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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)

Children Of A Lesser God, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

This play focuses on the conflicted professional and romantic relationship between Sarah Norman, a deaf former student, and her teacher, James Leeds. The play, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum, was produced on Broadway in 1980 and in the West End in 1981. The play won the 1980 Tony Award for Best Play.

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.

The Crucible

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1989 performance of The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

The Crucible is a fictional story of the Salem Witch trials, telling the deterioration of a Massachusetts town when a group of women are accused of practicing witchcraft. Millar wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism.

Program For The Stage Production Cinders, Protheatre Club

Theater Production Programs

This four-page program details the ProTheatre of Ursinus College's production of "Cinders", held April 13 to 15, 1989, in the Ritter Center. It includes information about the cast and production crew.

The Fight Master, Spring 1989, Vol. 12 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

Romeo And Juliet, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

Romeo and Juliet. (2017, July 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:01, August 31, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romeo_and_Juliet&oldid=791420844

The Foreigner

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1989 performance of The Foreigner by Larry Shue.

The Foreigner is the story of two Englishmen Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy who come to stay at a fishing lodge for a weekend. When Froggy makes up a story about Charlie being a foreigner who cannot understand English to help explain his shyness, Charlie is suddenly exposed to a variety of secrets held by the lodge visitors and becomes the focus of some racist members of the community.

Quilters, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

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)

The Fight Master, Winter 1989, Vol. 12 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

Augustin Daly; Certain Writings On His Life And Livelihood, Daniel J. Topf

Graduate Research Papers

The American theatre of the early nineteenth century was strongly dependent upon the European theatre. American theatre goers looked across the ocean to import talent, playwrights, plays, and actors. Not until mid-century did America begin to develop its wold-wide theatre influence. Specifically, the latter half of the nineteenth century yielded one of the most influential director/playwrights of the American theatre until that time. Modern American drama begins with Augustin Daly (Quinn 1).

John Augustin Daly, the son of an American sea captain and a British Lieutenant's daughter, was born on the seventh of July, 1838 in Plymouth, North Carolina (Johnson …

Grannia Program [1989], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Theatre Programs 1970-1989

An Original Musical Drama by Thomas A Power & Larry 'Flash' Allen

Artistic Director William Steele

Choreography and Musical Staging Cliff MacGraham

Music Director Lois Sturtevant

This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival ( KC/ACTF)

Alice In Wonderland, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

Alice the protagonist must find her way through this strange place called "Wonderland". She is a 7 year old girl who while sitting with her sisters falls asleep and enters this world by falling down a rabbit hole. She follows the White Rabbit who leads her on many adventures.

The King And I

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1988 performance of The King and I by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

The King and I is the story of a British schoolteacher named Anna, who is hired by the King of Siam to help modernize his country and the relationship between between them.

Program For The Stage Production A Voice Of My Own, Protheatre Club

Theater Production Programs

This three-page program details the ProTheatre of Ursinus College's production of "A Voice of My Own", held October 20 to 22, 1988, in the Ritter Center. It includes information about the cast and production crew.

Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1988-1989 Season

The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people- all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem that follows when the infamous "slasher" makes his reappearance and strikes again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Comedy_Murders_of_1940

The Fight Master, Fall 1988, Vol. 11 Issue 3, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

Neil Simon's Last Of The Red Hot Lovers Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Theatre Programs 1970-1989

Written by Neil Simon

Directed by Thomas A. Power

1988 - 1989 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

1988 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.

To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1987-1988 Season

David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present in the real world. Esther and Paul come for a visit to try to help Rachel. She has lost her mother and needs her father to snap back into the real world and help her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Gillian_on_Her_37th_Birthday_(play)

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.

Amadeus

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1988 performance of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer.

Amadeus is a fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Program For The Stage Production Much Ado About Nothing, Protheatre Club

Theater Production Programs

This four-page program details the ProTheatre of Ursinus College's production of "Much Ado About Nothing", held April 20 to 23, 1988, in the Ritter Center. It includes information about the cast, musicians, and production crew.

The Fight Master, Spring 1988, Vol. 11 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.