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Our Country's Good, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Feb 2000

Our Country's Good, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1999-2000 Season

Based on the Thomas Keneally novel, The Playmaker, Our Country's Good follows the true story of these first citizens of Australia. The prisoners are all too familiar with barbaric punishments, shortages of food, and impending death. Morale is at its lowest. However, the newly appointed governor of the New South Wales prison, Captain Arthur Phillip, seeks to build a community within the penal walls and orders the prisoners to produce a play.

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Narnia, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Nov 1999

Narnia, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1999-2000 Season

During the World War II bombings of London, four English siblings are sent to a country house where they will be safe. Lucy, one of the children, finds a wardrobe that transports her to a magical world called Narnia. After coming back, she soon returns to Narnia with her brothers, Peter and Edmund, and her sister, Susan. There they join the magical lion, Aslan, in the fight against the evil White Witch.

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Death Of A Salesman, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Oct 1999

Death Of A Salesman, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1999-2000 Season

Death of a Salesman begins when Willy returns from a business trip and finds his two sons, Biff and Happy, staying at the family home. From that moment on, the story line weaves in and out of the past and the present and back again. At the age of 63, Willy Loman is a mess. https://study.com/academy/lesson/death-of-a-salesman-plot-dramatic-structure.html

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Antigravity, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department May 1999

Antigravity, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1998-1999 Season

No abstract provided.

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The Last Night Of Ballyhoo Apr 1999

The Last Night Of Ballyhoo

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1999 performance of The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry.

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A Little Night Music, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Apr 1999

A Little Night Music, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1998-1999 Season

BASED on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music tells the story of middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his teenage bride, Anne, with whom he has never had sexual relations in spite of the fact that they have been married for eleven months.

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Great Gardens!, Joshua Brady Apr 1999

Great Gardens!, Joshua Brady

Inscape

No abstract provided.

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Otterbein Dance Concert - Guys & Dolls, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Mar 1999

Otterbein Dance Concert - Guys & Dolls, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1998-1999 Season

Annual Dance Concert

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Spaces Between Us: The Dialogues Of Il And Elle, Nicole M. Christensen Jan 1999

Spaces Between Us: The Dialogues Of Il And Elle, Nicole M. Christensen

Inscape

No abstract provided.

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A Survey Instrument To Collect Student Perceptions Of Drama Class Benefits, Claudia Wiggins Jan 1999

A Survey Instrument To Collect Student Perceptions Of Drama Class Benefits, Claudia Wiggins

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this study is to develop a student survey for a drama class. The focus of the research is to substantiate the need for teaching drama in schools and by using a student survey. Presented is a drama class student survey developed and administered in high school drama classes. Offered are interviews with two drama teachers regarding the use of a drama survey. The study concludes with suggestions for future drama class student surveys.

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Pinocchio, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Nov 1998

Pinocchio, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1998-1999 Season

When the woodworker Geppetto sees a falling star, he wishes that the puppet he just finished, Pinocchio, could become a real boy. In the night, the Blue Fairy grants Geppetto's wish and asks Jiminy Cricket to serve as the wooden boy's conscience. But the naive and trusting Pinocchio falls into the clutches of the wicked Honest John, who leads him astray to the sinful Pleasure Island.

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Moon Over Buffalo, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Oct 1998

Moon Over Buffalo, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1998-1999 Season

In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend me a Tenor, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950's. At the moment, they're playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with 5 actors. www.kenludwig.com/moon_over_buffalo/moon_over_buffalo.php

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Thirst, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department May 1998

Thirst, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1997-1998 Season

Thirst was inspired by an early Henry James novel titled Roderick Hudson, first published in 1875.

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Crazy For You, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Apr 1998

Crazy For You, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1997-1998 Season

Crazy for You is a romantic comedy musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team’s 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but incorporates songs from several other productions as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_for_You_(musical)

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The Miser, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Jan 1998

The Miser, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1997-1998 Season

The plot concerns the classic conflict of love and money. The miser Harpagon wishes his daughter Elise to marry a wealthy old man, Anselme, who will accept her without a dowry, but she loves the penniless Valère. www.britannica.com

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Shadowlands Nov 1997

Shadowlands

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1997 performance of Shadowlands by William Nicholson.

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Emperor's New Clothes, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Nov 1997

Emperor's New Clothes, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1997-1998 Season

A vain emperor who cares about nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires weavers who promise him they will make him the best suit of clothes. The weavers are con-men who convince the emperor they are using a fine fabric invisible to anyone who is either unfit for his position or "hopelessly stupid". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

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1776, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Oct 1997

1776, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1997-1998 Season

In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single "nay" vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the …

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Agnes Of God Program, A-State Department Of Theatre Oct 1997

Agnes Of God Program, A-State Department Of Theatre

Stage Production Programs

A court-appointed psychiatrist is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby.

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1997 Otterbein University Summer Theatre Season Brochure, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Jul 1997

1997 Otterbein University Summer Theatre Season Brochure, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

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Marcus Is Walking: Scenes From The Road, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department May 1997

Marcus Is Walking: Scenes From The Road, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1996-1997 Season

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the car, the play examines the emotional landscape we roam as we travel in our cars. Control, navigation, love and escape, are some of the themes explored. A protective father shepherds his son through the neighborhood on Halloween; an actor on his way to perform Hamlet provokes a rear-end collision and confrontation with a Czech émigré cab driver; a devastated businessman strikes up an unlikely alliance with a homeless woman who sleeps in his car. This is the landscape of human frailty and vulnerability, charm and strength; a playwright's whimsy combined with …

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Cabaret, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department May 1997

Cabaret, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1996-1997 Season

Cabaret takes place from 1929-1930, a time when Berlin, in the midst of a post-World War I economic depression, is transitioning from a center of underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler’s totalitarian regime and the rise of the Nazi Party. Into this world enters Clifford Bradshaw, a struggling American writer looking for inspiration for his next novel. On his first night in Berlin, Cliff wanders into the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy nightclub overseen by the strange, omniscient and gender-bending Master of Ceremonies, “the Emcee.” Here, Cliff meets Sally Bowles, a vivacious, talented cabaret performer, and an …

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Hamlet, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Mar 1997

Hamlet, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1996-1997 Season

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is home from school to mourn the death of his father, King Hamlet, who has died two months earlier. Hamlet is disgusted by the marriage of his newly widowed mother, Queen Gertrude, to his Uncle, King Hamlet's brother, Claudius, who now has the throne. https://www.hartfordstage.org/stagenotes/hamlet/synopsis

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Down The Road Program, A-State Department Of Theatre Mar 1997

Down The Road Program, A-State Department Of Theatre

Stage Production Programs

This provocative drama travels down a dark and frightening road into the mind of a serial killer.

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Moonchildren With Catco, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Feb 1997

Moonchildren With Catco, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1997-1998 Season

The play chronicles a year in the life of the "moonchildren" referred to in the title: eight college students living communally together in an off-campus attic in the mid-1960s.

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Noises Off, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Feb 1997

Noises Off, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1996-1997 Season

Michael Frayn's Noises Off takes a fond look at the follies of theatre folk, whose susceptibility to out-of-control egos, memory loss, and passionate affairs turn every performance into a high-risk adventure. This play-within-a-play captures a touring theatre troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress rehearsal, the opening performance, and a performance towards the end of a debilitating run. Frayne gives us a window into the inner workings of theatre behind the scenes, progressing from flubbed lines and missed cues in the dress rehearsal to mounting friction between cast members in the final performance. Brimming with slapstick comedy, Noises …

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Landford Wilson Program, A-State Department Of Theatre Dec 1996

Landford Wilson Program, A-State Department Of Theatre

Stage Production Programs

A showcase for freshman theater students performing the works of a brilliant, award-winning playwright

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Wind In The Willows, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Nov 1996

Wind In The Willows, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1996-1997 Season

The famous English gentlemen, Mr. Toad of Toad Hall, sees his first motor car and promptly falls uncontrollably in love with motoring, so he buys a car which he then crashes. Another car is bought, followed by another crash and another—and another! For once at the throttle, Toad in his goggles and duster is a man possessed. Soon he is ruled off the road. Then he steals a car. For this he's sent to jail for 20 years. While there, he learns that Weasels have taken over his old family home and all his friends have been thrown out. But …

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To Kill A Mockingbird, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department Oct 1996

To Kill A Mockingbird, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1996-1997 Season

This play debuted in 1990 in Monroeville, a town that labels itself "The Literary Capital of Alabama". The play runs every May on the county courthouse grounds and townspeople make up the cast. White male audience members are chosen at the intermission to make up the jury. During the courtroom scene the production moves into the Monroe County Courthouse and the audience is racially segregated.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird#Play

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1996 - 1997 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance Sep 1996

1996 - 1997 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

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