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The Omaha Magic Theatre: An Alternative Theatre for Mid-America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2009
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Aspiring young actors traditionally leave their hometowns to seek training and performance experiences in America's theatre centers. Many choose to study and perform in New York City, and they carry with them to New York the naive assumption that only in the “Big Apple” can a theatre artist's dreams come true. But some become disenchanted with the New York theatre scene and gain a determination to create significant, non-commercial theatre in another part of the country. And, on occasion, they erect their alternative stages in the very towns from which they sprang.
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1 Personal interview with Jo Ann Schmidman conducted by Judith Babnich, 21 February 1980.
2 Hiller, Betty, “Mime Show Will Kick Off Magic Theatre,” Sun Newspapers, Magic Theatre Private CollectionGoogle Scholar.
3 Schmidman, Jo Ann, Application for Consideration for Funding of Cultural Services, Statement of Purpose, 1969Google Scholar.
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5 Terry, Megan, The Tommy Allen Show, In Scripts 1:2 (December, 1971) pp. 37–38Google Scholar. Any further citations to the playscript will be cited parenthetically in the text with page number.
6 Personal interview with John Sheehan conducted by Judith Babnich, January 28, 1980.
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8 Personal interview with John Sheehan.
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10 From 1970–73 the company occupied a warehouse in the Old Market district, the backroom of a pizza parlor, and the old Omaha Barber College before the city evicted them from the Barber College and relocated them in their permanent home on Farnum Street.
11 “‘Babes’ Reflects on Visits to Prisons,” Sun Newspapers, 26 December 1974, p. 15–A.
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13 The questionnaire asked such questions as, “What do you think a woman's cell looks like?”; “What do you think most women prisoners are in for?”; and “What do you think women in prison do about sex?”
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18 The development of the production was funded in part by the Nebraska Division on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Nebraska Department of Public Institutions, the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety, the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities, and the Edward W. Hazen Foundation.
19 Omaha Sun, 15 September 1982.
20 Des Moines Sunday Register, 3 April 1983.
21 Mason City-Clear Lake, Iowa Globe-Gazette, 6 May 1983.
22 Research for this paper was funded in part by a grant to Dr. Babnich from the American Association of University Women.