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From Teahouse to Teetotaller:. Purdue Theatre Company -- Forty Years and Still Growing!. Quiet please!. Cell phones and beepers Please unwrap your candy NOW!. Theatre Paradoxes. It is spontaneous, yet it is rehearsed It is participatory, yet it is presented Real, yet simulated
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From Teahouse to Teetotaller: Purdue Theatre Company -- Forty Years and Still Growing!
Quiet please! • Cell phones and beepers • Please unwrap your candy NOW!
Theatre Paradoxes • It is spontaneous, yet it is rehearsed • It is participatory, yet it is presented • Real, yet simulated • Understandable, yet obscure • Unique to the moment, yet repeatable • Actors are themselves, yet characters • Audience believes, yet it does not believe • Audience is involved, yet it remains apart
1964 • Purdue Theatre Company formed • Maurice “Bud” Dixon, 1st sponsor, director • Shoestring Summer Theatre • Once Upon a Mattress • The Elephant Man • The Star Spangled Girl • Experimental Theatre • Dinner Theatre • Celebration • Dames at Sea
The Plays (in no particular order) • Teahouse of the August Moon • The God Complex • Stop the World, I Want to Get Off * * * • Butterflies are Free • The Fantasticks • LUV • I’m Getting My Act Together and…Taking It On the Road • You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown * * • George Washington Slept Here
Plays of the Dixon Dynasty • A Cycle Complete by Mickie Hoggard • 6 Rms Riv Vu • On Borrowed Time • Silent Night, Lonely Night • Agnes of God * * • Company • The Runner Stumbles • Celebration • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
Oh What a Run! • Slow Dance on the Killing Ground • The Glass Menagerie– L. Brechner • Zorba • My Three Angels– D. Padberg • Wait Until Dark • Requiem for a Nun • Dark of the Moon • Echoes – A. Cleek • Barefoot in the Park • The Time of Your Life
It gets better with time! • The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd • The Lark • The Boyfriend • The Crucible • Ten Little Indians • In White America • The Lonely Ones • Hello Out There • Summertree
The Show MUST Go on! • The Miracle Worker • Twelve Angry Jurors • Twelfth Night, or What You Will • Love Rides the Rails or Will the Mail Train Run Tonight • The Tender Trap • Our Town • The Doctor in Spite of Himself
Break a Leg, again & again & again • Sweet Charity • And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson • A Thousand Clowns – E. Cohen • Wizard of Oz • The Odd Couple • The Miss Firecracker Contest • Night, Mother * * • Dames at Sea
Encore! Encore! • Kiss Me, Kate • South Pacific • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying • Blues Highway • Post PUC: Death of a Salesman in Kuala Lumpur
Introducing John Glover • Joins the faculty in 1993 • Taught speech courses and directed Theatre Company shows
Fits like a … Glover! • House of Blues Leaves • Baby • Anything Goes • Little Shop of Horrors • Nuts * * • Is There Life After High School? • The Art of Dining
And the hits just keep on coming! • Nunsense • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Pump Boys and Dinettes • And the World Goes ‘Round • Participated in American College Theatre Festivals
Enter From Stage Left: Tom Bogucki • Torch Song Trilogy • As Is * * • Me and My Girl • Extremities • Love Letters • Little Footsteps • ‘Night, Mother * * • Assassins • Chess
Bogucki Makes Good • No Frills Review • Closer Than Ever • Anything Goes • Blood Brothers • Agnes of God • Gypsy • Schoolhouse Rock Live! • Crimes of the Heart
Hitting the Big Time • Purdue Theatre Company Receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Indiana Excellence in Theatre Foundation
Check it out: • www.nwindianatheatre.org
The Channing semester: • Come Back, Little Sheba • And the big question? • Will there be more? • That is an excellent question • Perhaps • And then again, maybe not
New spaces, new places • Dr. YJean Chambers Performance Space • Musicals and mayhem • Intimate performance space • Handicapped access • Guerilla theatre • Multi-purpose spaces
Thank you for your kind attention • Please! Keep applauding until well after the curtain call! Let’s Eat!! Sardi’s anyone? Or shall we go to the Russian Tea Room?