Student Blogger: Katy Dara

If you haven’t heard about it by now, there’s a new movie being adapted into a musical: Ratatouille.

Let’s face it. Because of the pandemic, there’s a lot of things we miss. As a theatre kid, one of those things is live shows.

As the calendar turns from August to September, with the hazy summer days transitioning to crisp fall mornings, another semester begins. Except, such is the case for everyone right now, life at the university I have returned to looks incredibly different.

As I enter my senior year, the campus Ia??ve returned to is completely unrecognizable from a year ago.

There was always something magical to me about the stage door. To me, the opportunity to meet the actors after seeing a show was unlike any other.

The main complaints about bootlegs are 1) ita??s distracting for the performers, 2) ita??s distracting for the audience, and 3) ita??s a form of theft. It is often the last point that holds the most contention from both sides.

Like nearly everybody else in the theatre community, I woke up on the morning of July 3rd with an air of excitement. It's Hamilton Day, I thought to myself.

During a pandemic, where live theatre is all but nonexistent, what is an avid fan to do?

When Gov. Cuomo announced that all SUNY schools would be moving to an online learning model for the remainder of the school, my thoughts immediately started reeling. I had so many questions, concerns, and worries that my mind couldn't let go. One major question persisted: how am I going to take theatre classes online?