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The Curious Savage
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1983 performance of The Curious Savage by John Patrick.
The Curious Savage is the story of Ethel P. Savage, an elderly lady whose husband has died and left her approximately ten million dollars. When she sets up a memorial fund for average people to pursue their dreams, her three stepchildren commit her to a sanatorium and try to discover where she has hidden the fortune. As the search for the fortune plays out the question becomes who is really crazy, the residents of the sanatorium or Ethel’s stepchildren.
You Can't Take It With You
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1982 performance of You Can’t Take It with You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
You Can’t Take It with You follows the story of the only normal daughter in an eccentric family, and the chaos and mishaps which happen when she brings her fiancé home to meet her family.
The Importance Of Being Earnest
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1982 performance of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, is a farcical comedy about two men who each take on the personas with the name of Earnest in order to escape the burdens of social obligations.
See How They Run
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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.
The Odd Couple
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1979 performance of The Odd Couple by Neil Simon.
The Odd Couple tells the story of friends Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison and the conflicts caused by their mismatched lifestyles when Felix moves in after being kicked out of his home by his wife.
The School For Scandal
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1979 performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The School for Scandal tells the story of a conniving gossiper Lady Sneerwell, and her plot with other unscrupulous persons to separate couples and redirect love interests through slander and gossip.
The Magistrate
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1976 performance of The Magistrate by Arthur Pinero.
The Magistrate is the story of a respectable magistrate who ends up entangled in a series of events that almost result in a public scandal.
The Taming Of The Shrew
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1973 performance of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare.
The Taming of the Shrew follows the courtship and marriage of Petruchio and Katherina, a headstrong shrew and how Petruchio "tames" her.
The Skin Of Our Teeth
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1973 performance of The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder.
The Skin of Our Teeth is an allegory about human nature which follows a family and their maid through various disasters at different points of human history.
The Importance Of Being Earnest
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1972 performance of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, is a farcical comedy about two men who each take on the personas with the name of Earnest in order to escape the burdens of social obligations.
This production was set as a Reader's Theatre due to the limited physical space available.
This is one of three plays performed at Eastbrook Middle School Cafetorium because of the destruction of Shreiner Auditorium in Helena Music Hall. Helena Music Hall was destroyed in …
The Imaginary Invalid
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s October 1971 performance of The Imaginary Invalid arranged by Jean Baptiste Moliére.
The Imaginary Invalid is a satirical Comédie-ballet about the 17th century medical profession, following the story of a wealthy Frenchman named Argan who is a hypochondriac.
The Cherry Orchard
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The playbill for Taylor University’s April 1971 performance of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.
The play follows an aristocratic Russian landowner who returns to her family estate (which includes a large and well-known cherry orchard) just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage.
Much Ado About Nothing
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1970 performance of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.
Much Ado About Nothing tells the story of two couples, the feuding Benedick and Beatrice, and the deeply in love Claudio and Hero. Through the use of gossip Benedick and Beatrice are brought together again, and Claudio and Hero, at first separated by malicious lies, are brought together again.
She Stoops To Conquer
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1970 performance of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.
She Stoops to Conquer is the story of Kate Hardcastle, a high society woman whom her father is trying to marry to rich Londoner Charles Marlow. When Marlow rejects her in favor of marrying someone less intimidating and of a lower class, she takes on the persona of a maid to woo him.
Charley's Aunt
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1969 performance of Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas.
Charley’s Aunt is the story of Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate persuaded by two of his friends, Jack and Charley, to impersonate Charley’s aunt so they can spend time with they beaus. Their plan is complicated when an elderly fortune hunter tries to woo the fake aunt and Charley’s real aunt appears.
The Cocktail Party
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1969 performance of The Cocktail Party by T. S. Elliot.
The Cocktail Party by T. S. Elliot is the story of a separated couple who are brought together by their psychiatrist to a cocktail party so they might be reunited.
This show was performed by the Faculty Readers reader’s theater.
The Madwoman Of Chaillot
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1969 performance of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux.
The Madwoman of Chaillot is a satire about an eccentric woman who uncovers the plot of a group of businessmen to dig up Paris for oil and sets out to thwart them with the help of other ordinary and peculiar people.
The Rivals
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1967 performance of The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The Rivals tells the story of young lovers, Lydia Languish and Captain Jack Absolute and the mishaps which happen when Jack’s father tries to arrange a marriage for him and a sequence of gossip and misdelivered letters sets off a clash between Lydia’s suitors.
This show was performed by the Faculty Readers reader’s theater.
The Mikado
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1967 performance of Mikado by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.
The Mikado is the comic opera about the romance between Nanki-Poo, the son of Japan’s Mikado, and Yum-Yum, the ward of the High Executioner of Titipu.
The Birds
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1966 performance of The Birds by Aristophanes.
The Birds tells the story of two Athenians who are tired of their life among the gods and people and seek a king who became a bird, that they may form an allegiance with the birds form a city of their own.
The Cave Dwellers
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1964 performance of The Cave Dwellers by William Saroyan.
The Cave Dwellers tells the story of four homeless persons living on the stage of a theater about to be torn down, and how they recount the memories of their better days with joy.
Arsenic And Old Lace
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1964 performance of Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring.
Arsenic and Old Lace is the story about the Brewsters, an insane homicidal family, and the one sane member, Mortimer Brewster, who must decide whether or not to go through with his promise to marry the woman he loves, Elaine Harper, who lives next door.
The Miser
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1962 performance of The Miser by Molière, adapted by Miles Malleson.
The Miser tells the story of old man obsessed with wealth, determined to marry a young woman who is actually in love with his son, and marry his daughter to a rich man, though she is in love with someone else. As the children are trying to live according to their own designs, events are complicated further when the miser’s hoard is stolen.
The Importance Of Being Earnest
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1962 performance of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, is a farcical comedy about two men who each take on the personas with the name of Earnest in order to escape the burdens of social obligations.
The Matchmaker
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1960 performance of The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder.
Before the world fell in love with Hello, Dolly!, Thornton Wilder’s uproarious play The Matchmaker introduced Ms. Dolly Gallagher Levi: a cunning, crafty, and thoroughly modern woman who knows a good catch when she sees one. When the wealthy Horace Vandergelder hires matchmaker Ms. Levi to find him a wife, Dolly doesn't need to look far to find his perfect mate. While Dolly is “arranging things” for Mr. Vandergelder, the young, hopeless romantics of Yonkers reap the rewards of Dolly’s generosity.
You Can't Take It With You
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1959 performance of You Can’t Take It with You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
You Can’t Take It with You follows the story of the only normal daughter in an eccentric family, and the chaos and mishaps which happen when she brings her fiancé home to meet her family.
The Late Christopher Bean
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1958 performance of The Late Christopher Bean by Sidney Howard.
The Late Christopher Bean is the story of a not well-off family who discovered they have inherited the paintings from an artists whose work has become very valuable, and how their greed impacts their home.
The School For Scandal
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1957 performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The School for Scandal tells the story of a conniving gossiper Lady Sneerwell, and her plot with other unscrupulous persons to separate couples and redirect love interests through slander and gossip.
Twelve Hours By The Clock
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1946 performance of Twelve Hours by the Clock by Lindsey Barbee.
Performed by the Junior Class.
The Merchant Of Venice
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1940 performance of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
The Merchant of Venice is a story of a Venice merchant named Antonio who must pay off a loan to a Jewish moneylender, Shylock.