Our group is pretty close. We are all theatrical and animated, we can be dramatic but we get each other. We are a little bit closer than say the ‘typical’ school group. We go to the movies a lot and hang out a lot outside of rehearsals.”
Olivia Cintron, the event coordinator for the club and an actress in some school productions, said anyone can and are encouraged to become an active member just by stopping by their meetings which take place on every third Friday of the month and arranging to help clean up sets after productions take place. She also said she is in charge of organizing events such as open mic nights and the most recent school production “The Rocky Horror Show.”
“The club offers students the opportunity to try every aspect of theater,” said Cintron. “You can do lighting, sound, or acting.”
Cintron said a lot of chemistry within the group comes from the bond the members build outside of rehearsals.
“Our bond is a lot stronger,” said Cintron who is in her second semester with the club. “We all know about each other’s families and even help each other with homework from time to time. Our advisors always have our backs and are always trying to make sure we have one foot in the door with whatever it is that we want to do or accomplish.”
Cintron said there are about 25 regular members in the club and there were about 15 new members who joined this semester.
Cintron also said students interested in being a part of the next school production of the “Urinetown Musical,” written by Greg Kotis and directed by Larry Nye, should be on the lookout for auditions coming up in December.
“Most of the people in the club are in the show as well,” said Cintron. “You don’t have to be in the show if you don’t want to, you can just be a member. We tend to work very long hours. During the month and a half we have before a show we usually spend about six days a week with each other just rehearsing and then have our meeting on Friday.”
Sedlock said each semester the club organizes two productions and aside from the showing of the “Urinetown Musical” that will happen next semester, they are also planning on doing a play entitled “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Annie Baker and directed by Kaia Monroe Rarick. According to the school website, all are welcomed to audition; you do not have to be a theater major to be in one of the shows.
“We want students to come on by, we have a lot of fun,” said Cintron. We aren’t just about theater, we are about having a good time.
