Celebrate this Valentine鈥檚 weekend with 野狼社区 University's production of 鈥淗ead Over Heels,鈥� a jukebox fairytale featuring the beloved music of The Go-Go's. The Oklahoma Opera & Music Theater Company production will open OCU鈥檚 spring season of operas and musicals Feb. 14-16 in the Burg Theatre.
Playbill called the show a 鈥渂old and fierce new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with 鈥楬edwig and the Angry Inch,鈥� 鈥楢venue Q鈥� and 鈥楽pring Awakening.鈥欌�� Set to the iconic 1980s music of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Go-Go's, the score includes hit songs 鈥淲e Got the Beat,鈥� 鈥淥ur Lips Are Sealed鈥� and 鈥淰acation.鈥�
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets ($15) are available from or 405-208-5227.
The Spotlight production is rated PG-13 for suggestive language and adult situations. Karen Coe Miller directs the cast of 25; Chuck Koslowske is music director. Miller called the show 鈥渁 kind comedy with a serious message. It is about learning lessons in humility, forgiveness and courage in order to follow the beat of one鈥檚 own heart.鈥�
鈥淗ead Over Heels鈥� premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and transferred to Broadway in 2018. Jeff Whitty wrote the show鈥檚 original book. It was adapted for Broadway by James Magruder, who called the musical 鈥渁 show with an open, generous, inclusive heart for heartless times.鈥�
The Burg Theatre is located inside the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center at NW 24th Street and Blackwelder Avenue.
CAST
Featuring Ryan Walshaw (Micah Phillips u/s) as Basilius, Tyler Hoverson and Garrison Mack as Musidorus, Scott Bratton and Ellis Stumbo as Dametas, Eitamil Abel and Connor Irwin as Pythio, Emma Maki and Anna-Marie Wright as Gynecia, Maggie Pfeiffer and Zoe Roebuck as Pamela, Maggie Cook and Mabel Tyler as Philoclea, and Ella Thulow and Lauren Rogers as Mopsa.
The Ensemble: Alli Echelmeyer, Catherine Gernetzke, Morgan Pierce, Alexa Roemer, Catherine Schenk, Leigha Trejo, Isaac Lynne, Ezra Moore, Myles Nzoiwu and Micah Phillips.
MUSICIANS
Chuck Koslowske, piano; Michael Mariniello, guitar; Orion Turner, percussion
CREATIVE TEAM
Director: Karen Coe Miller; Music Director: Chuck Koslowske; Choreographer: Grace McLean; Assistant Choreographer: Matthew Compa; Lighting Designer: AJ Blessing; Fight Choreographers: Reagan E. Townley, Jordan Smith; Intimacy Director: Amy Osatinski; Voice and Dialect Coach: Chaslee Schweitze
