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...addition to Boston theatre (Boston was a “try-out town” and South Pacific opened in Boston during our college years), there were four theatres in Cambridge: the Radcliffe Idlers, Harvard Theatre Group (HTG), the Poet’s Theatre, and the Brattle Theatre. All were excellent and graduated many performers and directors to the New York stage...
...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...
...later the Harvard 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...
...disbanding of Idler and the graduation of the HTG core in the spring of 1953 left the debt-ridden HDC all alone. Since the HDC had been able to squeak out only one major show in each of the previous two years, it looked as though 1953-54 might sink to a theatrical low. But a number of coincidences brought about quite a different result...
...Radcliffe students now turned to the HDC as the major dramatic organization. So did the 15 or 20 non-graduating members of the defunct HTG (there was no formal merger; for, head high to the end, the HTG just quietly disbanded). In addition, there was a large increase that fall in theatrical interest on the part of the general student body. Not only this, but the entering freshman class contained more theatrical talent than any other class in Harvard history--including, as it happened, a notable quartet of students who would soon be generally recognized as a Big Four: Stephen...