From Teahouse to Teetotaller:

1. From Teahouse to Teetotaller: Purdue Theatre Company -- Forty Years and Still Growing!

2. Quiet please! • Cell phones and beepers • Please unwrap your candy NOW!

3. Theatre Paradoxes • It is spontaneous, yet it is rehearsed • It is participatory, yet it is presented • Real, yet simulated • Understandable, yet obscure • Unique to the moment, yet repeatable • Actors are themselves, yet characters • Audience believes, yet it does not believe • Audience is involved, yet it remains apart

4. 1964 • Purdue Theatre Company formed • Maurice “Bud” Dixon, 1st sponsor, director • Shoestring Summer Theatre • Once Upon a Mattress • The Elephant Man • The Star Spangled Girl • Experimental Theatre • Dinner Theatre • Celebration • Dames at Sea

5. The Plays (in no particular order) • Teahouse of the August Moon • The God Complex • Stop the World, I Want to Get Off * * * • Butterflies are Free • The Fantasticks • LUV • I’m Getting My Act Together and…Taking It On the Road • You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown * * • George Washington Slept Here

6. Plays of the Dixon Dynasty • A Cycle Complete by Mickie Hoggard • 6 Rms Riv Vu • On Borrowed Time • Silent Night, Lonely Night • Agnes of God * * • Company • The Runner Stumbles • Celebration • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds

7. Oh What a Run! • Slow Dance on the Killing Ground • The Glass Menagerie– L. Brechner • Zorba • My Three Angels– D. Padberg • Wait Until Dark • Requiem for a Nun • Dark of the Moon • Echoes – A. Cleek • Barefoot in the Park • The Time of Your Life

8. It gets better with time! • The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd • The Lark • The Boyfriend • The Crucible • Ten Little Indians • In White America • The Lonely Ones • Hello Out There • Summertree

9. The Show MUST Go on! • The Miracle Worker • Twelve Angry Jurors • Twelfth Night, or What You Will • Love Rides the Rails or Will the Mail Train Run Tonight • The Tender Trap • Our Town • The Doctor in Spite of Himself

10. Break a Leg, again & again & again • Sweet Charity • And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson • A Thousand Clowns – E. Cohen • Wizard of Oz • The Odd Couple • The Miss Firecracker Contest • Night, Mother * * • Dames at Sea

11. Encore! Encore! • Kiss Me, Kate • South Pacific • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying • Blues Highway • Post PUC: Death of a Salesman in Kuala Lumpur

12. Introducing John Glover • Joins the faculty in 1993 • Taught speech courses and directed Theatre Company shows

13. Fits like a … Glover! • House of Blues Leaves • Baby • Anything Goes • Little Shop of Horrors • Nuts * * • Is There Life After High School? • The Art of Dining

14. And the hits just keep on coming! • Nunsense • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Pump Boys and Dinettes • And the World Goes ‘Round • Participated in American College Theatre Festivals

15. Enter From Stage Left: Tom Bogucki • Torch Song Trilogy • As Is * * • Me and My Girl • Extremities • Love Letters • Little Footsteps • ‘Night, Mother * * • Assassins • Chess

16. Bogucki Makes Good • No Frills Review • Closer Than Ever • Anything Goes • Blood Brothers • Agnes of God • Gypsy • Schoolhouse Rock Live! • Crimes of the Heart

17. Hitting the Big Time • Purdue Theatre Company Receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Indiana Excellence in Theatre Foundation

18. Check it out: • www.nwindianatheatre.org

19. The Channing semester: • Come Back, Little Sheba • And the big question? • Will there be more? • That is an excellent question • Perhaps • And then again, maybe not

20. New spaces, new places • Dr. YJean Chambers Performance Space • Musicals and mayhem • Intimate performance space • Handicapped access • Guerilla theatre • Multi-purpose spaces

21. Thank you for your kind attention • Please! Keep applauding until well after the curtain call! Let’s Eat!! Sardi’s anyone? Or shall we go to the Russian Tea Room?