Marcus Jordan's debut with Southwestern Michigan College's performing arts team will be Nov. 12's fall cabaret, "Becoming: A Musical Theatre Song Cycle," at 7:30 p.m. in the theatre of the Dale A. Lyons Building on the Dowagiac campus. This free public performance explores the dynamic process of transformation through songs, from golden-age musicals to contemporary blockbusters. An eight-member cast embarks on a storytelling journey illustrating the inevitable human experience of change. Jordan, who returned home to Grand Rapids from New York City Dec. 3, 2020, in the spring will direct the musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." Next summer he'll guide "Les Miserables" in conjunction with SMC's Summer Institute Musical Theatre Camp. Jordan, who has degrees in voice performance and vocal pedagogy from Western Michigan University and Westminster Choir College in New Jersey, said, "The cabaret was my way of meeting