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Chicago, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Chicago, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2019-2020 Season
Set in Jazz-age Chicago, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she reported on. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(musical)
Smoke On The Mountain, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
Smoke On The Mountain, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2019 Summer Theatre
n this delightful tale of the Sanders Family Singers, the audience is invited to go back to 1938 and pull up a pew for an evening of more than two dozen songs, many of them vintage pop hymns. The more-or-less devout members of the family don’t just sing, but also have hilarious stories, which are delivered despite the mild protestations of the Reverend Oglethorpe.
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.