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The House Of Blue Leaves, November 20-23, 1974, Theatre Arts Discipline Nov 1974

The House Of Blue Leaves, November 20-23, 1974, Theatre Arts Discipline

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University of Minnesota, Morris production of The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare and directed by Donald Webster.

Synopsis: rtie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zookeeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York, where he lives with his wife, Bananas, much to the chagrin of Artie’s downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus, who’ll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie’s son Ronny goes AWOL …


The Star-Spangled Girl, November 6-9, 1974, Theatre Arts Discipline Nov 1974

The Star-Spangled Girl, November 6-9, 1974, Theatre Arts Discipline

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University of Minnesota, Morris production of The Star-Spangled Girl by Neil Simon and directed by George Fosgate.

Synopsis Andy and Norman are two earnest young men using their apartment as a publishing office for a "protest" magazine in San Francisco. Sophie, an Olympic swimmer and all-American girl, moves into another apartment on the same floor. Sophie makes her first appearance paying a good-neighbor visit to the combination home and office of the two publishers. Her friendliness and charm leave Norman hopelessly smitten. Thereafter love, with him, is a determined madness, with the humor of it heightened by her frantic rejection …