Once on This Island

An orange, brushed background with a silhouette of a woman with a red flower on her hair. Views the sea, mountains and plants fill her face.

Ahrens and Flaherty’s Once on This Island similarly invites us to care as we follow Ti Moune through ‘the Jewel of the Antilles’, or Haiti, as she grows, encounters society, and experiences love, hope, sacrifice and determination, joy, loss, and the fickleness and loyalty of the gods.

A Classic Christmas by Frisson

A group of musicians on stage with their violins and other wind instruments. A gradient of green and red fills the background for a holiday feel.

Frisson is an emerging group of young artists and seasoned professionals that performs engaging programs for winds, piano trios and piano quartets programs, and popular programs featuring music by such composers as Gershwin and Piazzolla.

Chamber Music Ensemble

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Kean’s Chamber Music Ensemble Class presents a free concert featuring music spanning four centuries and three continents.

Fall Choral Concert

A choir performs on stage with a conductor standing in front of them and a pianist accompanying on a grand piano. The singers, dressed in formal black attire, hold sheet music as they sing in a semi-circle arrangement on risers. The stage is warmly lit with a wooden floor.

The Kean University Fall Choral Concert will feature the Kean University Treble Choir, Concert Choir, and Community Chorale under the direction of Dr. Rachel Carlson, Kean’s Director of Choral Activities, and a guest performance by the Science Park High School Choir, under the direction of Andre Barnes.

Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical

Photos by Jeremy Daniel L-R, Markia Nicole Smith, Brian Owen, L.R. Davidson, Dan Rosales, Sonia Roman, Jamie LaVerdiere

Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical is a hilarious musical adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man spin-off series. Cat Kid and Molly Pollywog have started an epic club to teach 21 rambunctious baby frogs how to make their own comics!

Carolyn Dorfman Dance

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Carolyn Dorfman Dance offers contemporary dance, multimedia presentation and interactive dialogue guided by choreographer and master teacher Carolyn Dorfman, a child of Holocaust survivors. The Legacy Project takes you on a powerful historical and cultural journey through art, history, dialogue, and a call to social action.

Six13

Six men dressed in jeans and gray shirts are standing in the streets of NYC and looking like they are walking towards the camera, laughing and talking to each other.

The groundbreaking, six-man a cappella vocal band brings unprecedented style and energy to Jewish music with nothing but the power of the human voice.

Wind Ensemble

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The Symphonic Wind Ensemble opens with Vincent Persichetti’s Serenade for 10 Winds, composed when he was only 14. Persichetti went on to be one of the most influential American composers and composition teachers of the twentieth century.

A Different World: 35 Years Later

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In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the iconic television series “A Different World,” we bring together the beloved cast members, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Darryl M. Bell, and Cree Summer, to explore whether it is indeed still “a different world” in the present day. This panel promises to be a nostalgic yet thought-provoking journey through the lens of a show that left an indelible mark on television and society.

Dot, Dot, Dot: A New Musical

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Dot, Dot, Dot: A New Musical is an exciting new musical based on the Creatrilogy trio of award-winning picture books by New York Times bestselling author Peter H. The musical follows Marisol’s journey to help her new friends and her entire community break free from self-criticism and learn to let their imaginations soar.