Southeast’s River Campus has announced the lineup for their 13th season.
A major theme of 2019-2020 is putting students in the spotlight after the university scrapped their Touring Series - a move announced earlier this year.
“We’re doing a lot more of these things where the students now have more opportunities to perform, so we’re filling the void,” says Cerchio.
Assistant Director of the Holland College of Arts and Media, Bob Cerchio says they put on well over a hundred performances throughout the year, in addition to about fifty visual arts events.
He says their performance of “The Three Musketeers” will feature swordplay training by one Southeast instructor who is well-versed in combat implements. For fans of the DreamWorks movie, “Shrek: The Musical” is coming to the River Campus as well. Additional productions include “Heathers: The Musical” and “The Wolves.”
In October, Grammy award-winner Cho-Liang Lin will be performing at the Gala Season Opener. In March, works by John Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber will be performed in a “Symphonic Pops with Symphonic Stars” performance. Large choral works include Poulenc’s “Gloria” in November and Brahms’ “A German Requiem” in April, which will combine the Southeast Missouri Symphony, University Choir, and Choral Union.
Southeast will continue to host Spring Into Dance and the Southeast Missouri Symphony Series. The "Big Band Christmas Jukebox" event will return for its second year after much success last December.
Despite a lack in touring shows, the Moscow Ballet will still rent the Bedell Performance Hall for their annual performance of "The Great Russian Nutcracker."
The percussion ensemble will also invite the public to have hands-on experience with in their Drum Circles series, Cerchio says.
On the horizon for fundraising events, the Conservatory will host their Extravaganza event in March 2020 and the “Taste of Cape” restaurant hop in April. The Holland College will put on “Celebrate the Arts” in May.
“These are all exciting opportunities for people to see stuff that you wouldn’t normally be able to see in Cape Girardeau,” says Cerchio.
A calendar of events and more information on the upcoming River Campus season will be made available here later this summer.