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See How They Run

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1980 performance of See How They Run by Philip King.

See How They Run is set in a vicarage of a fictitious English Village in 1943. It focuses on the wife of the vicar, who is going out to see a play with a friend from the army who dresses in one of her husband’s suits. Nothing goes as planned as additional characters come in and wear the vicar’s suits and no one can tell who the real vicar is.

Our Town, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980-1981 Season

1901 to 1913. Grover's Corners, New Hampshire near Massachusetts. Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town

1980 - 1981 75th Anniversary Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

All Over Town, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Heralded as one of the ten best plays of 1974, this zany farce concerns a psychiatrist going crazy. Amidst his chaotic household he tries to restore sanity to himself and his world by curing a man whose pastime is conceiving illegitimate children. The cure will put you in stitches!

A Murder Is Announced, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Agatha Christie’s gripping new mystery, complete with musty Victorian drawing rooms, multiple arresting suspects, and the dowdy intrepid Miss Marple. This spine tingler will send you spinning through, a maze of clues and keep you guessing till the final thrilling moments.

Otherwise Engaged, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Simon’s sole desire is to sip his brandy and listen to Wagner's Parsifal. His solitude is challenged as he parries attacks from a peckish brother, an aggressive seductress, a mysterious visitor and others. His dazzling wit and haunting detachment escalates laughter to an ultimate shocking climax.

The Princess And The Pea And Other Fairy Tales, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

The Strolling Players performing The Princess and the Pea and other classic fairy tails for the Otterbein College Children's Theatre.

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

A revival of this bawdy musical hit. It is madcap farce at its best. Based on the Roman play by Plautus this modern adaptation with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim combines the hilarious nonsense of vaudeville with a variety of musical memorables such as Comedy Tonight and Everybody Ought to Have a Maid. Laughs for the entire family!

Bedroom Farce, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Broadway hit comedy about three London couples retiring to the romantic privacy of their own bedrooms. Their loving coupling goes awry when a fourth twosome invades all three beds creating hilarious havoc in a series of marital misunderstandings and inaccurate accusations.

And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979-1980 Season

In Jackson, a small town in rural Indiana, Elizabeth Ann Willow lives with her father and mother. Crippled at birth with polio, Elizabeth Ann is confined to a wheelchair and must wear leg braces, which cuts her off from the other children and prevents her regular attendance at school. Although she tries to reach out and make friends, Elizabeth Ann is increasingly isolated from and then taunted by the others, whose small-town prejudices are reinforced by a polio scare, of which Elizabeth Ann is a chilling embodiment.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/445082.And_They_Dance_Real_Slow_in_Jackson_

1980 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.

Guys & Dolls, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979-1980 Season

The Department of Music and dance area join us to highlight May Day week activities. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Combine a “floating crap game,” the Save-A-Soul Mission ladies of Times Square with music like “Luck Be a Lady,” “Take Back Your Mink,” “A Bushel and a Peck” and “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat” for one of the best musicals ever! Definitely for the entire family.

The Children's Hour

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1980 performance of The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman.

The Children’s Hour is the story of a manipulative young girl named Mary and how she uses lies and gossip to control and destroy the lives of the two women who run her boarding school.

The Comedy Of Errors, Otterbein University

1979-1980 Season

One of Shakespeare’s most popular farces! First you take a set of twins; then, you add another. Season lightly with a nagging wife and a bumbling bureaucracy, add plenty of mistaken identity and the resulting comedic confusions and you have an engaging mixture that will provide laughter the entire evening. For the entire family.

Hamlet

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1980 performance of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

Hamlet is the story of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark who sets out to avenge his father’s murder at the hands of his uncle, and the tragedy that follows.

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979-1980 Season

Set in the home of a professor in a small college, an evening of “fun and games with George and Martha” is the shattering and memorable drama that proclaimed Edward Albee one of America’s greatest playwrights. Scorching, scalding, laugh provoking, revealing and completely engrossing theatre at its best.