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Collection Summary
Identifier
UA 65
Title
Prairie Repertory Theatre Records
Dates
1971-2019
Physical Description
10.0 linear feet [2 record boxes, 4 oversize boxes, flat]]
Name of Creator(s)
Prairie Repertory Theatre (South Dakota State University)
Language
English
Access Note
Open. This material does not circulate and may be used in-house only.
Preferred Citation
Name of item, Collection identifier, box #, folder #, Collection Title, South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota.
Abstract
The Prairie Repertory Theatre Records are composed of programs, posters, season ticket brochures, scrapbooks, and photographs from the plays, musicals, and revues produced by the group.
Historical Note
The Prairie Repertory theater was founded by students and faculty in 1971after the relocation of the Oldham Opera House. The Prairie Repertory Theater was created through collaboration by the Prairie Historical Society and South Dakota State University in order to present a joint summer theater season. The Prairie Repertory Theater has worked to encourage theatrical talents in the community and continue the historic tradition bringing theater to the communities in South Dakota.
The Prairie Repertory Theater presents four plays a summer for a duration of six weeks a play at SDSU in Brookings and at Prairie Village near Madison, SD and recently celebrated their 50th year of theater productions.
Contents Note
The collection is composed of programs, posters, season ticket brochures, and photographs from the plays, musicals, and revues produced by Prairie Repertory Theatre.
Subject Headings
- College theater – South Dakota – Brookings
- Prairie Repertory Theatre (South Dakota State University)
Related Material
Arndt, Xavia Diane, "A History of Theatre at South Dakota State University 1892 Through Summer, 1972" (1972).
Karlen, Louis "Trey" W., "History of State University Theatre 1972 Through 1992" (1993).
| Box | Folder | Description | Date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1971 Season: Harvey, Three Men on a Horse, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Owl and the Pussy Cat, The Sound of Music, Lost in Yonkers, A Midsummer Night's Dream, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown [5 color photographs] | 1971 |
| 1 | 2 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1972 Season: My Three Angels, Love Rides the Rails, You're A Charlie Brown, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers [5 color photographs, 1 black-and-white photograph] | 1972 |
| 1 | 3 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1973 Season: The Seven-Year Itch, Two by Two, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Plaza Suite [2 black-and-white photographs] | 1973 |
| 1 | 4 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1974 Season: Where's Charley?, Butterflies Are Few, Our Town, The Fantasticks, Review/ADS [1 black-and-white photograph] | 1974 |
| 1 | 5 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1974 Season: The Rainmaker, Oklahoma, Celebration, Come Blow Your Horn [3 color photographs, 12 black-and-white photographs] | 1975 |
| 1 | 6 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1974 Season: The Rainmaker, Oklahoma, Celebration, Come Blow Your Horn [3 color photographs, 12 black-and-white photographs] | 1975 |
| 1 | 7 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1976: George Washington Slept Here, The Sunshine Boys, Paint Your Wagon, Ah Wilderness [2 black-and-white photographs and many negatives] | 1976 |
| 1 | 8 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1976: George Washington Slept Here, The Sunshine Boys, Paint Your Wagon, Ah Wilderness [11 black-and-white photographs] | 1976 |
| 1 | 9 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1977 Season: (Summer Season) You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Miracle Worker, No Sex Please, We're British, Fiddler on the Roof [1 black-and-white photograph] | 1977 |
| 1 | 10 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1978 Season: The Apple Tree, Never Too Late, Diary of Anne Frank, Li'l Abner [2 color photographs, 6 black-and-white photographs] | 1978 |
| 1 | 11 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1978 Season: News releases, correspondence | 1978 |
| 1 | 12 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1979 Season: Harvey, Send Me No Flowers, Damn Yankees, I Never Sang For My Father, I Do! I Do! [1 black-and-white photograph] | 1978 |
| 1 | 13 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1980 Season: Reviews | 1980 |
| 1 | 14 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1980 Season: Promotional talks [1 black-and-white photograph] | 1980 |
| 1 | 15 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1980 Season: Carousel. Two by Two, Matchmaker, The Second Time Around [5 black-and-white photographs] | 1980 |
| 1 | 16 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1980 Season: Spotlight on State University Theater newsletter [1 black-and-white photograph] | 1980 |
| 1 | 17 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1981 Season: Spotlight on State University Theater newsletter | 1981 |
| 1 | 18 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1981 Season: Picnic, Cactus Flower, Bedroom Farce, Brigadoon [11 black-and-white photographs] | 1981 |
| 1 | 19 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1982 Season: Grease, Charley's Aunt, Mister Roberts, Mornings at Seven [14 black-and-white photographs] | 1982 |
| 1 | 20 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1982 Season: Spotlight on State University Theater newsletter | 1982 |
| 1 | 21 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1983 Season: 110 Degrees in the Shade, A Fleas in Her Ear, Pippin, How the Other Half Loves, Same Time, Next Year [4 black-and-white photographs] | 1983 |
| 1 | 22 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1983 Season: Spotlight on State University Theater newsletter | 1983 |
| 1 | 23 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1983 Season: Reviews | 1983 |
| 1 | 24 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1984 Season: On Golden Pond, Hello, Dolly!, Arsenic and Old Lace, You Can't Take it With You [14 black-and-white photographs] | 1984 |
| 1 | 25 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1984 Season: Reviews [negatives] | 1984 |
| 1 | 26 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1985 Season: Guys and Dolls, Barefoot in the Park, Bedfull of Foreigners, A Funny Thing, Spotlight on State University Theater newsletter [ 17 black-and-white photographs] | 1985 |
| 1 | 27 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1985 Season: Reviews | 1985 |
| 1 | 28 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1986 Season: Spotlight on State University Theater newsletter | 1986 |
| 1 | 29 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1986 Season: Reviews | 1986 |
| 1 | 30 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1986 Season: South Pacific, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, The Foreigner, Ten Little Indians [16 black-and-white photographs] | 1986 |
| 1 | 31 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1987 Season: The Sound of Music, See How They Run, Crimes of the Heart, The Dining Room | 1987 |
| 2 | 1 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1987 Season: The Sound of Music, See How They Run, Crimes of the Heart, The Dining Room | 1987 |
| 2 | 2 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1988 Season: Grease, The Nerd, Bus Stops, The Drunkard | 1988 |
| 2 | 3 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1989 Season: Godspell, Social Security, The Odd Couple, Cinderella | 1989 |
| 2 | 4 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1990Season: Run For Your Wife, Oklahoma!, The Fantasticks, The Wizard of Oz | 1990 |
| 2 | 5 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1991 Season: The Music Man, Steel Magnolias, Sly Fox, Little Shop of Horrors | 1991 |
| 2 | 6 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1992 Season: Diamond Studs | 1992 |
| 2 | 7 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1993 Season: Jesus Christ Superstar | 1993 |
| 2 | 8 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1998 Season: The Pajama Game, Funny Money, Noises Off, Annie, I do! I do! | 1998 |
| 2 | 9 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 1999 Season: My Fair Lady, Nunsense 2, Brighton Bead, Memoirs, Peter Pan | 1999 |
| 2 | 10 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2000 Season: The Sound of Music, Lost in Yonkers, A midsummer Night's Dream, You're a good man Charlie Brown | 2000 |
| 2 | 11 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2001 Season: The music man, Over the River and through the woods, Don't Dress for Dinner, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | 2001 |
| 2 | 12 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2002 Season: South Pacific, the Boys Next Door, A� My name s Alice, And a Nightingale song, Footloose | 2002 |
| 2 | 13 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2003 Season: Damn Yankees, The Foreigner, Caught in the Net, The World goes round | 2003 |
| 2 | 14 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2004 Season: Grease, Oklahoma!, Sylvia, You can't take it with you, Sleeping beauty | 2004 |
| 2 | 15 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2005 Season: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Alone together, Perfect Wedding, smoke on the mountain, Seussical | 2005 |
| 2 | 16 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2006 Season: Diamond Studs, Honk!, Social Security, Meshuggah-Nuns!, A bed of Foreigners | 2006 |
| 2 | 17 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2007 Season: So Long, Farewell, Dames at Sea, Escanaba in Da Moonlight, Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, The King and I | 2007 |
| 2 | 18 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2008 Season: Bingo, Escanaba in love, Move Over Mrs. Markham, Seven brides for seven Brothers | 2008 |
| 2 | 19 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2009 Season: Godspell, The man who came to dinner, Foxfire, Anne Get Your Gun | 2009 |
| 2 | 20 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2010 Season: Jesus Christ Superstar, Leaving Iowa, Plaza Suite, Thoroughly Modern Millie | 2010 |
| 2 | 21 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2011 Season: Church Basement Ladies, Arsenic and Old Lace, Almost Maine, Crazy for You | 2011 |
| 2 | 22 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2012 Season: Beauty and the Beast, Steel Magnolias, Leading Ladies, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, | 2012 |
| 2 | 23 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2014 Season: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Making God Laugh, The Long Star Love Potion, Shrek the Musical | 2014 |
| 2 | 24 | Prairie Repertory Theatre Book I: 1971-1974 [scrapbook] | 2002 |
| 2 | 25 | Prairie Repertory Theatre Book II: 1975-1979 [scrapbook] | 2002 |
| 2 | 26 | Prairie Repertory Theatre Book III: 1980-1984 [scrapbook] | 2002 |
| 2 | 27 | Prairie Repertory Theatre Book IV: 1985-1989 [scrapbook] | 2002 |
| 2 | 28 | Prairie Repertory Theatre Book V: 1990-1994 [scrapbook] | 2002 |
| 2 | 29 | Prairie Repertory Theatre Book VI: 1995-1999 [scrapbook] | 2002 |
| 2 | 30 | Prairie Repertory Theatre Book VII: 2000-2002 [scrapbook] | 2002 |
| 2 | 31 | Prairie Repertory Theater playbills | 1978-2019 |
| 2 | 32 | Prairie Repertory Theatre 2014 Season: Where's Charley?, Butterflies are Free, Our Town, The Fantasticks | 2014 |
| 3 | 1 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Sly Fox, The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias | 1991 |
| 3 | 2 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Diamond Studs, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1941, Rumors, Sweet Charity | 1992 |
| 3 | 3 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Jesus Christ Superstar, No Sex, Please, We're British, Nunsense, Lend Me a Hand | 1993 |
| 3 | 4 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Bye, Bye, Birdie, Out of Order, The Matchmaker, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | 1994 |
| 4 | 1 | The Foreigner, Fiddler on the Roof, It Runs in the Family, Man of LaMancha | 1995 |
| 4 | 2 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Not Now, Darling, Grease, Gypsy, On Golden Pond | 1996 |
| 4 | 3 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Guys and Dolls, Steel Magnolias, Big river, Moon Over Buffalo | 1997 |
| 4 | 4 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Noises Off, Annie, Funny Money, The Pajama Game | 1998 |
| 4 | 5 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Nunsense 2, Peter Pan, My Fair Lady | 1999 |
| 4 | 6 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: The Sound of Music, A Midsummer Night's Dream, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Lost in Yonkers | 2000 |
| 5 | 1 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Over the River and Through the Woods, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Music Man, Don't Dress for Dinner | 2001 |
| 5 | 2 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: The Boys Nest Door, And the Nightengale Sang, Footloose, A . . . My Name Is Alice, South Pacific | 2002 |
| 5 | 3 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Damn Yankees, The Foreigners, And the World Goes Round, Caught in the Net | 2003 |
| 5 | 4 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Grease, Sleeping Beauty, You Can't Take It With You, Oklahoma! | 2004 |
| 5 | 5 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Alone Together, Smoke on the Mountain, The Perfect Wedding, Seussical the Musical | 2005 |
| 5 | 6 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Diamond Studs, A Bedfull of Foreigners, Social Security, Meshuggah-Nuns! | 2006 |
| 5 | 7 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Escanaba in Da Moonlight, Dames at Sea, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, The King and I | 2007 |
| 6 | 1 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, BINGO!, Escanaba in Love, Move Over, Mrs. Markman | 2008 |
| 6 | 2 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Godspell, Annie Get Your Gun, Foxfire, The Man Who Came to Dinner | 2009 |
| 6 | 3 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Leaving Iowa, Jesus Christ Superstar, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Plaza Suite | 2010 |
| 6 | 4 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Crazy for You, Church Basement Ladies, Almost Maine, Arsenic and Old Lace | 2011 |
| 6 | 5 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Leading Ladies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Steel Magnolias, Disney's Beauty and the Beast | 2012 |
| 6 | 6 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: A Second Helping, State Fair, Love, Sex, and the IRS, The Foreigner | 2013 |
| 6 | 7 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Making God Laugh, The Lone Star Love Potion, Shrek the Musical | 2014 |
| 6 | 8 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Dial "M" for Murder, The Sound of Music, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Boeing Boeing | 2015 |
| 6 | 9 | Prairie Repertory Theatre photographs: Don't Hug Me, Hairspray!, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Murder Room | 2016 |