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HISTORY OF PLAYS AT OCU

  • 1922-1954 The first season of plays, produced in 1922-1923, include, Maker of Dreams, The Loving Cup, and Our Aunt from California. Only a partial list of plays exists thereafter until 1954: The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1926); Spring Dance (1936); Widow by Proxie (1937); Mama's Affair (1938); Candida (1938); The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1938); Our Town (1946); Glass Menagerie (1947); Icebound; The Importance of Being Earnest; Night Must Fall; Hamlet; Macbeth; I Remember Mama; The Torchbearers; A Man Called Peter; Night of January 16th; Cry Havoc; Romeo and Juliet; A Family Portrait; The Man Who Came to Dinner; Letters to Lucerne; The Fool; Cradle Song; Everyman; A Doll's House;Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; Outward Bound

  • 1954-1955 I Remember Mama; Spring Dance; The Blacks; Our Town

  • 1955-1956 Torchbearers; A Man Called Peter; The Night of January 16th

  • 1956-1957 The Brat; The Mousetrap; The Chalk Garden

  • 1957-1958 The Rainmaker; Family Portrait; The Desk Set; Caine Mutiny Court Martial

  • 1958-1959 The Cave Dwellers; Bell, Book, and Candle; Candida

  • 1959-1960 Dial M for Murder; The Boy with a Cart & A Phoenix Too Frequent; Death of a Salesman; Antigone; 20th Century

  • 1960-1961 Glass Menagerie; Come Back Little Sheba; The Taming of the Shrew

  • 1961-1962 The Little Foxes; Five Finger Exercise; Summer and Smoke; The Skin of Our Teeth

  • 1962-1963 The Male Animal; All My Sons; Mister Roberts; The Lark; Twelfth Night

  • 1963-1964 Winterset; Romeo and Juliet; Tea and Sympathy; The Silver Cord; As You Like It

  • 1964-1965 Come Blow Your Horn; Beckett; Oedipus Rex; The Visit; She Stoops to Conquer

  • 1965-1966 Madwoman of Chaillot; A Man for All Seasons; Time Out for Ginger; The Tiger and the Typist; And We Are Three

  • 1966-1967 You Can't Take it With You; Dark of the Moon; Much Ado About Nothing; The Fantasticks

  • 1967-1968 The Ivory Tower; Time of Your Life; The Fan; The Boy With a Cart

  • 1968-1969 The Country Girl; Barefoot in the Park; Thieves' Carnival; Merry Wives

  • 1969-1970 The Love of Four Colonels; A Streetcar Named Desire; After the Rain; Bye, Bye Birdie

  • 1970-1971 A Flea in Her Ear; Roshomon; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Moon for the Misbegotten

  • 1971-1972 Play Little David; MacBeth; Mad Woman of Chaillot; Philadelphia, Here I Come

  • 1972-1973 Night of the Iguana; Roshersholm; The Skin of Our Teeth; Shelly; The Idealist

  • 1973-1974 Sneaky Fitch; Sticks and Bones; A School for Wives; The Boy Friend

  • 1974-1975 A Member of the Wedding; Mary Stuart; Three Sisters; Ah, Wilderness

  • 1975-1976 Feiffer's People; Medea; The Good Woman of Setzuan: I Never Sang for My Father

  • 1976-1977 The Merchant of Venice; American Primitive; Much Ado About Nothing; Romeo and Juliet

  • 1977-1978 The Gingerbread Lady; Tartuffe; Equus; As You Like It

  • 1978-1979 The Glass Menagerie; Twelfth Night; The Bald Soprano/The Lover; Othello

  • 1979-1980 The Subject Was Roses; My Three Angels; The Runner Stumbles; The Misanthrope

  • 1980-1981 The Shadow Box; JB; May Fever

  • 1981-1982 Da; Rivals; Bus Stop; The Adventures of Harlequin; Simple Simon's Secret; The Tortoise and the Hare; The Great Cross Country Race

  • 1982-1983 All My Sons; The Tempest; Blithe Spirit; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Magic Pouch; Puss 'n Boots

  • 1983-1984 A Life; The Learned Ladies; Black Coffee; Crimes of the Heart

  • 1984-1985 Foxfire; Gideon; Ah, Wilderness! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Hansel and Gretel; Alice in Wonderland

  • 1985-1986 The Contrast; The Lady's Not for Burning; The Dining Room; Winnie-the-Pooh; Holiday for Bears; The Arkansaw Bear

  • 1986-1987 Home Front; Lysistrata; Noah; Getting Out; The Emperor's New Clothes; Robin Hood's Revenge; The Pied Piper

  • 1987-1988 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; The Serpent; The Heiress; Roshomon; The House at Pooh Corner; A Present from Pinocchio; The Haunted Maples; Spring Surprise

  • 1988-1989 The Glass Menagerie; A Moon for the Misbegotten; The Taming of the Shrew; Born Yesterday; A Midsummer Night's Dream: Junior Style; Aladdin; Spring Surprise

  • 1989-1990 To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday; Hedda Gabler; Macbeth; Thief of Fire; Alice in Wonderland; Charlotte's Web; Spring Surprise

  • 1990-1991 Angels Fall; Quilters; The Rivals; The Devil's Disciple; The Hare and the Tortoise; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Spring Surprise; The Tingalary Bird

  • 1991-1992 Noises Off; The Winter's Tale; Tainted Blood; The Country Girl;Jack and the Beanstalk; Sleeping Beauty; Spring Surprise; Happy Days Revisited

  • 1992-1993 A Woman in Mind; Winnie-the-Pooh; The Skin of Our Teeth; Wiley and the Hairy Man; The Learned Ladies; The Elephant Man

  • 1993-1994 Brighton Beach Memoirs; The Velveteen Rabbit; Twelve Angry Men; A Thousand Cranes; Right You Are (If You Think You Are); The Lion in Winter; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . .To Your Own Backyard

  • 1994-1995 Crimes of the Heart; Rumpelstiltskin; The Merchant of Venice; Step on a Crack; Equus; The House of Trials. Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . .To Your Own Backyard II

  • 1995-1996 On the Verge; Pocohontas; Our Town; Flowers for Algernon; The House of Trials; The Secret Rapture. Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . .Of the Native American

  • 1996-1997 All My Sons; Beauty and the Beast; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; The Miracle Worker; The Diary of Anne Frank;The Triumph of Love. Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . .Of the Native American II

  • 1997-1998 Three Viewings; Antigone; Rumors; Cinderella: The World's Favorite Fairy Tale; All's Well That Ends Well; Philemon. Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of Greek Mythology & Fables

  • 1998-1999 The Illusion; Remus Tales; The Walls Have Ears; Androcles and the Lion; The Road to Mecca; Private Lives. Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of Chinese Tales, Poetry, and Song

  • 1999-2000 Ghosts; Just So; You Can't Take it With You; Shakespeare's Clowns; Tartuffe; The Little Prince; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of Animal Stories

  • 2000-2001 Sylvia; The Orphan Train; The Shadow Box; Afternoon of the Elves;Inherit the Wind; All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of American Stories

  • 2001-2002 Mary Stuart; Pinocchio; Mirandolina; The Mischief Makers; Romeo and Juliet; The House of Blue Leaves; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of Italian Tales

  • 2002-2003 The 80th Birthday of OCU Theatre, The Odd Couple (Female Version); scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream; Blithe Spirit; Bridge to Terabithia; Friendship Betrayed;The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of Multicultural Celebrations

  • 2003-2004 Proof; Arabian Nights; The Importance of Being Earnest; Do Not Go Gentle; Medea; Five Women Wearing the Same Dress; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of Tales that Inspired Shakespeare;

  • 2004-2005 Arms and the Man; The Guys; Uh-Oh Here Comes Christmas; The Ugly Duckling; A Doll's House; Ring Round the Moon; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of Poetry

  • 2005-2006 All My Sons; And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank; Kids Say the Darndest Things; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; William's Window; Noises Off; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . Of 'How?' and 'Why?' Stories

  • 2006-2007 Cosi; The Crucible; My Three Angels; Valor, Outrage & Woman; The Outsiders; The Children's Hour; Let's Pretend Players present: Around the World . . . for Oklahoma's Centennial

  • 2007-2008 Lend Me a Tenor; Man and Superman; A Christmas Carol; Stage Door; Holes; Twelfth Night



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