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The Last Night Of Ballyhoo, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2009 Summer Theatre

The Last Night of Ballyhoo takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are.

https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2480

Altar Boyz, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2009 Summer Theatre

Altar Boyz is the hilarious story of a struggling Christian boy-band trying to make it big in New York City. Five talented heartthrobs from Ohio do their best to spread the word of God through pop music. However, can they resist the temptations of the Big Apple? The show is presented in real time as a concert, the last concert of their national "Raise the Praise" tour.

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/2422/altar-boyz

Don't Talk To The Actors, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2009 Summer Theatre

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The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation, diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of.

https://www.playscripts.com/play/1869

June 2009 - Volume Viii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VIII Number 2 includes pictures of the first year of operation of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Nine, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008-2009 Season

Guido Contini, famous Italian film director, has turned forty and faces double crises: he has to shoot a film for which he can't write the script, and his wife of twenty years, the film star Luisa del Forno, may be about to leave him if he can't pay more attention to the marriage. As it turns out, it is the same crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_(musical)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008-2009 Season

First published as a book by Ken Kesey in 1962, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was inspired by Kesey's job as an orderly at a veteran's hospital and by the 1960s counterculture movement touting such themes as freedom, rebellion and fearlessness.It's the classic anti establishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system.

Dance 2009: To Each His Own, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008-2009 Season

No abstract provided.

An Absolute Turkey, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008-2009 Season

Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny play. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993. https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/9770/an-absolute-turkey/

December 2008 - Volume Viii, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VIII Number 1 includes articles on Mammoth Follies, Second City, and a Makeup Workshop.

Smokey Joe's Cafe, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008-2009 Season

Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiver and Mike Stoller.

2008 - 2009 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

My Way: A Musical Tribute To Frank Sinatra, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008 Summer Theatre

No abstract provided.

Proof, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008 Summer Theatre

The play concerns Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius and professor at the University of Chicago, and her struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. Catherine had cared for her father through a lengthy mental illness. https://www.lewisfamilyplayhouse.com/pdfs/blackbox/Proof_character_descriptions.pdf

Indian Blood, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008 Summer Theatre

The play takes place in the mid-1940s. 16-year-old Eddie blames his tendencies towards bad behavior on his "Indian blood," as he's been told there's a Seneca Indian somewhere in his family tree.

June 2008 - Volume Vii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VII Number 2 features articles on the closing of the Village Theatre and welcoming new faculty Nicholas Shaw.

Peter Pan, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

An adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them toNever Land, where an ongoing war between Peter's gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046183/plotsummary

Miss Witherspoon, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

A woman named Veronica, who is a recent suicide, has to go back to the world of the living to cleanse her “brown tweedy aura” and learn the values of life. She findsherself in Bardo, a Tibetan Buddhist netherworld and the place where you wait to be reincarnated. She is not enthusiastic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Witherspoon

Dance Concert 2008: Gotta Dance!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

No abstract provided.

The Hobbit

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2008 performance of The Hobbit based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien adapted for theater by Patricia Gray.

The Hobbit is the story of hobbit Bilbo Baggins who is enlisted by the wizard Gandalf to aid a band of dwarves reclaim their mountain home from a great dragon.

Caucasian Chalk Circle, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

he Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brechtbegins with a prologue, a play-within-the-play, concerning a dispute between two groups of peasants as to which one will take control over a valley abandoned after the Nazis invaded in World War Two. http://www.supersummary.com/caucasian-chalk-circle/summary/

December 2007 - Volume Vii, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VII Number 1 includes articles on the new Doudna Fine Arts Center and also an obituary of Ernest Glendon Gabbard.

Urinetown, Otterbein University

2007-2008 Season

One of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years, Urinetown is a tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government enforced ban on private toilets.

John, His Story, Taylor

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The Playbill for the Taylor University Touring Theatre Company's 2007 production of John, His Story.

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

2007-2008 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.

2007 - 2008 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

The Spitfire Grill, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007 Summer Theatre

After being released from jail, Percy Talbott travels to a town in Maine looking for a new beginning. When she arrives, she finds work at a restaurant owned by the crabby Hannah. She also befriends a waitress named Shelby and begins a romance with an attractive local named Joe. But when Hannah falls ill and Percy plans to help her sell the restaurant, Shelby's husband becomes suspicious of her intentions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitfire_Grill_(musical)

The Batting Cage, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007 Summer Theatre

The Batting Cage is set in a Holiday Inn in romantic St. Augustine, Florida, where two estranged sisters travel unlikely journeys as they struggle to regain their bearing after the loss of their much-loved third sister. Their efforts at redefining themselves and their relationship are both poignant and humorous.

Private Lives, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007 Summer Theatre

Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realize that they still have feelings for each other.

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

June 2007 - Volume Vi, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VI Number 2 includes a letter from former Chair John Oertling and a "Where Are They Now?" section.

Hello, Dolly!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2006-2007 Season

Hello, Dolly! is a musical filled with charisma and with heart. Matchmaker Dolly Levi is a widow, a matchmaker, and also a professional meddler --but everything changes when she decides that the next match she needs to make is to find someone for herself. Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Hello-Dolly! is boisterous and charming from start to finish. https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1313/hello-dolly