TAP Presents “Ghost Quartet”

Sacred Heart University’s Theatre Arts Program is currently performing their own production of “Ghost Quartet.” “Ghost Quartet” is available for Sacred Heart students and staff to see in the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on March 4-6 at 8 p.m., March 7 at 3 p.m., March 11-13 at 8 p.m. and March 14 at 3 p.m.

Tickets for the show can be purchased in person at the box office in the Edgerton Center. Tickets for Sacred Heart students are $5. The show is free for Sacred Heart faculty and staff with their Sacred Heart ID. General Public tickets are not available for this show.

The Theatre Arts Program is following all Sacred Heart’s COVID-19 guidelines and precautions. All the students will be wearing masks while they are performing, or they will be socially distanced by six feet and plexiglass dividers will be used. Only twenty-five guests will be allowed to attend each show in order to keep everyone in attendance safe and healthy.

“The cast of four has a crew of 40 around them,” said Executive Director of Performing Arts, Gerald Goehring. The Sacred Heart student cast members, Ally Engengro, Mark Bosse, Nicky Duca and Julianna Rezza will be performing the first Theatre Arts Program or “TAP” play of the semester.

“I am overly excited to see this production, I know that this is going to be a good show. They always are very professional,” said Devon Cavaliere, senior theatre arts member.

Sacred Heart normally puts on six plays a year, but due to COVID-19, the Theatre Arts Program was only able to put on one play and musical in the fall semester. “Ghost Quartet” is the first play of the spring semester.

Behind the scenes there are makeup artists, lighting crew, quick response crew, and a COVID-19 crew. The COVID-19 crew was added this year due to the pandemic. This crew will be in charge of checking the temperatures of the audience at the door before they are admitted into the theater. The crew will also make sure that everyone has a mask on while they are enjoying the show. Before guests enter the facility, everything will be wiped down and sanitized.

The play ranges with several types of genres of music. There are many stories being told over bottles of whiskey. The show could be described as a story told through songs discussing love, death, and whisky. It takes place throughout seven centuries.

According to the Edgerton Center website, “From the creator of the Tony Award winning Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, ‘Ghost Quartet’ is a kaleidoscopic journey spanning continents, centuries and the cosmos ensues. But even through the fogs of time and a haze of whiskey, Rose can’t shake the feeling that she’s done this all before…”

According to the Egerton Center website, “‘Ghost Quartet’ is an intoxicating musical of love, loss and spirits – of both the spectral and alcoholic kind. This hauntingly beautiful song cycle is a story about stories themselves; how we tell them, how we hear them, and how they evolve, intertwine and draw us in.”

The music, lyrics and text were all written by Dave Malloy. According to The Guardian, “Working its way through myth, magic and several bottles of whisky, the UK premiere of Dave Malloy’s unearthly song cycle is intoxicatingly strange.”

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