The Millsaps Players are the production arm of the theatre program. The Players normally produce three full-length plays each year at the Christian Center's fully equipped Marion L. Smith Auditorium. Theatre students also presents several one-act plays directed by senior theatre majors. Casting for all plays is by audition and is open to all students. Participation in Players productions, either onstage or backstage, earns credit toward membership in Alpha Psi Omega, the national honorary dramatics society. Academic credit is also available.
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Players continue into their Eighty-Fifth season with:
Friday—Sunday, October 3—5 2008
Senior Directing Project One-Acts:
Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute & The International Stud by Harvey Fierstein
Friday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. – Academic Complex Recital Hall
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Student JR Braun directs Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute. Set in three different hotel rooms, the play follows a soon-to-be-engaged man as he pays a last visit to three ex-girlfriends before taking the plunge. Student Casey Philips directs The International Stud by Harvey Fierstein. Arnold, a drag queen working in New York, while searching for love encounters many twists and turns along the journey.
Cost: $5 general admission
Tickets available in the AC 2nd floor foyer one hour prior to each show.
Friday—Sunday, November 21—23, 2008
Senior Directing Project One-Acts:
The Typists by Murray Schisgal & “Jolly” from The Old Neighborhood by David Mamet
Friday—Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. - Christian Center Auditorium
Student Elizabeth Boteler directs The Typists by Murray Schisgal. Student David Lind directs “Jolly” from The Old Neighborhood by David Mamet.
Cost: $5 general admission
Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show.
Thursday—Friday, December 4—5 and Wednesday—Friday, December 10—12, 2008
Puppet Arts Theatre Production: Peter and the Wolf and The Nutcracker Sweets
 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. each day - Christian Center Auditorium (Please use West Street campus entrance.)
Life-size puppets designed by Jarmila Zapletal and animated objects interact on stage with a real-life narrator to create the feel of a big screen cartoon in a whirlwind of colors in this children’s favorite directed by Peter Zapletal. Presented by the Mississippi Puppetry Guild in cooperation with Millsaps College Department of Performing Arts. See www.mspuppetry.com.
Admission: $6 general admission; $5 per person for group of ten (one free adult admission with each group of ten children.)
Tickets: contact Mississippi Puppetry Guild (601) 977-9840 or info@mspuppetry.com in advance of show.
Thursday—Sunday, February 19—22, 2009
Players Production: The Sound of Music – music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse – directed by Jeannie-Marie Brown
Thursday—Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. - Christian Center Auditorium
Family entertainment at its best.
Cost: $10 general admission; $8 seniors & students
Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show.
Thursday—Sunday, April 16—19, 2009
Players Production: “Have You Observed Nothing?”: an evening of Beckett shorts – directed by Ted Ammon & Jeannie-Marie Brown
Thursday—Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. - Christian Center Auditorium
A philosophical and theatrical evening of Beckett. Pieces include Rough for Theatre I, Ohio Impromptu, Play, Not I and Breath.
Cost: $10 general admission; $8 seniors & students
Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show.
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