{"id":16604,"date":"2013-10-28T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=16604"},"modified":"2013-10-28T01:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T06:51:27","slug":"apsu-theatre-and-dance-department-looking-to-reconnect-with-community-with-nunsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/28\/apsu-theatre-and-dance-department-looking-to-reconnect-with-community-with-nunsense\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Theatre and Dance Department looking to reconnect with community with “Nunsense”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Brian Vernon, chair of the Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance, looked a bit tired the other day as he sat in his office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got five nuns learning a tap routine right now,\u201d he said, suppressing a yawn.<\/p>\n

The nuns in question are actually APSU students preparing for the department\u2019s upcoming performance of the wildly popular musical comedy, \u201cNunsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University students rehearse a scene from \u201cNunsense.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Vernon is directing and choreographing the famed play about a group of nuns in the south of France who discover the cook has accidentally poisoned 52 other residents of the convent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun, and it\u2019s going to be a really entertaining evening,\u201d Vernon said. \u201cAnd I thought it was something that could challenge our students, while allowing them the opportunity to excel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNunsense\u201d will open at 7:30pm on November 17th in the Trahern Theater. Show times are 7:30pm November 14th-16th and November 21st-23rd, and 2:00pm on November 17th and November 24th.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe excitement of live theater always trumps movies,\u201d Vernon said. \u201cSomething new happens at rehearsal every night. One might call them mishaps. You might call them challenges. But to see the actresses deal with it and grow with it is amazing. And there\u2019s also nothing like seeing live song and dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNunsense\u201d was a major hit when it premiered on Broadway in 1985. Vernon hopes the popular musical will reconnect his department with the local community. He\u2019s hoping to see some new and familiar faces during a special event on opening night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a special night,\u201d he said. \u201c(APSU) President Tim Hall and other VIPs will be there. We\u2019re not asking for money. We just want to give them a good show to reconnect with our department. And there\u2019s going to be a reception with heavy hors d\u2019oeuvres afterwards, and a meet-and-greet with the cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cast for \u201cNunsense\u201d includes APSU students Becky Bagley, Kaitlynn Weller, Maggie Jackson, Jamila Hunter and Kaitlyn Williams.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact the APSU Department of Theatre and Dance at 931.221.6767. To purchase tickets online, beginning October 28th, visit www.austinpeaytickets.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Brian Vernon, chair of the Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance, looked a bit tired the other day as he sat in his office. \u201cWe\u2019ve got five nuns learning a tap routine right now,\u201d he said, suppressing a yawn. The nuns in question are actually APSU students preparing for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,21145,11642,7207,16779,262,21147,16060,825,4133,9797,21150,21148,21149,2756,21146,1342],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4jO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16605,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions\/16605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}