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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Pirates of Penzance Wraps Up Nutmeg Series at CT Rep

Sean Martin Hingston (left, Pirate King) with Ryan N. Phillips (Frederic) and Diane Phelan (Mabel) in Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s Nutmeg Summer Series production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, playing in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre, UConn, Storrs, July 12 – 22.  For tickets and information call 860-486-2113 and visit www.crt.uconn.edu.  Photo by Bob Copley.
Don't miss the conclusion of the Nutmeg Summer Series for CT Rep at the UConn campus with an enjoyable Pirates of Penzance wrapping up this weekend at the Jorgenson Theatre.

Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic operetta, directed by Broadway veteran Terrence Mann, stars Seán Martin Hingston as the Pirate King, Steven Hayes as the Major-General and Connecticut native Diane Phelan as Mabel. Cassie Abate choreographsvid Williams is Music Director (the five musicians. on stage, wear pirate garb).

The Design team includes: Michael Anania, Scenic Designer; Olivera Gajic, Costume Designer; Greg Purnell, Lighting Designer and Nathan Leigh, Sound Designer.

The tap-dancing cops alone are worth the trip up to Storrs.

PERFORMANCE & TICKET INFORMATION:

Evening performances tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 2 pm. Single ticket prices range from $10 to $42. Free parking is in Lot 9 across from the Jorgensen Center; paid parking is available in the North Garage). Call 860-486-2113 or visit www.crt.uconn.edu for tickets and additional information.
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My Bio

Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced
numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont
Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.”

Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway
League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway
run.

She was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill
Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She writes reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway theater (the only ones you can find in the US with an added Christian perspective) at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/. She
is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), CT Press Club's award winner of first place for web editing and second place in feature writing for the web in 2012.

She is a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com and is a theater reviewer for the Manchester Journal-Inquirer. She previously served as Connecticut theater editor
for CurtainUp.com and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web. Yarger is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and freelances for other sites. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

She is a freelance writer and playwright and member of The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, The American Theater Critics Association and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She served as a judge for the SDX Awards presented
by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle (awards committee).

A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts,
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and served for nine years as the Executive Director of Masterwork Productions, Inc. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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