{"id":8424,"date":"2020-02-06T19:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=8424"},"modified":"2020-02-06T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:36:48","slug":"auditions-and-crew-call-for-silent-sky-feb-16-17-tempest-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2020\/02\/06\/auditions-and-crew-call-for-silent-sky-feb-16-17-tempest-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditions and crew call for \u201cSilent Sky\u201d Feb. 16 & 17, Tempest Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Theatre announces auditions and crew call for the program\u2019s last scheduled play, Silent Sky<\/em> by Lauren Gunderson, on Sunday, February 16 and Monday, February 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Tempest Theatre.<\/p>\n

Silent Sky<\/em> tells the story of Henrietta Leavitt, who started as a poorly paid \u201ccomputer\u201d for the men running the Harvard Astronomical Laboratory in the first decade of the 1900s, and through studying only photos of the sky — women weren\u2019t trusted with telescopes at Harvard — discovered the connection between a star\u2019s brightness, its rotational period, and its distance from Earth.\u00a0 That knowledge provided astronomers with the first “standard candle” with which to measure the distance to faraway galaxies.\u00a0 Leavitt\u2019s story explores a woman\u2019s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women\u2019s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. \u00a0Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; \u00a0Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.<\/p>\n

The cast requires four women and one man.\u00a0 Auditionees need not prepare any memorized material for the audition but are encouraged to read the play, which is on reserve in High Library, before auditioning.<\/p>\n

Those interested in auditioning should come to the theatre callboard outside the theatre offices, BSC 105 – 111, to sign up for an hour-long slot during one of the audition evenings.\u00a0 Callbacks will be held on Tuesday, February 18, at a time to be announced.<\/p>\n

Performances are scheduled for April 16, 17, 18, 23, and 24 at 8 p.m. and April 26 at 2 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information, contact Prof. Michael Swanson<\/a>, director or call (717) 361-1160.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Theatre announces auditions and crew call for the program\u2019s last scheduled play, Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, on Sunday, February 16 and Monday, February 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Tempest Theatre. Silent Sky tells the story of Henrietta Leavitt, who started as a poorly paid \u201ccomputer\u201d for the men running the Harvard Astronomical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":8264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[774,5],"tags":[1166,1058,816,1055],"class_list":["post-8424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-arts-culture","tag-arts","tag-elizabethtown-college-theatre","tag-fine-and-performing-arts-department","tag-tempest-theater","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}