The Taylor Theatre Playbills collection features programs from Taylor’s stage productions, including Taylor Theatre, musicals, playback theatre, and Taylor’s Touring Company. Some operas are also included.
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Ten Little Indians
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1981 performance of Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie, adapted from her book of the same name (in the United States published as And Then There Were None.)
Ten Little Indians is the story of ten strangers invited to a house party on an isolated island. When they lose the ability to return to the mainland, they begin to die off one by one in accordance to an old nursery rhyme.
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The Miracle Worker
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1981 performance of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.
The Miracle Worker is based on the autobiography of Helen Keller.
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Then the Circus Comes to Town
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1981 Advanced Oral Interpretation Class’s performance of When the Circus Come to Town adapted by Oliver Hubbard.
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Hamlet
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1980 performance of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Hamlet is the story of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark who sets out to avenge his father’s murder at the hands of his uncle, and the tragedy that follows.
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See How They Run
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1980 performance of See How They Run by Philip King.
See How They Run is set in a vicarage of a fictitious English Village in 1943. It focuses on the wife of the vicar, who is going out to see a play with a friend from the army who dresses in one of her husband’s suits. Nothing goes as planned as additional characters come in and wear the vicar’s suits and no one can tell who the real vicar is.
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The Children's Hour
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1980 performance of The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman.
The Children’s Hour is the story of a manipulative young girl named Mary and how she uses lies and gossip to control and destroy the lives of the two women who run her boarding school.
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Free To Be You and Me
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1979 performance of Free to Be… You and Me by Marlo Thomas and Friends.
Free to Be…You and Me is a collection of stories, songs and poems, designed to teach children interdependence, mutual respect, and personal dignity.
Presented by the Advanced Oral Interpretation Class.
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Our Town
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1979 performance of Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
Our Town tells the story of a small, fictional American town called Grover’s Corners through the everyday lives of its citizens. The play is set as a play performing in Grover’s Corners and uses metatheatrical elements.
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The Odd Couple
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1979 performance of The Odd Couple by Neil Simon.
The Odd Couple tells the story of friends Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison and the conflicts caused by their mismatched lifestyles when Felix moves in after being kicked out of his home by his wife.
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The School for Scandal
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1979 performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The School for Scandal tells the story of a conniving gossiper Lady Sneerwell, and her plot with other unscrupulous persons to separate couples and redirect love interests through slander and gossip.
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A Doll's House
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1978 performance of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen.
A Doll’s House is the story of a woman named Nora Helmer who tries to cover up an act of fraud she performed to save her husband’s life. The conflict shakes her home life and marriage, exposing their perceptions of each other and how each believes marriage is to be.
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Galileo
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1978 performance of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht.
Galileo is a fictional retelling of the trial of Galileo when he was tried by the Roman Catholic Church for the promulgation of his scientific discoveries.
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Quest and Query
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1978 performance of Quest and Query adapted by Oliver Hubbard.
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1978 performance of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is the story of Cora Flood, the wife of a traveling salesman. Learning that her husband might have an affair with another woman, she plans to leave the marriage. When her husband returns, having lost his job, Cora must decide how to respond.
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Brigadoon
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1977 performance of Brigadoon with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
Brigadoon is a musical about two American tourists who stumble upon a Scottish Town that only appears every one hundred years. One of the tourists falls in love and must decide whether to stay in the enchanted village or remain in the real world.
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Doctor Faustus
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1977 performance of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
Doctor Faustus tells the story of Doctor Faustus, a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, magic, and pleasures.
Performed by the Taylor Religious Drama Company.
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Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1977 performance of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, with songs assembled and translated by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman.
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is a musical revue of the life and music of Jacques Brel.
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The American Experience
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1977 Advanced Oral Interpretation Class’s performance of The American Experience adapted by Oliver Hubbard.
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No Exit
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1976 performance of No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartés. In French the term is the equivalent of the legal term “in camera”, which refers to a private discussion behind closed doors.
No Exit is the story of three strangers set in a nicely furnished room in Hell, where they are set to torment each other through their perceptions of their fellow prisoners.
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The Magistrate
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1976 performance of The Magistrate by Arthur Pinero.
The Magistrate is the story of a respectable magistrate who ends up entangled in a series of events that almost result in a public scandal.
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The Mousetrap
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1976 performance of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie.
Mysterious twists and thrilling turns abound when a group of strangers stranded in a guest house during a snowstorm discover that a murderer is in their midst. Whodunnit? Is it one of the suspicious newlyweds or the spinster with the curious background? Perhaps it’s the architect, the retired Army major or the strange man running from his past. Enjoy an evening of exhilarating intrigue as Agatha Christie’s greatest mystery unfolds to its surprising conclusion.
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Alice in Wonderland
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1975 performance of Alice in Wonderland adapted by Chamber Theatre from Lewis Carroll’s work of the same name.
Alice in Wonderland follows the fantastical and sometimes absurd adventures of a girl named Alice, who follows a White Rabbit and tumbles into a magical world called Wonderland.
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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1975 performance of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail focuses on the life of Henry David Thoreau as he recounts his life during a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a Poll Tax.
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The Roar of the Greasepaint ̶ The Smell of the Crowd
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1975 performance of The Roar of Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.
The Roar of Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd is an allegorical exploration of the status quo between the upper and lower classes in 1960s British society through the lens of characters Sir and Cocky.
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American Primitive
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1974 performance of American Primitive by William Gibson.
American Primitive is constructed from the correspondence of John and Abigail Adams and tells their story during the period of the American Revolution.