garland sooner
3/10/2007, 01:51 AM
In case you are interested, there are several football players taking part in Handel's Julius Caesar opera as Egyptian guards for Cleopatra. I had to usher at Holmberg Hall for the night and I got a kick out of seeing them acting on stage.
There are a couple more shows left, tomorrow and Sunday. So, if you want to see them, go ahead.
Names of those on stage:
Billy Blackard,
Quentin Chaney,
Jon Cooper,
Lendy Holmes,
Eric Huggins,
Manuel Johnson,
Cordero Moore,
Allen Patrick,
Demarrio Pleasant,
Duke Robinson,
Fred Strong,
Daniel Tabon,
and DJ Wolfe.
Story goes (as told to me from a Dramaturgy major since i'm an engineer and didn't know about it until then):
The Opera needed some strong people to carry the Cleopatra from off stage to on stage by a chair and they extras for her army so they called the Football team for help. They gave each person 3 hours of fine arts credit in exchange for 2 weeks of rehearsals and 3/4 shows.
There are a couple more shows left, tomorrow and Sunday. So, if you want to see them, go ahead.
Names of those on stage:
Billy Blackard,
Quentin Chaney,
Jon Cooper,
Lendy Holmes,
Eric Huggins,
Manuel Johnson,
Cordero Moore,
Allen Patrick,
Demarrio Pleasant,
Duke Robinson,
Fred Strong,
Daniel Tabon,
and DJ Wolfe.
Story goes (as told to me from a Dramaturgy major since i'm an engineer and didn't know about it until then):
The Opera needed some strong people to carry the Cleopatra from off stage to on stage by a chair and they extras for her army so they called the Football team for help. They gave each person 3 hours of fine arts credit in exchange for 2 weeks of rehearsals and 3/4 shows.