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The Juilliard News Bulletin, published by the Communications Office from 1962 to 1986, focused on school news and events—often covered in photo essays—as well as information about student, faculty, and alumni activities. This month’s Past Times features a review of the Juilliard Drama Division’s first repertory season, which originally ran in The New York Times and was reprinted in the Juilliard News Bulletin (Vol. X, No. 3, 1971-72). The late critic Mel Gussow was impressed enough to ask, “Instead of distributing these actors on the theatrical marketplace, why can’t we keep them here, intact, as a permanently expanding company, performing great plays in repertory in this theater?” While the theater itself became the territory of each consecutive fourth-year class, this first group of actors to graduate from the School formed the basis of what is now the Acting Company (founded in 1972 by the Drama Division’s John Houseman and Margot Harley, now the Acting Company’s producing director). The reprint features a chart of cast members from Group 1 and a selection of production photos.
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