Music Theater is produced by the Department of Music and presents two major productions each year, including an opera and a musical co-production with Theater-by-the-Grove.
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Theater-by-the-Grove, Dance Theater, and Music Theater are funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.
April 26–28 and 30, May 1–3, 7:30 p.m., Waller Hall Mainstage, IUP Performing Arts Center
Music and Lyrics by Stephen SchwartzBook by Roger O. HirsonDirected by Rob Gretta Musical Direction by Oliver Lo Choreographed by Joan Van Dyke
IUP’s Theater-by-the-Grove presents the iconic Broadway musical Pippin. A young prince yearning to find adventure makes a strange alliance with a group of travelers who takes him on a magical journey to be extraordinary. But is the journey real… or only in his mind?
Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27, 7:30 p.m., Fisher Auditorium
Directed by Oliver Lo Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler
IUP Music Theater proudly presents the musical thriller Sweeney Todd, a story about the obsession of revenge. This semi-staged version will bring tears and laughter in the same evening. Contains violent situation and themes.
World Builders
November 14–17, Theater-by-the-Grove
Oleta Adams
Friday, March 22, Ovations!
Mnozil Brass
Monday, February 11, Ovations!