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15TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON OPENS WITH THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Featuring 29 Indianapolis area high school bands, videotaped newscasts by Channel 6, and Georgia Engel of From the "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" fame playing a leading role

Artistic Indiana Repertory Theatre's 15th which seems to be engulfing New Jersey. Anniversary Season has become a magnet This crazy-quilt of history brings together Director for attracting some new faces and Biblical and literary figures, allegorical community organizations into the theatre's figures and the all-American family into a The 1986-87 season marks the spotlight The production of Thornton single world, in order to dramatize the Indiana Repertory Theatre's 15th Wilder's comic masterpiece, THE SKIN OF eternal elements of hope, survival and Anniversary. I have been privi OUR TEETH, includes two life-size renewal which are common to all men in all leged to lead the artistic endeavors dinosaur puppets, a cast of twenty, 29 times. of the theatre through its last six Indianapolis area high school bands (one for The marching bands will be featured in seasons, and am looking forward, every performance of the run), specially Act H of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, in with continued enthusiasm and created videotaped newscasts (donated by which Mr. Antrobus has been elected resolve, to this, our 15th year. WRTV Channel 6), and Georgia Engel President of the 600,000th Convention of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer ("Georgette" in TV's "The Mary Tyler the Order of Mammals. Each band will Prize-winning play, THE SKIN Moore Show") in the role of Sabina, the parade in full uniform as part of the election OF OUR TEETH will begin the narrator/maid. celebration, and will play a traditional march season in a blaze of color and These exciting elements will add pizzazz or their school song as an introductory light, complete with dinosaurs, to this wacky extravaganza which charts the fanfare to Mr. Antrobus's presidential marching bands and Armageddon. survival of the human race through a acceptance speech. This comic dramatization of the modern Ice Age, a recurrence of Noah's Special ticket discounts are being given survival of the American family is Flood, and a Great War from which the to band members' families to encourage the a play I have been wanting to main characters survive by "the skin of their community participation represented by the direct for several years. In teeth," anxious to dust off their books, set enthusiastic response of so many bands addition to its opening on October the furniture aright, go to the movies, and from the Central Indiana area. Special 31 (Halloween!), THE SKIN OF begin life again. thanks goes to Susie Cross, Indiana OUR TEETH will be launching a Repertory Theatre's Community Relations long-term project which we call High School Marching Bands Onstage Director, who facilitated the participation of " America-in-Performance." our 29 bands. [See p. 6 for schedule ] Designed to stretch over several The idea to introduce a full-scale years, this special focus on marching band into the play developed this WRTV Channel 6 produces newsreels American plays will bring you summer as Artistic Director Tom Haas some wonderful forgotten began to prepare the production with Indiana Repertory Theatre's chestnuts, and some exciting new Indiana Repertory Theatre's artistic staff and collaboration with WRTV Channel 6 began American plays chosen for their designers. The play demands a last spring when WRTV staff ability to directly affect our lives free-wheeling imagination, since Pulitzer producer/director Tom Alvarez told the and for a theatrical boldness that prize- winning playwright Thornton Wilder theatre's Managing Director Jessica L. both entertains and astounds. calls for the stage to be filled with a veritable Andrews of his long-standing interest in Also directly out of the cornucopia of articles, ideas, and producing a documentary on the Indiana " America-in-Performance" impulse personages from across the centuries; Mr. Repertory Theatre. The two agreed that comes Arthur Miller's THE Antrobus, the father of Wilder's featured IRT's 15th Anniversary in 1986-87 would CRUCIBLE, the third production ail-American family, is in the process of provide the perfect occasion for a in this anniversary season. inventing the alphabet, the wheel, and the documentary charting the 15-year Resident Director Paul Moser will multiplication tables in Act I when Homer, development of Indiana's only not-for-profit take over to bring to the stage this Moses and three of the nine Muses professional theatre. The collaborative searing study of the Salem witch (mythology's "queens of song") visit his (Cont'd page 6) trials, which Miller wrote in direct home in hopes of escaping a wall of ice response to the McCarthy "Red" baiting of the 1950's. Continuing our American theme with the particular focus of the Pan Am Games, I have chosen to direct a new play by American Jonathan Bolt, TO CULEBRA, which documents, in sweeping dramatic terms, the amazing story of the first attempt by the French to build a Panama Canal. Rounding out the "America-in- Performance" portion of the season is the stage adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's novel of the Depression South, TOBACCO ROAD. Also directed by Paul Moser, the bucolic humor of this play caused it to be one of the longest-running plays in Hauser High School Band, under the direction of Charles Biggs, will Broadway history. (Cont'd page 2 ) perform Nov. 7, in addition to the final dress rehearsal. pagel INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE Since the program's inception in 1982, the NEW BOARD MEMBERS VOLUNTEERS RECEIVE attendance and the number of schools ANNOUNCED RED CARPET WELCOME participating has tripled and to date, over 60,000 students have benefitted from the The Board of Directors of the Indiana October 14 was designated as the kickoff program. Last season the demand for Repertory Theatre announced the celebration for the Indiana Repertory tickets was so great that the run of both election of four new Board Members at Theatre's volunteer activities. PETER PAN and ROMEO AND JULIET the Annual Membership Meeting on The evening included a champagne had to be extended just to meet the demand September 24th, 1986. celebration in the Grand Lobby of the of student ticket sales and still students had Mainstage and the official opening of the to be turned away. This exciting growth The new Members of the Board are: Gift Shop, "The Curtain Call Collection", can be attributed in part to Target's support located at the west end of the lobby. Details and that of The Junior League and The Mr. Richard O. Morris of the October 27 VSOP (Very Special Joyce Foundation. President, The Rytex Co. Opening Party) and the volunteers' roles in The Educational Outreach Program stems the exciting Retrospective Exhibit, tours from the belief that experiencing live Mr. David Kleiman behind the scenes in the newly renovated theatrical art is an important element in the Dann, Pecar, Newman, Talesnick & areas, an artistic overview of the 1986-87 cultural education of all children. Kleiman season, and a performance of Not only does the program provide the BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, AND opportunity for children of all ages to attend Mr. Jerry Semler BEWILDERED in the Cabaret Club were all the theatre through the student matinees President, American United Life part of the exciting kickoff celebration. (special performances scheduled at The theatre is gearing up for one of the 10:30 a.m.), but it actually brings the theatre Mr. Jack Shaw most important years in its fifteen year directly into their classrooms through the Managing Partner, Ernst & Whinney history and volunteers are very much a part volunteer Doeent Outreach Program which of the success of the theatre. Their fresh was originally established by the Junior The staff of the theatre welcome you ideas and energies are always wanted and League of Indianapolis in 1982. all to the Board of Directors of the appreciated. We encourage everyone to join Study guides, slide lectures, costume Indiana Repertory Theatre. in the fun of getting involved at the Indiana construction demonstrations, backstage Repertory Theatre this year. tours, mini-theatre courses and question and Volunteer activites include involvement in answer forums with IRT actors and front of house projects including the Art professional staff members are all part of the Gallery, Gift Shop, leading tours behind the program. GRAND RE-OPENING OF THE scenes, ushering, Opening Night Parties; INDIANA ROOF BALLROOM back of house projects including actor SCHEDULED FOR NOV. 16TH hospitality; Gourmet Feedbag (dinners for /^Continued from page 1) actors on Saturday), clerical and stitching Adding British dazzle to our The Historic Indiana Roof Ballroom, help; fundraising projects such as the bold American theatrical terrain are for three decades a mecca for social and Annual Benefit and special events, the fund our Christmas entertainment, civic events in Indianapolis, is drive, phonathon, and Velodrama bicycle Agatha Christie's mystery THE scheduled for a Grand Re-Opening on race; or Community projects including the MOUSETRAP, and the season Sunday, November 16,1986. Educational Outreach program, subscription finale, Noel Coward's witty and The Ballroom was listed on the coffees and art fairs. urban comedy HAY FEVER. National Register of Historic Places in To get involved or for answers to your The Upperstage has been January 1979, but, renovation wasn't questions call Gail McDermott, Volunteer turned over this season to a begun until 1986, when the City of Coordinator, at 635-5277. showplace for some of the best Indianapolis chose Melvin Simon and theatrical touring events. Several Associates to restore the facility. noted performance artists will be The opening of the Indiana Roof bringing their unique talents to the Ballroom will add greatly to the city's TARGET STORES AWARD Indianapolis area for the first ability to attract large groups of people $10,000 GRANT TO time, allowing our subscribers to for meetings and conventions. The EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH sample some of "what's out there" Ballroom will have the capability of PROGRAM in the theatrical world. serving dinner to over 1,000 people and Each season, as it waits in the will be able to accomodate an even The Educational Outreach Program wings, begins to take on its greater number for meeting and continues to grow as does the valued special character, and the 1986-87 exhibition space. support of Target Stores. Last season the season is one in which the theatre The Indiana Roof Ballroom, designed program successfully reached nearly 14,000 demands are challenging, the to resemble a Spanish village, was once students in more than thirty Indiana entertainment value high, and the the home for many traveling attractions, counties as well as students from Illinois, enterprise rarin' to go. most notably during the "Big Band" era Kentucky, and Ohio. the Roof was "THE" place in Central Indiana to hear such big names as the Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller, Harry James and Ted Mack. SUNDAY SALON SERIES TO PRESENT BACKGROUND The Roofs renovation also includes ON MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS the redesign of the theatre's elevators and the Washington Street Marquee, which will be shared by both Audiences who like to delve a bit deeper into the Mainstage plays will have organizations. Another major aspect of that opportunity following the first Sunday performance of each production. the renovation has been the rehanging The Sunday Salon Series will commence at 5:00 P.M. in The Cabaret Club and reinstal lation of the Upperstage and The Cabaret Club ceilings for with a discussion of each play, its special place in theatrical history, and how increased sound separation. it relates to IRTs season of classic plays. The Indiana Repertory Theatre welcomes the Indiana Roof Ballroom The Sunday Salon will be highlighted by a short presentation from a regional and Melvin Simon and Associates to the or national theatre artist, followed by a "behind-the-scenes" discussion on the Indiana Theatre Building. specific items that made the IRT production unique.

A question/answer session is welcome and we assume some lively dialogue will take place. The Salon is free and open to all. Cheesecake, coffee, tea and other items will be available for purchase. Dates of the Sunday Salon Series: .: The Skin of Our Teeth, Nov. 2 The Mousetrap, Dec. 7 The Crucible, Jan. 11 To Culebra, Feb. 15 Tobacco Road, March 22 INDIANA ROOF Hay Fever, April 26 BALLROOM

page 2 WELCOME TO INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE'S 15th ANNIVERSARY SEASON THE INDIANA REPERTORY The Indiana Repertory Theatre's 15th RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBIT Anniversary Events have been devised to recall fond sponsored by [r||;j memories and to look forward to a glowing future. The Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration Committee, In addition to the premiere of the WRTV documentary, the October led by Chairperson Jane Schlegel, has devised a 27th V.S.O.P.* Evening will also myriad of avenues in which to celebrate the Indiana include the gala unveiling of the Repertory Theatre's 15th Birthday. The members of Indiana Repertory Retrospective the Committee are: Exhibit, a museum-like display on the Mezzanine level of IRT's Grand Mr. Ray Bennison Jesse Jones Lobby, which will take you on a Mr. and Mrs. Tom Binford Mr. and Mrs. William Julian Mrs. Natalie Boehm Mr. Dan Lanning nostalgic journey through the first 15 Georgia Buchannan Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Leibman years of the theatre, featuring Mr. and Mrs. John Burkhart Senator and Mrs. Richard Lugar * costumes, props, pictures and Mr. and Mrs. John Carr Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maine memorabilia from over 100 IRT Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Davis Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Moss Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mr. and Mrs. Frank Newman productions. The Exhibit is being Ferguson-Wagstaffe Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pitz sponsored by GTE, and Paul Harris, Mr. and Mrs. David Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schlegel window designer for the William H. Mayor and Mrs. William Hudnut, III * Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shula Block Co., is designing and Mr. and Mrs. James Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Jamison Woollen * setting-up the entire collection. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jenn * Honorary a great deal of thanks goes out to the Indiana State Museum, The 15-YEAR SUBSCRIBERS Children's Museum, and the ENJOY AN EVENING AT THE FIFTEENTH Indianapolis Museum of Art for their THE CABARET CLUB ANNIVERSARY OPENING help in mounting the Exhibit. The GALA - a V.S.O.P.* V.S.O.P.* is open to all friends of the Theatre. Tickets are $15.00 each and The first event of the 15th sponsored by AT &T. the must be purchased in advance. Anniversary Season was a special Tickets can be bought at the IRT Box night at the Cabaret Club for the On Monday Evening, October 27, Office or by phone at 635-5252. IRT's 15 year subscribers. 1986, the Indiana Repertory The celebration literally began Theatre will be officially with the pop of champagne as the celebrating the opening of its 15th 15-year subscribers became the glorious season by hosting a Gala first to welcome in IRTs V.S.O.P.* (*Very Special Opening Anniversary season. An Party). This celebration will really enthusiastic house greeted the be a combination of three seperate events, all designed to highlight JOHN AND LORENE performers (Mark Goetzinger, BURKHART DINNER Bernadette Galanti, Susan Sarber unique aspects of the Theatre and to celebrate them in special ways. and Frederick Farrar) as they The third event scheduled for the performed the wonderful tunes of evening of October 27th is the John Rodgers and Hart in "Bewitched, "INDIANA REPERTORY and Lorene Burkhart Dinner on the Bothered and Bewildered". THEATRE - THE FIRST Upperstage. The goal of the dinner is Over 110 families qualify as FIFTEEN YEARS" a Channel 6 to raise funds for the establishment of 15-year subscribers, having production. a permanent theatrical archives to be subscription in the IRT's first year housed in the Indiana Theatre. of existence, 1972 and every year A Champagne Reception, The Retrospective Exhibit is the thereafter. The special night in the sponsored by AT & T, will feature first step toward this goal. It is Cabaret Club was the IRT's way of the premiere of a 30- minute important to the history of the theatre saying "thank you" to those documentary produced by WRTV to preserve the visual resources wonderful patrons for their long CHANNEL 6. There will be two which document the IRT's and loyal support. showings of the film, one at 6:00 productions through their first 15 Artistic Director Tom Haas and P.M. and the second at 7:00 P.M. years. Ultimately, the work included Managing Director Jessica The film will be shown in the in the Exhibit will be permanently Andrews were on hand to Mainstage using the set of the IRT's housed in a room designed for its personally greet and thank these season-opening production THE display as a theatrical library. charter IRT subscribers. SKIN OF OUR TEETH. The The establishment of a permanent Channel 6 documentary is directed IRT Archives will stand as tangible by Tom Alvarez and photographed proof of the Theatre's transition by cameraman Jim Simmons. Air from a fledgling arts group, to a date for the documentary is major cultural institution in scheduled for December 5, so only Indianapolis. Space is limited on the the theatre supporters will have the Upperstage, so attendance to the opportunity to see this special sneak dinner is by invitation only. preview.

page 3 Indiana Repertory Theatre Long-term Operating and Major Capital Contributors Note: (14 and 15 year donors are indicated)

Foundations & Associations Individuals Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ransel Mrs. C. M. Spilman, Jr. L. S. Ayres Foundation Mrs. Reily G. Adams Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ritchey Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Stokely City of Indianapolis Mr. and Mrs. Lyman S. Ayres Maxine Rowe Ms. Barbara E. Stokely William C. Griffith Foundation Ms. Ursula Ball Mr. and Mrs. Sam S. Schahet Mr. and Mrs. James A. Strain Hook Drug Foundation Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Basquin Fred and Jane Schlegel Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Tabler, Jr. Indiana Arts Commission (15 years) Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund J. Beck (14 years) Robert and Alice Schloss Dr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Taylor The Indianapolis Foundation Mr. Robert D. Beckmann, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Schloss Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Test The Arthur Jordan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Beckwith David and Anne Shane Dr. and Mrs. Kermit R. Todd Junior League of Indianapolis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Beczkiewicz Kevin E. Sheehan Mr. E. Clay Ulen, Jr. Krannert Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Binford (15 years) Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Shula Judge and Mrs. Gerald S. Zore Lilly Endowment (14 years) Ms. Natalie Boehm ^Deceased The Moore Foundation Robert and Sandra Boms National Endowment for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Larry Boulet Daniel R. Noyes Foundation Mrs. Charles S. Brignall Nicholas H. Noyes, Jr. Memorial Foundation Mr. Patrick K. Brown The Penrod Society Mr. and Mrs. John Burkhart Rock Island Refining Foundation Mr. C. Severin Buschmann, Sr. * Shaw-Burkhardt-Brenner Foundation D. Brooks Boeke Carr FIFTEEN-YEAR The William B. Stokely, Jr. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John R. Carr, Jr. (14 years) Mr. Allen W. Clowes SUBSCRIBERS Corporations Mr. and Mrs. Edgar G. Davis AT&T Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Dettwiler American Fletcher National Bank Rollin and Helen Dick American States Insurance Companies (14 years) Mr. and Mrs. Don B. Earnhart American United Life Insurance Co. Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Einhorn Mrs. Robert Arfman Arthur Andersen & Co. (15 years) Leslie Lorenz Madeline F. Elder Mary Armington L. S. Ayres & Co. Harold Loveless Mary Bishop Fauvre * Thomas Armstrong Baker & Daniels Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maine Mr. and Mrs. Daniel FitzGibbon John A. Bartholome Bingham, Summers, Welsh & Spilman M. William Mainion Mr. Russell Fortune Jr. * William Batchelder Wm. H. Block Co. Glenn Malcom Mr. Hugh W. Frey Richard Beck Browning, Day, Mullins, Dierdorf, Inc. John Marien Mr. and Mrs. A. Hamilton Gardner Sigmund J. Beck Brulin & Company, Inc. Dr. John Marks David and Dee Garrett Robert D. Beckmann Jr. Citizens Gas Louis McBride Eugene B. and Marilyn K. Glick John Bennett Coopers & Lybrand Gail McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Goodman Natalie Boehm Danners, Inc. Frank McDowell Mrs. Pierre F. Goodrich C. F. Brockman Dow Chemical Joseph McGuire Mr. Jules T. Gradison Arlen Brown E-A-R Division, Cabot Corporation Owen Meharg Mr. Michael Lee Gradison Ralph Chandler Ernst & Whinney Dan M. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. John A. Grayson Martin Cole First Bank and Trust Company Charlotte Moore Dr. Robert W. Greenleaf Lawrence M. Condrey First Indiana Federal Savings Bank Ivan Moore Mrs. Harold W. Handley Paul Conwell General Motors Jans Muller Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hanley, Jr. Dr. James A. Cusick Geupel DeMars Nelson Nesbit Earl and Carla Harris Robert Davies Glenroy Construction Company, Inc. Irene F. Oestrike Dr. and Mrs. John E. Heubi Dr. Edwin Davisson Paul Harris Stores Wayne Overstreet Daniel Hicks, M.D. Donald Dick Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Co., Inc. Charles Paget Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hughes Rollin M . Dick Huber, Hunt & Nichols, Inc. Floyd M. Phillips Mr. and Mrs. David E. Huitema Lewis Dickson IBM Corporation Eugene Presti Mrs. John H. Jefferson Erold Diller Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan R. H. Richardson Mr. Louis J. Jenn Rodger Eberhart Indiana Bell Telephone Company (14 years) David A. Roettger Dr. and Mrs. Irving S. Johnson Richard Ecklebarger Indiana National Bank (15 years) Barbara Rosof Mr. and Mrs. J. William Julian (15 years) William E. Engle Indianapolis Life Insurance Company Maxine Rowe Dr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Kahn Dorothy Fanning Indianapolis Morris Plan Henry C. Ryder Mr. J. Scott Keller George Feldman III Indianapolis Power & Light Company (14 years) John D. Sander Mr. James L. Kennedy Elwyn P. Franklin The Indianapolis Star - The Indianapolis News (15 years) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schlegel Mr. James L. Kittle, Sr. (14 years) David E. Gilman Indianapolis Water Company (14 years) Helen Seay Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kranzfelder Fred Goetsch Inland Container Foundation (14 years) Robert Shands Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kuhn, Jr. William R. Groth Irvington Plaza Corporation David N. Shane Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Lee Robert D. Gruen ITT Publishing Ada Shaum Mr. and Mrs. Jordan H. Leibman (14 years) Jana Mason Gruner Jefferson Corporation Hazel Shear Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Lindemann E. J. Guy Jefferson National Life Insurance Co. (15 years) Michael Shepherd Michael and Suzanne Maine Robert Haesloop The Kroger Company Robert A. Shrote Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Malless (14 years) Carl Happersberger Eli Lilly & Company (15 years) Marion Simpson Mr. Arnold Marks Don Harmon Marien Pro Hardware Co., Inc. Corwin E. Smeltz Roger and Editha Masters D. M. Hartsough Marsh & McLennan, Inc. Margaret Smith Dr. and Mrs. James M. McGuire R. V. Heath Marsh Supermarkets, Inc. Edith Spencer Mr. and Mrs. E. Kirk McKinney, Jr. Harold Hefner Mayflower Group, Inc. Arthur Staddon Mary McNorton Ted Hegeman The Merchants Association of Indianapolis, Inc. Mary E. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. William John Mead H. H. Hilderbrandt Merchants National Bank & Trust Co. Mrs. Merrill Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Boris E. Meditch Dr. J. N. Hingtgen Midwest National Bank & Trust Robert Swick Mr. William I. Miller John M. Hoffman Occidental Realty Norman G. Tabler Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Victor Milstein Dorothy Hoy George S. Olive & Company Walter Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Moss Jirnmic Ilardi Peoples Bank & Trust Co. Dr. Paul D. Thompson Mrs. Elsie Myer Indiana National Bank R. J. Pile & Co. Donald J. Volk Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Newman Jefferson National Life Insurance Co. Ransburg Corporation Mary E. Wagner Mrs. E. L. Noyes Jerry Jenkins RCA Corporation Donald G. Walter Dr. and Mrs. Edward C. Ochsner Bettie Jones Reilly Tar & Chemical John T. Webb Mr. and Mrs. David S. Orr Cloyd Julian Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. Barbara Weilhamer Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Palmer Daniel Kasle 7 Up Don L Weilhamer Joyce and Jim Parks Pauline Kimberlin Melvin Simon & Associates, Inc. J. R. Werth Mr. and Mrs. Allen Parsons Jim Knapp Stokely Van Camp Company, Inc. RolfS.Westby Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Paul Bruce Lawrason Stone, Stafford & Stone R. L. Wolen Mr. John E. D. Peacock, Jr. (14 years) Randolph Leerkamp Wells & Company Robert Young Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Pitz Marian Lindauer Western Electric Joseph M. Zelenka Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Plimpton Wheaton Van Lines, Inc. (14 years) Mr. Henry J. Price WRTV-6 Drs. Arthur and Deborah Pro visor WTHR-13 Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Quinn Our records may not be complete. If you Zimmer Paper Products have subscribed for all fifteen years, and your names were listed under another subscriber, please let us know and we will update ourfdes. page 4 CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP

Following the success of the Indiana Repertory Theatre's Corporate Sponsorship program's inaugural year, efforts .cVan-y^ began last summer to attract renewed and new support for the program this season. To date, CUB FOODS, WAFFLE I Waffle House Family HOUSE FAMILY RESTAURANTS and US Air have Restaurants renewed and WRTV Channel 6 and RESORT CONDOMINIUMS INTERNATIONAL have come aboard H anyti^ as new sponsors.

The Corporate Sponsor Program was initiated last season from an idea by Board member Ronald Pearson as a new method of raising contributed income for the theatre, and originally had three sponsors as a goal for the season. Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Pearson and several other Board members, eight corporations sponsored an individual production.

The corporate sponsorship program invites corporations to actively participate in the theatre by partially underwriting the expenses of a production on the Mainstage or in the Cabaret Club. In recognition of a company's cash gift, the theatre includes the corporation's name and logo on all the advertising for the sponsored show. In addition, sponsors have special nights reserved just for their employees and/or clients. The sponsor also has priority seating for each performance during the run of the sponsored production.

This season, RESORT CONDOMINIUMS INTERNATIONAL was the first sponsor of the 86-87 season and chose BEWITCHED, BOTHERED & BEWILDERED, the Cabaret Club season premiere, as its production. Over 75 employees and friends of RCI attended the special sponsor preview of the show which celebrates the music of Rodgers and Hart.

BROADWAY GOES BERLIN, the second Cabaret Club production, is sponsored by USAir. US Air was the sponsor Resort of last season's PETER PAN and was designated as the official airline of the Indiana Repertory Theatre. USAir will Condominiums remain as the theatre's official airline again this season. International

The Cabaret Club will present THE ALL AMERICAN CHRISTMAS SHOW to celebrate the holiday season. CUB FOODS, the first Cabaret Club Sponsor last season, has renewed its full sponsorship again this season. WAFFLE HOUSE FAMILY RESTAURANTS, last 0 year's co-sponsor of DRACULA, will be a full sponsor of WRTV the Cabaret Club production of THE BABY BOOMERS' INDIANAPOLIS EDITION, a salute to the music and times of the "Big Chill" era. The theatre is currently in the process of seeking sponsorship for every production during the 1986-87 season. There are a number of different plans for sponsorship in which the corporation will be asked to pay a sponsorship fee ranging from $3,500 to $25,000 depending on the type of sponsorship.

Cabot Corporation Sponsors Signed Performances

Thanks to the generous According to Chuck Daube, Subscriptions to the Signed support of the Cabot Corp Indiana School for the Deaf Performances for the Deaf are oration, which produces and teacher and coordinator of IRT's available by contacting the IRT distributes hearing devices for Signed Performances Series, a Box Office at (317) 635-5252. the ear, a new dimension will be special section of the theatre has The IRT Box Office will be added to the Mainstage been reserved on the Sunday equipped with a TTY performances of the Indiana matinee of the final week of each (telephone-accessibility device Repertory Theatre this run for those deaf citizens who for the hearing impaired) so that year—one performance of each would like to attend. Chuck will deaf individuals can call in to Mainstage production will also sign the performances with place their ticket orders. feature a signer for the deaf. the help of one other deaf Deaf citizens must be sure to ask signer. for the section reserved for the deaf.

page 5 (Continued from page 1) 0 WRTV THE 1986-87 SEASON.. production began, witINDIANAPOLISh photographer/edito r Jim Simmons joining Alvarez in presenting The plays of the 1986-87 season present a striking combination of theatrical styles, 15 years of IRT's history for television. The documentary, titled "Indiana historic periods and geographical locations-from 17th-century New England, Repertory Theatre: The First Fifteen Years," will premiere at IRTs 15th Anniversary to 19th-century Panama, to 20th-century Georgia-from lightening-quick British Gala Celebration on October 27, prior to airing on Channel 6 on December 5. [See Comedy of Manners, to slow Southern-drawling Realism, to American Allegorical p. for further details on Gala Events.] The relationship between Channel 6 and Fantasy—the diversity of the season promises to please our audiences and challenge IRT continued when Channel 6 administrators agreed to produce video our acting company. This collection of pictures and commentary on each of the newsreels for IRT's production of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. "Having Channel Mainstage plays is designed to give you a provocative context, as well as a 6 produce the 2 segments we need for the production seemed like a natural extension suggestion of tone for the six productions. of our work together on the documentary, " commented Artistic Director Tom Haas. "Channel 6 news personality Tracey Horth narrates the documentary," Haas added, "so it seemed perfect to ask her to do the news announcer on tape in THE SKIN OF We need another word for this kind of play. "Whodunnit" is clumsy, OUR TEETH. We're so pleased it worked out this way." The newsreel also includes "thriller" merely a mild label. Theatrically, the word must be an everlasting a sneak appearance by Bob and Sandra umbrella for everything between the grinding, mechanical, old-fashioned Boms at Union Station! stage mysteries, and such a closely-manoeuvred puzzle as THE Wilder's original 1942 script of the play MOUSETRAP. designates a slide projection/voice-over technique to do a "News of The Day" Theatre historians will revel in asking why THE MOUSETRAP has sequence at the beginning of Act I. Feeling grown to be the world's longest running play [34 years]. We have no that this technique was too old-fashioned, dramatic reply. Clearly, it owed a lot to "word of mouth", the theatre's Haas devised a method of incorporating a imponderable asset. video screen into the set of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH in hopes of persuading either In the London theatre world's uncertain mosaic it keeps steadfast. A a television station or video production second generation acknowledged it as a form ofStonehenge. Legends company to donate the necessary video expanded: the tale of a couple who returned annually to the theatre of their segments to project at the beginning of each engagement night and saw THE MOUSETRAP 20 times—with stories like night's performance. The production of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH will be these we may forget that here is a really efficient thriller of its time. greatly enhanced by the contributions of Tom Alvarez and Jim Simmons who will produce the newsreel which includes both AMBASSADORWEST STREET. CAMBRIDCt CIRCUS. W.C.2S. studio and location shooting. Our thanks MONDAY toFRIDAY:7 JO. SATURDAY: 5 30 4 8-0. TUESDAY:2-30 goes to them personally and to the station Stalls 15 -. 10 6. 8 6. Drrs- C'irck- 19 - |u ... li li 1 6. p.t iutin-srrvfd• i 6 for their generous support of the Indiana PETER SAUNDERS presents Repertory Theatre. RICHARD Thornton Wilder in the role of Mr. Antrobus in THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH ATTENBOROUGH AND Georgia Engel to play Sabina in THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH SHEILA SIM THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH THE MOUSETRAP BY AGATHA by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) CHRISTIE Oct. 29-Nov. 22 JESSICA SPENCER AUBREY DEXTERÂ MIGNON Q!J&îHTY THE MOUSETRAP Thornton Wilder turns handsprings through ALLA^SiÊLLAND by Agatha Christie (1891-1976) histoty in THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. He ^^^/AUL Dec. 3-28 celebrates the persistence of man against all odds CW^MARTIN MILLER Directed by PETER COTES in a play which is part circus and part comically Announcement of the opening of THE Artistic Director Tom Haas was mad allegory, a play which jumbles all times and Decor by ROGER FURSE MOUSETRAP on November 25, 1952 pleased to be able to cast Georgia Engel, the unforgettably wacky "Georgette" from "The all places together, introduces a New Jersey Mary Tyler Moore Show," in the role of couple who have been married 5000 years and Sabina, the maid, a role originally created throws off sparks like a pinwheel. THE SKIN OF The text is Agatha Christie's own adaptation of her earlier short story on Broadway by Tallulah Bankhead. OUR TEETH is funny and tonic; it is one of the and radio play "Three Blind Mice," an expert narrative of murder in a Miss Engel's undisputed talents as a theatre's liveliest jokes. And don't let the term Berkshire country-house. Eight characters assemble. It is December. comedienne will be given a substantial Berkshire is smothered in so fierce a blazzard that to reach Newbury one has showing in the role of Sabina, quirky maid 'allegory* frighten. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH to the Antrobus family, who also becomes is as easy to enjoy as a circus. No homework to hire a sledge and huskies. When a police officer arrives at Monkswell the plays major narrator/commentator. required. It is not profound, nor does it pretend Manor, he comes on skis. Why does he come? Because there has been a Functioning as something of a guide to be. It is comedy, outrageous and unexpected murder in London, and-so he hazards-there will soon be another at through Wilder's play, which turns history and full of tricks. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Monkswell. Unless all Berkshire hunts for its skis, the house is on its ear, Sabina becomes the linchpin of : the play; it is she whom the Antrobuses seems to me a fresh and delightful jest. unapproachable; the telephone is conveniently out of order. In a closed- must always convince that life is worth circle world, somebody must die. Who? Audiences across the years have living no matter what the odds. known the answers; many thousands have yet to find out. Miss Engel has recently appeared onstage at several other regional theatres and [Taken from a review by Richard [Taken from J.C. Trewin's essay on Christie, "A Midas Gift for the on Broadway with Sandy Duncan in Lockridge in the Evening Sun, of the Theatre."] MY ONE AND ONLY. original production of the play in 1942.]

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THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller (1915- ) Jan. 7-31

HE CRUCIBLE is taken from history. No character is in the play who did not take a similar role¥ in th e Salem witch trails in 1692. The basic story is recorded, if briefly, in certain documents of the time. It will be a long time before I shall be able to shake Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor, Giles Corey and the others out of my mind. i went to Salem for the first time early last spring. Driving alone up the brand-new superhighway, I felt a shock at seeing the perfectly ordinary steel sign reading, "Salem 3 mi." I confess it-some part of my mind had expected to see the old wooden village, not the railroad tracks, the factories, the trucks. Underneath, in the earth, was the reality. i asked the courthouse clerk for the town records for 1692. He handed over a volume and I looked into it. Here were wills, deeds, and warrants sworn out, and the usual debris a town leaves behind it for the legal record. And then ... dialogue! Prosecutor Hathorne is examining Rebecca Nurse. The court is full of people weeping for the young girls who sit before them strangling because Rebecca's spirit is out tormenting them. And Hathorne says, "It is awful to see your eyes dry when so many are wet." And Rebecca replies, "You do not know my heart. I never afflicted no child, never in my life. I am clear as the child unborn." They hanged her by the neck over the long Salem Bay. © 'ay after day I sat in the courthouse, until the evenings began to arrive with forebodings in the night breeze. The locations of the old farmhouses are in my mind; where Reverend Parris lived and at night discussed with certain others who in the town was acting suspiciously, who might have shown signs of the Devil's touch. Salem was taken from the Hebrew, Sholom, meaning peace, but now in my mind and in the streets it is a dark word.

-_^XJIi(d the great rock, standing mum over the bay, the splintered precipice on which the gibbet was built. Here hung Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor, and so many others-people more real to me than the living can be. The sense of a terrible marvel again; that people could have such a belief in themselves and in the Tightness of their consciences as to give their lives rather than say what they thought was false. Or, perhaps, they only feared Hell so much? Yet, Rebecca said, and it is written in the record, "I cannot belie myself." And she knew it would kill her. [Taken from Miller's own recollections about writing the play, printed in the New York Times in 1953, titled, "Journey to The Crucible.]

TOCULEBRA by Jonathan Bolt (1934- ) Feb. 11-March 7

What do you wish to find at Panama? Money? You will not bother about money at Panama any more than you did at Suez. Glory? You've had enough glory. Why not leave that to someone else? All of us who have worked at your side are entitled to a rest. Certainly the Panama project is grandiose . . . but consider the risks those who direct it will run! You succeeded at Suez by a miracle. Should not one be satisfied with accomplishing one miracle in a lifetime?

[Taken from Charles de Lesseps' memoirs, concerning a conversation with his father, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of Harper's Weekly : "Is M. de Lesseps a the Suez Canal.] Canal Digger or a Grave Digger?" page 8 CONTINUES!

TOBACCO ROAD HAY FEVER by Jack Kirkland by Noel Coward (1899-1973) from the novel by Erskine Caldwell (1903- ) April 22-May 16 March 18-April 11

Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back. He had put himself to a lot of trouble to get the turnips; it was a long and tiresome walk all the way to Fuller and back again.

Hour or five of the testers were standing in the yard looking at Lov when he put his sack down and stopped in front of the house. They had been watching Lov ever since he was first seen an hour before on the sand hill nearly Marie Tempest, Robert Andrews and Helen two miles away, and now that he was actually Spencer in the original production of HAY within reach, they were prepared to stop him FEVER, 1925. fromcarrying the turnips any further. \ Laurette used to give these Sunday Lov had his wife to feed and provide for, in evening cold supper parties to which a addition to himself, and he was careful not to few theatre people were invited. allow any of the Lesters to come too close to Laurette's children, Dwight and the sack of turnips. Today, though, he had to Marguerite, used to invite their friends speak to Jeeter about something of great who of course didn't understand any of importance, and he had ventured closer to the the theatre jargon and were really not house than he had ever done before when very happy. And then to everybody's carrying home turnips or sweet potatoes. horror Laurette invariably said, "Now we'll play a word game," which meant Lov wanted to speak to Jeeter about Pearl, his something rather acrimonious, owing to wife, who was Jeeter's youngest daughter, Laurette's abrupt disapproval of any and why she wouldn't speak to him. guest who turned out to be self-conscious, nervous, or unable to act an adverb or an [Taken from Erskine. Caldwell's novel, historical personage with proper "TobaccoRoad," written in 1932] abandon. Well, the guests shrank with horror and some poor beast had to act something, and Laurette would say, "No, no, no! That's not the way to do it at all!" So then she would do it. Beautifully. There were, also, very often, shrill arguments concerning rules. These were waged entirely among the family, and frequently ended in all four of them leaving the room and retiring upstairs, where, later on, they might be discovered by any guest bold enough to go in search of them, amicably drinking tea in the kitchen. It was inevitable that someone should eventually utilize portions of this eccentricity in a play, and I am only grateful to Fate that no guest of the Hartley Manners thought of writing HAY FEVER before I did.

[Taken from Noel Coward's memoirs about his friendship with actress Laurette Taylor, and her husband, playwright J. Hartley Henry Hull and Ruth Hunter in the original Manners, when Coward was in New production of TOBACCO ROAD, 1933. York in 1921.]

page ON THE UPPERSTAGE... The Upperstage of the Indiana Repertory Theatre will open in November with the first in a series of Presented Performances by national touring artists.

First in the series is one of America's most remarkable solo performers-Fred Curchack, and his newest work, "INQUEST FOR FREDDY CHICKAN, A SCI-FI-HORROR-ROMANCE - MYSTERY-MUSICAL-COMEDY- IMPROV." Curchack will be in residence at IRT for 10 performances on two consecutive weekends, November 7-9 and November 14-16, to perform his 75-minute tour-de-force piece [see order form on p. 11 for performance times]. "INQUEST ," which had its world premiere at the prestigious Theatre of Nations Festival last Summer, concerns a world-famous stand-up comedian who disappears in -, ' \_-V" t*.- the middle of his act. Described as a mystery/romance parody, the entire audience are witnesses and also suspects. Using a unique mix of comedy, puppetry, masks, ventriloquism, optical illusions, music, and dance, "INQUEST " presents a continous stream of theatrical transformations as Curchack plays six characters and operates his own unique sound and lighting systems. AVNER the ECCENTRIC Curchack is in the vanguard of America's new wave of performance artists. His work will intrigue, "Astonishing and funny. A clown fascinate and delight audiences as well for the thinking man and the most as set the course for a season of challenging entertainment in the exacting child. He won't be pinned Upperstage. down as comedian, juggler, magician, acrobat, buffoon. Avner the Eccentric leaves you hungry for more." John Simon, New York Fred Curchack in INQUEST FOR Magazine FREDDY CHICKAN. The second Presented Performance on the Upperstage is Avner The Eccentric: The Hit Broadway Celebration of Comedy. Avner Eisenberg will present his clown show from December 9 - 21 on the Upperstage. Avner The Eccentric is a sophisticated adult show which is also appropriate for the whole family. Avner's Chaplinesque humor combines juggling, magic, acrobatics and mime into a performance which is "Maxwell has become not adapted to the unique nature of each a physical incarnation of audience. His show is.. .a joyous celebration of low comedy and profound Faulkner, but a living tribute humor, a 90-minute laughfest. to the high comedy essence of Audiences will remember Avner's man." comic performance in THE JEWEL OF THE NILE, and may shortly enjoy his antics in Brook Shields' upcoming movie, Southern Living BRENDA STARR. Avner also plays Arthur Lang on ABC's WEBSTER.

John Maxwell as William Faulkner in "OH, MR. FAULKNER, DO YOU WRITE?

The third show in the Upperstage will be the delightful OH, MR. FAULKNER, DO YOU WRITE?, a one-man show based Subscribers' Tickets on the letters, speeches and novels of Nobel Prize-winning Subscribers' tickets were author William Faulkner. Described as a trip into the mind of a mailed the week of October 19. The literary legend, "OH, MR. FAULKNER" will be performed by tickets were delayed because of a co-author John Maxwell March 4-14. change in the dates of Indiana Author, ranconteur, curmudgeon, Southerner and fiercely Repertory Theatre's 1986-87 seasons. independent figure, William Faulkner emerges from the study of We apologize for any his Mississippi home and takes the audience to Hollywood, inconvenience the delay may have Europe, and the inner recesses of his mind. caused subscribers. Next year we Maxwell has performed his dramatic portrait of Faulkner in hope to announce the shows and dates theatres and universities across the country where he has been well in advance in order to help acclaimed by such literary luminaries as Pulitzer Prize-winning subscribers with their schedules. Please note the changes in author Eudora Welty and by those who knew Faulkner. "OH, curtain times this season. MR. FAULKNER, DO YOU WRITE?" is the perfect blend of Please check your tickets. literature and theatre, of reason and emotion, of the heart and the mind, and promises to intrigue even those who have not read Faulkner's marvelous novels like The Sound and The Furv. As I Lay Dying. Sanctuary, and many more.

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Indiana Repertory Theatre's The Skin of Our Teeth intimate nightclub Thornton Wilder October 29 - November 22 Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered September 17 - October 18 The Mousetrap Agatha Christie Broadway Goes Berlin December 3-28 October 22 - November 29 Ail-American Christmas Show The Crucible December 3 - 20 Arthur Miller January 7-31 To Be Announced December 26 - January 10

ToCulebra Come Rain or Come Shine Jonathan Bolt January 14 - February 7 February 11 - March 7 The Baby Boomer's Edition Tobacco Road February 11 - March 7 Erskine Caldwell March 18-April 11 Sing with a Swing March 11 - April 11

Hay Fever The Golden Age Noel Coward April 15- May 16 April 22-May 16 Together Again, Again Summer/1987

••», Mainstage @$ $. ORDER TODAY! # of subs price per sub Day Time 6 shows 3 shows _ MAINSTAGE Opening Preview Preview Wed/Thur 7:30 Wed/Thurs 7:30 Fri 8:00 Opening Cabaret Thur 2:00 Sun 2:00 & 7:30 Sat 9:00 Fri 8:00 @$ 6 Show # weeknight Full Series $48 $84 $108 @$ 3 Show # weekend Mini Series $30 $42 $48 $ 57 Upperstage Mini Series: The Skin of Our Teeth, The Mousetrap and The Crucible Inquest THE CABARET CLUB @$ $ Become a Cabaret Club Member and Receive: Avner * 6 Admission coupons @$ $ * $10 Cabaret Cash Faulkner $16 Savings per membership @$ $ Weeknighter (Wed/Thurs-8:30pm; Thurs-5:30) $36 Weekender (Fri-8:30pm; Sat 8 & I0:30pm) $48 Less 10% for ordering all Three Upperstage Events! SPECIAL UPPERSTAGE EVENTS: 10% OFF if you order all 3 events! Postage & Handling Inquest for Freddy Chickan Nov 7-9 & Nov 14-16 Fri 8:00 $11 TOTAL Sat 2:00 8:00 $9 $11 Sun 2:00 8:00 $9 $11 Payment: Check _ Mastercard Avner The Eccentric Dec 9-21 Children 12 and under-$6 Visa AM EX Tues/Thur 7:30 $12 Acct.# Exp. Fri 8:00 $14 Sat 5:00 9:00 $12 $14 Sun 2:00 7:30 $12 "Oh, Mr. Faulkner, March 4-March 14 Signature Do You Write?" Tues/Thur 7:30 $10 Fri 8:00 $12 Sat 5:00 9:00 $10 $12 Name Sun 2:00 $10 PHONE Address (317) 635-9415 City Zip OR MAIL... State Indiana Repertory Theatre 140 West Washington St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 Day Phone Evening Phone

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