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...years following the Second World War, theatre at Harvard was monopolized by a batch of initials-- HDC, VTW, HTW, and HTG. The Veterans' Theatre Workshop, formed in '46, quickly established its pre-eminence over the 30-year-old Harvard Dramatic Club as the University's major producing agency-- but the VTW, unlike the HDC, lacked permanency. It thrived on the strength of its founding members, who graduated without establishing any lasting undergraduate organization...
...Theatre Workshop, or HTW) passed out of existence in the Spring of '49. It was subsequently revived as the Harvard Theatre Group (HTG) but again it became defunct when its founders graduated. Consequently the Fall of '53 saw Harvard theatre on what looked to be its last leg: the HDC...
Long burdened with second-string talent, just getting over two financially disastrous productions (including a $9,000 Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Wooley as guest star), the HDC was hardly in a position to assume dominance over Harvard theatre. Only an uncommonly talented new generation of people enabled the HDC to meet the high standards which had previously characterized its competition. Director Stephen Aaron, actors Colgate Salsbury, Harold Scott and D.J. Sullivan -- all were from the class of '57, and they became the nucleus of a rejuvenated HDC...
Alongside the HDC and the House Drama Societies were two collegewide groups devoted to musical works: the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, established in '55, and Drumbeats and Song, production outlet of the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society, which like Old Faithful has uttered forth with one musical comedy per year since...
Several other announcements in the same period did little to mollify the growing student contingent of anti-Loebites. The HDC, which had already started discussing possible inaugural productions, was jarred to hear that Chapman's assistant, Stephen Aaron, would direct the first play at the Loeb. Several years earlier, Aaron had been Harvard's foremost student director. Now, despite all his efforts to represent the interests of undergraduates, he became a symbol of faculty control...