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Cinderella, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989-1990 Season

One of the most universal and beloved fairy tales of all time. The story of a beautiful young girl forced by her stepmother and jealous stepsisters to keep house and sleep in the cinders. She finally marries a handsome prince and lives happily ever after with the help of some friendly mice, a fairy godmother and a glass slipper. To be presented in a fully staged version with music.

Present Laughter, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989-1990 Season

The plot follows a few days in the life of the successful and self-obsessed light comedy actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment in Africa. Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry has to deal with women who want to seduce him, placate both his long-suffering secretary and his estranged wife, cope with a crazed young playwright, and overcome his impending mid-life crisis (since he has recently turned forty). The story was described by Coward as "a series of semi-autobiographical pyrotechnics".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_Laughter

1989 Fall Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

1989 - 1990 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

The Unexpected Guest, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

This newly discovered Agatha Christie mystery is a must for all would-be sleuths! Set in a foggy estate in Wales, “The Unexpected Guest” opens as a stranger walks into a house to find a man murdered and his beautiful young wife standing over him with a gun. But this mystery is far from solved and a thrilling evening of suspense and intrigue has only just begun. ‘The impact is tremendous...just when the murder seems solved, all the ends tied up, and you are groping for your hat. Miss Christie pulls her almighty knock-out punch.” -London Evening News. “That last-minute twist …

I'M Not Rappaport, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

A recent Broadway hit and Tony award winning play, “I’m Not Rappaport” is “Rambunctiously funny.” -N.Y. Post. Set in a secluded spot in New York’s Central Park, the play is about two octogenarians determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Talk about an odd couple! Nat (guest artist Ed Vaughan) is a lifelong radical determined to fight any injustice (real or imagined) who is also a spinner of fantasies. The other half of this unlikely partnership is Midge (guest artist David Downing), an apartment superintendent who spends his days in the park hiding out from …

Biloxi Blues, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

Winner of the 1985 Tony Award for “Best Play,” this sensitive, engaging comedy recounts the journey to manhood of one Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the adolescent Neil Simon. A young army recruit at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943, Eugene and five other enlisted men struggle under a hardnosed D.I. (guest artist Michael Hartman), confront the daily “mess” served up in the mess hall, join together in a visit to a local “lady of the evening” and, it is here, for the first time, that Eugene falls in love. “Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.” -N.Y. Times. “A play …

Quilters (Revival), Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

In the American West, a pioneer woman, Sarah, and six women, who are called her daughters, face frontier life. Rather than a straightforward story line, the musical is presented as a series of short tales and tableaux matched with musical numbers, each presenting an aspect of frontier life or womanhood. The patches or blocks show "girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death."^[9] The patches are ultimately put together to form one dramatic tableau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilters_(musical)

Children Of A Lesser God, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

This play focuses on the conflicted professional and romantic relationship between Sarah Norman, a deaf former student, and her teacher, James Leeds. The play, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum, was produced on Broadway in 1980 and in the West End in 1981. The play won the 1980 Tony Award for Best Play.

Sweeney Todd, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond.

1989 Otterbein Summer Theatre Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

1989 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

Romeo And Juliet, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

Romeo and Juliet. (2017, July 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:01, August 31, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romeo_and_Juliet&oldid=791420844

Quilters, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

In the American West, a pioneer woman, Sarah, and six women, who are called her daughters, face frontier life. Rather than a straightforward story line, the musical is presented as a series of short tales and tableaux matched with musical numbers, each presenting an aspect of frontier life or womanhood. The patches or blocks show "girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death."^[9] The patches are ultimately put together to form one dramatic tableau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilters_(musical)

1989 Winter Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.