Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS)

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About Stern College Dramatics Society The Stern College Dramatics Society offers young Jewish women the opportunity to partake in all manifestations of the performing arts within an Orthodox environment. • With a range of creative outlets including everything from acting to special effects to lighting design, the theater helps students develop self expression, eloquence, and confidence. We welcome people of all colors, creeds, and cravings to pursue their dreams both on and backstage, and to add one of the most universally celebrated extra-curricular activities to their resumes. linktr.ee/sterndramatics ••History of Dramatics at Stern College •• The World of Shalom Aleichem (1968) The Crucible ( 1969) The Importance of Being Ernest ( 1970) The Private Lives of Master Rice (1971) The Children's Hour (1972) The Madwoman of Chaillot (1973) The Prime of Miss Jean Brody (1974) The Women (1975) Uncommon Women and Others (1979) The Young and the Fair (1980) Cry Havoc (1981) Pageant (1981) Women in White (1982) The Gingerbread Lady (1983) Children in Uniform (1984) The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1985) Interview/Zoo Story (1985) A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1986) The House of Bermada Alba (1987) A Physician in Spite of Himself (1988) Uncommon Women and Others (1989) The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1990) The Importance of Being Ernest (1991) The Dybbuk (1992) Twelve Angry Women (1993) The Mikado (1994) Little Shop of Horrors (1995) Ladyhouse Blues (1995) Steel Magnolias (1996) Kindertransport (1997) Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here? (1998) A Night of One Acts: When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet and The Second Best Bed (1999) King of Four Hearts (1999) Nine Girls (1999) Hillstone (2000)

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ALPHA PSI OMEGA In the spring of 1981, the Stem College Dramatics Society became an official member of Alpha Psi Omega as chapter Epsilon Epsilon. Alpha Psi Omega was organized in 1925 as an honorary dramatics fraternity for the purpose of providing an honor society for those doing a high standard of work in dramatics. Through its expansion, Alpha Psi Omega has provided a wider fellowship for those interested in theater. Play production is a highly technical activity which requires the service of a trained director and all of the resources of a large dramatics association, where every member of the student body may have an equal opportunity for expression. We at Stern College are proud to be part of this prestigious national society.

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"10 Little Indians" by Agatha Christie [Theater Program]
(Yeshiva University, 1980) Schwartz, Michelle; Cohen, Debra; Small, Sharon; Keating, Laurel; Feig, Pamela; Christie, Agatha (Script); Gruber, Daryl (Assistant Director)
Playbill for "10 Little Indians" by Agatha Christie. Playbill includes notes on director, cast, crew, and play.
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"A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" by Tennessee Williams [Theater Program]
(Yeshiva University, 1986-04-06) Gordon, Amy (Director); Meyer, Annette; Williams, Tennessee (Script)
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A Night of One-Acts: "Second Best Bed" by Tim Kelley and "When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet" by Charles Goerge [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society, Yeshiva University, 1999) Golden, Sima; Cenker, Devorah; McGovern, Mark; George, Charles (Script); Kelley, Tim (Script)
Playbill lists cast, crew, play synopses, and donors.
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"An adaptation of Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott [Theater Program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society, Yeshiva University, 2005) Alcott, Louisa May (Book); Rigsby, Glynis (Adaptation); Rosen, Gila (Adaptation); Stub, Jessica (Adaptation); Stern, Jamie (Producer)
Playbill includes notes on the cast, director, Alpha Psi Omega, and list of past performances.
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"Children in Uniform" by Christa Winsloe [Theater Program]
(Yeshiva University, 1984-12) McGregor, Kenneth (Director)
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"Defying Gravity" by Jane Anderson [Theater program]
(Stern College for Women (SCDS), Yeshiva University, 2019-12) Defying Gravity is presented QY special arrangement with Samuel French.; Anderson, Jane (Script)
(Synopsis): This free structured look at the 1986 Challenger disaster places the teacher who died with six others as they hurtled into space at the center of an exploration of our need to reach beyond ourselves and dare the universe. Defying Gravity artfully interweaves the past with the present and the lives of participants and bystanders, drawing parallels among painter Claude Monet's artistic quest, the zest of the teacher selected to the first civilian astronaut, the perspectives of her grieving daughter, the aspirations of elderly tourists who drive their Winnebago to Florida to watch the space shot and dream of hotels in space, the guilt felt by a NASA mechanic, and his girlfriend's fear of heights. •(Director's Note): Man's yearning to understand what's above us - the heavens and beyond - goes back to our Patriarch Abraham. Since it's first mission in 1958, NASA has successfully launched over 200 crewed flights. Two have ended in failure - the Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Columbia disaster in 2003. What can be gleaned by all these missions'? The moon landing in 1969 was the culmination of as many as 400,000 people working towards a common goal. Small as we are, we can achieve greatness if we all work together. The cockpit contained hundreds of buttons, knobs and switches. Each one had a function, and pressing the wrong one could spell disaster. Details matter. The event provided a small window into the vastness of G-d's universe. And G-d is infinitely greater than that. Pilot Buzz Aldrin quoted King David's Psalms: "When I consider the Heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars .... what is man that Thou art mindful of him?" We are astronauts. We have the tools and training. G-d supports us. Reach for the stars.
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"Essgee's The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert & Sullivan [Theater Program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society, Yeshiva University., 2010)
Playbill for "Essgee's Pirates of Penzance", based on the operetta by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Additional Lyrics by Melvyn Morrow New Orchestration by Kevin Hocking Conceived and Produced by Simon Gallaher.
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"Favorfen Vinkel" by Peretz Hirschbein [Theater Program]
(Speech Arts Forum, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 1976) Simon, Barbara (Director); Hirschbein, Peretz (Script); Lifson, David F. (Translation)
Program notes include outline of play, cast, and supporting crew.
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"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, directed by Reuven Russell [Theater program]
(SCDS, Yeshiva University, 2011) Russell, Reuven; Shakespeare, William (Script)
Playbill includes notes on cast, play, technical support, and congratulatory wishes.
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"Hillstone" by S. Kim Glassman [Theater program]
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2000) Glassman, S. Kim (Playwright)
Program for original play performed at 2000 YC/SCW Arts Festival
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"Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS), Yeshiva University., 2009) Weiss, Tiferet (Director/President); Sragow, Shira (Producer/ VP)
About the Show Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch, and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife, brought acclaim to the production during its original Broadway run. Into the Woods won several Tony Awards, including Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical (Joanna Gleason), in a year dominated by The Phantom of the Opera. The musical has been produced many times, with a 1988 national tour, a 1990 West End production, a 1991 television production, a 1997 tenth anniversary concert, a 2002 Los Angeles production and a 2002 Broadway revival. Inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 book, The Uses of Enchantment, the musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales and follows them further to explore the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from the stories of Little Red Ridinghood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella, tied together by a more original story involving a Baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, most likely taken from the original story of Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm. It also includes references to several other well-known tales. --WIKIPEDIA
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"Kindertransport" by Diane Samuels [Theater program].
(Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS), Yeshiva University, 1997-02) Samuels, Diane (Script); Samuels, Diane (Script); McGovern, Mark (Director); Performed by Special Arrangement with Susan Shulman, a literary agency,
HISTORY OF THE KINDERTR ANSPORT After the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht, in which thousands of Jewish businesses and institutions were destroyed and Jews were assaulted, killed, and 30,000 herded into concentration camps, the Movement for the care of Children from Germany was formed. Between 1938 and 1939, nearly 10,000 unaccompanied children rode trains out of Germany to freedom in Britain, America or Paraguay. At one point, seven hundred children arrived in Britain every week, their passports altered so that all the boys were Jacob and all the girls Sarah, their ages ranging from four to sixteen. Once the war with Britain began, trains stopped. Most of the children never saw their parents again. Based on the real-life accounts of these children, this moving play tells the story of one of them ... (p. 3 program)
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"Ladyhouse Blues" by Kevin O'Morrison [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society, Yeshiva University, 1995-03-26) Cohen, Rina; McGovern, Mark (Director)
Editorial Reviews Review "'Ladyhouse Blues,' is a strangely atmospheric play, which at times has the haunting quality of Chekhov. Its strength is two fold... the playwright knows how to give a play texture as well as structure, but also in the author's cleverly apt choice of a time and place. The place is St. Louis -- grassroots America - and the time is 1919... The whole cast consists of only five women, a youngish, widowed mother and her four daughters. Their menfolk are away, waiting to return from the war now ended in Europe ...Throughout the play we see hints of the new America to come ... suggestions of an America changing, of a society on the move ... few houses had electricity; refrigerators and vacuum cleaners were unknown, ethnic prejudice was widely expressed, the labor movement was beginning to be important, and even feminism was starting to emerge ... since 1919 the world has changed beyond recognition. And in a remarkably unaffected way, 'Ladyhouse Blues' ... is extremely moving and extraordinarily evocative." -- Clive Barnes, New York Times, 11/4/76 "Mr. O'Morrison has given it everything else in abundance: distinctive human voices, busy hands that belong to people, humor and despair as good companions, an aura of wistful poetry behind all that is so stubborn, so ignorant and so innocent. He is beyond question a playwright to be nourished and waited for." -- Walter Kerr, New York Times, 11/4/76
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"Little Shop of Horrors" by Charles Griffith [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS), Yeshiva University, 1994-12) Bouganim, Lynn; Goldman, Rebecca; Rokosz, Mindi; Singer, Mimi; Ashman, Howard (Book & Lyrics); Menken, Alan (Music); Corman, Roger (Film)
About the play: The time: the early sixties. The place: Mushnik's Skid Row Florists, where Seymour Krelboum - orphan and schlemiel - longs both for a better life and the love of his beat-up blonde co-worker, Audrey. Seymour's prospects are dim and getting dimmer . . . until he encounters a strange and interesting plant ("it looks like some kind of flytrap"), names it Audrey II, and accidentally discovers that the peculiar vegetable thrives exclusively on human blood. Before long, Seymour's fingers are covered with Bandaids, but the plant is attracting media attention. Radio interviews! Customers! A contract to supply the flowers for next year's Rose Bowl! The shop is booming and its owner, Mr. Mushnik, even offers to the hapless Seymour. Sounds good, right? Sure. But not for long. •Audrey II, now big as a Shetland pony and much hungrier, is no longer content with the meager plasma Seymour has to spare. It starts demanding a full-course human meal! Now, it just so happens that a certain sadistic dentist named Orin has been dating, brutalizing. and generally doing-dirt-by Seymour's beloved blonde Audrey. Who better to satisfy the plant's weird appetites? And when Mushnik gets wise to the dentist's disappearance, what can Seymour do but make him Victim Number Two? Well, the success just keeps rolling in. The cover of a magazine! A contract with the William Morris Agency! And - last but not least - a multi-million dollar contract with World Botanical Enterprises, an international horticultural conglomerate. Their scheme is to take leaf cuttings from the now humongous Audrey II and to distribute the leafy little clones to florist shops across the nation. Sound suspicious? Indeed. Soon it’s clear (even to Seymour) that Audrey II has more on its mind than merely the idle midnight snack. Yes, this plant is bent on nothing short of World Conquest! Can it be stopped? Will it be stopped? Will nothing save Planet Earth from the jaws of this chlorofilled menace? Looks like we’ll just have to wait and see. (p. 6 Program)
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"Made up 2007" by Chai Hecht [Theater Program]
(SCDS, Yeshiva University, 2007) Hedaya, Rachel; Russell, Reuven; Russell, Reuven; Hecht, Chai (Script)
Playbill includes notes on director, writer, play summary, cast and crew.
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"Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here?" by Marsha Sheiness [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS), Yeshiva University, 1998) Fine, Elliesheva; Fine, Dora; Sheiness, Marsha (Script); McGovern, Mark (Director); Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
TO PONDER ... Tonight's play is about loss and gain. In today's world of cloning and genetic engineering, cures seem readily at hand. But medical ethics challenge us to explore the greater ramifications of the issue. In our play, five mothers have handed over their mentally disabled children for a possible treatment that could "cure" them. Their motives are at once complex and understandable. If the "cure" works, how will they relate to this new genius? Will they be losing the special child they have loved? There is an old Chinese curse- "May you get what you wish for."
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"Night of January 16th" by Ayn Rand [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society, Yeshiva University, 1979-03-17) Keating, Laurel
Playbill for the SCDS's performance of "Night of January 16th" performed at the Koch Auditorium, Stern College for Women in New York City.
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"Nine Girls" by Wilfred H. Pettitt [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS), Yeshiva University, 1999)
Playbill for Wilfred H. Pettit's "Nine Girls", performed by the Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS).
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"Once Upon a Mattress" by Rogers and Hammerstein [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS), Yeshiva University, 2008) Rogers, Richard (Musical score); Hammerstein, Oscar (Script)
Playbill includes extensive notes on cast, crew, well wishes, and play synopsis.
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"Pageant" by Janet Greenhut [Theater program]
(Stern College Dramatics Society, Yeshiva University, 1981-12) Greenhut, Janet; Keating, Laurel; Greenhut, Janet (Script); Liebtag, Susan (Producer
Playbill includes notes on playwright, cast, crew, and the AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATRE FESTIVAL XIV.

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