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Welcome to the 2019-20 Season! As the new chair and producing artistic director, I invite you to join me for the next exciting season of Otterbein Theatre & Dance! Although new to this role, my history runs deep with Otterbein. As an alumnus, I was a student under Chuck “Doc� Dodrill, was hired to teach by Dr. John Stefano, and was honored to serve alongside Christina I'irk. I am both proud and humbled to follow in the footsteps of such great leaders. Since lighting designers do not appear on stage, you probably do not know my face, but you have seen my work in Otterbein shows including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Adding Machine: A Musical, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Additionally, audiences have seen my lighting on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at the Metropolitan Opera, and in countries such as England, Italy, China, and Australia. I look forward to building relationships with this great community and sharing countless evenings of great theatre with you. The 2019-20 season explores the quest for fame and fortune through two award-winning Broadway musicals; a classic comedy that is uncannily resonant today; a revival of some of our most popular dance concert performances; and an engaging true story of the rush to commercialize a new, but dangerous, scientific breakthrough. Get ready to experience theatre that will delight your eyes, get your toes a-tapping, pique your mind, and tickle your funny bone! The experience of theatre is the experience of community. You are a vital part of the art we create and we delight in sharing the talents of our students with you. Come see them before they are on the Broadway stage or your favorite television show; before their performances, designs, and craftsmanship are showcased on a national level. Come be entertained. Come have your mind and imagination sparked. Join us for the 2019-20 Season!
- TJ. Gerckens Chair, Producing Artistic Director
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Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins Script adaptation by David Thompson Directed by Melissa Lusher Musical Direction by Lori Kay Harvey Choreography by Stella Hiatt Kane Co-produced with the Department of Music
Sept. 26-29, Oct. 3-5 Fritsche Theatre at Cowan Hall
It’s the roaring twenties — the heart of the jazz age — and fam
and fortune are on the agenda. Roxie Hart has been convicted of murder in what she considered a crime of passion, but, even in the darkened cells of death row, she finds opportunity as she vies for the title of this week’s celebrity criminal. This
razzle dazzle tale of greed and corruption is filled with hit song including “All That Jazz” and “Cell Block Tango” and will be choreographed by our own Stella Hiatt Kane, a former dancer for the legendary Bob Fosse. “C/7/cago” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH,
TOGETHER AGAIN Artistic Direction by Stella Hiatt Kane
December 5-8 Fritsche Theatre at Cowan Hall After seven years, Kathy Bartelt, Maria Glimcher, Stella Kane and Tammy Plaxico join together again to restage some of their favorite choreography. The first pulse of man leads to complex and passionate human connections, a universe can be hidden in a breath and in the collective breathing of a family, and life can be joyful, loving, and wonderfully rhythmic with a decidedly romantic and playful beat. This collection of favorites includes selections from Pulse, Beethoven to Broadway, To Each His Own, Trip the Light Fantastic, Spotlight, Gotta Dance! and Broadway Babies. “And it begins...�
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By Richard Brinsley Sheridan Adapted by Mark Mineart Directed by Mark Mineart
Feb. 13-16, 20-22 Fritsche Theatre at Cowan Hall The London gossip scene is buzzing. Masquerading behind the veneer of polite society, malicious prattlers trade gossip like gamblers and ruin reputations for sport. As much as we are all familiar with reports of lies, rumors, backhanded comments, and fake-news, this is 1777 England, and the
newspaper industry is just getting started. Two brothers are tested for their trustworthiness by their wealthy uncle amidst a myriad of hilarious twists and subplots involving a crazy cas1 of characters Including Lady Teazle, Lady Sneerwell, Surface, Backbite, Snake, and more. In what is often considered one of the best comedy of manners plays, deception is rampant, but virtue is still supreme.
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A GEMTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO lOVE AND MURDER Book and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak Based on a novel by Roy Horniman Original Broadway Production Produced by Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, 50 Church Street Productions, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Jay Mix & Una Jackman, Catherine & Fred Adler, Rhoda Herrick, Kathleen K. Johnson, Megan Savage, ShadowCatcher Entertainment, Ron Simons, True Love Productions, Jamie deRoy, Four Ladies & One Gent, John Arthur Pinckard, Greg Nobile, Stewart Lane & Bonnie Comley, Exeter Capital/Ted Snowdon, Ryan Hugh Mackey, Cricket-CTM Media/Mano-Horn Productions, Dennis Grimaldi/Margot Astrachan, Hello Entertainment/Jamie Bendell, Michael I Cohen/Joe Sirola, Joseph & Carson Gleberman/William Megevick And Green State Productions, In association with The Hartford Stage and The Old Globe
Directed by Thom Christopher Warren Musical Direction by Lori Kay Harvey Co-Produced with the Department of Music
March 26-29, April 2-4 Fritsche Theatre at Cowan Hall In this knock-em-dead musical romp, poor low-born Monty Navarro is desperate to inherit the dukedom, but there are eight members of the well-to-do D’Ysquith family in line before him. He figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets out to speed things up by using a great deal of charm — and a dash of murder. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst, all while managing multiple increasingly challenging love affairs?
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By D.W. Gregory Directed by Lenny Leibowitz
Oct. 24-26, Nov. 1 -2 Csmpus Cent6r Thestre In 1926 radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage - until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Grace Fryer, a dial painter, fights long and hard against her fornier employer who turns a blind eye to the wotolace safety issues, only to find herself fighting even harder to maintain the support of her friends and family. Inspired by the real-life events at the U S Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the commercialization of science and the societal obsessions with health and wealth.
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ACT OUT The Otterbein Theatre and Dance Act Out Reading Series empowers student theatre artists to investigate dramatic material that explores different cultures, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, and other facets of identity. The readings are free and open to the public.
Three Trees A play by Alvin Eng Oct. 7 - 7:30 p.m. | Collegeview Art Studio
Title TBA ByTBA April 7 - 7:30 p.m. | TBA Please note, these productions may contain adult language and themes. Not all material may be suitable for children.
FESTIVAL A two-day celebration of student imagined work.
Jan.24-25 Campus Center Theatre Join US for the eighth annual Festival, a two-day celebration of studentimagined work. Produced, directed, designed and performed by Otterbein University students. Festival works may include plays, musicals, mime, monologues, songs and dance. The possibilities are endless!
Please note, these productions may contain adult language and themes. Not all material may be suitable for children.
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