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Of love and bread: YSU to stage ‘Baker’s Wife’
if you go
What: “The Baker’s Wife”
When: 7:30 p.m. next Thursday through Saturday and Nov. 20 and 21; and 3 p.m. Nov. 15 and 22.
Where: Ford Theater, inside Bliss Hall, on Wick Avenue on the YSU campus.
Tickets: Call (330) 941-3105. $10 for adults; $5 for senior citizens, YSU faculty and staff and high school and college students from other universities, Penguin Club members and YSU alumni. Parking is available in the Wick Avenue parking deck Thursday through Saturday for a nominal fee. Free parking is available Sundays in the parking lot next to the former Wick Pollock Inn.
The cast is represented by new and veteran members of YSU Theater.
The Vindicator
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University Theater’s production of the musical “The Baker’s Wife” will open Thursday in Bliss Hall’s Ford Theater for a two-weekend run.
Old-world charm permeates “The Baker’s Wife,” a bittersweet, wise and gently offbeat fable of life, love and bread based on the book by Joseph Stein, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.
The musical was adapted by Stein and Schwartz from the film “La Femme de Boulanger” by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono.
Set in 1950s France, “The Baker’s Wife” is set in a small Provencal town whose bickering residents find peace and contentment in the bread of the newly arrived baker and his attractive young wife.
But when she is lured away by the attentions of a handsome young gigolo, the middle-aged baker loses all zest for life and baking, throwing the community into chaos.
The performance contains 18 songs as well as 18 cast members, representing new and veteran members of YSU Theater.
The cast includes: Shawna Jones, Beloi; Zachary Campbell, East Liverpool; Patrick McGuire, Erie, Pa.; Laura Young, Ambridge, Pa.; Joe Croft, Scranton, Pa.; Joe Pascarella, Youngstown; Cory Davis, Munhall, Pa.; Aaron Kubicina, Cortland; Julia Buttermore, Columbus; David Munnell, Girard; Brandon Smith, East Liverpool; Montaja Simmons, Pittsburgh; Jessica Schimdt, Salem; Kayla Boye, Warren; Vaughn Schmidt, Erie, Pa.; Dorian Thomas, Pittsburgh; Ben Reiter, Hubbard; and Deanna Scott, Toronto, Ohio.
An opening-night dinner will be at 6 p.m. next Thursday at the MVR on Walnut Street.
Tickets are $15 for the dinner, and advance reservations are mandatory. Call the box office at (330) 941-3105. No walk-ins will be permitted.