The White Whale

MELVILLE’S MOBY DICK COMES TO LIFE ON THE DSU STAGE JANUARY 2016.

Although not a musical, the production includes many of the original sea shanties devised by sailing crews to pass the time and to create a rhythm as they worked. Familiar tunes like Haul Away Joe, Drunken Sailor, Spanish Ladies and others grace the decks of the Pequod as we journey across the world on their hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick.

Featuring:  Denise Burton, Bailee Barnes, Rebecca Christensen, Elizabeth Gubler, Bethany Gudgell, Jarrod Hayes, Derek Hostetter, Coy Shinn, Zachary Waite and Mark Houser, director. These are the names of eight outstanding DSU undergraduate students and two faculty who took on Herman Melville’s classic 900 page novel Moby Dick, in ten months, and developed a brand new script for the upcoming January production of DSU Theatre’s The White Whale. Denise Burton, lead writer on the project, spent painstaking time outside of the class arranging Melville’s own words and composing stage directions, to assist in staging the best moments of the story.