Bravo to Matchbox Player’s 8.R.U.N.0.5.
by Valerie Trost
staff writer
The Matchbox Players first student
created and produced musical was a
wonderful and highly amusing
success. B.R. U.N.O.S. sold out its six
performances, packing the Studio
Theatre with students. Student writers
Joe Getway, 08 English, and Dallas
Skeens, 04 Philosophy and Russian,
devised a screenplay that brought to
light the absurdities and hilarities of
student life at Behrend college. The
emphasized letters in the title stand for
a different Bruno’s then we all know,
in this case it stands for six
upperclassmen, a force to be
reckoned, or more specifically, the
Behrend Required Underclassmen
Normal Operations Supervisors.
The setting of the play was the
basement of the Otto Behrend Science
Building and the imagination of the
students, and the time: that dreaded
time of year. Freshman Orientation.
The plot revolved around two brand
new Behrend freshmen played by
Bethany Cummings, 04 Education,
and Ryan Cannon, 02 English. They
were lead by a group of
upperclassmen who were trying to
explain their “credo" to college life
here at Behrend in order to break in
these naive newcomers. This fast
ACROSS
1 Cold-cut palace
5 Like shaving
cream
10 Cereal grain
14 Rara
15 Show to seats
16 “What’s My _?”
17 Bookkeepers?
19 Von Bismarck or
Klemperer
20 Mrs. Roosevelt
21 Twelve
22 Got one’s
bearings back
26 Caspian feeder
28 Contemptuous
sound
29 Automobile
32 Glass ingredient
35 “Pursuit of the
Graf
36 Crystalline water
37 News agcy.
38 Eccentricity
40 Play about
Capote
41 Like Gen.
Powell, now
42 Actress Sorvino
43 Puts away
45 Snoop
46 Grizzlies
48 Mislay
49 Fat neck
52 Twin of Romulus
55 Artlessness
58 Garfield’s patsy
59 Made
compatible
62 Delicate color
63 Athenian
marketplace
64 Pizzazz
65 Tennis units
66 Bottom line
67 Tabula
DOWN
1 Landscape dip
2 Wickedness
3 Generosity
4 Kibbutz resident
5 Frenzy
6 Egyptian judge
of the dead
7 Now I get it!
paced lesson that these two freshman
received included issues that every
student (Behrend students even more
so) no doubt found relative to their
lives.
Topics such as: lack of money and
food, homesickness, procrastination,
test anxiety, English 15, and of
course, the party scene, were told in
such a realistic way that one could
do nothing but chuckle at the
familiarity they found in the attitudes
and reactions ol the actors on stage.
Just as random and cra/.y as college
life was the cleverly incorporated
show tunes found throughout the
performance. It is a safe bet that there
was a piece from everyone's favorite
musical. Songs were creatively
mixed right into the script Irom
musicals such as: Hair. Cabaret.
Guvs and Dolls. Fiddler on the Roof.
Annie, and manv more.
The upperclassmen, or the
"supervisors" who are running the
show and in charge of ''molding"
these freshmen were played by Erin
Costello, 04 Advertising, Leo Hanley,
04 Communications, Jessica Dows,
02 Chemistry, James Washburn, 02
DUS, Stephanie Miller. 04
Psychology, and John Hoderny. 08
Economics.
Danielle Marshall. 0b Political
Science, played the Finance Officer
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8 Fellows
9 Time meas.
10 Dracula’s drink
11 “Puttin'on the
12 Contribution to
the pot
13 Las Vegas light
18 Pedro’s year
21 Dislike intensely
23 Tangle up
24 Slangy negative
25 Lock of hair
26 Stage a coup
27 More mature
29 Mosquito
repellant
30 Estate
measures
31 Put into service
again
33 Jazz groups
34 Nice farewell?
39 Dreary
44 “Hamlet” Oscar*
winner
47 Leon lady
who shows these two fresh faces what
"really makes the world go round."
Geoffrey Pieper, 08 Political Science,
played the classic mind draining
Chemistry Professor. The cast was then
rounded out into a number of Behrend
students including an appearance by
English Professor Dr. John Champagne
as the ghost of Otto Behrend and Dan
Schressor, the coordinator of Residence
Life, playing the dreaded professor
who hands out the finals.
The production was directed by Tony
Elliot and student produced by
Gretchen Foust, 04 Management. The
hard work of the students involved was
evident and well paid-off. The lesson
to be learned, illustrated on stage, is that
all students should take every
opportunity possible to start making
some memories.
Student writers Dallas Skeens and
Joe Getway took great risks writing the
screenplay. 8.R.U.N.0.’s co-author
Mr. Skeens slates, "It took a lot of
revisions..., but everything worked out
in the end."
This article appeared in last week's
issue of The Beacon, but not in its
entirety. The Beacon apologizes for
this error.
49 Pieces for two 54 Julep garnish
50 Kiel or Suez, 56 Pekoe and Earl
e.g. Grey
51 jacet (RIP) 57 Author Ferber
52 Goes bad 59 Rodent pest
53 Actress
McClurg
Features
I problem?
Army bed
Starring in the Matchbox Player’s production of 8.R.U.N.0.5. are (front row) James Washburn,
Stephanie Miller, (middle) Erin Costello, Bethanv Cummings, Ryan Cannon, Jessica Dows, (back)
John Hoderny and Leo Hanley.
Students majoring in everything from engineering to psychology will have their artwork on display in the
Reed Union Building Wintergarden at the Behrend Cdllegfe from April 16-30, 1999.
More than 70 students from the International Management class at Penn State Behrend recently hosted
their first annual international dinner. The event featured displays and cuisine from 18 different countries
in Western Europe. Two hundred members of the community attended and heard remarks by international
traveler Dr. Richard Lundquist and viewed a performance by Irish dancers Rince NaTiarna.
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