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In 1978 the Dinner Theatre sent a troupe to Italy and Germany to perform for the USO and by its second season the program became fully professional, welcoming JMU faculty, staff, students, and non-JMU personnel to contribute to the Dinner Theatre. According to Arthur, \"[The Dinner Theatre] was very important to the growth of theater and dance [at JMU] because it gave us greater visibility.\" The Dinner Theatre ultimately ran for 17 years, ending in 1993.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1986, the Department of Theatre and Dance was formed in the College of Fine Arts, now the College of Arts and Letters. It remained in the College until 2015 when the establishment of the College of Visual and Performing Arts was approved. Today, the School of Theatre and Dance focuses on training and educating artists, scholars, and teachers in the traditions and current practices of dance, theatre, and musical theatre. 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Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","The collection is arranged in two series. Series are arranged chronologically.","Administrative Files, 1920-1980\n      Photographs, 1920-1982","Smith, August, \"JMU Centennial Celebration – The Stratford Players,\" James Madison University Centennial Celebration: Madison Century 1908-2008. Accessed February 5, 2018. https://www.jmu.edu/centennialcelebration/stratford.shtml.","Theater and Dance APR Self-Study, October 1996,\" Box 8, Academic Affairs: Academic Program Reviews, 1976 - present (bulk 1992 - present), UA 0002, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.","The Stratford Literary Society was formed in 1914 when members of the Lanier and Lee Literary Societies at the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg joined to form an organization dedicated to the dramatic arts. At the time of founding, the organization's primary focus was on reading theatrical works. In 1919, the Stratford Literary Society was reconstituted to form the Stratford Dramatic Club, or Sigma Delta Chi, and began to hold yearly performances at the New Virginia Theater in downtown Harrisonburg. On April 4, 1950, the group changed its name to Stratford Players.","The Stratford Players – and theater in general – was initially an extracurricular activity, supervised by faculty in the English department. However, when the Department of Speech and Drama was established in 1966, the Stratford Players came under the direction of theater faculty. In 1986, the Department of Theatre and Dance was formed in the College of Fine Arts, where the Stratford Players is now housed. Though the Stratford Players is not independent from the Department of Theatre and Dance, its membership is open to majors and non-majors alike, and members have a voice in play selection and budget decisions.","The Stratford Players have had many faculty advisors over the years, including: James C. Johnston (1919-1921), Ruth Hudson (1921-1965), Argus Tressider (1935-1939), Leland Shubert (1939-1943), Ainslee Harris (1944-1945), Dr. Mary E. Lattimer (1946-1960), James O. Link (1960-1964), Nancy O'Hare (1964), and Horace Burr (1965-1973). In 1973, Stratford Players leadership changed from a single advisor to a team of faculty, which in the early 1970s, included Allen Lyndrup, Thomas L. King, Pam Johnson, Phil S. Grayson and Roger Hall.","The original finding aid was created in 1998 by Whitney Anne Naman, a theater student at James Madison University from 1994-1998, and assigned the collection number SP 98-0211. The finding aid was edited in June 2008 by Special Collections staff. In February 2018 the finding aid was revised, a new collection number was assigned, and the collection was updated to include record books and other materials originally held in collection SU 93-0031, \"Students: Memorabilia and General.\"","The Stratford Players Records is comprised of record books, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, rehearsal scripts, and copies of yearbook pages, documenting the activities of the Stratford Players (formerly known as the Stratford Literary Society and the Stratford Dramatic Club), from 1914-1983.","The following plays are mentioned in the collection. This is not an exhaustive list, and it is advised to include a two-year margin of error when looking for information on a particular play. \n\n1930 - BAB\n1931 - When Grandma Pulls the Strings, Modesty, \n1932-1933 - The Blossoming of Mary Anne, The Charm School\n1936 - The Late Christopher Bean, Mrs. Pim Passes By\n1937-1938 - Danse Macabre, The Maker of Dreams, Lady Luck, The Silver Cord\n1938 - The Stolen Prince, My Lady Dreams, Rehearsal, The Torch Bearers, Every Woman\n1937-1938 - The Ninth Guest, Glee Plays the Game\n1939 - Sorority Phantom, I'll Leave it to You, The Fortune Teller\n1939-1940 - Ladies in Waiting, Our Town\n1940-1941 - Alls Well that Ends, What a Life, Love in the Curriculum\n1941-1942 - Ladies in Retirement, Stage Door, Madison Follies of 1942\n1942-1943 - The Princess Marries the Page, Alice Sit by the Fire\n1944 - Brief Music\n1945 - The Romantic Young Lady\n1946 - The Clock, Lavender and Red Peppers, Shubert Alley\n1947 - Fortinbras in Plain Clothes, Kind Lady\n1948 - Ladies of the Jury, A Half Hour, Suppressed Desires, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, Theatre of the Soul, Thank you, Doctor\n1949 - Ice Bound, Taming of the Shrew\n1950 - Dear Brutus, Fashion\n1951 - Moor Born, Cheaper by the Dozen\n1952 - Night Must Fall, Blithe Spirit\n1953 - Taming of the Shrew, The Silver Whistle\n1954 - The Night of January 16th, I Remember Mama\n1955 - Suspect, Stage Door\n1956 - Summer House, Bernardino, Outward Bound\n1958 - Mary Stuart, Mary of Scotland, Arsenic and Old Lace, Theatre of the Soul, Chalk Garden\n1960 - Our Town, Mad Woman of Chaillot\n1961 - Diary of Anne Frank, Antigone, Summer and Smoke\n1962 - Skin of Our Teeth, Everyman, The Birds, The House of Bernarda Alba, \n1963 - USA\n1964 - The Glass Menagerie, Measures Taken, Waiting for Godot, The Bald Soprano, The Maids\n1965 - Death Takes a Holiday\n1966 - Ways and Means\n1967 - Rashoman, Prelude to a Tragedy, The Male Animal, Barefoot in the Park, All's Well That Ends Well, Idiot's Delight\n1969 - Outward Bound, Three Sisters\n1970 - Odd Couple, The Mad Woman of Challoit, Good News, How Green was my 10%, Dark of the Moon, The Hairy Falsetto, Tonight at 8:30\n1971 - The Taming of the Shrew, The Rivals, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Private Lives, Ten Nights in a Barroom \n1972 - Lion in Winter, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Lysistrata, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running\n1973 - The Boys in the Band, Our Town, Anna Christie, Lovers and Other Strangers, Plaza Suite \n1974 - Cabaret, Blithe Spirit, Summer and Smoke, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead\n1975 - King Lear, What the Butler Saw, The Drunkard, How to Succeed in Business without really Trying, Carnival, The Pursuit of Happiness, Pots, Pans, and the Piper, Hair, Comings and Goings\n1976 - The Pursuit of Happiness, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Captain Jones of the Horse Marines, The Diary of Adam and Eve, Apple Tree, Come Sweet Death, One Man's Vision of a Dream, Boccaccio, The Wonder Hat, Hot L Baltimore, Skiddaddle Tales, Guys and Dolls, Death of a Salesman, The Rainmaker, In Performance\n1977 - The Importance of Being Earnest, Woyzeck, Cinderella, A Delicate Balance, Twelfth Night, Endgame, Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Menachmi, Happy Birthday Wanda Jean,\n1978 - Heracles, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, La Perichole, Mouse Trap, Bus Stop, Fancies, The Runner Stumbles, The Empty Cradle, Loot, Bump in the Night, Bables, The Sanguinery Chasm, A Man for All Seasons, Scapino, La Ronde\n1979 - Of Mice and Men, Henry IV, Oklahoma, Down the Line, Fever\n1980 - Black Comedy, Man of La Mancha, The Chalk Garden, Punch Henry's Jazz Funeral, Pendragon\n1982-1983 - Macbeth, Marriage of Figaro, Knuckles, Bent, Shop Talk, Look Back in Anger, Out of the Reach of Children, Waiting for Godot, Taming of the Shrew, Lion in Winter, The Diviners, Comedy by Feiffer Allen, Living Fantasy, Bird Bath, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Lone Star","This series is comprised of materials that record the routine activities of the Stratford Players, and document its history. The record books include meeting minutes, agenda items, dues and accounting information, membership lists, itemized budget information, cast lists and various iterations of the organization's constitution.","The scrapbooks contain playbills, photographs, newspaper clippings and promotional material documenting performances that occurred in a given year. Scrapbook 1962-1963 contains photographs, programs, tickets, advertisements, show pictures, decorative masks, and a rehearsal schedule for the Glass Menagerie. Scrapbook 1967-1968 contains programs, show information, invitations, a map to a cast party, news clippings, photographs, letters, and information on accusations of violating campus regulations. Scrapbook 1970-1971 contains programs, articles, photographs, audition sheets, show posters, and show information. Scrapbook 1982-1983 contains labeled photographs, show information, programs, news articles, and posters.","The Bridges Scrapbook, 1932-1976, was created in 1978 by JMU student Steven R. Bridges, the chair of the Library Committee of the Stratford Players. It contains photographs, news clippings from The Breeze and the Daily News-Record, seasonal performance information, audition information, programs, posters, advertisements, and news letters from 1932-1976.","The news clippings and yearbooks files contain photocopies of articles about Stratford Players' performances and activities.","The photographs document Stratford Players' performance preparation and events.","Copyright for materials authored or otherwise produced as official business of James Madison University is retained by James Madison University. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. 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This is not an exhaustive list, and it is advised to include a two-year margin of error when looking for information on a particular play. \n\n1930 - BAB\n1931 - When Grandma Pulls the Strings, Modesty, \n1932-1933 - The Blossoming of Mary Anne, The Charm School\n1936 - The Late Christopher Bean, Mrs. Pim Passes By\n1937-1938 - Danse Macabre, The Maker of Dreams, Lady Luck, The Silver Cord\n1938 - The Stolen Prince, My Lady Dreams, Rehearsal, The Torch Bearers, Every Woman\n1937-1938 - The Ninth Guest, Glee Plays the Game\n1939 - Sorority Phantom, I'll Leave it to You, The Fortune Teller\n1939-1940 - Ladies in Waiting, Our Town\n1940-1941 - Alls Well that Ends, What a Life, Love in the Curriculum\n1941-1942 - Ladies in Retirement, Stage Door, Madison Follies of 1942\n1942-1943 - The Princess Marries the Page, Alice Sit by the Fire\n1944 - Brief Music\n1945 - The Romantic Young Lady\n1946 - The Clock, Lavender and Red Peppers, Shubert Alley\n1947 - Fortinbras in Plain Clothes, Kind Lady\n1948 - Ladies of the Jury, A Half Hour, Suppressed Desires, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, Theatre of the Soul, Thank you, Doctor\n1949 - Ice Bound, Taming of the Shrew\n1950 - Dear Brutus, Fashion\n1951 - Moor Born, Cheaper by the Dozen\n1952 - Night Must Fall, Blithe Spirit\n1953 - Taming of the Shrew, The Silver Whistle\n1954 - The Night of January 16th, I Remember Mama\n1955 - Suspect, Stage Door\n1956 - Summer House, Bernardino, Outward Bound\n1958 - Mary Stuart, Mary of Scotland, Arsenic and Old Lace, Theatre of the Soul, Chalk Garden\n1960 - Our Town, Mad Woman of Chaillot\n1961 - Diary of Anne Frank, Antigone, Summer and Smoke\n1962 - Skin of Our Teeth, Everyman, The Birds, The House of Bernarda Alba, \n1963 - USA\n1964 - The Glass Menagerie, Measures Taken, Waiting for Godot, The Bald Soprano, The Maids\n1965 - Death Takes a Holiday\n1966 - Ways and Means\n1967 - Rashoman, Prelude to a Tragedy, The Male Animal, Barefoot in the Park, All's Well That Ends Well, Idiot's Delight\n1969 - Outward Bound, Three Sisters\n1970 - Odd Couple, The Mad Woman of Challoit, Good News, How Green was my 10%, Dark of the Moon, The Hairy Falsetto, Tonight at 8:30\n1971 - The Taming of the Shrew, The Rivals, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Private Lives, Ten Nights in a Barroom \n1972 - Lion in Winter, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Lysistrata, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running\n1973 - The Boys in the Band, Our Town, Anna Christie, Lovers and Other Strangers, Plaza Suite \n1974 - Cabaret, Blithe Spirit, Summer and Smoke, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead\n1975 - King Lear, What the Butler Saw, The Drunkard, How to Succeed in Business without really Trying, Carnival, The Pursuit of Happiness, Pots, Pans, and the Piper, Hair, Comings and Goings\n1976 - The Pursuit of Happiness, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Captain Jones of the Horse Marines, The Diary of Adam and Eve, Apple Tree, Come Sweet Death, One Man's Vision of a Dream, Boccaccio, The Wonder Hat, Hot L Baltimore, Skiddaddle Tales, Guys and Dolls, Death of a Salesman, The Rainmaker, In Performance\n1977 - The Importance of Being Earnest, Woyzeck, Cinderella, A Delicate Balance, Twelfth Night, Endgame, Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Menachmi, Happy Birthday Wanda Jean,\n1978 - Heracles, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, La Perichole, Mouse Trap, Bus Stop, Fancies, The Runner Stumbles, The Empty Cradle, Loot, Bump in the Night, Bables, The Sanguinery Chasm, A Man for All Seasons, Scapino, La Ronde\n1979 - Of Mice and Men, Henry IV, Oklahoma, Down the Line, Fever\n1980 - Black Comedy, Man of La Mancha, The Chalk Garden, Punch Henry's Jazz Funeral, Pendragon\n1982-1983 - Macbeth, Marriage of Figaro, Knuckles, Bent, Shop Talk, Look Back in Anger, Out of the Reach of Children, Waiting for Godot, Taming of the Shrew, Lion in Winter, The Diviners, Comedy by Feiffer Allen, Living Fantasy, Bird Bath, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Lone Star","This series is comprised of materials that record the routine activities of the Stratford Players, and document its history. The record books include meeting minutes, agenda items, dues and accounting information, membership lists, itemized budget information, cast lists and various iterations of the organization's constitution.","The scrapbooks contain playbills, photographs, newspaper clippings and promotional material documenting performances that occurred in a given year. Scrapbook 1962-1963 contains photographs, programs, tickets, advertisements, show pictures, decorative masks, and a rehearsal schedule for the Glass Menagerie. Scrapbook 1967-1968 contains programs, show information, invitations, a map to a cast party, news clippings, photographs, letters, and information on accusations of violating campus regulations. Scrapbook 1970-1971 contains programs, articles, photographs, audition sheets, show posters, and show information. Scrapbook 1982-1983 contains labeled photographs, show information, programs, news articles, and posters.","The Bridges Scrapbook, 1932-1976, was created in 1978 by JMU student Steven R. Bridges, the chair of the Library Committee of the Stratford Players. It contains photographs, news clippings from The Breeze and the Daily News-Record, seasonal performance information, audition information, programs, posters, advertisements, and news letters from 1932-1976.","The news clippings and yearbooks files contain photocopies of articles about Stratford Players' performances and activities.","The photographs document Stratford Players' performance preparation and events."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright for materials authored or otherwise produced as official business of James Madison University is retained by James Madison University. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. 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Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. 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Accessed February 5, 2018. https://www.jmu.edu/centennialcelebration/stratford.shtml.","Theater and Dance APR Self-Study, October 1996,\" Box 8, Academic Affairs: Academic Program Reviews, 1976 - present (bulk 1992 - present), UA 0002, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.","The Stratford Literary Society was formed in 1914 when members of the Lanier and Lee Literary Societies at the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg joined to form an organization dedicated to the dramatic arts. At the time of founding, the organization's primary focus was on reading theatrical works. In 1919, the Stratford Literary Society was reconstituted to form the Stratford Dramatic Club, or Sigma Delta Chi, and began to hold yearly performances at the New Virginia Theater in downtown Harrisonburg. On April 4, 1950, the group changed its name to Stratford Players.","The Stratford Players – and theater in general – was initially an extracurricular activity, supervised by faculty in the English department. However, when the Department of Speech and Drama was established in 1966, the Stratford Players came under the direction of theater faculty. In 1986, the Department of Theatre and Dance was formed in the College of Fine Arts, where the Stratford Players is now housed. Though the Stratford Players is not independent from the Department of Theatre and Dance, its membership is open to majors and non-majors alike, and members have a voice in play selection and budget decisions.","The Stratford Players have had many faculty advisors over the years, including: James C. Johnston (1919-1921), Ruth Hudson (1921-1965), Argus Tressider (1935-1939), Leland Shubert (1939-1943), Ainslee Harris (1944-1945), Dr. Mary E. Lattimer (1946-1960), James O. Link (1960-1964), Nancy O'Hare (1964), and Horace Burr (1965-1973). In 1973, Stratford Players leadership changed from a single advisor to a team of faculty, which in the early 1970s, included Allen Lyndrup, Thomas L. King, Pam Johnson, Phil S. Grayson and Roger Hall.","The original finding aid was created in 1998 by Whitney Anne Naman, a theater student at James Madison University from 1994-1998, and assigned the collection number SP 98-0211. The finding aid was edited in June 2008 by Special Collections staff. In February 2018 the finding aid was revised, a new collection number was assigned, and the collection was updated to include record books and other materials originally held in collection SU 93-0031, \"Students: Memorabilia and General.\"","The Stratford Players Records is comprised of record books, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, rehearsal scripts, and copies of yearbook pages, documenting the activities of the Stratford Players (formerly known as the Stratford Literary Society and the Stratford Dramatic Club), from 1914-1983.","The following plays are mentioned in the collection. This is not an exhaustive list, and it is advised to include a two-year margin of error when looking for information on a particular play. \n\n1930 - BAB\n1931 - When Grandma Pulls the Strings, Modesty, \n1932-1933 - The Blossoming of Mary Anne, The Charm School\n1936 - The Late Christopher Bean, Mrs. Pim Passes By\n1937-1938 - Danse Macabre, The Maker of Dreams, Lady Luck, The Silver Cord\n1938 - The Stolen Prince, My Lady Dreams, Rehearsal, The Torch Bearers, Every Woman\n1937-1938 - The Ninth Guest, Glee Plays the Game\n1939 - Sorority Phantom, I'll Leave it to You, The Fortune Teller\n1939-1940 - Ladies in Waiting, Our Town\n1940-1941 - Alls Well that Ends, What a Life, Love in the Curriculum\n1941-1942 - Ladies in Retirement, Stage Door, Madison Follies of 1942\n1942-1943 - The Princess Marries the Page, Alice Sit by the Fire\n1944 - Brief Music\n1945 - The Romantic Young Lady\n1946 - The Clock, Lavender and Red Peppers, Shubert Alley\n1947 - Fortinbras in Plain Clothes, Kind Lady\n1948 - Ladies of the Jury, A Half Hour, Suppressed Desires, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, Theatre of the Soul, Thank you, Doctor\n1949 - Ice Bound, Taming of the Shrew\n1950 - Dear Brutus, Fashion\n1951 - Moor Born, Cheaper by the Dozen\n1952 - Night Must Fall, Blithe Spirit\n1953 - Taming of the Shrew, The Silver Whistle\n1954 - The Night of January 16th, I Remember Mama\n1955 - Suspect, Stage Door\n1956 - Summer House, Bernardino, Outward Bound\n1958 - Mary Stuart, Mary of Scotland, Arsenic and Old Lace, Theatre of the Soul, Chalk Garden\n1960 - Our Town, Mad Woman of Chaillot\n1961 - Diary of Anne Frank, Antigone, Summer and Smoke\n1962 - Skin of Our Teeth, Everyman, The Birds, The House of Bernarda Alba, \n1963 - USA\n1964 - The Glass Menagerie, Measures Taken, Waiting for Godot, The Bald Soprano, The Maids\n1965 - Death Takes a Holiday\n1966 - Ways and Means\n1967 - Rashoman, Prelude to a Tragedy, The Male Animal, Barefoot in the Park, All's Well That Ends Well, Idiot's Delight\n1969 - Outward Bound, Three Sisters\n1970 - Odd Couple, The Mad Woman of Challoit, Good News, How Green was my 10%, Dark of the Moon, The Hairy Falsetto, Tonight at 8:30\n1971 - The Taming of the Shrew, The Rivals, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Private Lives, Ten Nights in a Barroom \n1972 - Lion in Winter, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Lysistrata, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running\n1973 - The Boys in the Band, Our Town, Anna Christie, Lovers and Other Strangers, Plaza Suite \n1974 - Cabaret, Blithe Spirit, Summer and Smoke, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead\n1975 - King Lear, What the Butler Saw, The Drunkard, How to Succeed in Business without really Trying, Carnival, The Pursuit of Happiness, Pots, Pans, and the Piper, Hair, Comings and Goings\n1976 - The Pursuit of Happiness, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Captain Jones of the Horse Marines, The Diary of Adam and Eve, Apple Tree, Come Sweet Death, One Man's Vision of a Dream, Boccaccio, The Wonder Hat, Hot L Baltimore, Skiddaddle Tales, Guys and Dolls, Death of a Salesman, The Rainmaker, In Performance\n1977 - The Importance of Being Earnest, Woyzeck, Cinderella, A Delicate Balance, Twelfth Night, Endgame, Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Menachmi, Happy Birthday Wanda Jean,\n1978 - Heracles, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, La Perichole, Mouse Trap, Bus Stop, Fancies, The Runner Stumbles, The Empty Cradle, Loot, Bump in the Night, Bables, The Sanguinery Chasm, A Man for All Seasons, Scapino, La Ronde\n1979 - Of Mice and Men, Henry IV, Oklahoma, Down the Line, Fever\n1980 - Black Comedy, Man of La Mancha, The Chalk Garden, Punch Henry's Jazz Funeral, Pendragon\n1982-1983 - Macbeth, Marriage of Figaro, Knuckles, Bent, Shop Talk, Look Back in Anger, Out of the Reach of Children, Waiting for Godot, Taming of the Shrew, Lion in Winter, The Diviners, Comedy by Feiffer Allen, Living Fantasy, Bird Bath, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Lone Star","This series is comprised of materials that record the routine activities of the Stratford Players, and document its history. The record books include meeting minutes, agenda items, dues and accounting information, membership lists, itemized budget information, cast lists and various iterations of the organization's constitution.","The scrapbooks contain playbills, photographs, newspaper clippings and promotional material documenting performances that occurred in a given year. Scrapbook 1962-1963 contains photographs, programs, tickets, advertisements, show pictures, decorative masks, and a rehearsal schedule for the Glass Menagerie. Scrapbook 1967-1968 contains programs, show information, invitations, a map to a cast party, news clippings, photographs, letters, and information on accusations of violating campus regulations. Scrapbook 1970-1971 contains programs, articles, photographs, audition sheets, show posters, and show information. Scrapbook 1982-1983 contains labeled photographs, show information, programs, news articles, and posters.","The Bridges Scrapbook, 1932-1976, was created in 1978 by JMU student Steven R. Bridges, the chair of the Library Committee of the Stratford Players. It contains photographs, news clippings from The Breeze and the Daily News-Record, seasonal performance information, audition information, programs, posters, advertisements, and news letters from 1932-1976.","The news clippings and yearbooks files contain photocopies of articles about Stratford Players' performances and activities.","The photographs document Stratford Players' performance preparation and events.","Copyright for materials authored or otherwise produced as official business of James Madison University is retained by James Madison University. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For more information, contact the Special Collections Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Stratford Players Records is comprised of record books, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, rehearsal scripts, programs and playbills, and copies of yearbook pages, documenting the activities of the Stratford Players (formerly known as the Stratford Literary Society and the Stratford Dramatic Club), from 1914-1983.","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","James Madison University -- History","Madison College -- Students -- History","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- History","State Normal and Industrial School for Women (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- History","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Stratford Players Records, 1920/1983"],"collection_ssim":["Stratford Players Records, 1920/1983"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["UA 0029","/repositories/4/resources/451"],"unitid_tesim":["UA 0029","/repositories/4/resources/451"],"repository_ssm":["James Madison University"],"repository_ssim":["James Madison University"],"geogname_ssm":["Harrisonburg (Va.) -- History"],"geogname_ssim":["Harrisonburg (Va.) -- History"],"places_ssim":["Harrisonburg (Va.) -- History"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","James Madison University -- History","Madison College -- Students -- History","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- History","State Normal and Industrial School for Women (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- History"],"creators_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","James Madison University -- History","Madison College -- Students -- History","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- History","State Normal and Industrial School for Women (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- History"],"access_terms_ssm":["Copyright for materials authored or otherwise produced as official business of James Madison University is retained by James Madison University. 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Link (1960-1964), Nancy O'Hare (1964), and Horace Burr (1965-1973). In 1973, Stratford Players leadership changed from a single advisor to a team of faculty, which in the early 1970s, included Allen Lyndrup, Thomas L. King, Pam Johnson, Phil S. Grayson and Roger Hall."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Stratford Players Records, 1920-1983, UA 0029, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Stratford Players Records, 1920-1983, UA 0029, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe original finding aid was created in 1998 by Whitney Anne Naman, a theater student at James Madison University from 1994-1998, and assigned the collection number SP 98-0211. The finding aid was edited in June 2008 by Special Collections staff. 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This is not an exhaustive list, and it is advised to include a two-year margin of error when looking for information on a particular play. \n\n1930 - BAB\n1931 - When Grandma Pulls the Strings, Modesty, \n1932-1933 - The Blossoming of Mary Anne, The Charm School\n1936 - The Late Christopher Bean, Mrs. Pim Passes By\n1937-1938 - Danse Macabre, The Maker of Dreams, Lady Luck, The Silver Cord\n1938 - The Stolen Prince, My Lady Dreams, Rehearsal, The Torch Bearers, Every Woman\n1937-1938 - The Ninth Guest, Glee Plays the Game\n1939 - Sorority Phantom, I'll Leave it to You, The Fortune Teller\n1939-1940 - Ladies in Waiting, Our Town\n1940-1941 - Alls Well that Ends, What a Life, Love in the Curriculum\n1941-1942 - Ladies in Retirement, Stage Door, Madison Follies of 1942\n1942-1943 - The Princess Marries the Page, Alice Sit by the Fire\n1944 - Brief Music\n1945 - The Romantic Young Lady\n1946 - The Clock, Lavender and Red Peppers, Shubert Alley\n1947 - Fortinbras in Plain Clothes, Kind Lady\n1948 - Ladies of the Jury, A Half Hour, Suppressed Desires, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, Theatre of the Soul, Thank you, Doctor\n1949 - Ice Bound, Taming of the Shrew\n1950 - Dear Brutus, Fashion\n1951 - Moor Born, Cheaper by the Dozen\n1952 - Night Must Fall, Blithe Spirit\n1953 - Taming of the Shrew, The Silver Whistle\n1954 - The Night of January 16th, I Remember Mama\n1955 - Suspect, Stage Door\n1956 - Summer House, Bernardino, Outward Bound\n1958 - Mary Stuart, Mary of Scotland, Arsenic and Old Lace, Theatre of the Soul, Chalk Garden\n1960 - Our Town, Mad Woman of Chaillot\n1961 - Diary of Anne Frank, Antigone, Summer and Smoke\n1962 - Skin of Our Teeth, Everyman, The Birds, The House of Bernarda Alba, \n1963 - USA\n1964 - The Glass Menagerie, Measures Taken, Waiting for Godot, The Bald Soprano, The Maids\n1965 - Death Takes a Holiday\n1966 - Ways and Means\n1967 - Rashoman, Prelude to a Tragedy, The Male Animal, Barefoot in the Park, All's Well That Ends Well, Idiot's Delight\n1969 - Outward Bound, Three Sisters\n1970 - Odd Couple, The Mad Woman of Challoit, Good News, How Green was my 10%, Dark of the Moon, The Hairy Falsetto, Tonight at 8:30\n1971 - The Taming of the Shrew, The Rivals, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Private Lives, Ten Nights in a Barroom \n1972 - Lion in Winter, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Lysistrata, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running\n1973 - The Boys in the Band, Our Town, Anna Christie, Lovers and Other Strangers, Plaza Suite \n1974 - Cabaret, Blithe Spirit, Summer and Smoke, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead\n1975 - King Lear, What the Butler Saw, The Drunkard, How to Succeed in Business without really Trying, Carnival, The Pursuit of Happiness, Pots, Pans, and the Piper, Hair, Comings and Goings\n1976 - The Pursuit of Happiness, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Captain Jones of the Horse Marines, The Diary of Adam and Eve, Apple Tree, Come Sweet Death, One Man's Vision of a Dream, Boccaccio, The Wonder Hat, Hot L Baltimore, Skiddaddle Tales, Guys and Dolls, Death of a Salesman, The Rainmaker, In Performance\n1977 - The Importance of Being Earnest, Woyzeck, Cinderella, A Delicate Balance, Twelfth Night, Endgame, Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Menachmi, Happy Birthday Wanda Jean,\n1978 - Heracles, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, La Perichole, Mouse Trap, Bus Stop, Fancies, The Runner Stumbles, The Empty Cradle, Loot, Bump in the Night, Bables, The Sanguinery Chasm, A Man for All Seasons, Scapino, La Ronde\n1979 - Of Mice and Men, Henry IV, Oklahoma, Down the Line, Fever\n1980 - Black Comedy, Man of La Mancha, The Chalk Garden, Punch Henry's Jazz Funeral, Pendragon\n1982-1983 - Macbeth, Marriage of Figaro, Knuckles, Bent, Shop Talk, Look Back in Anger, Out of the Reach of Children, Waiting for Godot, Taming of the Shrew, Lion in Winter, The Diviners, Comedy by Feiffer Allen, Living Fantasy, Bird Bath, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Lone Star","This series is comprised of materials that record the routine activities of the Stratford Players, and document its history. The record books include meeting minutes, agenda items, dues and accounting information, membership lists, itemized budget information, cast lists and various iterations of the organization's constitution.","The scrapbooks contain playbills, photographs, newspaper clippings and promotional material documenting performances that occurred in a given year. Scrapbook 1962-1963 contains photographs, programs, tickets, advertisements, show pictures, decorative masks, and a rehearsal schedule for the Glass Menagerie. Scrapbook 1967-1968 contains programs, show information, invitations, a map to a cast party, news clippings, photographs, letters, and information on accusations of violating campus regulations. Scrapbook 1970-1971 contains programs, articles, photographs, audition sheets, show posters, and show information. Scrapbook 1982-1983 contains labeled photographs, show information, programs, news articles, and posters.","The Bridges Scrapbook, 1932-1976, was created in 1978 by JMU student Steven R. Bridges, the chair of the Library Committee of the Stratford Players. It contains photographs, news clippings from The Breeze and the Daily News-Record, seasonal performance information, audition information, programs, posters, advertisements, and news letters from 1932-1976.","The news clippings and yearbooks files contain photocopies of articles about Stratford Players' performances and activities.","The photographs document Stratford Players' performance preparation and events."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright for materials authored or otherwise produced as official business of James Madison University is retained by James Madison University. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. 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Ladies in Retirement, Stage Door, Madison Follies of 1942\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1942-1943 - The Princess Marries the Page, Alice Sit by the Fire\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1944 - Brief Music\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1945 - The Romantic Young Lady\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1946 - The Clock, Lavender and Red Peppers, Shubert Alley\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1947 - Fortinbras in Plain Clothes, Kind Lady\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1948 - Ladies of the Jury, A Half Hour, Suppressed Desires, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, Theatre of the Soul, Thank you, Doctor\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1949 - Ice Bound, Taming of the Shrew\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1950 - Dear Brutus, Fashion\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1951 - Moor Born, Cheaper by the Dozen\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1952 - Night Must Fall, Blithe Spirit\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1953 - Taming of the Shrew, The Silver Whistle\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1954 - The Night of January 16th, I Remember Mama\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1955 - Suspect, Stage Door\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1956 - Summer House, Bernardino, Outward Bound\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1958 - Mary Stuart, Mary of Scotland, Arsenic and Old Lace, Theatre of the Soul, Chalk Garden\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1960 - Our Town, Mad Woman of Chaillot\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1961 - Diary of Anne Frank, Antigone, Summer and Smoke\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1962 - Skin of Our Teeth, Everyman, The Birds, The House of Bernarda Alba, \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1963 - USA\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1964 - The Glass Menagerie, Measures Taken, Waiting for Godot, The Bald Soprano, The Maids\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1965 - Death Takes a Holiday\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1966 - Ways and Means\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1967 - Rashoman, Prelude to a Tragedy, The Male Animal, Barefoot in the Park, All's Well That Ends Well, Idiot's Delight\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1969 - Outward Bound, Three Sisters\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1970 - 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The Importance of Being Earnest, Woyzeck, Cinderella, A Delicate Balance, Twelfth Night, Endgame, Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Menachmi, Happy Birthday Wanda Jean,\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1978 - Heracles, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, La Perichole, Mouse Trap, Bus Stop, Fancies, The Runner Stumbles, The Empty Cradle, Loot, Bump in the Night, Bables, The Sanguinery Chasm, A Man for All Seasons, Scapino, La Ronde\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1979 - Of Mice and Men, Henry IV, Oklahoma, Down the Line, Fever\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1980 - Black Comedy, Man of La Mancha, The Chalk Garden, Punch Henry's Jazz Funeral, Pendragon\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1982-1983 - Macbeth, Marriage of Figaro, Knuckles, Bent, Shop Talk, Look Back in Anger, Out of the Reach of Children, Waiting for Godot, Taming of the Shrew, Lion in Winter, The Diviners, Comedy by Feiffer Allen, Living Fantasy, Bird Bath, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Lone Star\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series is comprised of materials that record the routine activities of the Stratford Players, and document its history. The record books include meeting minutes, agenda items, dues and accounting information, membership lists, itemized budget information, cast lists and various iterations of the organization's constitution. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe scrapbooks contain playbills, photographs, newspaper clippings and promotional material documenting performances that occurred in a given year. Scrapbook 1962-1963 contains photographs, programs, tickets, advertisements, show pictures, decorative masks, and a rehearsal schedule for the Glass Menagerie. Scrapbook 1967-1968 contains programs, show information, invitations, a map to a cast party, news clippings, photographs, letters, and information on accusations of violating campus regulations. Scrapbook 1970-1971 contains programs, articles, photographs, audition sheets, show posters, and show information. 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As a professor, he arranged semester abroad trips to London to expose students to British culture as well as professional theater productions. He continued to teach and direct productions at JMU as part of the faculty until his retirement in 2007.","Arthur was a personal friend of actor Melvyn Douglas and his family, and wrote his doctoral thesis about Douglas's involvement in politics. In 1971, Arthur also collaborated with Douglas, at Douglas' request, to write his autobiography, See You at the Movies: The Autobiography of Melvyn Douglas.","Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Hesselberg, on April 5, 1901 in Macon, Georgia. He began his theatrical career in 1917, and adopted the name 'Douglas' some time prior to his movie debut. During his career he was a star of the screen, stage, and television. He was the first male actor to win a Tony Award, an Emmy Award, and an Oscar. In addition to acting, Douglas served in both world wars and was active in politics. In 1940 he became the first actor to serve as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. He married in 1931 and died in New York City on August 4, 1981. A portion of this collection includes letters and notes relating to Dr. Arthur's book, See You at the Movies: The Autobiography of Melvyn Douglas (Lanham, Md. University Press of America, 1986).","In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections staff completed a large-scale renumbering campaign in the spring of 2017. This collection was previously cataloged as SC 2023. This collection was reprocessed in 2019 to incorporate Thomas Arthur's March 2018 donation of theater programs.","Wisconsin Historical Society, Melvyn Douglas, Melvyn Douglas Papers, 1892-1983.","School of Theatre and Dance Records, 1930-2011 (bulk 1981-1993), UA 0045, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.","The Thomas H. 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The theater programs document the many plays and musicals that Arthur attended, with the majority playing in London and on Broadway and spanning more than 60 years. Playbills of note include programs from award-winning shows such as Hamilton, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Lion King, My Fair Lady, and Cats, programs from productions that feature actors including Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Catherine Tate, Judi Dench, Viola Davis, and Gary Oldman, and programs from many versions of classic Shakespeare plays, such as Twelfth Night and Hamlet. The theater print material subseries comprises other theater-related pamphlets and programs, most of which are either souvenir brochures or pamphlets that include calendars for a particular season.","Series 2: Scholarship and Teaching, 1979-2014, is separated into two-subseries: materials relating to Arthur's research on Melvyn Douglas and material from semesters abroad in London and Italy. 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James Madison University Special Collections."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThomas H. Arthur joined the staff of James Madison University in 1973, teaching both theater and speech as part of the Department of Communication Arts. He was instrumental in making theater at JMU into a college department. After the Department of Theatre and Dance was formed in 1986 as part of the College of Arts and Letters, Arthur would serve as the department head from 1987-1989. As a professor, he arranged semester abroad trips to London to expose students to British culture as well as professional theater productions. He continued to teach and direct productions at JMU as part of the faculty until his retirement in 2007. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArthur was a personal friend of actor Melvyn Douglas and his family, and wrote his doctoral thesis about Douglas's involvement in politics. 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Playbills of note include programs from award-winning shows such as Hamilton, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Lion King, My Fair Lady, and Cats, programs from productions that feature actors including Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Catherine Tate, Judi Dench, Viola Davis, and Gary Oldman, and programs from many versions of classic Shakespeare plays, such as Twelfth Night and Hamlet. The theater print material subseries comprises other theater-related pamphlets and programs, most of which are either souvenir brochures or pamphlets that include calendars for a particular season.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Scholarship and Teaching, 1979-2014, is separated into two-subseries: materials relating to Arthur's research on Melvyn Douglas and material from semesters abroad in London and Italy. The former consists of correspondence, notes and manuscripts, theater programs, and photographs related to Arthur's research for his dissertation abd biography on Melvyn Douglas. 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