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[the following scripts are probably from February 2nd, 1990:]

4) Runnels - "So we were sitting there on the couch, his couch, watching MTV..."
Mortika - last page of a script from 2/2/90: "Four separate bands of solid steel. Thank you. / PROPS: / Four 12" rings" (probably from Mortika's 4-ring routine on 1/26/90??)
The ORDER for September 15, 1989 - 7 pieces - stapled to it are:
- 1) Libby Simeon - Alfalfa & Darla piece
- 2) Mike Moran - Stan Guthrie
- 3) (Larry Smith - assumed) - Dougian Dialogue II "Light Wait Conversation"
- 4) Todd Ristau - page 40 of Coyote & Old Woman scene - scene fifteen
Todd Ristau - page 41 of Coyote & Old Woman scene
Todd Ristau - page 42 of Coyote & Old Woman scene
[the following scripts are probably from February 2nd, 1990:]
5) Goode/Rosenfeld - Improv on Ground Hogs Day
6) Whisner??? - Kissing the World Daily
7) E. Jacobs - "No shame 2/2" "I found this the other day in the garbage can at Kinko's Copies"
8) Locke - Earth's Wake
9) Smick - Fruitcake
Todd Ristau - page 43 of Coyote & Old Woman scene (end of scene) - [see 9/15/89]
The ORDER for December 8, 1989 - 6 pieces
1) T bone & Napoleon - Cealo
2) Runnels - "I want a Barbie Townhouse, a My Little Pony, and Operation, the Wacky Doctor's Game.. And if you don't get it for me I'm going to go live with Daddy." (2 pgs)
10) Peter Ullian - Dream Dancing (8 pgs)
The ORDER for February 16, 1990 - 9 pieces - stapled to it are:
- 1) Garry Frank - I Am A Film Student
- 2) Steckel - Solar Elephants and a Duck - Animals Waking Up
- 2b) Steckel - Solar Elephants and a Duck - Diary Sketch
- 3) Comito - "Oh my god, ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod...I have got to tell you what has happened to me."
4) Garry Frank - Forgotten Gods (a.k.a. The Charades Plug) (6 pg)
5) Comito - "Boy have I been having this dream."
6) Comito - "I met an old man when I was sixteen..."
7) Ristau - I have no idea; letter from his uncle
8) Runnels - "The other day I passed this woman as I was walking down the street." (3 pg)
The ORDER for Feburary 23, 1990 - 13 pieces
1) Honn - Shallow Roots, Bald Tires (6 pg)
3) Katzen - "Good evening, tonight I'd like to talk about the Fruedian Lip - slip - panties - SLIP!"
4) Garry Frank - ICBM Tracking For Fun and Profit (3 pg)
5) Jacobs - Solar Elephants and a Duck
5b) Jacobs - Solar Elephants and a Duck
6) Smick/Wasson - Attack (2 pg)
7) Ristau - The panel discussion (3 pg)
8) Moran - Hitch Hiking (2 pg)
9) Norberg & Ristau - The Chemist Dreams - (includes [partial] cast list)
10) Calandro - "The life and death of an American guitar by Christopher Calandro & Courtney Pierce-1987"
11) Peter Ullian - Sharkey's Town, Part One: Sharkey Says
12) Locke Barrows (with acknowledgements to Brett Neveu) - Love didn't arrive, so Murder took her place
13) Ristau - "Hey, wanna watch me pull some art out of my ass"
The ORDER for March 3 [sic], 1990 - 12 pieces
1) Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: Omnibus Mailbag
2) Peter Ullian - Sharkey's Town, Part Two: Charlie Does the Job. (3 pg)
3) Ruth Gila Berger - Creative (2 pg)
4) [Stuart] Hoyle - Frank Dead Yet (3 pg)
5) Flaude Merch (aka Scott Smith) - Mighty Winnebagos (2 pg)
6) Locke Barrows (with acknowledgements to Brett Neveu) - The Ashen Fear of Toothy Green
7) John Smick & Brooks Peck - "Infinity Sports Coupe...test drive one today."
8) Laura Quinn - Big Top Blues (2 pg)
9) Stuart Hoyle sings "Moving Day"
10) T-Bone & Napoleon sing & give answers
11) Introducing - the Grinnell troupe
12) Ristau as the Joker - "If you think this is art... wait'll next week"
The ORDER for March 9, 1990 - 16 pieces
1) Jacqueline Comito - 49 asides for a tragic theatre
2) Jacobs - "Oh, Government / Oh, Government / the structure of our Nation"
3) Chris Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: One Cup, Three Balls
The ORDER for February 9, 1990 - 7 pieces
1) James Ball - Suitcase
2) Laura Quinn - "I used to sell AVON"
3) Adam Whisner (music by Joe Satriani) - Strange (also The Journal
4) Peter Ullian - Maximum Leadership (pages are numbered 30-32; probably part of a larger work)
5) Todd Ristau - $80 a week - "I see you. Don't think I don't see you."
6) Locke Barrows - Is Love
7) T-Bone & Napoleon sing
[the following scripts are probably from March 30th, 1990:]
11) B.O. Ltd. (Brett & Oliver) - Nude
12) Peter Ullian - Street of Dreams (3 pg)
13) Jeff Goode - Dead Panther: Talking Parrot (8 pg)
Scott Smith - Bad Day At The Beach: Part Two, The Sequel - (copy with pages out of order; 4 pages)
8) Scott Smith - Bad Day At The Beach: Part Two, The Sequel (4 pg)
Hannah Gale - Eyes - (dated University of Iowa 1990)
[this piece is from November 10th, 1989:]
Hannah Gale - He and I - (dated University of Iowa 1990) (2 pg)
[this piece is from April 13th, 1990:]
1) Chris Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: The Spiritual Manifestations Club (2 pg)
[author unknown (Moran?)] - Another piece of lost hope and waste life (3 pg)
[author unknown] - page 39 from a scene - characters: John & Francois - "They're just school girls" - (stamped from UofI Libraries)
[the following scripts are probably from March 9, 1990:]
4) Darren Rynell - Ali Abdul's Hostage Hut
5) Garry Frank - Crutch
The ORDER for March 30, 1990 - 15 pieces
1) Ristau - Luck of the Dead (5 pg)
2) John Smick - Mail Call
3) Scott Smith - the Iowa Song (5 pg)
4) Darren Reinoehl (Rynell) - Appalachin New Age
6) Karen Holman - (Losing My Virginity to Archy Hoover at the Humiliating Age of 21)
7) Locke Barrows (with acknowledgements to Brett Neveu) - It's Death --
Scott Smith - Bad Day At The Beach (7pg)
8) Scott Smith - Bad Day At The Beach: Part Two, The Sequel (6 pg)
[author unknown] - Half a Man
[the following script is from December 1st, 1989:]
8) No Shame Puppet Theatre - "Twenty four skulls came into view as I came into the flowered room" (first 3 pages of a script)
[the following scripts are probably from December 8th, 1989:]
3) Consigny - Cabbie
4) Chris Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: A Snappy Routine (2 pg)
5) Woster - Frosty (2 pg)
Scott Smith - The Flight of the Cheese Man, a Christmas show (32 pg)
[the following scripts are undoubtedly from November 3rd, 1989:]
[John Yapp] - last 5 pages of Our Dead Fish script - "I took aim, looked down into the crips clear water of the Bowl..."
7) Dan Adkins & Greg Jackson - "Two guys meet. They break into a barbershop number. They depart."
8) Sage Callaway - "I see the details of the room very clearly now in the merciless morning light."
9) Peter Ullian - Welfare Victims and the Conversion of a Conservative (2 pg)
10) Sharon - Satire On No Shame (Fuck Spiders Who Can't Swim)
Snodgrass/King - "Charles needed to go to the bathroom really badly."
Dossarm - "The Entanglement"
13) No Shame Singers - "Our love is here to stay"
The ORDER from November 10, 1989 - 12 pieces
1) Gurler - "They say someone born at midnight has the power to see ghosts."
2) A Wieholt piece brought in by Jim Thorne who promised me he would make me a photocopy of it. I have yet to see this photocopy. It was hot theatre.
3) Woster - When You See Power... (3 pg)
4) A Steve Hives sound piece
5) Promotion/Preview - Sweeney Syblings - Jeffrey Parsons, Cheryl Graeff, Cheryl Snodgrass - Colaboration
6) Cappel - "It began as many and many a morning had..."
7) Thornton - Opal Bombgarthen Show
8) Hannah Gale - "So he said turning back..." (handwritten original of He and I
9) No Shame Dancers (G.A.) - "Well, look at this. I just found this on the floor. It looks like a safety pin."
10) Link - Mockingbird
11) Peter Ullian - Street of Dreams (4 pg)
12) No Shame Singers - "So What?"
The ORDER from November 17, 1989 - 15 pieces
1) [presumeably Garry Frank] - The Joke
2) Blaine Kelly - Love Disconnections
3) Jeff Goode - Cows (3 pg)
4) Peter Ullian - The Battle Lexington (with puppets army men and a rat doll) (2 pg)
5) [presumeably Sharon] - The Newspaper Skit - Performed by "Solar Elephants and a Duck"
6) Jacobs - "The phone rings while I am asleep. I answer it. It is my roommate's boyfriend. Again."
7) No Shame Players - The Exhibit
9) [presumeably Peters (Jewels Peter?)] - Blind Date
10) Jeff Goode - Alien Recording
11) Hives sound piece
12) Dan Layne - Warp Speed
13) Jewels Peter - Mini Mono - "I've got this window."
14) Chris A. Ragner - Late for a Date - (Apparently not the script he submitted.)
15) Sweeny Syblings - week 2-fri- 11-17-89- They are Reunited.
The ORDER from December 1, 1989 - 10 pieces
1) Mortika - A Magical Omnibus Presents: The Water-Torture Card Trick of Death
2) SCHWA - Psychoactive
3) Vicki West - 2 Songs
4) Erin Jacobs - SOLAR ELEPHANTS AND A DUCK presents "Basketball" and "Duck Attack"
5) Tom Puckett - "I'm not the only person they've done this to."
6a) Price and Ahrens - What's the Use?
6b) Price - Gimme Distraction
7) Woster - CAMPUS REVIEW THEATRE presents "A Cold Warrior's Homecoming"
last page (4th page) of a script - "needed love. So I crawled inside of him. he was warm and wet in their..." (q.v. the "24 skulls" piece for No Shame Puppet Theatre)
9) Peter Ullian - The Ghost of the '80's. (3 pg)
10) Jon Price - Restless
possibly a page from Cheryl's voice journal from April 13 & 15, 1993
[the following script is undoubtedly the famous piece from September 15th, 1989:]
5) Woster - "Once one dusty afternoon, Whistling a merry tune, An Amway man came striding forth." (on back: The ORDER from September 15, 1989)
pages from Cheryl Snodgrass Personal Voice History
[The subsequent section of the stack is reversed. For ease of cataloguing, the following items are listed in order starting from the BOTTOM of the stack.]

[the following script is the monologue from the No Shame Dancers piece from September 15th, 1989:]
6) (No Shame Dancer Theatre) - Ding Dong Merrily on High / In the Bleak Midwinter
[it is possible that the following scripts are the missing scripts from October 13th, 1989 (note: they are backwards in the stack):]
[author unknown] - page 25 from a play, featuring "Bob - The Most Insignificant Character In The Play" having a monologue about the diameter of the earth - (This is probably the text for the No Shame Dancers piece; q.v. Carolyn's reference to a "Doughnut Dance")
T-Bone & Napoleon's (Best Song Yet) - the one w/ Craig playing tempo/percussion on his guitar
Peter Ullian - Adventures in the Necropolis, Part One (2 pg)
Perkins - Tom & Dick in the library (3 pg)
7) Tom Puckett - "I love her in a way I love no other living creature on this earth." (she's my special little duck) - No Shame 10-13-89
6) Oster-W - "You know, I always did like dancers."
[Johnson] - this is the last page of Johnson's "I love my scooter" script: "#5: I FUCKIN' HATE THE GODDAMN, TWIT, ASSHOLE SCOOTER FUCKS AND THE HORNY BITCH LUBE TWAT SORORITY DOUCHE BAGS AND THE..."
[author unknown] - page 26 from the Bob monologue (see above)
The ORDER from October 20, 1989 - 8 pieces
1) M. Moran - Stan Guthrie Quits Smoking - [monologue]
2) Runnels - Rent-a-Friend (#1)
3) Hoyle - A Patsy Kline Song
4) Peter Schtein - yep, you guessed it. Rob was back in town.
5) Smick - Poison (3 pg)
6) Woster - Maw: ---One--- "Are my temples flaring"
7) Whitney Tiffany - "Before I discovered Gloria Steinem, or Erica Jong, or the ERA, there was my grandmother.
The ORDER for October 27, 1989 - 12 pieces
1) Erin Jacobs - Large Research University
2) [Brown, assumed] - "Will there be any monsters upstairs tonight?"
3) [Rochlin] - "They held hands for the first time, and stared beyond the cliff on which they stood."
4) Whisner - Solar Elephants and a Duck presents "Our First Scene"
5) Cheryl Snodgrass (adapted from Stephen King)
6) Hoyle song
7) Garry Frank - Lambert and Skin Canoes
11) Mark Rosenfeld - The Terminator Rap - note at the bottom: "October 17 Tuesday Night / prepare" - [This one has a number of discrepancies: The script is dated 9/29 next to the title; There is the October 17th note at the bottom; the SM has numbered it #11, but it is filed between #7 and #9 on a night when the order lists #8 as Rosenfeld/Vieira; It looks like several pieces were renumbered in the order that night, so this may explain the discrepancy]
9) Peter Ullian - War Story
10) Ian Charade (aka Chris Ragner) - Mother Courage
11) Woster - Maw: ---two--- "You know the Israeli Army?"
The ORDER from November 3, 1989 - 13 pieces
1) Ryan - A few thoughts on the afterlife:
2) McKenna / Ungar - "I don't like to wear my hair this long"
3) Runnels - Beautiful Dance piece
4) Vicki West - Vicki Sickels singing a great song
5) Woster - MAW ---three--- "We are the girls who really are amazing"
6) John Yapp - Our Dead Fish - (page 1 only)
Scott Smith - pages 33-36 from a musical about Anubis & Lateefa (Flight of the Cheeseman - December 8th)
The ORDER from February 2, 1990 - 10 pieces
1) Jeff Goode - Cupid, Demigod of Love
2a) Brett Ratner (words and music) - Here with me
2b) Kevin Higdon (music) & Brett Ratner (lyrics) - Looks to kill
3) Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: A Linking Rings Routine (2 pg)
[the following pieces are probably #7-#10 from September 22, 1989:
[author unknown] - A No-Shame Piece - "Suspend your dis-belief and, at least for the present moment, imagine that I, am a threee hundred pound water buffalo"
No Shame Dance Theatre - "As I was attempting to fall asleep last night, I noticed a small black spot in the corner of my spackled ceiling."
[author unknown] - group therapy session with Gerry the Evangelist who speaks on the Pentacrest - (Could this be the famous powdered sugar piece? The piece ends with cocaine being dumped from the rafters)
T-Bone w/ Craig Chesler & Brad Schnurr
The ORDER for October 6, 1989 - 12 pieces
1) Tom Puckett - "I was talking to Gerry today and he said that he was going to England this year for Christmas."
2) Dan Layne - Flowers
3) Chris Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: A No Shame Theatre Card Trick (3 pg)
Van Man - Ode to a Frat Boy
5) Peter Ullian - Love Letters (Straight From You Heart) (3 pg)
6) Oster - "I was lying in bed about three in the morning
7) A reading of White Lion dedicated to Graham Chapman while someone shaved while reader holds mirror
8) Frank & Kester - Gavin & Ellis scene (3 pg)
9) Sound piece by Steve Hives
Ristau - A.M. Radio in Iowa... (4 pg)
Whitney Tiffany - The Continuing Adventures of Rhonda and Bullwinky - [on the back of this script are notes on the order being worked out]
12) T-Bone
The ORDER for October 13, 1989 - 11 pieces
1) Oster [& Woodworth & Rizzazza] - "See that gerbil parachutist"
2) Allen - The Gossage Vardebian Papers
3) Stephens (sic) [aka Karla Maria Steffens] - holy communion
4) Woster - The Value of Human Life in America or "I like the Ones with Frank Burns" (A Headache)
The ORDER for September 22, 1989 - 10 pieces
No Shame Singers - Clothesline Saga by Robert Zimmerman
2) Ashley Runnels - "Excuse me... excuse me, do you have the time?" (2 pg) [note: the order is written on the back of the 2nd page]
James Woster - Your Phone Friend
Chris Ragner - "Three years?"
Dan Coffey - Captain Agriculture
Memoirs of a Dog - [...probably Garry Frank's piece #7 from 9/22 (uses the term CC, which is a Garry Frank trait]
[the following script is probably from October 13th, 1989:]
Johnson - "I love my scooter." - [the Johnson script from 10/13] (the second page of the script is elsewhere in this archive)