From Staff reports
Three Theatre at Southeastern students were nominated by the theatre department staff to take a working part in The Wizard of Oz National Tour’s first performance of its 2011-12 run.
Junior Taylor Donaldson, sophomore Jordan Hammock and senior Darrin Wade spent a week at the Robson Performing Arts Center in Claremore assisting in the many preparations a professional traveling show requires.
The students worked long days during their stay, usually from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., but Hammock said, “It was fun to see what we were made of and to see how a professional company is run.”
Donaldson described the event as “a great experience to be able to work with such skilled actors and crew members,” and he said he “hopes to bring skills learned back to Southeastern.”
Wade also had a great interaction with the professionals he got to work with, describing them as “nice, productive and extremely knowledgeable.”
For these theatre majors bound for a career in “showbiz,” this experience was, as Wade called it, “a chance of a lifetime.”