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Luv, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1994 Summer Theatre

Beatnik Harry Berlin is so beat up, he's gone to a bridge to end it all. His former classmate, the wealthy and successful Milt intervenes. But soon, it turns out that Milt is also desperately unhappy; he is trying to find a way to convince his wife to grant him a divorce. Who turns up next but Milt's wife. A comedy about alienation, loss of identity, and the meaninglessness of it all.

https://stageagent.com/shows/play/2051/luv

1994 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.

Pack Of Lies, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance

1993 Summer Theatre

Based on a true story, the plot centers on Bob and Barbara Jackson (in real life Bill and Ruth Search) and their teenage daughter Julie (in real life Gay Search, later a television reporter and newspaper journalist in the UK.) The Jacksons are friendly with their neighbors, Peter and Helen Kroger, until the couple is arrested and charged with espionage in 1961. It is revealed the Krogers actually are Morris and Lona Cohen, who during the 1950s and 1960s worked with fellow spy Gordon Lonsdale photographing and encoding as microdots various pieces of material which they then sent to their …

1993 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.

1992 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.

Now Now, Darling, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1991 Summer Theatre

In a London fur salon, Arnold Crouch, one of the two owners, has difficulty keeping everything going afloat, while his partner, Gilbert Bodley, is off philandering. Bodley decides to sell his new mistress' husband a fur coat for an extremely low price in order to win her affection, and Crouch is stuck presiding over the deal. The husband decides to give the coat to his own mistress, and all hell breaks out. In the end, despite mistaken identities and all sorts of problems, everything turns out as it should.

https://stageagent.com/shows/play/1984/not-now-darling

Blue Window, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1991 Summer Theatre

An Off-Broad way hit and winner of the prestigious George and Elisabeth Marton playwriting award, as well as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, Blue Window is a funny, inventive account of the lives of seven New Yorkers gathered together for a Sunday evening dinner party. During the course of the play we get an intimate glimpse of the before, during and after of the party and its wonderfully bizarre party guests; most of whom are artists of various kinds. There’s a narcissistic actor, an aspiring musician, a noted writer, a family therapist, a secretary and a parachuting instructor; all …

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

1991 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!

1991 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.

1990 - 1991 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

Night Watch, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1990 Summer Theatre

Unable to sleep, Elaine Wheeler paces the living room of her Manhattan townhouse, troubled by unsettling memories and vague fears. Her husband tries to comfort her, but when he steps away for a moment Elaine screams as she sees (or believes she sees) the body of a dead man in the window across the way. The police are called, but find nothing except an empty chair. Elaine's terror grows as shortly thereafter she sees still another body—this time a woman's—but by now the police are skeptical and pay no heed to her frantic pleas. Her husband, claiming that Elaine may …

Fifth Of July, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1990 Summer Theatre

Fifth of July is a 1978 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment with America in the wake of the Vietnam War. It premiered on Broadway in 1980 and was later produced as a made-for-television movie.

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

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

1990 Summer Theatre

Move Over Mrs. Markham is set in a very elegant top floor London flat, belonging to Philip and Joanna Markham. The flat has been under renovation, and thus has been largely empty. Philip is a straight-laced publisher of children's books, and he shares an office with his partner, Henry Lodge, on the ground floor. Reluctantly, Philip agrees to let Henry borrow his apartment for the evening to "entertain" his latest girlfriend. At the same time, Joanna Markham is persuaded by Linda Lodge to let her borrow the apartment, so she can entertain her lover. What nobody knows is that the …

1990 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.

The Unexpected Guest, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

This newly discovered Agatha Christie mystery is a must for all would-be sleuths! Set in a foggy estate in Wales, “The Unexpected Guest” opens as a stranger walks into a house to find a man murdered and his beautiful young wife standing over him with a gun. But this mystery is far from solved and a thrilling evening of suspense and intrigue has only just begun. ‘The impact is tremendous...just when the murder seems solved, all the ends tied up, and you are groping for your hat. Miss Christie pulls her almighty knock-out punch.” -London Evening News. “That last-minute twist …

I'M Not Rappaport, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

A recent Broadway hit and Tony award winning play, “I’m Not Rappaport” is “Rambunctiously funny.” -N.Y. Post. Set in a secluded spot in New York’s Central Park, the play is about two octogenarians determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Talk about an odd couple! Nat (guest artist Ed Vaughan) is a lifelong radical determined to fight any injustice (real or imagined) who is also a spinner of fantasies. The other half of this unlikely partnership is Midge (guest artist David Downing), an apartment superintendent who spends his days in the park hiding out from …

Biloxi Blues, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

Winner of the 1985 Tony Award for “Best Play,” this sensitive, engaging comedy recounts the journey to manhood of one Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the adolescent Neil Simon. A young army recruit at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943, Eugene and five other enlisted men struggle under a hardnosed D.I. (guest artist Michael Hartman), confront the daily “mess” served up in the mess hall, join together in a visit to a local “lady of the evening” and, it is here, for the first time, that Eugene falls in love. “Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.” -N.Y. Times. “A play …

Quilters (Revival), Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1989 Summer Theatre

In the American West, a pioneer woman, Sarah, and six women, who are called her daughters, face frontier life. Rather than a straightforward story line, the musical is presented as a series of short tales and tableaux matched with musical numbers, each presenting an aspect of frontier life or womanhood. The patches or blocks show "girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death."^[9] The patches are ultimately put together to form one dramatic tableau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilters_(musical)

Sweeney Todd, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond.

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