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Directed and Choreographed by Larry L. Life

Scenic Designer ...... Craig A. Humphrey Lighting Designer ...... Jason R. O'Connor Costume Designer ...... Orene R. Colcord Assistant Director/Stage Manager ...... Vicki Myers

April 1994

Oh Dad, Poor Dad... is produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., 45 West 25th St., New York, NY 10010-2751.

Warning The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection, and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. Director's Notes

"I really have the feeling that life is nightmarish, that it is painful, unendurable as a bad dream. Just glance around you: wars, catastrophes, disasters, hatreds and persecutions, death awaiting on every side. It is horrible, it is absurd." Eugene Ionesco, Fragments OfA Journal, Trans. Jean Stewart (New York: Grove Press, 1968)

Cubism, futurism, surrealism, Dada were all part of the attempt to discover the true nature of existence in a world in which traditional values had disintegrated and from which the light of reason was missing, a world where people were left groping around in the ruins-in the dark. The surrealists looked for a reality beyond or a deeper than the surface reality of external forms. They believed that the artist's vision-the artist's evocative imagination-brought humankind closer to the fundamental truth of existence than did the realists' "slice of life." They used the grotesque, the fantastical, the nonsensical-the stuff of dreams-to liberate the human mind from its dependence upon rational forms and social conventions.

Theatre of the Absurd does not use traditional plot structure with conflict and vertical progression. It is not a theatre of events, nor does it attempt logically to describe or explain any philosophical position-this would be a contradiction in terms. It gives its audience an "experience" of the absurd condition. It dethrones verisimilitude and logic to get at a truer reality beneath. One should not ask of absurd theatre, "What is it about?" The question more properly is, "What is the felt experience communicated through rhythms, sounds, and images?"

The Absurdists force us to doubt our reality, our traditional and usually abstract values such as love, family, art, science, occupation, education, religion, and so on. These are narrow confines and are rendered meaningless and beyond communicative possibility. In the Theatre of the Absurd laughter is the most convenient relief from living in such fantasy (and perhaps more meaningful than any of the traditional values). As a contemporary man with an acute sense of the absurd, Woody Allen, put it in his movie Sleeper: "Solutions don't work. I believe in sex and death-two experiences that come once in a lifetime." in-the Spo-tli9h-t

Featuring our Invited Community Guest Artist Melissa Long

The Invited Community Guest Artist Series was created to feature outstanding artists in the Fort Wayne area who have high visibility and a willingness to work patiently and cooperatively as members of acting ensembles. They are people who give generously of their time to both IPFW and numerous community organizations. First and foremost, they must be outstanding role models for our students as disciplined and committed professionals. Melissa Long, currently WPTA-TV 21 Alive news anchor, is the first in the Invited Community Guest Artist Series. Long is a familiar face to Fort Wayne residents. She has been a news anchor for WPTA-TV for 1-1/2 years. Prior to that she was anchor for WKJG-TV for 8 years. Her first appearance on the Purdue-Indiana Theatre stage was in 1983 in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. She has also appeared in On Broadway and Histoire du Soldat, both Purdue­ Indiana Theatre collaborations with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Long is a 1976 graduate of Elmhurst High School and received her bachelor's degree in communications from DePauw University in 1980. She serves on the board of directors for the YWCA and Audiences Unlimited, and is a member of Tri Kappa sorority. Long is an associate faculty member in the Department of Theatre and taught Acting for the Camera this past semester. She and her husband David, a city councilman with the 4th District, have two sons, Erik, 2, and Adam, 6. Cast of Characters

Madame Rosepettle ...... Melissa Long Jonathan ...... Jon Michell Rosalie ...... Beckie Niccum Commodore Roseabove ...... John Bell Venus Fly Trap ...... Avila Myrice Rosalinda, The Fish ...... Sarah A. Forbing Head Bellboy ...... Rob Smith Bellboy #1 ...... Mark Snyder Bellboy #2 ...... Tim Amos Bellboy #3 ...... Mike Harris The Blind Piano Player ...... John Hermes Albert Edward Robinson Rosepettle Ill ...... Mark Snyder

Scenes The action takes place in Port Royal, a city somewhere in the Caribbean. The play i~ in two acts.

There will be one 15-minute intermission. Production Staff Director ...... Larry L. Life Stage Manager ...... Vicki J. Myers Costume Designer ...... Orene R. Colcord Scenic Designer ...... Craig A. Humphrey Lighting Designer ...... Jason "Rod" O'Connor Sound Board Operator ...... Shane Semler Light Board Operator ...... Jason "Rod" O'Connor Costume Shop Supervisor ...... Craig A. Humphrey Sound Designer ...... Frank Strzelecki, Jr. Technical Director ...... Timothy A. Byers Technical Assistant ...... Michael T. Harris Master Carpenter ...... Steve Thompson Scenic Artist ...... Shane Semler Set Construction and Painting ...... David Stevens, Michelle Everidge Specialty Prop Designers .... Christine Delaney, Dan Hudson Properties ...... Shannon Fry, Sarah Snyder Costume Construction ...... Sandra McNeil, Amber Houston, Amy Paliganoff, Marty Kercheval Wardrobe ...... Sandra McNeil, Pam Wood Make-up Artist ...... Shannon Fry Follow Spot Operators .... Amber Houston, Amy Koenemann

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Acknowledgements: Brian Wagner, Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, First Presbyterian Theatre, Homestead High School, Bill Carlton of The News­ Sentinel, Harriet Howard Heithaus of The Journal-Gazette and the generosity of thousands on and off stage ... This is Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Al OS today:

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Rodger McFarlane/executive director •Tom Viola/managing director INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE SCHOOL OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAi. 1994

School of Fine and Performing Arts is very pleased to announce a mmer arts festival starting in June 1994. The Summer Arts Festival and xposition (SAFE) program is a unique opportunity for children and adults olJ a ages in the greater Fort Wayne community and surrounding areas to participate in an exciting and challenging series of workshops and seminars in the fine and performing arts. A staff of highly qualified and gifted professionals in the fields of music, theatre, and visual arts offers both artistic and practical instruction and demonstration in a "hands-on" approach to the arts. The festival features individual workshops in a number of performance, production, and studio settings, including printmaking, jazz, show choir, ceramics, dance, acting, metalsmithing, concert band, movement, drawing, and singing.* In addition, there is a professional summer theatre program that features "American Classics" like the musical Gypsy and the drama Picnic.

On behalf of the School of Fine and Performing Arts, I would like to personally extend a warm and hearty welcome to you and your family to participate in our SAFE summer program. Please join us and special invited guests Artlink, the Dance Collective, and the South Side Spectrum "Arts Alive!" program for a truly exciting summer venture. If you have any questions related to the summer arts festival, please call us at (219) 481-6977. Have a SAFE summer!

Cordially yours,

Gerald Lee Ratliff, dean

*A number of the workshop and studio sessions are directed toward high school and middle school students as well as senior citizens.

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Please mail to: School of Fine and Performing Arts Fine Arts Building 102 Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 IPFW and the Philharmonic: A Community Partnership

For the benefit of students and music-lovers, young and old alike, the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic have, over the years, formed a lasting community partnership.

Here are just a few of the things these two arts organizations do together:

*Along with Fort Wayne Community Schools, IPFW and the Philharmonic jointly sponsor the Fort Wayne Youth Symphony, composed of the best young orchestral musicians from high schools throughout northeastern Indiana. All rehearsals, under Conductor David Crowe, are held on the IPFW campus.

*With help from the Philharmonic Volunteers, IPFW offers a continuing education class called "Listening with New Ears."

*IPFW students receive a special student rate of only $4 for all Philharmonic classical events; in addition, IPFW uses Philharmonic group rate programs to raise funds for scholarship programs.

*Each year, the Philharmonic contributes $2,000 to the IPFW Department of Music scholarship fund to help aspiring orchestral musicians.

*The IPFW Department of Music, on an ongoing basis, engages Philharmonic musicians as instrument instructors for undergraduates.

*Purdue-Indiana Theatre, known throughout the community as PIT, and the orchestra have a rich history of coproducing on the Philharmonic's Spectrum Series. Directed and choreographed by Lawrence L. Life, these fully staged, highly acclaimed productions have included Bernstein's Candide, Sondheim's Follies, and Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor.

*Last but not least, for many years IPFW and the Philharmonic have jointly employed two fine orchestral musicians, combining financial resources to offer salaries competitive on a national basis. Principal second violin Jesse C. Hawkins and assistant principal cellist Margery A. Latchaw, along with pianist Masson L. Robertson, form the Indiana-Purdue Trio. As faculty members, Hawkins and Latchaw are responsible for string instruction (one of Hawkins' students, Melanie Rondeau, is a member of the Philharmonic orchestra), as well as recitals-solo and trio ensemble.

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic values highly all that IPFW has done for the arts and wishes to recognize the enormous contribution it has made and continues to make toward the artistic goals of the Philharmonic. Une ()n the Aisle

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New Theatre Boutique donation of Julia Vandenberg. This Visit our new Theatre Boutique beautiful instrument will grace the located on the west side of the main entrance of our lobby and will Williams Theatre lobby. The be played at intermission and prior to boutique features many items of each performance. theatre memorabilia for sale. Included are T-shirts from current Lobby Pianist Broadway shows, books on the Our lobby pianist is one of our new theatre, theatre cookbooks, and theatre majors, Heidi B. Warfel. She Broadway show buttons. As more is a transfer student from the items are acquired they will be added University of Nevada at Las Vegas. to the boutique. All proceeds from We are very happy to have Warfel as the sale of these items benefit the a part of our program and are sure theatre program and students. that you will see her on stage soon.

Purdue-Indiana Theatre Posters Volunteers Needed Did you notice our poster design for We need lots of volunteers to work Oh Dad, Poor Dad? It was designed on and in the American Classics by graphic design major Bonnie Summer Theatre productions of Pumphrey. We have copies of the Gypsy and Picnic. You can work in poster signed by the artist for sale at any capacity you choose, be it the boutique. We also have a limited costumes, set, lights, sound, or on number of signed Hair posters stage. If you would like to be a part designed by fine arts faculty member of our summer fun call the AnnMarie LeBlanc. department office at (219) 481-6551, leave your name and phone number Chickering Grand Piano and one of the summer theatre staff The purchase of the Chickering grand will be in touch with you. piano in the main lobby was made possible in part through a generous Auditions for Children the conference room of Williams The summer production of Gypsy has Theatre. These are used as reference roles for 7 to 10 children, ages 6-12. and resource materials for our All must sing and have some students and faculty. Also needed are movement ability. The role of Baby scripts and theatre programs. For June especially calls for a young girl more information call the department in this age range with a strong belt office at (219) 481-6551. voice and dance training. Auditions for the children's roles will be on Piano on the Set Saturday, April 23, at 1:30 p.m. in Very special thanks go to Rosalie A. Williams Theatre, Room 113. All Haritun, interim chair of the auditioners should bring a prepared Department of Music, and music song and sheet music. An faculty member Masson L. Robertson accompanist will be provided. for allowing us to use the Kawaii grand piano on the set of tonight's Auditions for Adults show. Auditions for both summer productions of Gypsy and Picnic will Opening Night Receptions be Sunday, April 24, at 1:30 p.m., in Following each opening night, the Williams Theatre Room 113. Roles department will host a reception are available for both men and honoring the cast and crew. All women ranging in age from 15 to 50. audience members are invited to Those auditioning for Gypsy should attend. The receptions will be in bring a prepared song and sheet Williams Theatre, Room 113. music. An accompanist will be Admission is $1. Tickets can be provided. Those auditioning for purchased at the boutique. Your Picnic will read scenes from the donation of $1 will enable us to script. Scripts for both shows are continue this new tradition. available in the department office and can be checked out for 24 hours. For New Staff Members more information call the department We are very pleased to announce the office, (219) 481-6551. addition of two new staff members to Purdue-Indiana Theatre. Our resident Books Needed For Department house manager is Bill Kercheval. He Library has greeted you on many Donations of books pertaining to any performance nights in both the theatre subject are being accepted for Williams and Studio Theatres. our departmental library located in Kercheval is also our photographer and he and his wife, Marty, have Fish for tonight's production. A given many hours of service to special thanks to Delaney and Purdue-Indiana Theatre as Hudson for their work on this show. volunteers. Also a new addition to the staff of the American Classics A Visit to the City That Never Summer Theatre is Stacy R. Sleeps Chambers, who joins us as director of The School of Fine and Performing advertising and promotions. Arts' weeklong excursion to New York was a resounding success. In Thanks For The Casket fact, none of the 29 travelers wanted Finding a casket for tonight's to leave the Big Apple. In addition to production was a real dilemma. seeing Broadway shows, touring Fortunately, Fort Wayne theatre museums, attending the New York personality and teacher Ed Koczergo Philharmonic and art lectures, many had one at Homestead High School. of the group dined at Tavern On The He was very quick to let us use it. Green, the Rose Room at the Thanks again. Algonquin Hotei, Peacock Alley at the Waldorf Astoria, the Russian Tea Specialty Props Design Room, and The Rainbow Room atop On the recent School of Fine and the Chrysler Building. There was also Performing Arts New York trip, the a little elbow rubbing with some of director of tonight's production Broadway's legends. Several students overheard fine arts ceramics majors, met and talked with Carol Channing, Chris Delaney and Dan Hudson, Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, Victor talking about the props they had just Garber, and the new heartthrob and seen in the Broadway production of star of Damn Yankees, Jarrod Les Miserables. Director Life saw Emmick. Watch for the this as his chance to nab them for announcement of next year's trip so prop design and execution of the you won't be left out. Venus Fly Traps and Rosalinda the

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City State ____ Zip _____ The School of Fine and Performing Arts Department of Theatre fbktWA.VND In Commemoration of the fQkfWA.VND 1794 - 199l: i. ,D Fort Wayne Bicentennial •794 - 19::-i. ,D ~\\-J Proudly Announces ~\\dJ Iii The American Classics Iii Summer Theatre I

Artistic Director: Larry L. Life

The first of Purdue-Indiana Theatre's (PIT) annual celebrations and salutes to America's greatest musicals and plays, The American Classics Summer Theatre inaugurates its first season in commemoration of the Bicentennial of Fort Wayne. This and subsequent seasons will be dedicated to the American theatre's brilliance and endurance. The American Classics Summer Theatre series will be committed to the continuance of great tradition and the need to create and revel in a uniquely transporting kind of live theatrical entertainment. We guarantee you will experience showmaking that quickens the pulse and lifts the spirit. Come "let us entertain you" and we promise you we will celebrate the "more" in theatre; the demand for an encore to stop the curtain from falling, and to keep the chorus line kicking forever. The celebration starts with a bang on the Fourth of July weekend.

Gypsy Picnic Book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Jule by William Inge Styne, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Picnic was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Gypsy is one of the American musical Critics Circle Award when it was produced in theatre's most distinguished achievements. 1953. Atender and sensitive portrayal of life in Every song is show business history. From a small town. Beautifully drawn character the soaring "Everything's Coming Up Roses" studies of young, widowed, and spinsterish to the wistful "You'll Never Get Away From women and what happens to them when a Me," the rafters shake and ring with young drifter with an animal vitality wanders electrifying tunes. Based on the autobiography into their midst and upsets their lives. An by Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy tells the story of a elegant story about simple lives told with headstrong stage-mother, Mamma Rose, and much humor and love. A perfect summer play her drive to make her children vaudeville of gentle memories. July 29, 30, Aug. 5, 6, stars. Don't miss this Broadway showstopper! 12, 13. July 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16, Gypsy will be the second in PIT's Invited Community Guest Artists Series and will feature Nancy Kartholl as Mama Rose.

Both productions will be presented in the beautiful new Williams Theatre. Box office opens Monday, May 23, (219-481-6555). For more information, call the Department ofTheatre office at (219) 481-6551. Advance Mail Reservation Form for The Fort Wayne Bicentennial Event of the Summer! Purdue-Indiana Theatre's American Classics Summer Theatre Series 1994 proudly presenting Gypsy Picnic "A Broadway showstopper" and "A perfect summer play of gentle July 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16 memories" July 29, 30, Aug. 5, 6, 12, 13

Order by mail now for the best seats and to be a part of this summer excitement! Season tickets for both shows only $16. A savings of $4 off regular admission price.

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Mail order form and check to: American Classics Summer Theatre, Williams Theatre Box Office, IPFW, 2101 Coliseum Blvd. East, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805-1499 The School of Fine And Performing Arts Department of Theatre presents the Purdue-Indiana Theatre 1994-95 Mainstage Productions (Williams Theatre) A Celebration of Self-discovery Pippin The hilarious story of awoman and her husband Book by Roger 0. Hirson, Music and Lyrics attempting to put on the annual Christmas by Stephen Schwartz pageant, despite having to cast the horrible The dazzling Bob Fosse musical that asks the Herdman kids-probably the meanest, nastiest, question, 'What is ayoung man to do when his most inventively awful kids in the history of the father is Charlemagne, the Holy Roman world. One of the best Christmas stories ever, Emperor?" With an extraordinary musical theatre and certainly one of the funniest. score that includes "Magic To Do," "Corner Of Dec.2,3,4,9, 10, 11. The Sky," and "Time To Start Livin," Pippin is a Dec. 2, 9performances at 7p.m., all others are musical about aquest for fulfillment which finds matinee performances at 2 p. m. itself finally and happily in peaceful domesticity. Purdue-Indiana Theatre will offer special school Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf matinees of this produ(,iion. For additional by Edward Albee information, call the Department of Theatre office The story of this enormously successful and at (219) 481-6551. prize-winning play is told during one drunken Oct. 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22 evening in the home of aprofessor in asmall college. He and his wife, returning from aparty, U.S.A. have invited ayounger couple to join them for a by John Dos Passos and Paul Shyre, based nightcap. When the younger guests arrive, the on the novel by John Dos Passos, psychological fireworks begin. Ashattering and Purdue-Indiana Theatre's Salute To Fort memorable theatrical experience. This Wayne's Bicentennial production will feature two professional guest­ Asuperbly woven and exciting cavalcade of artists in the roles of George and Martha. America in the first third of the 20th century. The Feb. 24, 25, March 3, 4 play has all the color, sentiment, and reality of the era, interwoven with the headlines and Romeo and Juliet celebrities of the times, who gave life its impetus: by William Shakespeare Henry Ford, Rudolph Valentino, Eugene Debs, The incandescent, classic poetic tale of the the Wright Brothers, Isadora Duncan, and the Capulets, Montagues, and the legendary "star­ Suffragettes. Astriking panorama of an era. crossed" lovers. Aplay about vivid and Nov. 11, 12, 18, 19 appealing individuals, whose names have come to symbolize the joys and sorrows of young The Best Christmas Pageant Ever love. Ajourney of youth and vitality in mind, by Barbara Robinson body, and spirit. Purdue-Indiana Theatre will Purdue-Indiana Theatre in cosponsorship offer special school matinees of this production. with Fort Wayne Youtheatre is pleased to For more information call the Department of offer this annual Christmas event. Theatre office at (219) 481-6551 . (Note: This production is not part of the season April 14, 15, 21, 22 subscription series. Tickets must be purchased separately.) The School of Fine and Performing Arts Department of Theatre presents the Purdue-Indiana Theatre 1994-95 Studio Theatre Productions (Kettler Hall, G32) A Celebration of Women

Oleanna adolescence, seeing the interplay, the bonds of by David Mamet friendship, the reprimands from authority David Mamet's most recent and highly praised figures, the pressure from home, and the Off-Broadway success. A blunt, sometimes reactions to the world: the Beatles, the Addams violent, interchange between a middle-aged Family, the Supremes, and the first Catholic professor and his young female student. president. A highly amusing and true portratt of Sept. 22, 23, 24 Gertrude Stein and aCompanion Keely And Du by Win Wells by Jane Martin First-prize winner at both the Edinburgh Festival Amind-probing issue play with a gripping and the Theatre Festival in Sydney, Australia, as human face, not a schematic political view of well as the Vtta Award in South Africa as Best abortion. Who is accountable? What is the Play. The play begins just after the death of extent of individual freedom? What are a rape Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. victim's rights? What is a Christian's duty? The Toklas and the genesis and development of their characters confront the physical, emotional, relationship is richly portrayed. The production and spiritual realities of procreation. captures the feeling, art, music, and ltterature of Oct. 27, 28, 29 Paris of those years, when Pablo and Ernest and Henri and all of Gertrude's friends spent their Catholic School girls free time in the great wrtter's salon. by Cathi Curti March 23, 24, 25 An amusing and dead-on satire of Catholic school life in the 1960s. We watch four girls grow up from infancy to the threshold of

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Reserve tickets to any production by calling the Purdue-Indiana Theatre central box office, located in Williams Theatre, at (219) 481-6555. The central box office is open Monday-Saturday, 1 :30-5:30 p.m. Reserved tickets must be picked up 48 hours in advance of the performance. Tickets, if still available, may also be purchased the evening of a Studio Theatre or Mainstage production, from 7 p.m. to curtain time, at the Studio Theatre (Kettler Hall G32) or Mainstage (Williams Theatre). .Fort Wayne Theatre Happenings

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Is There Life After High School? Season's Greetings Augustl3, 14,20,21,27,28 December 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18

Never Too Late Natalie Needs A Nightie September 17, 18, 24, 25 February 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 October 1, 2 Nunsense II, The Second Coming Go Back For Murder April 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23 October 29, 30 November 5, 6, 12, 13 The Foreigner May 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28

For ticket information call 493-1384 PIT Performers' The News-Sentinel would like to wish all members of the PIT community great success as they begin their first season in the new Ernest E. Williams Theatre Arts Building. The late Ernie Williams, pictured at right, served as editor of The News-Sentinel from 1966 until his retirement in 1982. He also served as chairman of the Foellinger Foundation and was the driving force in securing the $3 million grant for this new theater. While visiting, don't miss the artwork located in the lobby, which was donated by The News-Sentinel in memory of Helene Foellinger, former News-Sentinel publisher and patron of the arts. The piece, pictured below, is a colorful, mixed-media collaboration created in 1992 by three IPFW associate professors. "Tribute," created by associate professors John Hrehov, AnnMarie LeBlanc and Nancy McCroskey, honors the late Helene Foellinger.

Good luck throughout the season.