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ROC Players’ “Chicago” is Criminally Good
The rise to the spotlight is no easy journey, especially when you’ve got blood on your hands and a life sentence on your neck. Roxie Hart wasn’t exactly ready for what life as a newly convicted murderess would bring her, but with the city’s deceptive shine, was that life ready for her? Co-directed by juniors […]
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Around the ROC Players “Carousel:” Reframing theater to a new age and stage
As a performance charged in both its energy and musicality, ROC Players’ “Carousel” breaks down and resets expectations for student theater on campus. Read More
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If music be the food of love, play on, Players
Every comedic moment was excellently played from beginning to end, breathing new life into the bawdy jokes and double entendres of the original text. Read More
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Day in the Life: ROC Players member
Dominique Neveu is a junior majoring in Creative Writing and Psychology. She recently was in the company for “Merrily We Roll Along,” the newest production by UR’s student-run musical theater group, ROC Players. Read More
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ROC Players are better than ‘Big Fish’
Friday night’s performance of “Big Fish” in the May Room served as an important reminder that while every story needs a good storyteller, every storyteller needs a good story. Read More
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ROC Players’ ‘Cabaret’ is dreadful, and it should be
The ROC Players’ production of “Cabaret,” was difficult, disturbing, and upsetting. And I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Running in the May Room over the weekend, their production of the musical, directed by junior Emily Tworek, is a masterclass in the art of narrative dread. “Cabaret” tells the story of a sleazy nightclub […]
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ROC Players elevate ‘Spring Awakening’
The May Room in Wilson Commons is an interesting place to stage a musical because it doesn’t seem built for them. It’s small (compared to something like Strong), and its stage is an elevated platform, also small, with no curtains. But necessity is the mother of invention, as the ROC Players proved in the finer […]
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ROC Players illuminate with ‘Into the Woods’
Reviewing my notes on the performance, one word kept on popping up: impressive. Read More
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‘Next to Normal’ offers powerful anecdote on mental health
"Next to Normal"'s effectiveness in portraying just how confusing and terrifying mental health problems can be was captured well by the ROC Players production. Read More
