UMTG Production History |
TODAYWe are the oldest-surviving RSO at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We continue to be a volunteer-based and completely student-run organization, filling roughly 75 different positions each semester. We present one play and one musical in both the Fall and the Spring, each proposed and selected by our general body. We also supplement our season with various community events (ie. Coffeehouses, Banquets) and bi-monthly General Body Meetings.
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2018-19
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11/8-10 | Bartlett 65 | dir. Jake Venet, Ruari Morisson (asst.)
11/29-12/1 | Bowker Aud | dir. Terrance Peters 3/21-23 | Bowker Aud | dir. Greg Ford & Eileen Vandewalle 4/4-6 | Arts Bridge 434 | dir. Shannon Nelson-Maney |
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2017-18
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11/2-4 | Bowker Aud | dir. Mary Margaret Hogan & Henry Waletzko
11/9-11 | Bartlett 65 | dir. Nikki Caminetsky & Jeremy Brownholtz 3/8-9 | Bowker Aud | dir. Brian Bellville, Stephanie Zitka (asst.) 4/10-12 | Arts Bridge 434 | dir. John H. Llewellyn |
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2016-17
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11/3-5 | Mahar Aud | dir. Anthony Battista
11/10-12 | Bowker Aud | dir. Terrance Peters 4/6-8 | Bartlett 65 | dir. Monica Duggan & Jaime Phillips 4/13-15 | FAC Concert Hall | dir. Cassandra Clark |
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2015-16
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11/5-7 | Bowker Aud | dir. Katy Geraghty
11/20-21 | Herter 227 | dir. Katie Fontes, Caleb Miller 3/31-4/2 | Bowker Aud | dir. Henry Waletzko & Jack Duff 4/15-16 | Thompson 106 | dir. Amanda Urquhart |
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2014-15
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Into the Woods
Macbeth Seussical August: Osage County |
11/6-8 | Bowker Aud | dir. Robert McDonough
11/20-22 | Bartlett 65 | dir. Greg Mahoney & Avi Meehan 3/26-28 | Bartlett 65 | dir. Emily Stone 4/9-11 | Bowker Aud | dir. Monica Duggan & Caleb Miller |
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2013-14
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11/7-9 | Bowker Aud | dir. Katy Geraghty & Marc Boyd
11/21-23 | Mark's Meadow Aud | dir. Corinne Huschle 4/10-12 | Bowker Aud | dir. Amelia Winer & Ashlyn Stromgren 4/24-26 | Mark's Mea. Aud | dir. Daryl Laurenza & Melissa Bowden |
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2012-13
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11/2-3 | Bartlett 65 | dir. Patrick Bruce
11/8-10 | Bowker Aud | dir. Channing Davisson 3/29-30 | Amherst Regional HS Auditorium 4/11-13 | Bowker Auditorium |
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2011-12
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11/10-12 | Bowker Aud | dir. Sam Mandeville
11/18-19 | Herter 231 | dir. Daniel Kadish 3/1-3 | Bowker Auditorium 4/12-14 | UMass Library Lawn |
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2010-11
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Noises Off!
Company Cabaret Death of a Salesman |
11/11-13 | Bowker Auditorium
12/? 3/31-4/2 | Bowker Auditorium |
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2009-10
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11/6-8 | Herter 227
11/19-21 | FAC Concert Hall 3/25-27 | Bowker Auditorium 4/23-24 | Herter 231 |
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2008-09
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11/6-8 | Bowker Auditorium
11/20-22 | Amherst Regional HS Auditorium 3/9-11 | Bowker Auditorium 5/7-9 | FAC Concert Hall | dir. Stephen Lee |
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2007-08
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Blood Wedding
The Wild Party Godspell Stop Kiss |
10/31-11/2 | Bowker Aud | dir. Michael McSweeney
11/15-17 | Bowker Aud | dir. Kaitlyn Finneran 4/10-12 | Bowker Aud | dir. Alice Bergin 5/8-10 | Renaissance Center | dir. Sarah Fingerman |
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2006-07
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Into the Woods
Macbeth The Importance of Being Earnest Urinetown |
11/16-18 | Bowker Aud | dir. Katie Madzar
12/7-9 | SU Ballroom | dir. Ed Ahern 12-14 | Bowker Aud | dir. Brian Kelly, Stephen Young (asst.) 5/3-5 | SU Ballroom | dir. Mike Devlin, Gwen Berger (asst.) |
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2005-06
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The Who's Tommy
The Time of Your Life Rumors Company |
11/10-12 | Bowker Aud | dir. Jay Rodger
12/1-3 | SU Ballroom | dir. Jessi Duston 3/30-4-1 | Bowker Aud | dir. Ryan "Romo" Hallahan 5/4-6 | SU Ballroom | dir. Tim Daly |
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2004-05
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11/10-11 | Bowker Aud | dir. Kristin Schaare
12/9-11 | SU Ballroom | dir. Sarah B. Murphy 3/24-26 | Bowker Aud | dir. Brian Higgins 4/21-23 | SU Ballroom |
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2003-04
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11/20-22 | Bowker Aud | dir. Liz Caradonna, Katie Ulmer (asst.)
12/4-6 | SU Ballroom | dir. Ethan Elgin, Jen Jabaily (asst.) 3/25-27 | Bowker Aud | dir. Valerie Tosi 4/15-17 | SU Ballroom | dir. Lucas Maloney |
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2002-03
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Pippin
Arcadia As You Like It A Chorus Line |
11/21-23 | Bowker Aud | dir. Jill Coleman, Meghan Fraser (asst.)
12/5-7 | SU Ballroom | dir. Adam Sanders, Teresa Szary (asst.) 4/10-12 | Bowker Aud | Jay Rodger, Jen Jabaily (asst.) 4/17-19 | FAC Concert Hall | dir. Mike Hopewell |
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2001-02
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Into the Woods
Picasso at the Lapine Agile Once Upon A Mattress The Laramie Project |
12/6-8| SU Ballroom | dir. Jen Jabaily, Michael Salamone (asst.) 3/28-30 | Bowker Aud | dir. Lara Allee |
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2000-01
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Sweet Charity
Much Ado About Nothing Hair And Then There Were None |
11/16-18 | Bowker Aud | dir. Kristin Stewart
11/20-12/2 | SU Ballroom | dir. Kristi Gilmore, Adam Sanders (asst.) |
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1999-00
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Company
Reckless / Noises Off! (?) Guys and Dolls Reckless / Noises Off! (?) |
12/4-6 | Bowker Aud | dir. Jana Jacobsen
3/23-25 | Bowker Aud | dir. JoAnn Valle |
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1998-99
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The Wiz
You Can't Take It With You Little Shop of Horrors SubUrbia |
11/5-7 | FAC Concert Hall | dir. Tara McRae, Marina Apostol (asst.)
12/3-5 | dir. Christy Penney 3/25-27 | SU Ballroom | dir. Kelly Ristaino 4/8-10 | Bowker Aud | dir. Paul Larochelle, John Kazlauskas (asst.) |
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1997-98
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The Passion of Dracula
The Who's Tommy Jesus Christ Superstar Angels in America: Millenium Approaches |
11/20-22 | Bowker Aud | dir. Justin W. Smith
12/4-7 | SU Ballroom | dir. Michael Dzuira 3/25-28 | Bowker Aud | dir. Tim Fisk, Erik Bergman (asst.) 4/8-10 | Bowker Aud | dir. Paul Larochelle, John Kazlauskas (asst.) |
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1996-97
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Rumors / The Heidi Chronicles (?)
The Pajama Game Rumors / The Heidi Chronicles (?) Fame |
12/5-7 | SU Ballroom | dir. Elise Sara Schild |
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1990-91
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Schoolhouse Rock!
Talk Radio Into the Woods And Then There Were None |
dir. Bill Larkin
SU Ballroom dir. Nikki Chaisson |
THE MERGER (1990)
Due to a loss of University funding, the "UMass Music Theatre Guild" and the "University Players" decide to merge together, officially forming the "UMass Theatre Guild". At this point, the comedy-sect of the "University Players" split off to form (what would become) the "UMass Comedy League" and the remaining UMTG adopts the four-show model we see today.
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1989-90
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Evita
The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
12/7-9 | FAC Concert Hall | dir. Bill Stewich
4/6-8 | Bowker Auditorium |
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1988-89
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West Side Story
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Spring | FAC Concert Hall
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1987-88
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Little Shop of Horrors
Godspell |
Fall | Bowker Auditorium
Spring | Bowker Auditorium |
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1983-84
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Grease
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Spring | SU Ballroom
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1982-83
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West Side Story
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4/29 | Worcester Dining Hall
5/2-3 | Hampden Southwest 5/6 | Orchard Hill Basketball Courts |
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1981-82
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Sugar
Pippin |
dir. Russell Greene |
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1980-81
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On The Town
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Fall
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1979-80
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Just Friends of 1923 (Original Musical)
An Evening with Rogers & Haurt Applause |
Fall | Bowker Aud | written by Peter Niemezura | dir. Peter Tolan
2/28-29 | On Top of Campus Lounge Spring |
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1978-79
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Anything Goes
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Spring
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REBRANDING (1970)
The UMass "Operetta Guild" becomes the "UMass Music Theatre Guild" -- a name change reflecting their move to produce more mainstream musical theater. The "Roister Doisters" also rebrand to the "University Players" around this time.
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1969
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A Man for All Seasons
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2/2 | Bowker Auditorium
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1968
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Barefoot in the Park
Li'l Abner |
2/3 | Bowker Auditorium
4/3 | Bowker Auditorium |
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1967
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Once Upon A Mattress
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11/2 | Bowker Auditorium
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1954
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Ah, Wilderness!
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1953
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The Vagabond King
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1952
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The Student Prince
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1950
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Angel Streets
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1947
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First Lady
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dir. Bob Wroe
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1946
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The Skin of Our Teeth
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dir. William E. Clark
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1945
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Letters to Lucerne
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dir. Irmarie Scheuneman (Mrs. Wallace A. Jones)
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1944
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Love's Labour's Lost
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dir. Daphne Cullinam (Mrs. William Harrington)
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1943
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The Distaff Side
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dir. Shirley Spring (Mrs. Don B. Crandall)
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1942
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The Torch Bearers
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dir. David Burbank
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1941
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Outward Bound
Beyond the Horizon George Washington Slept Here |
dir. Edward Manix
dir. David Burbank dir. Bob Ewing |
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1940
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The General Died in Bed
Heartbreak House |
dir. George Hoxie
dir. Marion Nagelschmidt (Mrs. Robert L. Jones) |
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1939
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Stage Door
Our Town |
dir. George Hoxie
dir. Helen Janis (Mrs. John Ambrose) |
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1938
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Not Without Hope
Ralph Roister Doister |
dir. John Hoar
dir. John Hoar |
EXPANSION (1938)
After the success of an independent production of Trial By Jury in 1936, Professor Doric Alviani, head of the new Music & Fine Arts programs at Mass State, founds the UMass "Operetta Guild" in 1938. This new organization presents Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas through the next decade (until later expanding their repertoire to more mainstream musicals).
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1937
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The Night of January 16
One Act Plays |
dir. Lucille Monroe (Mrs. Charles Thimblin)
dir. Donald Cadigan |
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1936
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Othello
You Never Can Tell |
dir. John McConchie
dir. Lucille Monroe (Mrs. Charles Thimblin) |
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1935
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Death Takes A Holiday
On Corpus Christie Day |
dir. John McConchie
dir. Calvin Hannum |
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1934
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There's Always Juliet
What Every Woman Knows |
dir. Warren Southworth
dir. Shirley McCarthy (Mrs. Richard I. Miller) |
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1933
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Peg O' My Heart
As You Like It |
dir. Shirley McCarthy (Mrs. Richard I. Miller)
dir. Harriette Jackson (Mrs. Donald G. Enoch) |
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1932
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The Swan
Loyalties |
dir. Mildred Twiss (Mrs. Lawrence Briggs)
dir. Vincent Gagliarducci |
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1931
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The Americans Come
Outward Bound |
dir. Mildred Twiss (Mrs. Lawrence Briggs)
dir. Warren Southworth |
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1930
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Dear Brutus
Fannie's First Play |
dir. Pauline Spiewack (Mrs. Theodore Stonehill)
dir. Alan Chadwick |
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1929
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Craig's Wife
Macbeth |
dir. Jane Patterson (Mrs. Robert L. Hintze)
dir. Taylor Mills |
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1928
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The Youngest
Twelfth Night |
dir. Max Goldberg
dir. Max Goldberg |
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1927
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In the Octagon
Captain Applejack |
dir. Robert Fox
dir. Robert Fox |
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1926
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She Stoops to Conquer
The Devil's Discipline |
dir. Leonard Morrisson
dir. Neil Robinson |
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1925
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Wedding Bells
Sidney (Original Play by Advisor, Frank Rand) |
dir. Marguerite Bosworth (Mrs. Karl Wright)
dir. Emil Corwin |
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1924
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Dulcy
Grumpy |
dir. Theodore Grant
dir. Theodore Grant |
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1923
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A Successful Calamity
The Truth About Blayds |
dir. Earle Weatherwax
dir. Eleanor Bateman |
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1922
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Clarence
You Never Can Tell |
dir. Aimee Geiger (Mrs. J. Stanley Bennett)
dir. Earle Weatherwax |
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1921
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The School for Scandal
John Epps |
dir. Robert Martin
dir. Donald G. Davidson |
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1920
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The Witching Hour
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dir. Marion Early (Mrs. Arthur Chandler)
*First RD production to include women* |
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1915
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Her Husband's Wife
Pluto's Daughter |
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1913
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Comedy of Errors
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1911
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The Private Secretary
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ORIGINS (1906-1912)
In 1906, three campus groups (the College Orchestra, Glee Club, and Mandolin Club) join forces to put up a production. The group becomes an official campus organization in January of 1910 with the writing of their first constitution. Initially called the "Massachusetts Agricultural College Dramatic Society", the group adopts the official title "Roister Doisters" in 1912 (named after the first English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister).
