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15Th Anniversary Season Opens with the Skin of Our 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.
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