Department of Theatre and Dance
Department Of Theater and Dance
Department Of Theater and Dance
Department Of Theater and Dance
Department Of Theater and Dance
Department Of Theater and Dance
Department Of Theater and Dance
2008-2009 Season




Department of Theatre and Dance

SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE
Words & Music by Leiber and Stoller

Directed by John Stefano / Music Direction by Dennis Davenport / Choreography by Sue Saurer

October 9-12, 16-19, 23-25

Campus Center Theatre, 100 W Home St.

Leiber and Stoller, as much as anyone, virtually invented rock 'n' roll, and now their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates a golden age of American culture. In an idealized '50's setting, the classic themes of love won, lost and imagined blend with hilarious set-pieces and slice-of-life emotions. Featuring nearly 40 of the greatest songs ever recorded, including 'Love Potion Number 9,' 'Jailhouse Rock,' and 'Spanish Harlem,' Smokey Joe's Cafe isn't just great pop music - it's compelling musical theatre.

High School Matinees: Wednesday, October 8 & Thursday, October 16 - 10:00 a.m.



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JULIUS CAESAR
By William Shakespeare

Directed by: Ed Vaughan

November 6-8, 14-15 (High School matinee performance Nov. 5)

Cowan Hall, 30 S Grove St., Westerville

Civilization is primitive in 4000AD as it was only re-created a few years before by a handful of survivors after Earth's latest apocalypse. The gender rules have changed - and the people of this new world are at once passionate, vicious, sensual, and primal. In this non-traditional production of one of the earliest of Shakespeare's Roman plays, the fight between democracy and tyranny is at its peak





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AN ABSOLUTE TURKEY
By GEORGES FEYDEAU

Directed by Ed Vaughan

February 5-8, 12-14

Cowan Hall, 30 S Grove St.

Georges Feydeau's elegantly complex play is brought to life in this witty; seamless and acutely funny translation by Peter Hall and Nicki Frei. Feydeau, the supreme master of farce, displays all his dramatic tricks as his characters are pulled back and forth spinning dizzily in a surrealistic climax of complications. In French the title is 'Le Dindon,' plain and simple. It means the turkey -- or the dupe. And the dupe, or the fool, is what every marriage has at least one of. A lecherous lout lusts after his friend's wife, who hatches a mischievous revenge plot. Liaisons are arranged and bungled in a shady hotel, couples re-couple, and bedtime leads to bedlam. The delicious confusion leads to a climax that the New York Times called, simply, 'Glorious!'

High School Matinees: Wednesday, February 4, Thursday, February 5, & Tuesday, February 10 - 10:00 a.m.



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DANCE CONCERT 2009
Artistic Direction by Stella Hiatt-Kane

March 5-8

Cowan Hall, 30 S. Grove St., Westerville

To each his own dreams, passions and journeys; a rich collection of stories created by the Otterbein Dance Faculty - all with a different look, sound and step but together, a colorful collection of dance. This annual concert will feature fabulous dance in styles ranging from Ballet to Tap to Modern choreographed by our own talented faculty and students.









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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
By Dale Wasserman / Adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey

Directed by Dennis Romer

April 30-May 2, May 8-9

Campus Center Theatre, 100 W Home St., Westerville

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. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is Dale Wasserman's adaptation of the novel. Sentenced to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Randle Patrick McMurphy convinces the guards he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in surprisingly well, his point of view actually causing some of the patients to progress, until Nurse Ratched decides that things are moving just a little too progressively. It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system.



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NINE
Book by Arthur Kopit / Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston /

Adaptation from the Italian by Mario Fratti

Directed by Christina Kirk / Musical Direction by Dennis Davenport /

Choreography by Stella Hiatt Kane

May 21- 24, 28-30

Cowan Hall, 30 S Grove St., Westerville

This spectacular winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical delighted Broadway theatergoers in a hit revival in 2003. Based on Fellini's classic film 8 1/2, Nine is the story of a famous film director and his attempts to come up with a plot for his next film as he is pursued by hordes of beautiful women, all clamoring to be loved by him and him alone. Flashbacks reveal the substance of his life-- which will become the material for his next film: a musical version of the Casanova story.

High School Matinee: Wednesday, May 20 - 10:00 a.m.

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