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Full-Text Articles in Theatre History
Radium Girls, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
Radium Girls, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2019-2020 Season
Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. ... As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire.
www.dramaticpublishing.com › radium-girls
Singin' In The Rain, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Singin' In The Rain, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2018-2019 Season
Singin’ in the Rain gives us the heightened reality of an MGM musical to highlight the ways in which we create our own realities. Whatever we believe can become true. If we just close our eyes and imagine, we can make anything happen, even a BROADWAY MELODY production number. The heightened reality of a musical allows us to witness what might be possible.
The Launch 2018: A Senior Cabaret, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Launch 2018: A Senior Cabaret, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2018-2019 Season
The senior Acting and Musical Theatre Majors will take their final bows on the Fritsche Theatre stage in this 90 minute program of songs, dance, scenes, and monologues. See performances from some the students' favorite productions, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dreamgirls, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Rumors, My Fair Lady, and Hamilton!
Arcadia, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Arcadia, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1998-1999 Season
The Underlying theme throughout the show is Classicism vs. Romanticism. The Classic ideals of balance and intellect, seen in Greek Geometry and the ordered universe, become challenged by the emotion and chaos of the Romantic World. The tensions that two completely conflicting philosophies create drive Arcadia forward, making a potentially academic play fun and exciting to watch.
Macbeth...The Tragedy Of, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Macbeth...The Tragedy Of, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2018-2019 Season
A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth
Big Fish, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Big Fish, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2018-2019 Season
When Edward Bloom becomes ill, his son, William, travels to be with him. William has a strained relationship with Edward because his father has always told exaggerated stories about his life, and William thinks he's never really told the truth. Even on his deathbed, Edward recounts fantastical anecdotes. When William, who is a journalist, starts to investigate his father's tales, he begins to understand the man and his penchant for storytelling.
The Pavilion, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Pavilion, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2005 Summer Theatre
Hailed by critics as an "an Our Town for our time," this play is by turns poetic and comic, romantic and philosophical. Peter returns to his twenty-year high-school reunion with dreams of winning back Kari, the girl he left behind after an unexpected pregnancy ended their relationship. Standing in Peter's way is Kari's bitter-as-ever resentment, her husband and the fact that Peter still hasn't grown up. As the night progresses, both Peter and Kari are led, through their interactions with a host of characters all played by a virtuosic Narrator, to face the consequences of choices made long ago and …
Crimes Of The Heart, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Crimes Of The Heart, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2005 Summer Theatre
The three MaGrath sisters are back together in their hometown of Hazelhurst, Mississippi for the first time in a decade. Lenny, the eldest, never left Hazelhurst -- she is the caretaker of the sisters’ cantankerous Old Granddaddy. Meg, the middle sister, left home to pursue stardom as a singer in Los Angeles, but has, so far, only found happiness at the bottom of a bottle. And Babe, the youngest, has just been arrested for the murder of her abusive husband, Zackery Bottrelle. Under the scorching heat of the Mississippi sun, past resentments bubble to the surface and each sister must …
Rounding Third, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Rounding Third, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2005 Summer Theatre
Don is a coach who believes that winning is what is most important in baseball, and he is all about the game. Michael is his assistant coach, a businessman who believes that kids should have fun when they play baseball. These conflicting personalities instantly clash. Don's kid is the star pitcher of the team, and Michael's kid can barely remember to keep his shoelaces tied. In addition, there are extramarital affairs going on (though the truth of them is well-hidden), and Michael's job is not all that it seems.
https://stageagent.com/shows/play/1899/rounding-third
The Taming Of The Shrew, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Taming Of The Shrew, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1985-1986 Season
A ribald, raucous, rowdy look at the eternal “battle of the sexes.” The beautiful Catherine has acquired a reputation as “Kate the Curst” because she apparently does not like the kind of potential suitors encouraged by her father. Enter the swashbuckling but roguish adventurer, Petruchio, who wants both Catherine and her dowry. The father happily agrees to the match and the resulting “battle” ends up as one of Shakespeare's most famous love matches.
Snoopy!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Snoopy!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2018 Summer Theatre
The musical sequel to YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN – deserves each of its three exclamation points. Based on the beloved Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz, the show sparkles with wit and warmth as it depicts life as seen through the eyes of Schulz’s unforgettable characters.
Oklahoma!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Oklahoma!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2018 Summer Theatre
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. …
The Fantasticks, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Fantasticks, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1974 Summer Theatre
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasticks
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2017-2018 Season
The year was 1922 and to live in Manhattan meant, for many, an era of wild optimism, carefree abandonment of antiquated social constraints and for women, unprecedented advancement in how they were perceived by those around them. Everything was lovely and in this age of liberated sensibilities, our heroine, Millie Dillmount enters with just such a need to rewrite her personal narrative. Thoroughly Modern Millie is, to me, a valentine to optimism and a love letter to love itself.
Thom C. Warren, Director
Diary Of Anne Frank, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
Diary Of Anne Frank, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2017-2018 Season
"I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I'm a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."
Anne Frank
Adding Machine: A Musical, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
Adding Machine: A Musical, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2017-2018 Season
Mr. Zero is the eternal "little man," shallow yet possessing some dignity, who murders his boss when he learns that, after twenty-five years of being a bookkeeper, he is to be replaced by an adding machine. Condemned to death despite his piteous stream-of-consciousness appeal to the jury, he is executed and appears next in the Elysian Fields, where he meets and enjoys a brief idyll with Daisy, his deceased co-worker, whose love he had secretly desired.
http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_a/addingmachine.html
Rumors, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
Rumors, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2017-2018 Season
In 1988, Neil Simon needed to cheer himself up. The solution was a farce in two acts, set in Palisades, that shows a dinner party gone topsy-turvy. An enjoyable romp that has been staged countless times all over the country, this is one of Simon's most celebrated comedies. But it carries a subtle undercurrent of sadness, which becomes more clear when we set it alongside the events of the playwright's life.
https://stageagent.com/shows/play/1383/rumors
2017 - 2018 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2017 - 2018 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures
Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.
They're Playing Our Song, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
They're Playing Our Song, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2017 Summer Theatre
They're Playing Our Song is a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.
In a story based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager, a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but initially the match is not one made in heaven. The two undergo a series of trials and overcome a number of hurdles before finding true love by the final curtain.
My Fair Lady, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
My Fair Lady, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2017 Summer Theatre
My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady. The original Broadway, London and film versions all starred Rex Harrison.
My Fair Lady. (2017, July 10). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:22, September 1, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Fair_Lady&oldid=789985734
2017 Otterbein Summer Theatre Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2017 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.
Not The Truth We Seek: The Story Of A Mime, Fierce Women, Proposals, & Pro Wrestling, Steven Meeker Jr.
Not The Truth We Seek: The Story Of A Mime, Fierce Women, Proposals, & Pro Wrestling, Steven Meeker Jr.
Undergraduate Distinction Papers
THE SPARK
I have always believed that the best theater comes from a very real and sometimes very painful place. My parents were undergoing a brutal and very open separation and then divorce throughout my junior and senior year of high school. In the middle of the constant war zone that was our home, my brother and I would simply go from one room to the other with our heads down and as quick as possible. The only day we would linger in the living room would be Mondays. On Monday nights, my brother and I owned the living room …
Damn Yankees, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Damn Yankees, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2016-2017 Season
The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is based on Wallop's novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Top Girls, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Top Girls, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2016-2017 Season
Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is only interested in women's success in business. In the famous opening scene, she hosts a dinner party for a group of famous women from history. As the play unfolds we find Marlene has left her 'poor' life, and illegitimate child with her sister Joyce, in order to tread the path to 'success'. The play is contemporary and examines the role of women in society and what being a successful woman means.
The Launch: A Senior Cabaret, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Launch: A Senior Cabaret, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2016-2017 Season
A showcase of performances by seniors with special guest Lindsay Nicole Chanbers '02
Dance 2016: The Goddess, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Dance 2016: The Goddess, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2016-2017 Season
No abstract provided.
The Crucible, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Crucible, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2016-2017 Season
The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible
The Addams Family, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Addams Family, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2016-2017 Season
We have drawn inspiration for this rendering of The Addams Family from Charles Addams' original cartoons. We were fascinated by the challenge of taking a two dimensional world and extending it into three dimensional reality.
2016 - 2017 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2016 - 2017 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures
Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.
Invention Of Theater, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Invention Of Theater, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2016 Summer Theatre
No abstract provided.