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The Fantasticks

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1966 performance of The Fantasticks with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones.

The Fantasticks is an allegorical musical about two scheming neighbor fathers who pretend to feud in order to make their children fall in love.

1966-1967 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

An Evening Of One-Act Plays

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s 1965 student-directed productions, including The Apollo of Bellac by Jean Giradoux, Long Stay Cut Short by Tennessee Williams, and The Valiant by Holsworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass.

Hedda Gabler

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1965 performance of Hebba Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.

Hebba Gabler is the story of newlywed Hedda Tesman and her reunion with a former lover and how she manipulates events to secure and create a life for herself with her husband.

1965-1966 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

Desert Journey: A Religious Dance-Drama And An Evaluation Of Its Effect On A Selected Latter-Day Saint Audience, Frank W. Hatch

Theses and Dissertations

The Holy scriptures abound in references to the use of dance as a means of worship. It would seem that there is a need to understand how present day members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints feel in regard to the kind of dancing referred to in the Scriptures.

This study will be concerned with the production of "Desert Journey," a religious dance-drama depicting an episode from the Book of Mormon. A record of "Desert Journey" will be made with a movement notation system adapted from Motation, an architectual movement notation system developed by Laurence Halprin of …

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 House By The Stable

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Players of Genesius 1964-1965 performances of The House by the Stable by Charles Williams.

The Boy Friend - Uso Tour, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1963-1964 Season

Set against the backdrop of the French Riviera, this romantic spoof of 1920s musical comedies tells the story of English heiress, Polly, who is longing for only one thing: a boy friend. Polly's father, convinced that any boy who isn't wealthy will court Polly strictly for her financial situation, forbids her to engage any potential suitors. Honoring his wishes, Polly explains to Tony, the messenger boy with whom she's fallen in love, that she is no rich girl. This is just the tip of the mistaken identity iceberg, as love proceeds to find its way charmingly through nearly every member …

The Boy Friend, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1963-1964 Season

Set against the backdrop of the French Riviera, this romantic spoof of 1920s musical comedies tells the story of English heiress, Polly, who is longing for only one thing: a boy friend. Polly's father, convinced that any boy who isn't wealthy will court Polly strictly for her financial situation, forbids her to engage any potential suitors. Honoring his wishes, Polly explains to Tony, the messenger boy with whom she's fallen in love, that she is no rich girl. This is just the tip of the mistaken identity iceberg, as love proceeds to find its way charmingly through nearly every member …

Collage (April 23-24, 1964), Lindenwood College

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Event program for Collage (April 23-24, 1964).

1964-1965 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

The Influence Of Dance On Ability To Jump In Basketball, Neveta Salmons

Masters Theses

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Interpretation In Dance Of Igor Stravinsky's "Mass" (December 18, 1963), Lindenwood College

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Event program for Interpretation in Dance of Igor Stravinsky's "Mass" (December 18, 1963).

The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1963 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.

The Heiress

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1963 performance of The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square.

The Heiress tells the story of Catherine Sloper, a rather plain-looking woman set to receive a large inheritance from her father. When a man comes to court her, her father suspects it is for the money and attempts to thwart his plan.

Right You Are

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1963 performance of Right You Are by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Eric Bentley.

Right You Are is the story of Mr. Ponza and his mother-in-law, Lady Frola, and the attempt by their village to determine the truth behind their story, as each claims the other is insane.

1963-1964 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

Three By Ionesco

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1962 performance of Three by Ionesco, featuring Man's Futile Effort, The Lesson, and The Chairs by Eugéne Ionesco, translated by Donald M. Allen.

God's Trombones (November 14, 1962), Lindenwood College

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Event program for God's Trombones (November 14, 1962).

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 Pajama Game, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1962-1963 Season

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where workers' demands for a seven-and-a-half cent raise are going unheeded. In the midst of this ordeal, love blossoms between Babe, the grievance committee head, and Sid, the new factory superintendent.

The Crucible

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1962 performance of The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

The Crucible is a fictional story of the Salem Witch trials, telling the deterioration of a Massachusetts town when a group of women are accused of practicing witchcraft. Millar wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism.

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.

1962-1963 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

The First Of The Modern Directors: The Actor-Manager Career Of William Charles Macready, Abe J. Bassett

Theatre Faculty Publications

“My ambition,” wrote William Charles Macready on retiring from the stage in February 1851, was “to establish a theatre, in regard to decorum and taste, worthy of our country, and to have in it the plays of our divine Shakespeare fitfully illustrated.” Although this was undoubtedly a life-long aspiration, which spanned over forty years of his professional career it was best expressed in the four theatrical seasons in which Macready managed Covent Garden theatre (from 1837 to 1839) and Drury Lane theatre (from 1841 to 1843.) It has been the purpose of this study to examine the contributions that Macready …

Dance Recital (December 13, 1961), Lindenwood College

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Event program for Dance Recital (December 13, 1961).

Ladies In Retirement

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1961 performance of Ladies in Retirement by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham.

Ladies in Retirement tells the story of a retired actress living in a remote home with her housekeeper and maid, and what happens when the housekeeper invites her two rambunctious younger sisters to live with them.

The Hasty Heart

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1961 performance of The Hasty Heart by John Patrick.

The Hasty Heart tells the story of a group of Allied soldiers in a temporary British hospital after World War II, and their efforts to befriend a rather distant soldier with a terminal illness.