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Hay Fever, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979 Summer Theatre

Noel Coward’s superb farce comedy, filled with typical repartee and dazzling wit. The story concerns an ultra-Bohemian family who live a free sort of life. The novelist, his actress wife and their two spoiled children each invite guests for a summer weekend and the resulting “fever” is the basis for an evening of laughter.

The Runner Stumbles, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979 Summer Theatre

An exciting and powerful new drama that has enjoyed great regional theatre and New York success (now before the cameras). This story of repressed passions centering around a priest and a nun, told in a courtroom through flashbacks, provides an evening of intensely moving and absorbing theatre.

The Boy Friend, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979 Summer Theatre

A revival of this witty and musical comedy spoof of the 1920's that won the Theatre an Overseas Tour to entertain American soldiers in 1964. A tuneful and affectionate valentine to the innocence and wild abandonment of the Charleston, black bottom, hip flasks and short skirts. Hit songs (Julie Andrew's first big hit) include "Won't You Charleston With Me" and "It's Never Too Late to Fall In Love."

Cactus Flower, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979 Summer Theatre

Broadway hit comedy about a bachelor dentist who stays happily single by reporting he is married! All is well until he falls in love - and needs to produce a “wife.” His secretary-nurse agrees to help and when she changes her uniform for a dress the transformation and confrontations produce surprising results — and laughter!

How The Other Half Loves, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978-1979 Season

How the Other Half Loves is a 1969 play in two acts by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is a farce following the consequences of an adulterous affair between a married man and his boss’s wife and their attempts to cover their tracks by roping in a third couple to be their alibi, resulting in a chain of misunderstandings, conflicts and revelations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Other_Half_Loves

Brigadoon, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978-1979 Season

The story involves two American tourists who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years. Tommy, one of the tourists, falls in love with Fiona, a young woman from Brigadoon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon

The Merchant Of Venice, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978-1979 Season

The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice

Vanities, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978-1979 Season

Vanities is a comedy-drama stage production written by Jack Heifner. The story centers on the lives and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school in 1963, continuing through college as sorority sisters in 1968, and ending with the dissolution of their friendship in 1974 New York as their interests and livelihoods change and they are no longer as compatible with one another as they had been in their school days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanities

A Christmas Carol, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978-1979 Season

No abstract provided.

Hedda Gabler, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978-1979 Season

Hedda Gabler focusses on the frustrated existence of its title character, exploring core issues of power, control, and social expectation. Bored and restricted by her middle-class environment, Hedda plays out her own fantasies and psychological games with those nearest to her to an ultimately costly end.

https://stageagent.com/shows/play/5638/hedda-gabler

The House Of Blue Leaves, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978 Summer Theatre

Winner of the 1971 Critics Award and Obie Award as best American play, this brilliantly wacky comedy examines the zany but desperately sad attempt of a middle aged zoo attendant to break into the “big time” as a serious song writer. John Guare mixes hilarity and tragedy to achieve a touching and poignant story not to be forgotten. Adult entertainment.

Let's Get A Divorce, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978 Summer Theatre

Titillating French bedroom farce at its naughty best! This 19th century comic masterpiece revolves around the outrageously amusing implications of France’s first divorce law. Combine a suspicious older husband, an adventuresome young wife and a swashbuckling young lover with the marital riddle — “Can husbands and wives also be friends and lovers?” — and prepare for a riotous chain of events.

What The Butler Saw, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978 Summer Theatre

An adult farce that revolves around a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her (but then nothing works in this zany place), his wife and her current bell-hop paramour and the complications resulting from the arrival of a state inspector.

The Gingerbread Boy And Other Fables, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978 Summer Theatre

A collection of fairy tales and fables performed by our “Strolling Players.”

Oh, Coward!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978 Summer Theatre

A compilation of the words and music by the master of wit, Noel Coward. An international theatrical personality for over 50 years who wrote and starred in over a score of plays and eleven musicals. Nostalgia interspersed with insight into the humorous side of life leaves an audience humming the memorable melodies and hilarious lyrics. Songs like “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “Mrs. Worthington,” “Someday I’ll Find You” and “The Stately Homes of England.”

The Gazebo, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1978 Summer Theatre

Broadway hit comedy-melodrama — the story revolves around a writer of TV “whodunits and whyzits” who is always looking for a “new twist,” especially from his district attorney friend. Comedy is the inevitable result when he is forced to protect his beautiful wife from a blackmailer. A gazebo suddenly gets a “new use” during installation and the “new twist” becomes very real. Guaranteed entertainment for the family.

Applause, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977-1978 Season

The Department of Music and dance area join us in presenting the award winning musical that starred Lauren Bacall for three years in New York, on national tour and in London. Based on the movie “All About Eve,” the story revolves around show business. Delightful songs and dances Include “Applause, Applause,” “Welcome to the Theatre,” “Fasten Your Seat Belts” and “One of a Kind.”

Tartuffe, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977-1978 Season

Moliere's comic masterpiece that takes an old “con game” story and uses wit and humor to puncture satirically excesses of hypocrisy and gullibility. Using prolific flattery seasoned with devoted piety, Tartuffe establishes himself in a rich household and proceeds to help himself to the daughter, attempt to seduce the wife and secure the family fortune while the gullible husband blindly supports him.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977-1978 Season

An Academy Award winning movie featuring Jack Nicholson, dramatized for the Broadway stage by Dale Wasserman and starring Kirk Douglas (both based on an outstanding novel by Ken Kesey), now comes to the Otterbein stage featuring a PROFESSIONAL GUEST ARTIST in the lead role of “McMurphy.” Recent guest stars have included Pat Mingle, George Grizzard, Brock Peters, Robert Forster, Ric Mancini and Tony Roberts.

Robin Hood, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977-1978 Season

The story of Robin Hood, his merry Band and Maid Marian in a new dramatization featuring music and dances of the period.

The Streets Of New York, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977-1978 Season

Come hiss the villain, cheer the hero and weep for our heroine in this genuine old-fashioned melodrama by the master of pure entertainment Dion Boucicault. The production will include the traditional “olio” or vaudeville variety acts of music, song and dance at intermission, mixed with the drama, pathos, passion, sensationalism and spectacular scenery of melodramatic entertainment at its best.

You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977 Summer Theatre

One of the most successful comedies in Broadway history, this warm-hearted series of short plays revolve around such diverse topics as “nudity in theatre,’’ the joys of sex and marriage as related to standard size vs. twin beds, and an elderly married couple discussing comedically the joys of their previous marriages (even though they tend to get very confused about who was best at what).

The Little Foxes, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977 Summer Theatre

Lilian Hellman’s most famous play and finest drama originally starred Tallulah Bankhead in 1939 when it was described as a “milestone in American drama!’’ The story revolves around a charming Southern plantation at the turn of the century in which an apparently loving family become involved in a ruthless struggle for control of the family fortune.

Not Now, Darling!, Otterbein Universitytheatre And Dance Department

1977 Summer Theatre

This hilarious farce, which set box office records in London and Paris before coming to Broadway, will remind local audiences of the Otterbein SRO hit in 1975 Move Over, Mrs. Markham. Set in the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, the struggle to keep mistresses and wives separated leads to situations from which only a bumbler like Crouch could emerge o hero. Recommended for adult audiences.

Little Red Riding Hood And Other Fables, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977 Summer Theatre

A collection of fairy tales and fables.

Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977 Summer Theatre

The poignant, passionate and profound songs of Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel are brought to vivid theatrical life in this intense musical experience. Brel's legendary romance, humor and moral conviction are evoked simply and directly, with four actors, four musicians and four stools. The result is a powerful, intimate, bold and emotional evening of theatre.

https://www.samuelfrench.com/s/13628/jacques-brel-is-alive-and-well-living-in-paris

Forty Carats, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1977 Summer Theatre

The comedy revolves around a 40-year-old American divorcee who is assisted by a 22-year-old when her car breaks down during a vacation in Greece. Their ensuing romantic interlude changes from a brief encounter to a potentially serious relationship when he turns up on her New York City doorstep to take her 17-year-old daughter on a date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Carats

West Side Story, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1976-1977 Season

No abstract provided.

A View From The Bridge, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1976-1977 Season

The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love of, and almost obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolfo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_from_the_Bridge

A Flea In Her Ear, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1976-1977 Season

Paranoia, infidelity and lechery take centre stage in this raucous bedroom farce. An hysterical cocktail of chaos that could only have been devised by the master of comic stagecraft, Feydeau.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1849430861/ref=dp_bookdescription?_encoding=UTF8&n=283155