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The Unexpected Guest, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
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
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
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
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)
Sweeney Todd, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
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
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.