Ouachita Stories

Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Kathryn Kellogg and Moriah Patterson in their joint senior musical theatre recital March 13. The recital will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.

“This is a culmination of everything we've learned as students; it's our own little showcase,” Kellogg said. “We pick out the pieces, choreograph it, block it and perform it. I've been working on some of these pieces for a year. Some of the pieces I worked on earlier in my career as a student, and it was a lot of fun to pull them back out and use them.”

Patterson echoed Kellogg’s thoughts and also added that she is “honored and grateful to be able to share this awesome occasion with one of my best friends, Miss Kathryn Kellogg.”

Kellogg, a native of Sherwood, Ark., has served as president of Ouachita’s chapter of Theta Alpha Phi national theatre honors fraternity and has been a member of Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society. She has been a semi-finalist and nominee in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship auditions at the Region VI Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival and has been involved in seven main stage shows at Ouachita, including directing Eurydice earlier this month.

Patterson, a native of Sheridan, Ark., is an Arkansas Governor’s Distinguished Scholar and has served as vice president of Ouachita’s chapter of Theta Alpha Phi in addition to beimg a member of Alpha Chi national college honor society, Kappa Delta Pi international honor society in education and Pi Kappa Lambda. She has received the Outstanding Freshman Theatre Award at OBU and also the Sylvia Gates Webb Award from OBU’s School of Education.

The recital will begin with Kellogg and Patterson performing two duets, “She’s Fabulous” by Jack Neary and Stephen Sondheim’s “There’s Always a Woman” from Putting it Together.

Kellogg will then perform the fourth act of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde with the assistance of Joe Ochterbeck, a sophomore theatre arts and education major from Maumelle, Ark. Next, she will perform Kerrigan and Lowdermilk’s “Say the Word” from The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown.

Patterson will return to sing Lieber and Stoller’s “Don Juan” from Smokey Joe’s Café, followed by Kellogg’s performance of Kurt Weill’s “I’m a Stranger Here Myself” from One Touch of Venus. Patterson and company will then perform Freed and Brown’s “Broadway Rhythm” from Singing in the Rain. Rachel Harris, a senior musical theatre and vocal performance major from Springdale, Ark., and John Tneoh, a junior vocal performance major from Sungai Petani, Malaysia, will accompany Kellogg on Schwartz and Alessandrini’s “Wickeder” from Forbidden Broadway.

Patterson will then perform Act IV, Scene I from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, accompanied by Garrett Whitehead, a sophomore musical theatre major from Cleburne, Texas. Kellogg and Ochterbeck will follow with Act I of Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss.

Patterson and Kellogg will perform solos of Heisler and Goldrich’s “Oh, How I Loved You” and “Kerrigan and Lowdermilk’s “Not Her Way” from Tales from the Bad Years, respectively.  Patterson will then be joined by Jordan Miller, a sophomore musical theatre major from Rockwall, Texas, for Act I of Lee Blessing’s Independence. Kellogg will then perform Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Rainbow High” from Evita with the company. To conclude, Kellogg, Patterson and company will perform Peter Allen’s “Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on Stage” from The Boy from Oz.

Kellogg and Patterson are students of Mary Handiboe, associate professor of theatre arts; Dan Inouye, assistant professor of theatre arts; Eric Phillips, professor of theatre arts; and Robin Williams, lecturer in music. For more information, contact the School of Fine Arts at (870) 245-5129.

By Brooke Zimny