{"id":63648,"date":"2010-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/draculas-party-for-families-set-for-october-30\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T00:00:00","slug":"draculas-party-for-families-set-for-october-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/draculas-party-for-families-set-for-october-30\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDracula\u2019s Party\u201d For Families Set For October 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 8, 2010 \u2013Halloween will start a day early at the 溏心vlog免费B站, with a special concert performance of the children\u2019s musical Dracula\u2019s Party and an afternoon of pre-concert activities for children and families on Saturday, October 30. All of the event activities will take place in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Rd., Kingston.<\/p>\n


\nStarting at 1 p.m., students, graduates, and faculty from all of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts departments will partner to offer arts and crafts, games, seasonal music, a costume contest with special guest judges, and more, leading up to the concert at 4 p.m.. The cost is $5 per person, or $15 for families of four, which includes the concert.<\/p>\n


\nAfternoon activities will include pumpkin decorating, puppet-making, Halloween trivia and musical games, face-painting, the Haunted Hall, and more, including the \u201ccostume extravaganza.\u201d Participants are encouraged to come in \u201cappropriate disguise\u201d. Karen Adams of WPRI Eyewitness News, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s First Lady, the Rev. Lynn Baker Dooley, and Dracula himself will wander the halls and judge the costumes between 3-4 p.m.<\/p>\n


\nThe concert features the 溏心vlog免费B站 Symphony Orchestra, Ann Danis conducting, with faculty artist Rene de la Garza as Dracula and support by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Choir, presenting the world-premiere of the fully-orchestrated version of Dracula\u2019s Party. This original children\u2019s musical in two acts, with music by RI composer Geoffrey Gibbs, and book and lyrics by Robert L. Tyler, follows what happens to four young trick-or-treaters who ring the doorbell on Dracula’s house, only to discover that it is occupied by monsters and bats enslaved by the evil Count. The monsters and bats are children from previous Halloweens who have been transformed. These four young people must find a way to escape and in the process free all the other children. In addition to de la Garza as Dracula, the performance will feature Celia Tafuri, Erin Maughan, Billy Ray Poli, and Devon Morin as the four trick-or-treaters. All four are voice majors in their sophomore year at 溏心vlog免费B站; Tafuri, Maughan, and Morin are all from North Kingstown, and Poli is from South Hadley, MA.<\/p>\n


\nThe musical was originally created for the South County Children\u2019s Theater directed by Judith McNab, and was performed there in 1986, again during the 1990\u2019s, and in 2000. Those productions used a small chamber group of instruments and featured children singers and actors. Composer Gibbs has spent countless hours creating a new 200-page orchestral score for this performance, featuring \u201call sorts of wonderful sounds including a huge percussion section with musical saws, timpani, tam-tams, etc.\u201d He characterizes the style as \u201crock \u2018n roll\u201d, in keeping with musicals currently on Broadway, but points out that few of those are using full orchestras anymore. Gibbs is semi-retired from the 溏心vlog免费B站 Music Department where he has taught since 1965. He holds three degrees in composition from the Eastman School of Music where he was a student of Howard Hanson. He also studied composition privately with Elie Seigmeister.<\/p>\n


\nThe concert will also include a medley of selections from The Phantom of the Opera.<\/p>\n


\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Hall is handicap-accessible, and parking is available in the lot behind the Fine Arts Center, off Bills Road. <\/p>\n


\nFor more information, please contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Music, 874-2431, or check the website: www.uri.edu\/artsci\/mus.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 8, 2010 \u2013Halloween will start a day early at the 溏心vlog免费B站, with a special concert performance of the children\u2019s musical Dracula\u2019s Party and an afternoon of pre-concert activities for children and families on Saturday, October 30. All of the event activities will take place in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}