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Short Takes: Stover Theatre Trivia

  • 2005-2006 marked the 75th anniversary of Stover Theatre and 100th season of performing arts at Stetson University.  
  • Stetson has staged more than 700 productions.  
  • Dr. Irving Stover staged 17 of Dr. Lincoln Hulley's plays.  
  • Dr. Irving Stover holds Stetson's record for faculty service - 55 years (1908-63).  
  • After each Stover production's final dress rehearsal, everyone leaves and the stage manager goes into the darkened theater to invite the ghost of Dr. Stover in.  
  • Broadway designer Michael Yeargan '68 created such great sets at Stetson that audiences often applauded the sets before the actors even appeared. Yeargan won a Tony in 2005 for "Light in the Piazza.  
  • The late Ted Cassidy '55, better known as "Lurch" on The Addams Family, played in many Stover productions - and also played center on the men's basketball team.  
  • Hollywood costume designer Ret Turner '50, who trained at Stetson, has received five Emmys and 21 Emmy nominations.  
  • Former Stetson President and Chancellor J. Ollie Edmunds '25, M.A. '27, J.D. '28, H '43 played several Shakespearean leads in his student days.  
  • Mark C. Hollis '56, Stetson trustee and benefactor and former Publix Super Markets president and chief operating officer, says acting at Stover improved his self-confidence.  
  • Lydia Theurer Pfund '40, M.A. '42, both acted as a student and later taught in Stetson's theater program with Dr. Stover.  
  • Allen Enlow '74 performs in comedy clubs in the United States and Canada, has acted in television and film, and has done numerous cartoon voices - most recently, Samuel in Samuel & Nina.  
  • Michael Shawn Lewis '93, now on Broadway in the ensemble of the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Woman in White, sang the part of Raoul in Webber's Phantom of the Opera for years with its national touring company.
 


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