January 5, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Lara De Meo, Coordinator for Public Relations and Alumni Affairs
“Vatican II: What the Hell Happened?” New Brunswick, NJ – Why is mass no longer recited in Latin? How come we can eat meat on Fridays? And what happened to women wearing hats in church?
These are just some of the issues Kathy Cogan explores in her uproarious one-woman comedy, “Vatican II: What the Hell Happened?” Cogan will perform the part stand-up, part audience-interaction piece at Rutgers’ Kirkpatrick Chapel on Friday, January 27 at 8pm.
In “Vatican II,” the town of Dexterville plans to tear down St. Nicholas Church and erect a SuperMart in its place. St. Nicholas’ choir director, Margaret Mary O’Malley, tries to convince the town council to save her beloved church. As she recounts her Catholic upbringing through wit, charm, and side-splitting anecdotes, the audience is left in comical stitches.
Written by Cogan and directed by Conwell S. Worthington II and Michael Coleman, “Vatican II” has been met with widespread acclaim. Audiences will “rock with laughter,” says The Star Ledger’s Peter Filichia. And Jeffrey Bruner of the Des Moines Register promises, “Christians, non-Christians and even atheists will find plenty of laughs in ‘Vatican II,’ and Catholics, well, they’ll laugh so hard their stomachs will hurt—and then they’ll feel guilty about it later.”
Tickets are $20 for the general public, $15 for Rutgers alumni and employees and seniors, and $10 for students with a valid ID. Kirkpatrick Chapel is at 81 Somerset Street on the Old Queens campus of Rutgers University in downtown New Brunswick. For more information on any Mason Gross event, visit www.masongross.rutgers.edu or call the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center ticket office at 732-932-7511.
About Kathy Cogan Kathy Cogan spent nearly eight years touring with the Off-Broadway hit “Late Nite Catechism,” for which she received rousing raves from audiences and critics throughout the United States and Canada. She also performed in the Off-Broadway smash hit, “The Vagina Monologues.” This multi-faceted comedic actress could also be seen in her live “Cooking for Idiots” show as well as her one-woman show “The Nail Room,” which was performed Off-Broadway as well as at Rascals Comedy Club. Her radio show, “The Nitwit Hour,” can be heard on www.VillageRadio.com. Other theatrical productions include “Graceland” (Off-Broadway), “Talking With,” “Perfectly Frank” (nominated for Best Featured actress in a musical by the AVY Arts and Theater Committee), “Mystery Of Edwin Drood” and “Pump Boys and Dinettes.” About Mason Gross School of the Arts Founded in 1976, Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and is home to the departments of dance, music, theater arts, and visual arts. Its faculty and alumni rosters include arts professionals recognized nationally and internationally. The school's enrollment of 625 undergraduates across four departments and 250 graduate students across three departments, combined with a faculty of 140, assures students the opportunity to work closely with accomplished artists within their fields.
About Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey A comprehensive research institution with more than 50,000 students on three main campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden, Rutgers comprises one of the major state university systems in the nation. Chartered in 1766 in New Brunswick as Queen's College, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher learning in the nation and now comprises 29 degree- granting divisions, including 16 offering graduate programs of study.
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