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  Absurd Person Singular

  Otterbein University

  Superb farce-comedy by Alan Ayckbourn (England’s Neil Simon). Three couples are visited for three consecutive Christmas parties in their three very different kitchens. Behind the scenes disasters provide the laughter as the Hopcrofts advance to material prosperity and the others decline. Otterbein’s entry in the American College Theatre Festival.

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  Cinderella

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  One of the most universal and beloved fairy tales of all time. The story of a beautiful young girl forced by her stepmother and jealous stepsisters to keep house and sleep in the cinders. She finally marries a handsome prince and lives happily ever after with the help of some friendly mice, a fairy godmother and a glass slipper. To be presented in a fully staged version with music.

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  Twelfth Night

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  A revival of the most popular of all Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, a comedy of love and language filled with romantic intrigue, mistaken identity and other farcical happenings. Featuring a professional guest star for the 21st consecutive year.

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  The Sound of Music

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  The Department of Music and dance area join us in presenting this tale of love, adventure and faith featuring one of the richest and most varied of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s scores. The true story of the famed Trapp Family Singers, an Austrian family who defied the Nazi terror on the eve of World War II. Music includes “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Maria,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “My Favorite Things,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” and “Edelweiss.”

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  Tribute

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  A smash Broadway hit and movie starring Jack Lemmon, Tribute will be presented in the air conditioned Campus Center Arena Theatre. Written by Bernard Slade (Same Time Next Year and Romantic Comedy), the play centers around an enormously popular Broadway press agent and former scriptwriter and a “tribute” arranged by his son at a moment of great crisis in his life.