Performing Arts gets off to an entertaining start with “All in the Timing,” the first production of the year
By Kate Peifer Staff Writer peifer14@up.edu
On a cold, foggy autumn night a lady dressed in her evening best headed to the theater. Once inside, the audience conversed with one another, sipping coffee and admiring the actors' headshots. Within minutes, the doors to the theater opened and guests were warmly greeted and escorted to their seats. You may be wondering where such a fanciful experience was had. Our scene: Mago Hunt Theater.
Act One: The lights to the theater dimmed as a hush drew over the audience. Big band music played in the background and one spotlight shone down onto the stage. The show had begun!
The play, "All in the Timing," a collection of six, one-act shows is just the first of eight plays and musicals that will be performed this year at the UP Performing Arts Center.
The actors captured my attention from the beginning as I rolled in laughter, tapped my toes in time and pondered in somber silence.
Costume designs were brilliantly bright and time-period appropriate for each of the six individual plays.
The entire performance was two hours long with a 15-minute intermission, yet whisked by due to the superb performances and lively response from the audience.
As the last act concluded, smiles spread wide across the faces of the audience, including myself. This showed greater enjoyment toward the actors bowing on stage than the wild applause. Then a lady in her evenings best walked out of the warm, enthusing theater with growing excitement and anticipation for the next play.
You too can have such an experience at the next play, "Arms and the Man," November 11-13 and 17-19 at Mago Hunt Theater.
