Show raises money for TMA

The Theater Majors Association held a variety show Saturday, Nov. 1 in the Morrison Center to help raise money for their next showcase and to send students to the American College Theater Festival.

“We’re hoping to go to the American College Theater Festival,” TMA President Ryan Adolfson said. “It’s a big regional festival and we’re hoping to send our club and learn from a variety of people there.”

TMA has a showcase each semester.

“The showcase is an opportunity to show case our talent,” Adolfson said.

This semester’s showcase is a full-length play held Dec. 3-6. “Almost, Main” will be student-directed, with students working on every aspect except the script.

The funds raised from the variety show go towards the set, costumes and royalties for the showcase.

Jordan Barrington

Freshman

Theater Major

Talent: playing the piano and singing a song she wrote the music and lyrics to.

How long have you been singing/writing music?

“I just decided to take a music theory class and I caught on. I started writing my own music and I really enjoy that.”

Why did you decide to do the variety show?

“Because I wanted to raise money for the TMA. I want to help out. I absolutely love TMA, everyone is super friendly and everybody helps out and I really

enjoy it.”

Chris Bodovinitz

Junior

Mass Communication/ Journalism Major, Theater Minor

Talent: playing electric guitar with loop station* (3 songs).

How long have you been playing guitar?

“Fifteen years, but this is my first time playing in front of anyone since high school.”

Why did you decide to do the show?

“I’m part of TMA and I want to help them out, and I also want to play in front of my friends. It’ll be the first time they see me. Some of them didn’t even know I played the guitar.”

Kelley Stultz and AJ Duthie

Senior, Sophomore

Communication and Theater Major/, Music/Business Major

Talent: singing/acoustic

guitar.

How long have you been

singing/playing guitar?

“My whole life, and so do all my siblings. My mom had to listen to all four children sing all the time,” said Stultz.

Why did you decide to do

the show?

“Over the summer I realized she [Stultz] sings and I said ‘why don’t you sing more?’ She was apprehensive about singing in front of people but we started practicing and this show came up at the perfect time,” said Duthie

*A loop station records fragments of melodies, and then combines them and plays them all together creating one song. It creates the effect of an entire band playing

SONIA TREVIZO
Arbiter Journalist

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