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She Stoops To Conquer, 1988, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith and directed by Raymond Lammers.

Synopsis: One of the eighteenth-century’s most enduring comedies, She Stoops to Conquer takes a comedic, often farcical, look at the behavior and marital expectations of the upper classes in England at this time. The play centers around the desire of Hardcastle, a wealthy landowner in the country, for his daughter, Kate Hardcastle, to marry the well-educated Charles Marlow. Together with Marlow’s father, Sir Charles Marlow, they arrange for the younger Marlow to visit the Hardcastle’s house and court Kate. However Kate is …

Taylor Theatre 1988-89 Season, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 1988-1989 Taylor Theatre season announcement.

Private Lives, 1988, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Private Lives by Noel Coward and directed by Laura A. Lehner.

Synopsis: In Private Lives, passion, laughter, romance, anger, and love set the stage for a battle of the sexes as divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unwittingly thrown together in Coward’s classic comedy of manners. Unknowingly booking adjoining rooms while on honeymoon with their respective spouses, Victor and Sybil, Amanda and Elyot are forced to face their true feelings for each other. Realizing they have made a pair of mistaken marriages, the divorcees attempt to escape their mismatched partners. With haste, and …

The Season Ticket, February 1987, Columbia College Chicago

Season Ticket

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87/88 Taylor Theatre, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 1987-1988 Taylor Theatre season announcement.

The Season Ticket, November 1986, Columbia College Chicago

Season Ticket

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The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Alvin Community College

Season 1985-1986

The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a 1960 musical with music and lyrics by Meredith Willson and book by Richard Morris. The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and her wealthy miner-husband. A musical film version, also titled The Unsinkable Molly Brown, with screenplay by Helen Deutsch, was released in 1964.

Snoopy, Alvin Community College

Season 1985-1986

Snoopy: The Musical is a 1975 musical comedy with music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Hal Hackady, and a book by Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, and Michael Grace. The characters are from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. This sequel to the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown focuses more on the life of Snoopy. Since its premiere, the musical has been a popular choice for regional, international, and amateur theatre performances.

A Toby Show, May 16-17, 1986, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of A Toby Show by Aurand Harris and directed by Raymond J. Lammers.

A Toby Show brings back to the stage an American folk character of Toby, a country bumpkin who through naiveté, honesty and homespun humor outwits the city slickers. Toby is a great role for an energetic actor. The play is a colorful segment of American drama. This farce melodrama recreates traditional situations and stock characters through jokes and stage business. Starring in Cinderella, Toby enacts a comic variation of the fairy godmother. With music and specialty numbers, the production excitingly evokes …

Waiting For Godot, April 16-19, 1986, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and directed by Timothy J. Goodmanson.

Synopsis: The NY World-Telegram describes: "GODOT cannot be compared to any other theater work, because its purpose is so different. Two dilapidated bums fill their days as painlessly as they can. They wait for Godot, a personage who will explain their interminable insignificance, or put an end to it. They are resourceful, with quarrels and their dependence on each other, as children are. They pass the time 'which would have passed anyway.' A brutal man of means comes by, leading a weakling …

For Her Cheild's Sake, Alvin Community College

Season 1985-1986

The pure but persecuted heroine, the rascally villain, the manly hero who arrives in the nick of time they're all here. Hilary Paine decides to return home with his young, beautiful wife Pansy and their baby Heliotrope. When Hilary dies of a heart attack, Pansy is left to face the unwelcome attentions of scoundrel Gaylor Duckworth, the family lawyer, who wants the Paine fortune. Pansy spurns him and he frames her on a murder charge. In order to save her little daughter's fair name, Pansy makes the supreme sacrifice by leaving home. After a year of longing she returns, heavily …

86-87 Taylor Theatre, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 1986-1987 Taylor Theatre season announcement.

Godspell, November 20-23, 1985, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Godspell by John Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz and directed by Karen Wiese.

Synopsis: Based on the Gospel according to Matthew, Godspell is the first musical theatre offering from composer Stephen Schwartz who went on to write such well-known hits as Wicked, Pippin, and Children of Eden. The show features a comedic troupe of eccentric players who team up with Jesus to teach his lessons in a new age through parables, games, and tomfoolery.

Godspell also features the international hit, “Day by Day”, as well as an eclectic blend of songs ranging from pop …

The Season Ticket, November 1985, Columbia College Chicago

Season Ticket

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J.B., April 24-27, 1985, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of J.B. by Archibald McLeish directed by Licia Swanson.

Synopsis: A fresh and exalting morality that has great stature. It is one of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry...We are deep in the unanswered problems of man's relationship to God in an era of cruel injustices. J.B. is Mr. MacLeish's counterpart of the immortal Job. The glory of the play is that, as in the Book of Job, J.B. does not curse God. When he is reunited with his wife, two humbled but valiant people accept the …

Ubu Rex, February 27-28 & March 1-2, 1985, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Ubu Rex by Alfred Jarry and directed by George Fosgate.

Synopsis: Ubu Rex, David Copelin's translation of the world's first absurdist play, Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, unmasks the savagery just below the surface of "normal" human behavior. The play's premiere in Paris in 1896 caused a riot. Set in "Poland – that is to say, nowhere", the play satirizes governments, philosophies, Shakespeare, and the greed and vanity of ordinary human beings. It is also very funny.

Taylor Theatre 85/86, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 1985-1986 Taylor Theatre season announcement.

Spider's Web, Alvin Community College

Season 1985-1986

Spider's Web is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie. Spider's Web, which premiered in London's West End in 1954, is Agatha Christie's second most successful play (744 performances), having run longer than Witness for the Prosecution, which premiered in 1953 (458 performances). It is surpassed only by Christie's record-breaking The Mousetrap, which has run continuously since opening in the West End in 1952.

Scrooge, December 19-22, 1984, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Scrooge adapted by Leslie Bricusse and directed by George c. Fosgate.

Synopsis: This timeless musical follows the plot of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, in which the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of a Christmas Eve night, after being visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

Mixed Doubles, July 5-8;19-21 1984, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Mixed Doubles by Fred Carmichael and directed by George C. Fosgate.

Synopsis: Two interwoven one acts, Love Means Never Having to Say You're Forty and Leonard, these plays feature flexible casting since three characters appear in both plays. In the first, a separated middle aged couple are in the connecting suites of a Mexican motelto have a fling. Their accidental confrontation makes them realize the importance of their years together. In the farcical second act, a golden age couple, unmarried because of tax benefits, is in one suite and a group of inept …

A Festival Of The Arts 1984, Taylor University

Fine Arts Festival

The program of the Fine Arts Festival of Taylor University, April 30-May 5, 1984

As You Like It, February 22-25, 1984, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare and directed by Raymond Lammers.

Synopsis: In one of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic pastoral comedies, we follow the young heroine Rosalind from the court of her vindictive uncle, Duke Frederick, into the Eden-like Forest of Arden, where her banished father is living in exile. In order to avoid running into trouble, Rosalind disguises herself as a young man, “Ganymede,” and, accompanied by her faithful cousin Celia and the court clown, Touchstone, makes her way into the woods. She soon encounters the young, handsome Orlando, who is also …

Taylor Theatre 84/85, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 1984-1985 Taylor Theatre season announcement.

The Use Of Music And Art As Directorial Tools In A Production Of Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blues, Roseann Sheridan

Theses and Dissertations

Human beings make decisions every minute of the day. These decisions are based upon need, desire, impulse, mood, and knowledge. As we grow older, we learn skills in decision-making primarily through trial-and-error. The theatre artist, likewise, is constantly searching for new skills and techniques to aid this process. In life and in art, however, decision-making is not totally grounded in intellect but includes inst1inctive and emotional sensations. It is through finely blending intuitive responses with intellectual skills that a work of theatre art can be produced. In order to accomplish this blending however, the director needs first to identify his …

The Good Woman Of Setzuan, November 16-19, 1983, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

No abstract provided.

A Center For Dance And Performing Arts, Bruce E. Adelsberger

Architecture Master Theses

This thesis proposes a cultural facility for theater and dance as a way to enhance the community and surrounding city fabric in the southeast quadrant of Center City Philadelphia.

Hay Fever, Summer 1982, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Hay Fever by Noel Coward directed by Raymond Lammers.

Synopsis: Hay Fever is one of Noel Coward’s most durable comedies, continuing to delight audiences with its astute observations on family relationships and rivalries. The action takes place in the house of the Bliss family over the course of a weekend. Judith Bliss, a retired actress, her writer husband David, and their two grown-up children, Simon and Sorel, have all privately invited guests for the weekend, unbeknownst to anyone else. As the guests arrive, it becomes clear that it is not them who will be …

A Festival Of The Arts 1982, Taylor University

Fine Arts Festival

The program of the Fine Arts Festival of Taylor University, April 26-May 2, 1982.

Taylor Theatre 82/83, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 1982-1983 Taylor Theatre season announcement.

History Of Theatre And Theatre Curriculum At Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho, Through 1981, John Thomas Bidwell

Theses and Dissertations

This history of theatre at Ricks College provides the only comprehensive written work available on the subject. Whenever available, the thesis provides the reader with concise information concerning plays performed, their authors, the directors, performance dates, and performance locations. Changes and growth in course curriculum offerings, physical facilities, and faculty have been recorded as well. The work reveals that Ricks College theatre has been a vital contribution to theatre in the Upper Snake River valley of Southeastern Idaho.

This comprehensive history will serve as a resource for future departmental planning in the Department of Theatre at Ricks College, and for …