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1989 Otterbein Summer Theatre Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

Something's Afoot, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988 Summer Theatre

This is a zany, entertaining evening of musical comedy that takes a satirical look at Agatha Christie mysteries and musical styles of past years. Ten people are stranded in an isolated English country house during a raging thunderstorm. One by one they’re picked off by cleverly fiendish devices. As the bodies pile up in the library, the survivors frantically race to discover the identity and motivation of the culprit

Camille, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988 Summer Theatre

This is a deeply moving new version of Alexandre Dumas * La Dame aux Camelias. The story of Camille revolves around the beautiful Marguerite Gautier. At the height ofher career she falls desperately in love with the son of the Marquis, Armand Duval. The Marquis makes every effort to prevent the liaison, but Armand turns his back on his family and fortune for a life of idyllic country bliss. But, unknown to Armand, Marguerite is threatened by the Marquis and forced to return to Paris a courtesan, dying of tuberculosis, and reviled by Armand.

The Nerd, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988 Summer Theatre

Unquestionably one of the funniest plays ever written, this inventive and side-splitting comedy just completed a long and successful run on Broadway and is offered this summer as a central Ohio premiere.The story centers around an architect who is visited by a man he’s never met but who saved his life in Vietnam. The visitor turns out to be a complete nerd who outstays his welcome. This show promises to create non-stop laughter as we witness the methods the architect uses to rid himself of the nerd

Harvey, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988 Summer Theatre

This is one of the most popular and successful plays ever produced. Michael Hartman returns to portray the memorable Elwood P. Dowd. Audiences young and old will find this season’s opener to be a warm and funny evening of delightful comedy as Elwood and his rabbit friend, Harvey, spread good cheer among a cast of slightly off-beat characters

A Chorus Line, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1987-1988 Season

A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante. 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.

The Dresser, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1987 Summer Theatre

One of the most highly acclaimed plays of the 1981 Broadway season, “The Dresser” is an affectionate, funny, moving portrait of life backstage.The time is 1942, and the Blitz is raging over an English provincial city. Sir is nearing a mental breakdown: After a lifetime on stage, the pressures have become too much, especially now, when the war has taken the able-bodied men and left Sir with a repleted cast of “old men, cripples and nancy-boys. ” Morman, Sir’s devoted dresser, combines tender sympathy and nanny-like severity in an attempt to lift his fallen monarch to the stage for one …

See How They Run, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1987 Summer Theatre

This hilarious farce will find the Grafs galloping in and out of an English vicarage with a cockney servant who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who “touches alcohol for the first time in her life”, four men in clergyman suits presenting the problem of which is which, and a sedate Bishop aghast at all that is going on around him.

The Real Thing, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1987 Summer Theatre

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, The Real Thing is Tom Stoppard’s most intellectually and emotionally engaging comedy to date. This highly entertaining evening of theatre traces the relationship of a famous playwright and his actress wife as they deal with the need to merge “worthy causes” with their art.

Is There Life After High School?, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1987 Summer Theatre

Remember when a half a can of beer made you drunk? When eternal love could be found during sixth-period math? When being popular was a matter of life or death? Suggested by the Ralph Keyes novel of the same name High School is a memorable musical that provides a charming, funny, touching and likable evening of musical theatre.

Whodunnit, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1986 Summer Theatre

The detectives may not know who the killer is but the audience knows. An announcer gives them the real facts. Following that, there's the fun of watching the experts—and the amateur—as they struggle to solve the dire murder. Is it the butler? Is it Grandma? It just couldn't be sweet Alice! The wind howls, lights flicker and bloodcurdling screams are heard … some shore done it! It's an amazingly easy production for a large group when fun's the object. https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/browse/one-act-plays/whodunit

The Foreigner, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1986 Summer Theatre

The Foreigner is a fun, two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue. The story takes place in a fishing lodge in rural Tilghman County, Georgia where two Englishmen, Froggy and Charlie, arrive as guests. Theshy Charlie agreed to accompany Froggy on the trip after his sick wife begged him to go.

https://stageagent.com/shows/play/354/the-foreigner

Plenty, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1986 Summer Theatre

Hare's inspiration for Plenty came from the fact that 75 per cent of the women engaged in wartime SOE operations divorced in the immediate post-war years; the title is derived from the idea that the post-war era would be a time of "plenty", which proved untrue for most of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenty_(play)

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

1986 Summer Theatre

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is a musical revue of the songs of Jacques Brel. Brel's songs were translated into English by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman, who also provided the story. The original 1968 Off-Broadway production ran for four years and spawned international and regional productions, as well as a West End production and Off-Broadway revival, among others. A film adaptation was released in 1975.

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

Ah, Wilderness!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1986 Summer Theatre

Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theater on October 2, 1933. It varies from a typical O'Neill play in its happy ending for the central character, and depiction of a happy family in turn of the century America. It is O'Neill's only well-known comedy. Ah, Wilderness!. (2017, April 30). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:10, May 23, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ah,_Wilderness!&oldid=777914403

Murder On The Nile, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1985 Summer Theatre

Take heart mystery buffs, once again we close our season with our old friend Agatha Christie. This time we find ourselves on a paddle steamer on the Nile River with the usual collection of intriguing characters and enough twists and turns in the plot to keep us on the edge of our seats.

The Good Doctor, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1985 Summer Theatre

Neil Simon has collaborated with Anton Chekhov to produce a warm, tender and very funny evening of theatre. The play is a series of nine vignettes linked together by The Writer (played by guest artist Dennis Romer), who offers wise and droll comment on the characters he has created. The sketches offer an appealing balance of hilarious and poignant moments.

The Music Man

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1984 performance of The Music Man by Meredith Wilson.

The Music Man is a the story of con man Harold Hill who comes to a town in Indiana posing as a boy’s band conductor, and how an unexpected romance with the local librarian, Marian, changes his plans.

Fiddler On The Roof

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1981 performance of Fiddler on the Roof with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein. It is based on the stories of Jewish writer Sholem Alrichem.

Fiddler On the Roof follows the story of a poor Jewish dairyman named Tevye as he tries to maintain his religious and cultural traditions as outside influences begin to impact his family. It is set during the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905.

Brigadoon

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1977 performance of Brigadoon with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

Brigadoon is a musical about two American tourists who stumble upon a Scottish Town that only appears every one hundred years. One of the tourists falls in love and must decide whether to stay in the enchanted village or remain in the real world.

Don't Drink The Water, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1975 Summer Theatre

Don't Drink the Water is a comedy play written by Woody Allen. Written and set in The '60s, the play bases itself around the Cold War. In an unnamed European country behind the Iron Curtain, the American Ambassador must leave the Embassy for business. In his absence he places his incompetent son Axel Magee in charge. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/DontDrinkTheWater

The Liar, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1975 Summer Theatre

Géronte, Dorante's father, announces to his son that he has found a girl for him to marry (Clarice). ... After more fabrications and complications (Dorante revealing that his "wife" is pregnant), Géronte is infuriated to discover that he was lied to; Dorante eventually tells the truth and the plot is resolved happily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liar_(Corneille_play)

Move Over Mrs. Markham, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1975 Summer Theatre

Philip Markham, a publisher of children’s books, is asked by his business partner, Henry Lodge, if he can borrow the flat for the evening to gallivant with his latest girlfriend. As Philip and his wife will be out, he reluctantly agrees. At the same time, Joanna Markham is being persuaded by Linda Lodge to let her borrow the empty flat in order to entertain her lover. What nobody knows is that the interior designer who has been decorating the flat for the past three months has decided that this is the night that he and the au pair girl will …

Charlie Brown, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1975 Summer Theatre

The story of the play itself is told through a series of vignettes that mimic the four-panel format used by the original cartoon strip, "Peanuts." This panel format is supplemented with longer passages that are vaguely reminiscent of Shakespearean soliloquies and by musical interludes.

The scope of the play is described as an average day in the life of Charlie Brown and is broken into two acts. https://www.bard.org/study-guides/synopsis-youre-a-good-man-charlie-brown

The Importance Of Being Earnest (1975), Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1975 Summer Theatre

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. It's the story of two bachelors, John 'Jack' Worthing and Algernon 'Algy' Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. www.importanceofbeingearnest.co.uk/synopsis/

The Fantasticks

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1971 performance of The Fantasticks with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones.

The Fantasticks is an allegorical musical about two scheming neighbor fathers who pretend to feud in order to make their children fall in love.

The Fantasticks

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1966 performance of The Fantasticks with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones.

The Fantasticks is an allegorical musical about two scheming neighbor fathers who pretend to feud in order to make their children fall in love.