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  Quilters (Revival)

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  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)

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  Biloxi Blues

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  Winner of the 1985 Tony Award for “Best Play,” this sensitive, engaging comedy recounts the journey to manhood of one Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the adolescent Neil Simon. A young army recruit at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943, Eugene and five other enlisted men struggle under a hardnosed D.I. (guest artist Michael Hartman), confront the daily “mess” served up in the mess hall, join together in a visit to a local “lady of the evening” and, it is here, for the first time, that Eugene falls in love. “Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.” -N.Y. Times. “A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth.” -MT. Magazine. This poignant autobiographical comedy will be directed by guest professional Dennis Romer.

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  I'm Not Rappaport

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  A recent Broadway hit and Tony award winning play, “I’m Not Rappaport” is “Rambunctiously funny.” -N.Y. Post. Set in a secluded spot in New York’s Central Park, the play is about two octogenarians determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Talk about an odd couple! Nat (guest artist Ed Vaughan) is a lifelong radical determined to fight any injustice (real or imagined) who is also a spinner of fantasies. The other half of this unlikely partnership is Midge (guest artist David Downing), an apartment superintendent who spends his days in the park hiding out from angry tenants who want him to retire. A delightful portrait of two eccentrics, “I’m Not Rappaport” is “A warm and entertaining evening.” -W.W. Daily. Professional guest artist Clinton Turner Davis will direct this uplifting comedy.

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  The Unexpected Guest

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  This newly discovered Agatha Christie mystery is a must for all would-be sleuths! Set in a foggy estate in Wales, “The Unexpected Guest” opens as a stranger walks into a house to find a man murdered and his beautiful young wife standing over him with a gun. But this mystery is far from solved and a thrilling evening of suspense and intrigue has only just begun. ‘The impact is tremendous...just when the murder seems solved, all the ends tied up, and you are groping for your hat. Miss Christie pulls her almighty knock-out punch.” -London Evening News. “That last-minute twist defies detection.” -London Evening Standard. Once again, we’ll give you a chance to solve this mystery and win free tickets by voting for your favorite suspect at intermission. Guest artist R. Sebastian Russ who recently appeared as Friar Lawrence in the Otterbein College Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet will direct and star in this superb mystery/thriller.