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Rodgers And Hart, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1981 Summer Theatre

This musical celebration contains some sixty songs selected from the hundreds written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for their Broadway musicals and films. The songs are woven together in a tight and tasteful fashion so that the entertainment never lags. Sentimental standards like “Where or When,” “Blue Moon” and “With a Song in My Heart” are followed by the humorous twists of “To Keep My Love Alive” or the wry comments of “Give It Back to the Indians.”

Charlie's Aunt, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1981 Summer Theatre

A revival of Brandon Thomas’ Classic farce which has moved millions to laughter since it was first produced in 1892. The situations evoked by dressing a fellow Oxford student as Charley’s Aunt so Charley and Jack can invite girlfriends to their rooms provide circumstances for confusion and hilarity.

The Shadow Box, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980-1981 Season

To be staged in the Campus Center Arena Theatre, we close our 75th anniversary celebration with the play that won the Tony Award for "Best Play 1976-77 Season" and the Pulitzer Prize for 1977. Though the play is about three terminal cancer patients, it is " A celebration of life. It is absolutely uplifting. Brilliantly written...best American Play of the year."

Hello, Dolly, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980-1981 Season

The Department of Music and dance area join us to highlight May Day activities by presenting this award-winning Broadway musical that has excited theatregoers all over the world. Thrill to the comedy of Dolly Levi and Horace Vandergelder, Barnaby and Minnie Fay, Cornelius and Irene Malloy, and enjoy the superb music of such delightful songs as "It Only Takes a Moment", "Ribbons Down my Back," and, of course, the house toppling "Hello, Dolly!"

The Miracle Worker

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1981 performance of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.

The Miracle Worker is based on the autobiography of Helen Keller.

And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980-1981 Season

Celebrate a first! This play marks the first time we have invited two name guest artists in the same year, and we seek an actress to star in the brilliant Broadway drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel that starred Julie Harris and Estelle Parson. This biting, touching and often wildly funny play probes the relationships of three sisters whose lives have reached a point of crisis. A great mixture of comedy and drama.

As You Like It, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980-1981 Season

Otterbein Theatre began 75 years ago with this play and it was revived for our 60th anniversary. We celebrate the best of Shakespeare with laughter...music...dances...romance...comedy at all levels. The story of how the banished Duke, Rosalind, Orlando and others find happiness through love is one of the most delightful of all Shakespearean tales. The wit of the clown, Touchstone, the philosophy of "All the world's a stage...", the music of "It was a lover and his lass...", the earthy needs of the country people, the romantic honesty of young lovers in tune with nature...all can be found in As You …

Friday Night At The Mayaguez Mall: A Rationale With Examples On The Use Of Drama In The Notional-Functional Classroom, Stephen Newman

MA TESOL Collection

Three recent intensive courses teaching EFL in Puerto Rico and ESL in Brattleboro provided the author with practical experience using drama activities in connection with the application of notional-functional syllabuses. These experiences are described and the choice of a "functional" approach is justified. Functions are explained and an overview of drama is given. Seven practical drama activities for a variety of language levels and situations are presented. A discussion of the pedagogical aspects of practicing functions through drama follows, wherein such considerations as the role of the teacher, the development of the student, lesson planning, giving directions and aims are …

English Through Drama: Rationale And Description Of Materials Developed In An Esl Drama Project In Israel, Enid Carol Kumin

MA TESOL Collection

This paper examines the rationale and design of a series of skits which three others and I wrote and presented in Israel during the course of an "English-through-drama" program which we conducted in the public school system. The paper presents one skit, used for fourth - sixth grades, as an example of the work we produced and as a basis for clarifying the way our teaching assumptions and objectives were reflected in our materials. The skits are of interest because of the way in which they integrate various drama techniques to meet both affective and linguistic needs in the classroom, …

Our Town, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980-1981 Season

1901 to 1913. Grover's Corners, New Hampshire near Massachusetts. Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town

All Over Town, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Heralded as one of the ten best plays of 1974, this zany farce concerns a psychiatrist going crazy. Amidst his chaotic household he tries to restore sanity to himself and his world by curing a man whose pastime is conceiving illegitimate children. The cure will put you in stitches!

A Murder Is Announced, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Agatha Christie’s gripping new mystery, complete with musty Victorian drawing rooms, multiple arresting suspects, and the dowdy intrepid Miss Marple. This spine tingler will send you spinning through, a maze of clues and keep you guessing till the final thrilling moments.

Otherwise Engaged, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Simon’s sole desire is to sip his brandy and listen to Wagner's Parsifal. His solitude is challenged as he parries attacks from a peckish brother, an aggressive seductress, a mysterious visitor and others. His dazzling wit and haunting detachment escalates laughter to an ultimate shocking climax.

The Princess And The Pea And Other Fairy Tales, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

The Strolling Players performing The Princess and the Pea and other classic fairy tails for the Otterbein College Children's Theatre.

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

A revival of this bawdy musical hit. It is madcap farce at its best. Based on the Roman play by Plautus this modern adaptation with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim combines the hilarious nonsense of vaudeville with a variety of musical memorables such as Comedy Tonight and Everybody Ought to Have a Maid. Laughs for the entire family!

Bedroom Farce, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1980 Summer Theatre

Broadway hit comedy about three London couples retiring to the romantic privacy of their own bedrooms. Their loving coupling goes awry when a fourth twosome invades all three beds creating hilarious havoc in a series of marital misunderstandings and inaccurate accusations.

And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979-1980 Season

In Jackson, a small town in rural Indiana, Elizabeth Ann Willow lives with her father and mother. Crippled at birth with polio, Elizabeth Ann is confined to a wheelchair and must wear leg braces, which cuts her off from the other children and prevents her regular attendance at school. Although she tries to reach out and make friends, Elizabeth Ann is increasingly isolated from and then taunted by the others, whose small-town prejudices are reinforced by a polio scare, of which Elizabeth Ann is a chilling embodiment.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/445082.And_They_Dance_Real_Slow_in_Jackson_

Guys & Dolls, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979-1980 Season

The Department of Music and dance area join us to highlight May Day week activities. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Combine a “floating crap game,” the Save-A-Soul Mission ladies of Times Square with music like “Luck Be a Lady,” “Take Back Your Mink,” “A Bushel and a Peck” and “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat” for one of the best musicals ever! Definitely for the entire family.

The Children's Hour

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1980 performance of The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman.

The Children’s Hour is the story of a manipulative young girl named Mary and how she uses lies and gossip to control and destroy the lives of the two women who run her boarding school.

The Comedy Of Errors, Otterbein University

1979-1980 Season

One of Shakespeare’s most popular farces! First you take a set of twins; then, you add another. Season lightly with a nagging wife and a bumbling bureaucracy, add plenty of mistaken identity and the resulting comedic confusions and you have an engaging mixture that will provide laughter the entire evening. For the entire family.

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979-1980 Season

Set in the home of a professor in a small college, an evening of “fun and games with George and Martha” is the shattering and memorable drama that proclaimed Edward Albee one of America’s greatest playwrights. Scorching, scalding, laugh provoking, revealing and completely engrossing theatre at its best.

Sleeping Beauty, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979-1980 Season

The story of a princess cast under a magic spell to sleep for 100 years, who can be awakened only by the kiss of a brave prince. To be presented in a fully staged musical version in Cowan Hall for children of all ages.

The Miracle Worker, Otterbein University

1979-1980 Season

The inspiring story of Helen Keller’s miraculous release from the silent world of the blind and deaf through the strong-willed determination of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, is one of the most successful and warmly admired displays of the modern stage. Otterbein’s entry in the American College Theatre Festival. For the entire family.

Harvey, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1979 Summer Theatre

The six foot rabbit, Harvey, will prowl the summer stage again in this revival of the Mary Chase classic. Elwood P. Dowd and his mystical sidekick will make appearances at Charlie’s Bar, debutant parties, and eventually an asylum, bringing good cheer and laughter to all who follow.

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