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List of Mind's Eye productions

Many of the productions were adapted and directed by Bob Lewis, and include: #''Alice in Wonderland'' by Lewis Carroll (1972) #''Alice Through the Looking Glass'' by Lewis Carroll (1972) #''Beauty and the Beast'' by Mme. De Villeneuve (1975) #''The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky'' by Stephen Crane (1972) #''The Cask of Amontillado'' by Edgar Allan Poe #''The Celebrated Jumping Frog'' by Mark Twain (1972) #''A Christmas Carol'' by Charles Dickens (1972) #''Dr. Heidegger's Experiment'' by Nathaniel Hawthorne #''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'' by Robert Louis Stevenson (1973) #''The Fall of the House of Usher'' by Edgar Allan Poe #''The Gold Bug'' by Edgar Allan Poe #''Great Expectations'' by Charles Dickens #''The Hobbit'' by JRR Tolkien (1980) #''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1975) #''Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain (1974) #''The Invisible Man'' by H.G. Wells (1983) #''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' by Washington Irving (1972) #''The Light Princess'' by George MacDonald (1979) #''Lord of the Rings'' by JRR Tolkien (1979) #''The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood'' by Howard Pyle (1974) #''Metamorphosis'' by Franz Kafka #''Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe'' by Nathaniel Hawthorne #''My Kinsman, Major Molineux'' by Nathaniel Hawthorne #''Pinocchio'' by

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#''The Time Machine'' by H.G. Wells (1973) #''Treasure Island'' by Robert Louis Stevenson (1972) #''The Wind in the Willows'' by Kenneth Grahame (1979) #''The Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum #''Young Goodman Brown'' by Nathaniel Hawthorne #''Aladdin'' by Antoine Galland (1974) with James Arrington as Aladdin, Beverlee Cochrane as Scheherezade, Lynn Preisler as the Mother, Joe Hughes as the Sultan, and Joe Gostanian as the Vizier #''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' by Mark Twain #''The Odyssey'' by Homer (1977) #''Oedipus The King'' by Sophocles (1977) #''Dracula'' by Bram Stoker (1983) #Watership Down by Richard Adams (1984)

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