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At the Ferst center for the arts, Tech students live for the moment when the lights go out, and the curtains rise. They hatch in the heat of a spotlight and feed on the applause and laughter of an audience. The authors' art, the directors' genius, the actors' interpretation paraded in the grandest of pomp and pageantry. All of this so they can find a healthy catharsis for their neuroses. In the spirit of Monty Python's Life of Brian, the voices in their heads scream "Look at me, I'm alive, I'm alive!" but only on stage.
Performance is an expression of talent, courage, and absolute shamelessness that sometimes borders on utter stupidity but this is what we expect and respect. It is apparent in the fearless choreography of Dramatech's Show Choir, and Dramatech's musicals. For instance, last spring Dramatech performed The Who's Tommy. Tommy drew larger audiences than any show in Georgia Tech history, but it was a story about a blind kid playing pinball. Songs about child molestation, drugs, whores, and bullies set the crowds to roar with approval. So, what's the deal?
Grease, Guys and Dolls, and Into The Woods all turn the perverse and absurd into dazzling displays of hilarious talent. Go to a Homecoming Mock Rock or Talent Show and suddenly cross dressing is no longer risque; it's hilarious. Dramatech capitalizes on this phenomenon. So, what does this have to do with those of us who do have a shame center in our brains? What does this mean for those of us with only our one voice speaking to us? I'll tell you. If you've ever gone to a fraternity party and watched the drunk, make that hammered, people stumble into walls and laughed, you know how funny these things can be. Go to a show. You won't regret it. Every quarter, Dramatech has one major event. Just look on the Dramatech signs for show times and audition times.
In the fall, it is Neil Simon's Rumors. The winter brings to us the Dramatech One Act Festival. And this year's spring musical is Fiddler on the Roof. The Show Choir will perform throughout the year as well as Dramatech's improvisation team. So, if you've ever wondered how an 80's medley becomes a polka, go see the Show Choir. If you've ever laughed at Who's Line is it Anyway, Tech has improv that will have you rollicking into walls and bouncing off them. Go see Fiddler on the Roof, dramatech promises to keep you laughing and entertained. Besides, what else were you going to do on a weekend, anyway study?
Capitalize on one of Tech's most precious resources schizophrenia.
Support Georgia Tech drama, and dare to discover the mysteries of the
elusive velocitoaster. No drug can give a high like a standing ovation.
No sport can thrill like a musical's dance break. And no pride is as
large as the pride of a show well done.
Find the glory of drama, "whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold as it were the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." So sayeth the master, himself the bard of ye merry old England William Shakespeare.