Dear Editor-In-Chief,
My intention was to call you and thank you for helping us by taking the time out of your busy schedule to focus an article on the Theatre Department’s 2005 Summer Repertory Festival. It is important that all programs in the Department of Arts & Letters be recognized, promoted and supported by all facets of our University. You’d be shocked to find this isn’t so
Upon reading you article yesterday, I was livid. There was absolutely nothing in your article about our upcoming productions of West Side Story and The Hollow that would entice anyone to come see them.
The headline alone, neutered any excitement that one might hope to generate in anticipation of such a crucial component of the School of the Arts’ season line up.
From the get go you reduced an exciting project to that of sheer banality.
This is an exciting and ambitious project for our department. The “new ground” burnt by embarking on this venture is enormous. These shows are huge, laden with difficult choreography, demanding music, and scenic challenges galore. I believe we might have mentioned that.
You didn’t even get your facts straight. A Celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein is not high melodrama. Corpus Christie was produced here five years ago, not last fall. The name of the song is “I Feel Pretty” not “I’m so Pretty.” You listed our box office hours wrong, didn’t include our website www.fau.eduartsupdate.com and then you chose to highlight the fact that we had to raise ticket prices for students. Why? Whose side are you on?
I would love you to stop by and check us out again. I invite you and a friend to come see each show (on me.) Please do not write about it again though, you have helped us far too much already.
Go beat up an old lady or something.
Regards,Matthew GlassAssistant DirectorWEST SIDE STORY
RESPONSE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
The University Press, and myself, would like to personally apologize for a factual error in our recent article about the Theater Department’s summer undertaking. The correct title of the Bernstein and Sondheim song is “I Feel Pretty,” not “I’m So Pretty.” According to www.fau.edu/artsupdate, not the above mentioned www.fau.eduartsupdate.com, our times and prices were printed correctly. Jake SmithEditor-in-Chief