“The Crucible” headlines spring fine arts season

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Bryce Chapman
Director of University Communications
(314) 744-7631
chapmanb@mobap.edu

Missouri Baptist University is set to perform “The Crucible,” a powerful story of injustice and perseverance, Feb. 16-19, launching its line up for the spring 2012 fine arts season.

The Crucible is a literary classic and the winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society. 

The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. 

When: Feb. 16-18 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 19 at 2 p.m.

Where: Pillsbury Chapel and Dale Williams Fine Arts Center

Cost: Adults—$10?Non-MBU Students/ Seniors (65+)—$8
Faculty and Staff—$7.50 ?MBU Students—$2.50 (2 per student)

For more information or to buy tickets, please call the MBU Box Office at (314) 392-2345. 

MBU Spring Fine Arts Schedule:

Music Scholarship Auditions 
February 20  12-2 p.m.

Ministry Group Auditions 
March 3  9 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Music Scholarship Auditions 
March 3  10 a.m.-p.m.

Senior Adult Day Concert 
March 9  10 a.m.

NYC Theatre Performance Showcase
March 22-24  7:30 p.m. March 25 2 p.m.

Chamber Singers Spring Concert
March 30  7:30 p.m.

Club A, featuring Allusion 
March 31  7:30 p.m.

Opera Workshop presents scenes from The Magic Flute
April 13 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Concert Band and MBU Ringers 
April 17 7:30 p.m.

Mozart's Requiem presented by MBU Chorale and Choral Society
April 20 7:30 p.m. 

Missouri Baptist University is a Christ-centered university located in Saint Louis. MBU offers more than 40 undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees in education, business and religion and its new terminal degree, the Doctor of Education. In addition to its 66-acre West St. Louis County campus, MBU offers degree programs at nine regional learning centers throughout St. Louis and in Southern Illinois and online. For more information, go to http://www.mobap.edu or call 1- 877-434-1115.