Keith Fowler has taught in the drama department at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts for 20 years, as has his colleague, Dennis Castellano, while Janice Gudde Plastino has taught in the dance department for 30 years. Yet in all that time, their professional paths never crossed in any major UCI production. And it's as if they were made to work together. The show will open as a School of the Arts production at the Irvine Barclay Theatre on April 20 for an eight-performance run through April 28. All three of us are at every rehearsal.
Nobody wants to be away.
We're open to critique and open to other ideas from each other and to bounce ideas off each other. I've always respected Keith and Jan's work. The rest of the lines have to be sung. And the dialogue follows through with the quality of movement of the dance. And all are effusive about their student cast.