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Drury Performing Arts To Stage 'SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical'

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Drury Performing Arts in collaboration with the 21st Century Afterschool Program, announced their 2024 production of Kyle Jarrow's book and musical production of Tina Landau's "SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical".
 
Performances will be held on Friday, April 5, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 6, at 3 and 7 p.m.
 
All performances will take place in the Drury High School auditorium, 1130 South Church St.
 
Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults. Tickets will be sold at the door.
 
According to a press release:
 
"Plunge into this stunning all-singing, all-dancing, dynamic stage show! When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save the fate of their undersea world. With lives hanging in the balance and all hope lost, a most unexpected hero rises up. The power of optimism really can save the world."
 
The SpongeBob musical is based on the animated series created by Stephen Hillenburg and features a book by Kyle Jarrow, with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alexander Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady A, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants and T.I., and songs by David Bowie, Tom Kenny and Andy Paley. Additional lyrics are by Jonathan Coulton, with additional music by Tom Kitt. The musical production was conceived by Tina Landau.
 
The creative team behind "SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical" is made up of Drury faculty.
 
The show is directed and choreographed by theater teacher Liz Urban. Musical direction is by band teacher Christopher Caproni. Technical direction is by arts tech teacher Greg Caproni.
 
Art direction is by visual arts teacher Amanda Hartlage.
 
"SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical'' is presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
 
This project has been supported by a grant from the Gateway Fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

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MCLA in Talks With Anonymous Donor for Art Museum, Art Lab

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

Andre Lynch, the new vice provost for institutional equity and belonging, introduces himself to the trustees, some of whom were participating remotely.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts may be in line for up to a $10 million donation that will include a campus art museum. 
 
President Jamie Birge told the board of trustees on Thursday that  the college has been in discussions for the last couple years with a donor who wishes at this point to remain anonymous.
 
"It's a donor that has a history of working with public liberal arts institutions to advance the arts that those institutions," he said.  "This donor would like to talk with us or has been talking with us about creating art museum and an art lab on campus."
 
The Fine and Performing Arts Department will have input, the president continued. "We want to make sure that it's a facility that supports that teaching and learning dynamic as well as responding to what's the interest of donor."
 
The college integrated into the local arts community back in 2005 with the opening of Gallery 51 on Main Street that later expanded with an art lab next door. The gallery under the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center had been the catalyst for the former Downstreet Art initiative; its participation has fallen off dramatically with changes in leadership and the pandemic. 
 
This new initiative, should it come to pass, would create a facility on MCLA Foundation property adjacent to the campus. The donor and the foundation have already split the cost of a study. 
 
"We conducted that study to look at what approximately a 6,500-square-foot facility would look like," said Birge. "How we would staff the gallery and lab, how can we use this lab space for fine and performing arts."
 
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