SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Panto Begins Tonight at McDaniel College

McDaniel College celebrates the holiday season with an original British panto performance of the beloved fairy tale SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.

Performances are tonight, November 19 and Friday, November 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 21 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., as well as Friday, December 18 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, December 19 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors, veterans, students and those with a McDaniel College ID. For ticket information, call 410-857-2448.

The panto is a British holiday tradition based on a fairy tale or nursery rhyme combining audience participation with music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy.

Adapted and directed by McDaniel theatre arts professor Ira Domser, this performance of the classic fairy tale SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS features Princess Snow White, the prince who loves her, the stepmother who hates her and the seven little gentlemen who save her.

According to Domser, "This rollicking version [of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS] promises music, laughter, a man wearing outrageous dresses and madcap Vaudeville frivolity to ensure holiday magic for the entire family."

Sophomores Megan Smith of Federalsburg, Md., is Snow White and Bryan Bowen of North Beach, Md., is the Prince. Sakena Martin, a junior from Cape Coral, Fla., is the Evil Queen, Paul Saar, a sophomore from Baltimore, is the Mirror, Josh Harding, a senior from Federalsburg, Md., is Gurty, the fairy godmother, Andrew Frascella, a sophomore from Rockville, Md., is Muddles, a jester, and Nia Gipson, a junior from Owings Mills, Md., is a fairy.

The seven dwarves are senior Samantha Arana of Silver Spring, Md., as Doc, juniors Moises Miguel of Washington, D.C., as Grumpy, Jen Shillingburg of Oakland, Md., as Happy, and Juliette White of Sykesville, Md., as Dopey, sophomore Mandy Quarantillo of Montgomery Village, Md., as Sleepy, and freshmen Cole Owens of Damascus, Md., as Bashful, and Jen Willard of North Potomac, Md., as Sneezy.

Dancers are senior Jen Litzinger of West Windsor, N.J., junior Antoinette Martin of Cape Coral, Fla., sophomores Torreke Evans of Atlanta, Stephanie Golub of Walkersville, Md., Jessica Preactor of Reisterstown, Md., and BranDon Richards of Huntingtown, Md., and freshmen Brandi Weyers of Northfield, Mass., and Rachel Zanoni of Columbia, Md.

Visit www.mcdaniel.edu/theatre for more information about McDaniel College and the theatre arts department.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.