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The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs
The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1978 performance of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is the story of Cora Flood, the wife of a traveling salesman. Learning that her husband might have an affair with another woman, she plans to leave the marriage. When her husband returns, having lost his job, Cora must decide how to respond.
A Christmas Carol, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
A Christmas Carol, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978-1979 Season
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Hedda Gabler, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Hedda Gabler, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978-1979 Season
Hedda Gabler focusses on the frustrated existence of its title character, exploring core issues of power, control, and social expectation. Bored and restricted by her middle-class environment, Hedda plays out her own fantasies and psychological games with those nearest to her to an ultimately costly end.
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The House Of Blue Leaves, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The House Of Blue Leaves, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978 Summer Theatre
Winner of the 1971 Critics Award and Obie Award as best American play, this brilliantly wacky comedy examines the zany but desperately sad attempt of a middle aged zoo attendant to break into the “big time” as a serious song writer. John Guare mixes hilarity and tragedy to achieve a touching and poignant story not to be forgotten. Adult entertainment.
Let's Get A Divorce, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Let's Get A Divorce, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978 Summer Theatre
Titillating French bedroom farce at its naughty best! This 19th century comic masterpiece revolves around the outrageously amusing implications of France’s first divorce law. Combine a suspicious older husband, an adventuresome young wife and a swashbuckling young lover with the marital riddle — “Can husbands and wives also be friends and lovers?” — and prepare for a riotous chain of events.
What The Butler Saw, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
What The Butler Saw, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978 Summer Theatre
An adult farce that revolves around a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her (but then nothing works in this zany place), his wife and her current bell-hop paramour and the complications resulting from the arrival of a state inspector.
The Gingerbread Boy And Other Fables, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Gingerbread Boy And Other Fables, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978 Summer Theatre
A collection of fairy tales and fables performed by our “Strolling Players.”
Oh, Coward!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Oh, Coward!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978 Summer Theatre
A compilation of the words and music by the master of wit, Noel Coward. An international theatrical personality for over 50 years who wrote and starred in over a score of plays and eleven musicals. Nostalgia interspersed with insight into the humorous side of life leaves an audience humming the memorable melodies and hilarious lyrics. Songs like “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “Mrs. Worthington,” “Someday I’ll Find You” and “The Stately Homes of England.”
The Gazebo, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Gazebo, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1978 Summer Theatre
Broadway hit comedy-melodrama — the story revolves around a writer of TV “whodunits and whyzits” who is always looking for a “new twist,” especially from his district attorney friend. Comedy is the inevitable result when he is forced to protect his beautiful wife from a blackmailer. A gazebo suddenly gets a “new use” during installation and the “new twist” becomes very real. Guaranteed entertainment for the family.
Applause, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Applause, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1977-1978 Season
The Department of Music and dance area join us in presenting the award winning musical that starred Lauren Bacall for three years in New York, on national tour and in London. Based on the movie “All About Eve,” the story revolves around show business. Delightful songs and dances Include “Applause, Applause,” “Welcome to the Theatre,” “Fasten Your Seat Belts” and “One of a Kind.”
Tartuffe, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Tartuffe, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1977-1978 Season
Moliere's comic masterpiece that takes an old “con game” story and uses wit and humor to puncture satirically excesses of hypocrisy and gullibility. Using prolific flattery seasoned with devoted piety, Tartuffe establishes himself in a rich household and proceeds to help himself to the daughter, attempt to seduce the wife and secure the family fortune while the gullible husband blindly supports him.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1977-1978 Season
An Academy Award winning movie featuring Jack Nicholson, dramatized for the Broadway stage by Dale Wasserman and starring Kirk Douglas (both based on an outstanding novel by Ken Kesey), now comes to the Otterbein stage featuring a PROFESSIONAL GUEST ARTIST in the lead role of “McMurphy.” Recent guest stars have included Pat Mingle, George Grizzard, Brock Peters, Robert Forster, Ric Mancini and Tony Roberts.