This preview has been provided by the UNC School of the Arts.
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at 8:00 p.m., the statewide UNC-TV network will broadcast UNCSA’s American premiere of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, with music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The production was presented on campus March 29-April 7, 2012.and filmed for television. It will be broadcast on UNC-TV as part of a grant from the A.J. Fletcher Foundation, with generous support from the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund for the Arts.
UNCSA’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s most spirited and sophisticated battle of the sexes, is directed by School of Drama Assistant Dean Bob Francesconi, distinguished teacher of acting, movement and mask, who has served on the faculty since 1978.
Much Ado’s Musical Director is Chancellor John Mauceri, a world-renowned conductor with Grammy, Tony and Emmy awards to his credit. The founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Mauceri has carved a distinguished and extraordinary career that has taken him not only to the world’s greatest opera companies and symphony orchestras, but also the musical stages of Broadway and Hollywood.
The cast includes the fourth-year undergraduate students in the School of Drama. The chamber orchestra comprises high school, college and graduate instrumentalists in the university’s School of Music. All elements of the production are constructed by the students of the school, under the mentorship of their professional faculty.
The scenic designs are by John V. Bowhers, then a fourth-year college student in the university’s School of Design & Production and the winner of the 2012 U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology’s W. Owen Parker Award, the highest award for a student scenic designer in the United States.
The costumes are designed by Christine Turbitt, Director of the Costume Design and Technology Program in the School of Design & Production, who has served on the UNCSA faculty since 1974.
David Stern, who directed the cameras for UNCSA’s televised production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” also directs the cameras for this broadcast.
For more information, visit http://www.uncsa.edu/performances/FeaturedPerfMuchAdo.htm:
