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FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1965

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By ROBERT MOORE
When the 1965-66 Ann Arbor
theatre season opens in late Sep-
tember, it will be more than a
quick shower in what many East-
erners consider the great cultural
drought of the midwest.
Ann Arbor theatre is becoming
big business-and better enter-
tainment. Last year, a torrent of
86,000 people crowded into the
city's three inadequate theatres
to see the productions of three
area theatrical groups, the Uni-
versity's Professional Theatre
Program (57,000), the University
Players' (21,000), and the Ann
Arbor Civic Theatre (8,000).
This year, ticket sales indicate
even more might attend. The,
three have planned a program
that includes 20 plays, including
four premiers of brand new plays
and a variety of exciting drama.
The Professional Theatre Pro-
gram (PTP) playbill is highlighted
by the premiere of Pulitzer Prize
winner Archibald MacLeish's new-
~est play.
One 'Smash Hit'
The civic theatre offers one
"smash, long-run Broadway hit"'
that was released so recently that,
by agreement, it can only be listed
as "To Be Announced."
The Players will stage an am-
bitious production of a Shake-
speare trilogy that has only -been
produced at one time only four

Theatre Season


29 to Nov. 3 in repertory.
The play of the month series
has not been announced yet. It
usually starts in January or Feb-
ruary and goes on until spring.
Players
The University Players, a stu-
dent acting group run by the
speech department, played to sell-
out audiences at every production
last fall-a remarkable record for
a non-professional group. The
Players will put on seven plays
this season, including an opera
and a new play by a University
student, and run a special chil-
dren's theatre, performing such
kindergarten classics as "Mr.
Popper's Penguin."
The big news of the season for
the players will be their produc-
tion of "Henry VI" in all three
of its parts, Shakespeare's trilogy
of chaos and violence. The Play-
ers will present the parts separ-
ately over a two-and-a-half weeks
span, until, on Dec. 4, they present
all three parts on the same day.
Other Player production will be
a new play by Broadway play-
wright Robert Anderson, "The
Days Between," about the moral
crisis faced by a 40-year old col-
lege teacher, and "Peer Gynt,"
Henrik Ibsen's play about an ad-
venturer hiding from everything
in his own search for identity.

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Neither the opera nor the new
play have been announced yet.
The third big theatre in Ann
Arbor is the Ann Arbor civic
theatre. The theatre draws its
actors and workers from both city
and university. It has its own of-
fice and, this year, is planning a
study by researchers to deter-
mine the makeup of its audience,
to help evaluate its plans.
This season, the Civic Theatre
will present "Never Too Late," a
comedy; Arthur Miller's "View
from the Bridge"; "Kiss Me
Kate"; and an adaption of James
Agee's Pulitzer Prize winning "A
Death in the Family." The civic
theatre will also present a re-
cently released Broadway hit
which, by agreement, they are not
able to name. Ahe season will last
from late September to late May.
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The Professional Theatre Pro-
gram, which drew two-thirds of
last year's theatre .audience, is
one of the biggest reasons that
little Ann Arbor is beginning to
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map. Even the most literate New
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productions that went on to play
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sons. Ahree of the plays ("Judith,"
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Superman") are there now, with
a fourth "An Evening's Frost")
due in October.
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of Edward Albee's play and many
of Thomas Beckett's.
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