Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green cited Dean's office hostility as the major cause of the movement to disband. He stated that this attitude, combined with certain "financial considerations," has made it impossible for the HDC to operate on the large scale proper for a college wide organization...
Maybe it all began with the Monty Woolley scandal of 1949. That was when the HDC's highly successful Boston production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Woolley in the title role, came to a disastrous end by the Club's business manager making off with the ten thousand dollar ticket receipts. That enterprising young man has never been seen since, and neither have the comfortably low admission prices for Harvard drama of that...
...open to conjecture whether the HDC has increased its ticket costs in following years to pull itself out of that morass of red. But this increase is not limited to the HDC, since smaller groups in the University have followed the rise up, indeed often surpassing the HDC in excessive admission charges...
...production of Shaw's Candida for $.60, one now is forced to pay $1.50 to scramble for a chair in the Adams House lower common room to see students playing Uncle Vanya. Just five years ago the Harvard Theater Group presented Coriolanus with admission only $.60; in 1955 the HDC came out with a show entitled Great To Be Back!, and made the rock bottom price...
...HDC insist they don't make a profit, in the long run. The considerable amount of money brought in from a play such as Death of A Salesman goes to fill the deficit for some such turkey as Macbeth. And it is useless to exhort the Club not to produce bad plays. The big income for a production like Hamlet is met by equally big expenses for extravagant costumes and costly set construction. If the HDC could reduce spending on these two items, perhaps ticket prices might be lowered to a more reasonable level; certainly cost of a production...