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The Monitor

The Student News Site of Marymount Manhattan College

The Monitor

On The Stage

In Transit: MMC’s First Acapella Musical

In Transit: MMC’s First Acapella Musical

Sofia Skop February 27, 2024

This past week, Marymount Manhattan College put on a production of the acapella musical In Transit. The musical focuses on the everyday experiences of New Yorkers going from place to place on public transit....

Behind the Song: A Visual Symphony of a Music Producers Day

MariaChiara Ansioso, Guest Writer December 7, 2023

Walking up Harding Ave, in my home state of New Jersey, I feel nostalgic through my now 19-year-old eyes. It was around three years ago when I started coming to the recording studio myself to intern and...

How Lana Del Rey Reinvented the Nostalgic American Aesthetic

How Lana Del Rey Reinvented the Nostalgic American Aesthetic

Francesca Crumpton, Digital Managing Editor October 18, 2023

On October 3rd I experienced one of the best nights of my life, and I met the one and only Lana Del Rey. My roommates and I bought tickets on a whim when she announced her tour, without thinking about...

Allergic To Being Alive:  Former MMC Student Katie Hutch Tells Her Story Through a Perfectly  Imperfect One Woman Show.

“Allergic To Being Alive”: Former MMC Student Katie Hutch Tells Her Story Through a Perfectly Imperfect One Woman Show.

Kayla Platania, Guest Writer September 23, 2023

For some people, living just comes naturally. It sounds silly at first, but being able to simply exist without serious complications is an immense privilege that a majority of people don’t realize they...

MTs Got The Beat: A Rundown of MMC’s Production of Head Over Heels

MTs Got The Beat: A Rundown of MMC’s Production of Head Over Heels

Brady Evans, Staff Writer March 13, 2023

MMC’s Musical Theatre program impresses audiences yet again with their mainstage production of Head Over Heels.   Head Over Heels was directed and choreographed by Bethany Christine Elkin...

MMC Drag Performers Guilty of Serving at this Year’s CAB Drag Show!

MMC Drag Performers Guilty of Serving at this Year’s CAB Drag Show!

Kayla Platania, Guest Writer February 22, 2023

On Friday, February 17th, the Campus Activities Board threw their annual drag show with this year’s theme: Written In The Stars. The show, which took place in the Great Hall dance studio, welcomed the...

An Evening in Queens

An Evening in Queens

Elise Uhlar, Guest Writer February 9, 2023

It’s February Third, a blustery evening. You’re somewhere in Queens where the buildings are inconspicuous and the people are filled with a sense of knowing that presently, you can’t seem to grasp....

MMCs Theatre Department Introduces Intimacy Education

MMC’s Theatre Department Introduces Intimacy Education

Gabrielle Fiorella, Editor-in-Chief May 12, 2021

Since September 2019, The MMC Intimacy Education program has been implemented within the Theatre Department, spearheaded by Professor Emeritus in Theatre Arts and Coordinator for Movement of Actors, Haila...

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New Reality of Broadway: Spring 2020

Michael Dunlap, Guest Writer March 16, 2020

Since December 2019, a new strain of the harmful and potentially deadly Coronavirus, Covid-19, has rocked media headlines and led the world into mass chaos.  As of Wednesday, March 4th, 2020, the number...

MMC Directing Projects

MMC Directing Projects

Michael Dunlap, Guest Writer December 16, 2019

Each semester, Marymount Manhattan College puts on what is known as the directing projects. This semester’s directing projects ran the weekend of the 6th - 8th of December. The directing projects...

Bring It On: The Musical comes to the stage

Bring It On: The Musical comes to the stage

ana coakley November 11, 2019

Bring It On, a musical based on the 2000 Kirsten Dunst film of the same name, is a show that illustrates the competitive world of cheerleading and their rivals while battling with the “clash of class,...

‘Come From Away’ Brings History To The Stage

‘Come From Away’ Brings History To The Stage

Elena Maldonado-Dunn, Staff Writer November 2, 2019

“Welcome to the Rock!” That is the call of twelve talented actors who have the daunting task of portraying nearly 7,000 people who were stranded in the tiny town of Gander, Newfoundland (the so-called...

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