Senior students were selected to represent the music and theater departments in two showcases in New York City after graduation, A panel of judges from New York City came to OCU the first week of the spring semester to audition students. They then chose the cast for the showcase, said David Herendeen, director of opera/music theater and interim director of theater.
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Push the typical portrait photographs aside. Amanda Depree said she enjoys capturing the ‘odd’ and unconventional. “I like to take photos,” the photography freshman said. “I kind of have an obsession with them.” Depee reportedly shoots photos an average of four times per week.
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The American Spirit Dance Company is going on tour. Each spring semester dance department officials choose a select number of dance and arts management students for an international or domestic tour. This year the company’s domestic tour will be traveling to Ada, Okla.
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A student is asking for ‘everybody’s’ votes. Arielle O’Keefe, commercial music composition freshman, is in the top 10 for Ingrid Michaelson’s Everybody video contest. The video entry with the most votes will be invited to perform with Michaelson at one of her concerts.
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Imagine auditioning for a Broadway musical which is acclaimed as “one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time”: West Side Story. Carla Yoselow, dance management junior, Kim Fauré, dance performance senior, Katy Zelon, dance pedagogy senior, and Daniella Ortega, alumna ‘09, auditioned for the show for the first time during Spring Break on March 15 in New York City.
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Is Lady Gaga for sale? Her nine-minute video for "Telephone" has fans and critics going crazy, but what they don't know is that it is one big advertisement. See Full Story
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“Plastic Beach” — the long awaited to sequel to 2005’s “Demon Days” — is yet another piece of animated gold. But while its predecessors were much more straightforward pop albums, Gorillaz’s latest leans toward an experimental blend of neo-soul and radio-friendly grooves.
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Performing before a crowd comes second nature to some students. Auditioning before a camera is something which some students may not be accustomed. Erynne Hundley, theater performance sophomore, initially auditioned for American Idol in August 2009.
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The saddest part about nerddom is loving books and loving movies and wanting books you love to translate into movies everyone will love. The recently released film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief broke my heart. It was loosely based (I can’t say this out loud with a straight face) on the Rick Riordan young adult novel Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.
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The American Spirit Dance Company will bring two dozen high-energy tap, jazz and music theater numbers to the stage next month in a rapid-fire revue of American dance styles during its wildly-popular Spring Show.
“If you blink you’ll miss something,” warns Director Jo Rowan.
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A local Harry Potter Alliance chapter will host its second annual fundraising ball at Oklahoma City University.
The Oklahoma Wizards League (OWL) will present Carousing with Cupid, a Valentine’s-themed ball sprinkled with elements of the popular book series that will raise money for the Harry Potter Alliance, a non-profit organization, and STAND, the student-led division of the Genocide Intervention Network. The ball will be hosted in the Great Hall in Tom and Brenda McDaniel University Center.
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Singer/songwriter featured on MTV shows to kick-off series
Concerts by outside performing artists may not be an uncommon event on campus starting this spring. Officials are hosting a concert free for students at 8 p.m. today in the Burg Theater in Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center. Steve Means, a 23 year-old acoustic pop /soul singer/songwriter from Nashville, will perform at the event.
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