These talented performers will join forces with the Creative team for this year’s VShow: Principals: Eleanor Bray (BC ’14) Rebekah Lowin (CC ’14)* Alessio Mineo (CC ’14) Jenny Singer (BC ’15) Sean Walsh (CC ’14)* Ensemble: Patrick Aloia (CC ’15) Allie Carieri (CC ’15) Ben Goldwater (GS/JTS ’14) Gray Henry (CC ’14) Jane Kim (CC ’14) […]

Live, from Roone Arledge Auditorium, it’s the creative team for the 118th Annual Varsity Show! The producers of V117 have just announced the students responsible for creating this year’s edition of the VShow, and their credentials seem pretty impressive. Director: Alex Hare, CC ’13 – Director of XMAS! 5 and the upcoming CMTS Musical Revue, […]

With a whopping ~$100K budget, it’s understandable that people hold such high expectations for the Vshow. The 117th iteration succeeded in tackling this year’s scandals, but failed to deliver the polished production we wanted. Clocking in at over 2 hours (plus intermission), the show strove for topicality, as it should, and handled sensitive issues tastefully […]

Come April, Columbia is witness to a familiar but slightly strange sight: thousands of students and patrons eagerly line up to fork over their money for a musical theater show. And this all happens in an age when musical theater is about as relevant as a rotary phone. It’s a testament not only to the […]

The 117th Annual Varsity Show will run from April 29 to May 1. If it’s anything like the preview, it sounds like it might be worth your while. Get your tickets online or at the TIC before April 14th for the early bird discount! If you’re feeling generous, splurge on a VIP ticket. We’re not quite […]

Bwog squeezed in to Havana Central’s backroom for the much anticipated Varsity Show Preview. There was promise, pizazz, and no Operation Ivy League… Last night’s 117th Varsity Show preview was executed seamlessly, but displayed no awareness of the insanity that went down last semester. Of course, we’re not asking for a laundry list style lampooning […]

The cast of the 117th Annual Varsity Show has been revealed at last! Congratulations, friends! Cast Alia Munsch (BC ‘12) Andrew Wright (CC ’14) Bob Vulfov (CC ’13) Chris Silverberg (CC ’13) Elizabeth Power (CC ’13) Isaac Assor (CC ’14) Naomi Roochnik (BC ’13) Rachel Chavez (CC ’14) Rebekah Lowin (CC ’14) Sam Mickel (CC […]

Head over to Low Plaza anytime between now and 4:00 p.m. for free food and giveaways from the V117 Creative Team. The Facebook event advertises free V117 ping pong balls (the perfect addition to your Thursday night!) and Monster (it’s Four Loko minus the fun part!). Bwog suggests you check it out, especially if you’re […]

The Columbia/NYU electronic band Night Eyes, which also recently made a fun flashlight-lit video, released its first EP called “Exhale” yesterday. The first 150 to download it from bandcamp get it for FREE, or you could pay $3.96 for it on iTunes. While you’re busy downloading, relive last year’s College Walk of Shame (not the […]

For CC ’14er Gabby Beans, last night’s Class Act was a welcome opportunity to, as the 75-page NSOP manual put it, “sit back, relax, and enjoy.” But she found that difficult to do with a thousand little kazoos buzzing in her ears, and the sounds of Michael Bublé inexplicably wafting over the freshpeople-packed room. Her […]

In one of the most pitch-perfect moments of last night’s Varsity Show, John Goodwin, playing a young CC professor who insists that students call him by his first name and holds his office hours at 1020, declared that “CC is not about reading the great philosophers. It’s about students with different viewpoints coming together to […]

Warning: V-Show producers checked in with Bwog to tell us that tons of people are buying tickets online and not picking them up. If that’s you, you should probably stop by the TIC to pick them up today, or else you will face huge lines before the show. Remember that lines are fairly long to get […]

Bwog crowded into the mystical back room of Havana Central to see the preview of The 116th Annual Varsity Show. Upon receiving an invitation to a student production, every administrator must blanch with fear. Given the last two Varsity Shows’ penchant for administrative caricatures, it’s a wonder Deans Shollenberger and Denburg showed up at all. […]

First we head East for Harlem For The Holidays, a new bazaar-like holiday marketplace that features unique businesses from the neighborhood. (NY1) After that we head down to New Jersey, which, in terms of gay marriage, now has a chance to distance itself from New York. A metaphorical distance, of course. (1010WINS) Next we travel […]

Below are the names of the people who will provide you with nonstop humor and campus punditry… while singing! On stage! Congratulations to all. Here’s the 116th Varsity Show cast: Alex Hare CC ’13 Ben Russell CC ’12 David Offit GS/JTS ’13 Emily Feinstein BC ’13 Hannah Kloepfer CC ’13 Hillary Kritt BC ’12 **Jenny […]