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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ithaca College Theatre brings back the spirit of the Sixties
and the harsh memories of the Vietnam War in its upcoming musical
“Dogfight.”
Composed by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, with a book by Peter Duchan, and
based on the 1981 film, the musical tells the story of a group of Marines who
organize a “dogfight” — a cruel game whose purpose is to determine who can
bring the ugliest girl to the party. But when Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, an
apparently plain waitress, she challenges his assumptions about skin-deep
beauty.
“In Birdlace, we have the tragic American flaw: the over-confidence,
ethnocentricity, inequality, judging other people for what they look like: race,
ethnicity, gender, appearance, sexual orientation, identity or disability,”

3. Director Wendy Dann said.
According to Dann, “Birdlace comes from a post-WWII generation of
optimism and arrogance,” the world of the sitcom ‘Leave it to Beaver,’ which
depicts a troubled middle-class, American boyhood.
“Is that piece of American Pie, so convinced that it must rid the world of
communism, pieced together by a history of bigotry, misogyny, and violence?
The men in the play are participating in a dehumanizing ritual, after basic
training and before combat,” Dann said.
In contrast with Birdlace, “Rose represents empathy in this play” and teaches
it to the Marine.
“What it means to look at another person and see another person. It’s a really
important journey for Birdlace, and for an American audience,” Dann said.
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The audience also learns about the Vietnam War and the Marines’
disillusionment when they returned to America after the war.

4. “The Marines who returned from the Vietnam War expected to receive a
‘Hometown hero’s ticker tape parade’ and they were shocked by the lack of
gratitude from the American public. These characters are prepared for
battle, but not for the jungle, and not for the lack of empathy when they
return home,” Dann said.
Dann serves as assistant professor in the Theatre Arts Department at Ithaca
College. Her play, “The Strangest Thing,” was a finalist for the 2010 and 2012
O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference. The ten-minute
play “Brother Love” was a finalist for the Arts & Letters Drama Prize and was
included in the Winter 2014 edition of Stone Canoe. Dann also received the
2013 NYFA Fellowship in Playwriting.
She praised “Dogfight”’s cast and said they are “really brave” to tackle such a
difficult piece.
“‘Dogfight’ is a tricky musical. It would be easy to think of this musical as ‘On
the Town,’ where you see the sailors ‘hit the city’ and have a good time. The
original screenplay is highly sensitive to the issues of gender and violence
and we have tried our best to do the same,” she said.
Performances will take place in Clark Theatre on March 31 and April 1, 2, 5,
6, 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. as well as on April 3 and 9 at 2 p.m. Tickets are currently
on sale and can be purchased at the Ithaca College box office in Dillingham
Center or online at ithaca.ticketforce.com (https://ithaca.ticketforce.com/).
Audiences are advised that this production contains mature language, sexual
content, violence and images of war.
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