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The World Goes 'Round, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1996 Summer Theatre

The World Goes 'Round is a stunning revue of the songbook from the multi-Tony award-winning team, with the original production winning three Drama Desk Awards. Filled with humor, romance, drama and nonstop melody, this title is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going. https://www.mtishows.com/the-world-goes-round

1996 Otterbein Summer Theatre Season Brochure, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's show.

Picasso Does My Maps, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1995-1996 Season

Focuses on an agoraphobic man who, since childhood, has feared contact with people. The story unfolds around his falling in love with a narcoleptic woman and learning to leave his house.

Phantom, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1995-1996 Season

This version of the famous story explores the background between the Phantom and Christine.

Trojan Women, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1995-1996 Season

The Trojan Women is one of the most powerful dramas in all of literature. Widely considered the greatest anti-war play ever written, it remains both timeless and timely, a poignant meditation on the aftermath of battle. The Trojan Women is a wonderful complement to the study of classic literature, mythology, history and theater.

https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/the-trojan-women

A Few Good Men, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1995-1996 Season

Lt. Daniel Kaffee is a military lawyer defending two U.S. Marines charged with killing a fellow Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Although Kaffee is known for seeking plea bargains, a fellow lawyer, Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway, convinces him that the accused marines were most likely carrying out an order from a commanding officer. Kaffee takes a risk by calling Col. Nathan R. Jessep to the stand in an effort to uncover the conspiracy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/plotsummary

Robin Hood, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1995-1996 Season

This classic children’s tale of Robin Hood and his followers is charming and delightful for children of all ages. Set in England’s Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood, with the help of his childhood sweetheart, Maid Marion, and his band of merry men “rob from the rich” (the evil Sheriff of Nottingham) and “give to the poor.” Action that both adults and children will enjoy abounds in this wonderful parable of goodness over evil.

The Baby Dance Program, A-State Department Of Theatre

Stage Production Programs

A timely and emotional drama about a childless couple's attempt to adopt. They locate a poor expectant couple who already have more children than they can afford to keep and an adoption agreement is arranged.

A Chorus Line, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1995-1996 Season

Centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line, the musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition for a musical. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Chorus_Line

1995 - 1996 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

Catnap Allegiance, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994-1995 Season

Otterbein College Theatre will end its season with the world premiere of an original play. On May 24, Otterbein will open Catnap Allegiance by noted playwright Kia Corthron. With language that is sparse and poetic, Corthron’s plays are hard-hitting and unrelenting. Her plays address political issues, yet they also transcend the political and capture the essence of the human struggle. Catnap Allegiance protests the Gulf War with the story of several African American soldiers deposited in the middle of the desert, pumped full of inadequately explained medicines and ordered to “take no prisoners...eliminate and go.”

Sweet Charity, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994-1995 Season

Sweet Charity follows the romantic trials and tribulations of Charity Hope Valentine, “a girl who wanted to be loved.” Charity is a taxi dancer, a dance partner-for-hire at a seedy dance hall in New York City. Though the job may be decidedly undesirable, Charity’s hopeful romanticism and unfailing optimism lift her out of her circumstances and help her reach for a life beyond. In the past, she’s been strung along and hung out to dry by a series of bad relationships and lousier men. When she meets Oscar, a neurotic, shy actuary seemingly from another world, will she finally find …

Six Degrees Of Separation, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994-1995 Season

When a young and effortlessly charismatic black con man claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier himself smiles his way into the sympathetic living rooms of a few of New York City’s white wealthy elite, and tears a swath of disillusionment through their preconceptions and comfortable lives, the thirst for understanding leaves them questioning their sense of selves. Ouisa and Flan, the play’s central duo and two married art dealers, find themselves victims of a strange invasion after offering a young man, who appears to have been mugged in Central Park, shelter in their apartment. He tells them he …

Lost In Yonkers

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1995 performance of Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon.

Lost in Yonkers tells the story of brothers Jay and Arty who are sent to live in Brooklyn with their relatives while their father goes off to work to pay off the medical bills of their recently deceased mother. Set in 1942, the play follows their new life and their attempt to acquire (through various means) the money their father needs to bring him back.

The Cherry Orchard, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994-1995 Season

On a frosty May morning while the cherry trees are in bloom, impoverished Russian aristocrat, Mrs. Ranevsky, returns to her decaying ancestral home with her daughter, Anya. Mrs. Ranevsky is heavily in debt and still grief-stricken by the premature death of her son five years earlier. Her financial crisis forces the family to auction off their estate, including their beloved cherry orchard. Varya, Mrs. Ranevsky’s older, adopted daughter, has been looking after the estate and is frustrated by her mother’s refusal to accept her predicament. Ignoring the practical advice of local businessman, Yermolay Lopakhin, the family cannot come to a …

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Androcles And The Lion, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994-1995 Season

Androcles is a slave who is abused by his master, Pantalone. Androcles is trying to help two young lovers , Isabella and Lelio. In order to make sure that his niece will not run off with her boyfriend, Pantalone hires the Captain to guard her. Androcles outwits the Captain and helps the lovers to elope. In the forest, Androcles encounters the Lion who is limping from a thorn in its paw. Androcles does the good deed of removing the thorn and is rewarded by the Lion's help in escaping his master.

https://stageagent.com/shows/play/2340/androcles-and-the-lion

Hillbilly Women Program, A-State Department Of Theatre

Stage Production Programs

A play by Eilzabeth Stern based on Kathy Kahn's book about the lives of seven Appalachian women. A docu/musico-drama, the play is a compelling and moving piece of theater.

True West, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994-1995 Season

True West follows the story of two estranged brothers, Austin and Lee. Austin is has a successful budding career in the film industry. He offers to housesit for his mother, and decides to work on a new screenplay while he has some peace and quiet. Lee, an alcoholic and a thief, unexpectedly shows up and proceeds to disrupt Austin’s life, eventually managing to take over the writing of the screenplay himself. The two brothers end up in a role-reversal, with each admitting that he has always envied the other's way of life.

https://stageagent.com/shows/play/1646/true-west

Cat Among The Pigeons, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994-1995 Season

Un fil à la patte (known in English as Cat Among the Pigeons or Love on the Rack) is a French bedroom farce in three acts written by Georges Feydeau. The play premiered on January 9, 1894 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, and is considered one of Feydeau's masterpieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_fil_%C3%A0_la_patte

1994-1995 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Group Therapy is a modem drama set in Portsmouth, Virginia, a small Naval town which is part of a larger area called Hampton Roads. Hampton Roads is best known for its Naval shipyards, Naval bases, and historic landmarks. The year is 1994.

The play focuses on interpersonal communication in a setting that serves as a surrogate family. In the play, seven men and women from varied walks of life come together and share their most intimate joys and sorrows in group therapy. Together, with the assistance of a dedicated psychologist, they struggle to confront and overcome depression and anxiety.

The Brothers Karamazov, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1993-1994 Season

The Brothers Karamazov is about a murder, and a complex discussion of faith, doubt, and morality. It begins with the father, Fyodor Karamazov. Fyodor is a cruel and lustful man who has fathered three sons: Dmitri, a man driven by his passions; Ivan, a man driven by his intellect; and Alexei, also called Aloysha, who is driven by his faith in Christ. He was cruel to the boys and their mothers, and sent the boys away to be raised by others. https://study.com/academy/lesson/dostoyevskys-the-brothers-karamazov-summary-characters.html

Steel Magnolias

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1994 performance of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling.

Steel Magnolias is the story of a group of women in a small-town, Southern community. It portrays their friendships and how they respond when one of them dies.

Pippin, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1993-1994 Season

The musical uses the premise of a mysterious Performance troupe, led by a Leading Player, to tell the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance.

The protagonist Pippin and his father Charlemagne are characters derived from two real-life individuals of the early Middle Ages, though the plot is fictional and presents no historical accuracy regarding either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin_(musical)

The Glass Menagerie Program, A-State Department Of Theatre

Stage Production Programs

Williams' Classic drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty is being produced as a graduate directing thesis project.

King Lear, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1993-1994 Season

Lear, King of Britain, in an attempt to avoid future strife, divides his kingdom between his three daughters. His eldest two, Regan (wife of Cornwall) and Gonerill (wife of Albany), respond to his request for a show of love, but Cordelia is unable to, not wanting to be hypocritical. https://www.playshakespeare.com/king-lear/synopsis