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===Coeducation and other changes=== ''A Different Kick'' (1968β69) was a Triangle milestone, featuring the first female undergraduate to be cast in a club showβSue Jean Lee (1970), a junior in the Critical Languages Program. The university's shift to coeducation the next fall would have a profound effect on Triangle. ''Call a Spade a Shovel'' (1969β1970) featured six women in a seventeen-member cast. The social and political commentary of the show, most especially its anti-[[Vietnam War]] tones, which reflected the views of the Vietnam veteran who was president and much of the country, unleashed an unprecedented storm of alumni protest and caused a mass audience walk-out at the [[Grosse Pointe, Michigan]], tour performance. This incident, along with growing budgetary and logistical concerns, caused the board of trustees to revise its production schedule. As per the May 1970 report of the board's New Directions Committee, there was to be neither a December show nor a Christmas tour; instead, a spring show was promised, to be followed by a short tour. ''Cracked Ice'' opened in April 1971, was repeated for alumni in June, but did finally tour the following December. To cut expenses, the cast and crew stayed in private homes rather than hotels, and non-union halls were booked. The Princeton Triangle Workshop made its debut in November 1972 with a presentation of ''The Fantasticks'' at the [[Princeton Inn Theater]]; the following March the workshop produced ''Transitions'' in Wilcox Hall. This began a 25-year tradition of smaller fall productions to complement the full-scale, original spring shows. The fall productions of 1978, ''Happily Ever After'', and 1979, ''String of Pearls'', were both written by undergraduates. For the 1981 spring show, Triangle writers returned to the very roots of the club and based their book musical, ''Bold Type'', on Booth Tarkington's novel, ''A Gentleman from Indiana''. The 1981 tour again returned to California, but with a revue of Triangle favorites, ''Fool's Gold'', rather than the spring show. The following year, Triangle hired Miriam Fond, the first female director in the club's history. Triangle finally found a permanent home for its fall productions when ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' opened at the Triangle Broadmead Theatre in November 1984. In the 1980s, the club began to present produce revues of the best of Triangle early in the fall to introduce the freshman class to the organization.
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