Would you like to take a trip to the circus? Maybe you would like to attend a "Show and Tell" in a fourth grade class? Or perhaps you just want to take in a night of gambling?

Students can do all of these things if they go to the Pavilion Theatre and watch the School of Semester perform their shows for the Spring Semester.

Carnival is the first show of the semester. This musical tells the story of a young girl who is able to find adventure and romance in a traveling circus in southern France. The show includes puppeteers, jugglers, acrobats and more.

The show also contains the touching hit songs "Love Makes the World Go Round" and "It Was Always You." Michael Stewart and Bob Merrill wrote the show and won the New York Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.

Carnival performances will run from next Friday through Feb. 24.

The second show of the season tells the story of a fourth grade session of "Show and Tell" gone drastically wrong.

A young teacher named Corey gives the assignment of bringing in an object, but little does she know what damage it will do. In a moment when she steps out of the classroom, the unthinkable happens; it explodes, killing her class of 24.

Corey survives the horrific disaster and has to deal with discovering her own role in this senseless tragedy and the government forensic team brought in to solve the mystery.

Show and Tell was written by Anthony Clarvoe, a young playwright who was born in San Francisco. He has won several awards such as two Dramalogue Awards and the National Theatre Council's Stavis Award.

Show and Tell will be performed March 23 through 31.

The final show of the semester will be The Basset Table. This show is a scandalous comedy from 1705 and is full of unforgettable characters like Lady Reveller, a widow who runs a gaming table, Valeria, a young heiress and Mrs. Sago, the shopkeeper's wife who has a compulsive gambling problem.

The play was written by Susanna Centlivre, one of the earliest women to ever earn a living as a writer in England. She was also known as an actress, but not a very good one.

Throughout her short life, she wrote a number of farcical comedies.

The Basset Table will be performed April 13 through 21.

Dan Carter, the artistic director of the School of Theatre, explained the reasoning behind the wide selection of the shows.

"We try to insure that over the course of their education, theatre and non-theatre students will be exposed to a broad selection of dramatic literature," Carter said.

Tickets for these shows are available at the Eisenhower Auditorium Box Office (863-0255).