For the first installment of an ongoing series about the various wacky students that make up the Varsity Show cast and crew, Christin Zurbach sat down with Hillary Kritt, BC '12, a board member of the Columbia Musical Theater Society (CMTS) and one of the producers of this year's Varsity Show.
Christin Zurbach: Why the Varsity Show?
Hillary Kritt: I’m a theater student, and a lot of the work I do in theater I only reach a certain audience, but the varsity show is the one show on campus where you can actually reach the whole University population.
That’s really important to me because Columbia is not so much a school that has a lot of those types of things, so the varsity show is one of our main traditions. Also, on a personal level, I am going into commercial theater, which is more about getting people to see theater who don’t normally see theater, or who wouldn’t normally consider seeing theater, and that’s more indicative of a Varsity Show audience. It’s more of a challenge. It’s more interesting.
