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LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY OF INDIANA 1915-16 1919-20 1921-22 Polyxena Bernice Release A Killing Triangle Eugenically Speaking The Dragon The Glittering Gate Three Pills in a Bottle The Spring The Scheming Lieutenant Trespass A Nativity Play Dad The Angel Intrudes The Constant Lover A Christmas Miracle Play Trespass (2nd Production) Androcles & the Lion The Pretty Sabine Women The Shepherd in the Distance The Forest Ring Overtones The Star of Bethlehem Beyond the Horizon The Broken God Dierdre of the Sorrows Everyman Dad (2nd Production) The Jackdaw The Betrothal Cake At Steinberg’s Bushido Disarmament How He Lied to Her Husband A Woman’s Honor The Casino Gardens The Game of Chess Unspoken Children of the Moon The Kisses of Marjorie Moonshine Belinda Dawn Phoebe Louise Not According to Hoyle The Dark Lady of the Sonnets The Bank Robbery Mansions A Scrambled Romance Chicane The Dryad & the Deacon (silent film) The Groove Underneath A Shakespeare Revel Stingy 1922-23 Rococo The Trysting Place 1916-17 The Price of Coal A Civil War Pageant 1920-21 The Turtle Dove Night with Indiana Authors The Proposal Brothers Polly of Pogue’s Run In Hospital Two Dollars, Please! Laughing Gas Behind a Watteau Picture The Marriage Gown The Lost Silk Hat The Home of the Free Dad (3rd Production) The Farce of Pierre Patelin The Blind Sycamore Shadders Duty The Medicine Show Nocturne The Maker of Dreams Aria Da Capo Treason The Importance of Being Mary Broome Where Do We Go From Here? Earnest The Star of Bethlehem (2nd The Wish Fellow Lithuania Production) Father and the Boys Supressed Desires The Mollusc My Lady Make-Believe Cathleen Ni’Hoolihan Mary’s Lamb A Shakespeare Revel (2nd Spreading the News The Emperor Jones Production) The Rising of the Moon The Beauty Editor Sham 1923-24 1917-18 The Confession March Hares (No records survive) The Lotion of Love The Bountiful Lady The Wren 1918-19 The Doctor of Lonesome Folk A Pageant of Sunshine Why Marry? and Shadow Hidden Spirits The Murderer (a.k.a. The Blue Bowl) (No other records survive) Six Characters in Search of an Author Alice in Wonderland Twelfth Night 1924-25 1928-29 1932-33 The Torch Bearers Hay Fever As Husbands Go Mary the Third The Queen’s Husband He Who Gets Slapped Fashion At Mrs. Beam’s The Vinegar Tree Ten Minutes by the Clock The Wild Duck Young Wooley The Box of Toys The Mask & the Face The Front Page Children of the Moon (2nd Beau Brummel The First Mrs. Fraser Production) The Steadfast Tin Soldier The Cradle Song Everyman (2nd Production) Machinal Candida Pomander Walk 1933-34 The Thirteenth Chair Once In a Lifetime 1925-26 Rebound Minick CIVIC THEATRE OF Hedda Gabler The Whole Town’s Talking INDIANAPOLIS June Moon Christmas Shopping Magnolia E. and O. E. 1929-30 Brief Moment Green Chartreuse The Lillies of the Field Seventeen (2nd Production) The Monkey’s Paw Holy Night The Three-Cornered Moon *Treasure Island A Sunny Morning The Devil Passes Everyman (3rd Production) A Lady from Alfaqueque Portrait Ariadne of a Man with 1934-35 Red Hair A Church Mouse *First play presented at new theatre The Marquise Riddle Me This th at 19 & Alabama. Ten Nights in a Barroom Both Your Houses (or Manhood Shattered) Meet My Sister 1926-27 The Silver Cord Mary Tudor The Enchanted April The Racket The Late Christopher Bean The Drums of Oude Liliom Her Master’s Voice The Horn of Plenty Rossum’s Universal 1930-31 1935-36 Robots The Royal Family The Bishop Misbehaves Two Weeks Off Spread Eagle The Faun The Liar Chicago Louder, Please! The Stepmother Hotel Universe Kind Lady The Horn of Plenty Rope’s End Hold Your Hats! The Adding Machine Holiday Post Road Seen in the Rue Morgue Ned McCob’s Daughter Accent on Youth Meet the Mrs. The Second Man Aren’t We All? (2nd Production) nd A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1936-37 Alice in Wonderland (2 If This Be Treason Production) 1931-32 Fly Away Home Let Us Be Gay Libel 1927-28 Robin Hood Biography The Enchanted Cottage The Love Match Speak of the Devil An Enemy of the People nd The S. S. Tenacity Home Chat Androcles and the Lion (2 In a Garden Secret Service Production) The Racketty Packetty House The The Torch Bearers (2nd Judge Lynch Camel Through the Production) Right You Are (If You Think Needle’s Eye You Are) I’ll Leave It to You John Ferguson The Sacred Flame Children’s plays Saint’s Paradise Mrs. Partridge Presents The Importance of Being Earnest (2nd Production) 1937-38 1943-44 1948-49 No More Ladies Arsenic and Old Lace State of the Union The Night of January 16 The Philadelphia Story The Barretts of Wimpole Street Rain from Heaven The Man Who Came to Dinner Brother Rat The First Legion Claudia All My Sons Lady Windemere’s Fan The Pirates of Penzance Dream Girl Small Miracle Hamlet John Loves Mary Ladies in Waiting I Remember Mama 1938-39 Room Service High Tor 1944-45 Tonight at 8:30 My Sister Eileen 1949-50 Double Door The Little Foxes Command Decision Happy Journey Theatre The Hasty Heart Up She Goes! Distinguished Gathering The Village Green The Masque of Kings H.M. S. Pinafore Edward My Son Oliver, Oliver You Can’t Take It With You The Final Weakness On Borrowed Time An Inspector Calls 1939-40 Junior Miss Two Blind Mice When Ladies Meet Joy to the World Night Must Fall 1945-46 Personal Appearance The Male Animal 1950-51 Knickerbocker Holiday A Bill of Divorcement For Love or Money What a Life! Kiss and Tell Good Housekeeping The Gentle People Papa is All Goodbye, My Fancy Uncle Harry The Man 1940-41 Alice Adams The Silver Whistle Of Thee I Sing Blithe Spirit The Heiress See My Lawyer Snafu Light Up the Sky Two on an Island Love Me Along Love from a Stranger 1946-47 Private Lives Three Men on a Horse Outward 1951-52 Kiss the Boys Goodbye Bound Seventeen (3rd Production) Over Twenty-One Elizabeth the Queen 1941-42 January Thaw Mr. Barry’s Etchings Burlesque Angel Street The Curious Savage Flight to the West Foolish Notion Mr. Angel The Women Laura My Dear Children Ladies in Retirement Three’s a Family Portrait in Black Ah! Wilderness Harvey The Gondoliers 1947-48 The Guardsman The First Lady 1952-53 In Pursuit of Happiness The Happy Time 1942-43 Ten Little Indians High Ground Eve of St. Mark Joan of Lorraine The Play’s the Thing Out of the Frying Pan Guest in the House Death of a Salesman Skylark Thunder Rock O Mistress Mine Boy Meets Girl Dear Ruth The Mikado Suspect I Like it Here The Two Mrs. Carrolls Jason Ring Around Elizabeth Ten-Minute Alibi It Never Rains 1953-54 Affairs of State 1958-59 1963-64 Strange Bedfellows Southern Exposure Rhinoceros Detective Story The Traitor Two Blind Mice (2nd Production) Jane Happy Birthday I Remember Mama (2nd Bell, Book and Candle Miranda Production) Home at Seven Inherit the Wind Oh Men! Oh Women! The Moon is Blue The Happiest Millionaire Advise and Consent Glad Tidings Born Yesterday Once More with Feeling Visit to a Small Planet Roman Candle 1954-55 A Shot in the Dark My Three Angels 1959-60 Gently Does It No Time for Sergeants 1964-65 Late Love Picnic Clarence Darkness at Noon King of Hearts Harvey (2nd Production) Sabrina Fair Tall Story Life with Father (2nd Production) Time Out for Ginger Ladies in Retirement (2nd The Moon is Blue (2nd Production) Life with Father Production) The Man Who Came to Dinner Remains to Be Seen Our Town (2nd Production) The Girls in 509 The Women (3rd Production) 1955-56 Life with Mother Strange Bedfellows (2nd The Women (2nd Production) Production) The Caine Mutiny Court Martial 1960-61 You Can’t Take It With You (3rd Gigi Julius Caesar Production) Dial “M” for Murder Third Best Sport The Fourposter Years Ago 1965-66 Reclining Figure The Mousetrap Never Too Late The Seven-Year Itch The Golden Fleece The Sound of Murder The Rainmaker Another Part of the Forest Send Me No Flowers The Late George Appley Sunday in New York 1956-57 Blithe Spirit (2nd Production) A Man for All Seasons The First Lady Take Her, She’s Mine Pygmalion 1961-62 The Silver Whistle (2nd The Solid Gold Cadillac Three Men on a Horse (2nd Production) The Tender Trap Production) Calculated Risk The Desperate Hours The Captain’s Paradise See How They Run Speaking of Murder 1966-67 The Remarkable Mr. A Majority of One Who Was That Lady I Saw Pennypacker The Country Girl You With? Mr. Roberts The Pleasure of His Company A Streetcar Named Desire 2In Pursuit of Happiness Dear Me, the Sky is Falling Mary, 1957-58 The Marriage-Go-Round Mary Teahouse of the August Moon All the King’s Men Witness for the Prosecution 1962-63 A Thousand Clowns The Desk Set The Crucible Jane Janus The Spider’s Web Absence of a Cello The Lark James Thurber Carnival The Great Sebastians Blood, Sweat & Stanley Poole 1967-68 The Magnificent Yankee The Miracle Worker The Rainmaker The Wizard of Oz Waltz of the Toreadors Any Wednesday You Can’t Take It With You (2nd The Patriots A Case of Libel Production) Critic’s Choice Barefoot in the Park Wake Up, Darling The Odd Couple The First Lady (2nd Production) The Festival 1968-69 1972-73 1976-77 The Seven-Year Itch (2nd Bus Stop How to Succeed in Business Production) Anniversary Waltz without Really Trying The Gazebo Post Road (2nd Production) A Raisin in the Sun The Visit Death of a Salesman (2nd You’re a Good Man, Generations Production) Charlie Brown The Rape of the Belt The Marriage-Go-Round (2nd Play It Again, Sam Love in E-flat Production) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Goodbye, Charlie Arsenic and Old Lace (2nd Except for Susie Finkle The Bat Production) The Sunshine Boys Affairs of State (2nd Production) Damn Yankees The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers 1969-70 1977-78 Star-Spangled Girl 1973-74 Forty Carats
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