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Another Scandal! (117th Annual Varsity Show)

2013-04-25T00:43:01Z

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'''Another Scandal!''' was the title of the '''117th Annual Varsity Show''', performed in [[2011]].

==Creative Team==
*Director: Emily Nagel (CC ’12)
*Producer: Martin Willner (CC ’12)
*Producer: Fiona Georgakis (CC ’13)
*Writers: Nuriel Moghavem (CC ’11) and Betsy Morais (CC ’11)
*Composer/Lyricist: Eli Grober (CC ’13)
*Composer/Lyricist: Shira Laucharoen (CC ’12)
*Choreographer: Sara Miller (BC ’13)
*Art Director: Antoinette Allen (CC ’12)

==Cast==
*Isaac Assor (CC ’14).......................'''PRESTON BILLINGSWORTH-HERNANDEZ''', a Columbia College University Senator
*Rebekah Lowin (CC ’14).................'''NORA BILLINGSWORTH-HERNANDEZ''', a CC Freshman, and Preston's sister
*Naomi Roochnik (BC ’13)...............'''JULIA''', president of ADP
*Andrew Wright (CC ’14).................'''CHAZ''', POTC (Police Officer Training Corps) member, and undercover cop (spoiler alter)
*Chris Silverberg (CC ’13)...............'''JESSE''', accidental Barnard Freshman (spoiler alert)
*Rachel Chavez (CC ’14).................(Daughterstein, Sabor Girl, Barnard Girl)
*Sam Mickel (CC ’14)......................(Professor Dadstein, Conversio Guy, Roger the Waiter)
*Alia Munsch (BC ‘12).....................(Feather, Geekwad, Barnard Girl)
*Victoria Pollack (BC ’12)................(Professor Duncan, ADP Member, Barnard Girl, Smoker Girl, Kelly Meghan)
*Elizabeth Power (CC ’13)...............(Detla Gamma Girl, Bartender, Columbia Girl)
*Bob Vulfov (CC ’13).......................(Sigma Chi Guy, The Chief, Camera Man)
*Sean Walsh (SEAS ’14)...................(ADP Member, Kevin Shollenberger)

{{succession|preceded=[[College Walk of Shame (116th Annual Varsity Show)|College Walk of Shame]]|succeeded=[[The Corporate Core (118th Annual Varsity Show)|The Corporate Core]]|office=[[Varsity Show performances]]|years=[[2011]]}}

[[Category:Varsity Show]]

Another Scandal! (117th Annual Varsity Show)

2013-04-25T00:27:48Z

Farrrg:

'''Another Scandal!''' was the title of the '''117th Annual Varsity Show''', performed in [[2011]].

==Creative Team==
*Director: Emily Nagel (CC ’12)
*Producer: Martin Willner (CC ’12)
*Producer: Fiona Georgakis (CC ’13)
*Writers: Nuriel Moghavem (CC ’11) and Betsy Morais (CC ’11)
*Composer/Lyricist: Eli Grober (CC ’13)
*Composer/Lyricist: Shira Laucharoen (CC ’12)
*Choreographer: Sara Miller (BC ’13)
*Art Director: Antoinette Allen (CC ’12)

==Cast==
*Alia Munsch (BC ‘12)
*Andrew Wright (CC ’14)
*Bob Vulfov (CC ’13)
*Chris Silverberg (CC ’13)
*Elizabeth Power (CC ’13)
*Isaac Assor (CC ’14)
*Naomi Roochnik (BC ’13)
*Rachel Chavez (CC ’14)
*Rebekah Lowin (CC ’14)
*Sam Mickel (CC ’14)
*Sean Walsh (SEAS ’14)
*Victoria Pollack (BC ’12)

==Production Team==
*Adrianna Aguilar (BC ’13), Asst. Choreographer
*Amelia Lembeck (BC ’14), Stage Manager
*Elizabeth Logan (CC ’14), Asst. Director
*Emma Ziegellaub Eichler (CC ’14), Asst. Art Director
*Malida Tadesse (CC ’14), Asst. Producer
*Mark Ruddy (CC ’14), Stage Manager
*Michael Hsu (SEAS ’12), Asst. Tech Director
*Yuxi Wang (BC ’13), Publicity Manager

{{succession|preceded=[[College Walk of Shame (116th Annual Varsity Show)|College Walk of Shame]]|succeeded=[[The Corporate Core (118th Annual Varsity Show)|The Corporate Core]]|office=[[Varsity Show performances]]|years=[[2011]]}}

[[Category:Varsity Show]]

Varsity Show

2013-04-25T00:25:56Z

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{{Infobox club
|Name=Varsity Show
|Image=Vshow.jpg
|Founded=[[1894]]
|Recognition=[[ABC]]
|Membership=22
|Executive board=Director and 2 Producers
|Allocation=Lots
|Category=[[:Category:Performance_clubs|Performance]]}}
{{wp-also}}
The '''Varsity Show''', founded in [[1894]] as a fundraiser for the university's fledgling athletic teams, is one of the university's oldest traditions, and certainly its oldest performing arts tradition. Every year, the Varsity Show produces a unique full-length show that skews and satirizes many aspects of life at Columbia. And every year students line up way before the show in order to get good seats.

Ironically, many of the administrators being parodied and lambasted are often sitting in the front rows of the audience. No study has been conducted to determine whether these administrators realize there's a reason they're being ridiculed on stage.

Past directors and writers include such distinguished names as [[Oscar Hammerstein]], [[Lorenz Hart]], [[Richard Rodgers]], [[I. A. L. Diamond]], and [[Herman Wouk]].

== Show preparations ==

The Varsity Show begins, however, long before the crowds begin to form outside the doors to [[Roone]]. In early October, the previous year's creative team interviews and auditions candidates to succeed them, and chooses a creative team of eight or nine students, filling the following roles: producer, director, writer, composer/lyricist, choreographer, and art director. The newly minted creative team runs actor auditions in the middle of November. The Varsity Show is notoriously the most selective casting process in Columbia theater, and the results are always the result of much gossip and debate: Though the numbers vary from year to year, around 150 people audition for the show, singing a one minute song selection, performing a scene with a random partner, and sometimes being asked to do improv comedy. From this group, around 25 people are asked to attend cast callbacks, an invite automatically extended to performers from past Varsity shows. Callbacks are typically held on a Saturday from 8am until 3pm. Those who have been called back perform a monologue, do improv in a character, and learn an original song and dance. From the 30 or so that participate in callbacks, the creative team casts twelve to fifteen. The debates over casting notoriously span hours, and the new cast is welcomed into the Varsity family through a special ritual that's stuff of rumors and legend. If you want to find out what it is, why don't you put on your jester's cap and give auditions a go?

== Trivia ==
The Varsity Show coined the term "[[PrezBo]]".

Sometimes called vshow.

[[Songs|"Roar, Lion, Roar"]] is based on a Varsity Show melody.

==See also==

*[[Varsity Show performances]]
*[http://www.thevarsityshow.com/morningside Sing a Song of Morningside - A history of the Varsity Show] by [[Thomas Vinciguerra]]

== External links ==

* [http://www.thevarsityshow.com/ Varsity Show website]

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[[Category:Annual events]]
[[Category:Varsity Show]]