MusicalFare Presents T3 Series TALK ABOUT: Please Sir, I Want Some More

As part of MusicalFare Theatre's T3 Series (see information page below) and in connection with MusicalFare's current production of OLIVER!, MusicalFare presents "Please Sir, I Want Some More." The event is an informative and spirited Talk About societal conditions as portrayed by Charles Dickens in 19th century London, updated to both the 1930s Depression and contemporary America, including the challenges faced when translating gritty social realism into "popular entertainment." The evening's panelists include:

Chris Kelly, Director of OLIVER!
Dr. Peter Siedlecki, Daemen College
Dr. Ann C. Colley, Distinguished Professor, Buffalo State College
Randall Kramer, Artistic/Executive Director, MusicalFare Theatre

The panel discussion is FREE; tickets to the performance of OLIVER! that evening can be purchased by calling the Theatre box office at 716-839-8540 or by ordering online at www.musicalfare.com.

MusicalFare Theatre's Talk About series is funded in part by the New York Council for the Humanities.

Educational Panelist Bios:
Dr. Peter Siedlecki - Dr. Peter Siedlecki has been at Daemen College for more than thirty years. From 1982 through 1984, he was named Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature in Krakow, Poland, and again in 1988-89. He was the first Fulbright lecturer to serve in the former German Democratic Republic (since the GDR terminated in 1989). Areas of specialization are World literature, American literature, and contemporary poetry. He also teaches a liberal arts colloquium for first year students, titled "The Romantic Impulse." He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and the Directory of Poets and Writers. His poetry has been published in numerous journals. During the fall of 1997, he was awarded a sabbatical to complete work on a book dealing with the function of storytelling in the determination of the self. He and English major Beth Seilberger recently presented a collaborative paper, "The Nature of Jack Kerouac's Journey: Two Perspectives," at the fall conference of the New York College English Association. In addition, he is an avid racquetball player, a grammar-school baseball coach, and a semi-competent folksinger.

Dr. Ann C. Colley - Ann C. Colley spent the first thirteen years of her life in England (in Lancashire and London). She then came with her parents to live in the United States. She spent part of a year in Boston; a year in Newport, Rhode Island, and eventually moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she attended Lane High School and then won a music scholarship that allowed her to become a student at the College of William & Mary. Upon graduation she entered the graduate English program at the University of Virginia. The experiences there settled her future; since then she has never left academia. Professor Colley eventually received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her first teaching experience (other than part-time teaching at the Chicago Circle Campus) was at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. After twelve years on the English faculty, she moved to Buffalo and has been teaching at Buffalo State College since 1985. Professor Colley's main interest is in Victorian literature. Most of her critical writing is on cultural history, the relationship between words and images, and on the character of nostalgia and recollection. Most recently she has done extensive work on Robert Louis Stevenson.
In late 2003, her most recent critical work, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination, was published by Ashgate Publishing Limited. She has also published books with the University of Georgia Press, Macmillan Press, St. Martin's Press, and with Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Because of her recent experiences as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in both Poland and Ukraine, Professor Colley also has an interest in the history of American literature and a special interest in the history of African-American literature, a subject she has taught at both the University of Warsaw and Schevchenko University in Kiev.

MUSICALFARE THEATRE'S
T3 SERIES

TALK BACK
After every Wednesday night performance (excluding Opening Nights), our actors stick around to hear what you have to say and answer your questions. Come have fun with this lively back-and-forth talk!
TALK ABOUT
Every fourth Thursday of a production run, we host a panel discussion after the show with local experts who discuss the show and its pertinent themes. Please join us in this interesting and valuable community conversation.
TALK WITH
On various dates TBA, we feature a special evening with an actor, director or choreographer who speak about themselves and their professions, and maybe even sing and dance a little. Enjoy coffee, tea and cookies and the chance to talk with these wonderfully creative people!

MusicalFare Theatre is a professional musical theatre company in residence at, but independently operated from, Daemen College. MusicalFare Theatre is located at 4380 Main Street in Amherst, NY (between Harlem and Getzville Roads). Parking is FREE, and the theatre is handicapped accessible, complete with a hearing-impaired system.

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