FALL DRAMA

Each fall semester, the Drama program mounts a stage play. Mrs Blue selects the play based on projected interest. It is her goal to expose the students to a variety of play types across their fours years: a farce, a drama, a murder mystery, an evening of one-acts, a Shakespearean play, a classic, a contemporary, etc...resulting in an ecclectic array of shows. Many other faculty contribute to the Fall Drama including Mr Andy Wendling and Mr Daniel McEllin. 

Recent Productions:

2025: Radium Girls

2024: First In Line

2023: Murder Inn 

2022: The Comedy of Errors

2021: Three Fairy Godmothers

2020:  Get Smart*

2019: An Evening of Three One-Acts

2018: Of Moss and Men

SPRING MUSICAL

Each Spring, the CCHS music department and drama program collaborate to produce a full-length musical. We choose shows that appeal to our school mission, attract our audience, and showcase our student body's strengths. We are blessed to have a program where we know the students in and out of the classroom as whole people. 

Recent Productions:

2026: Brigadoon

2025: High School Musical On Stage

2024: Bye Bye Birdie

2023: Willy Wonka

2022: Peter Pan

2021: Beauty and the Beast

2020: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat*

2019:  The Wizard of Oz

2018: Mary Poppins

*Affected performance schedule due to COVID-19.

Meet Mrs Blue

Kayla Blue grew up in rural McLean County. She earned her BA in Theatre Arts and her BA in English at Eastern Illinois University. She also acquired her teaching credentials at EIU. After her first teaching gig outside Champaign-Urbana, Kayla matriculated from teaching to graduate school at Mary Baldwin University in Virginia. There she earned her MLitt in Shakespeare and Performance. She accepted a teaching job at Central Catholic High School in 2017 and started full-time teaching English, Speech/Communications, and Dramatic Literature. She now works from home as a mom and travel specialist and continues directing the drama program. Kayla also works for Music Connections Foundation as an Assistant Director in the Studio Connect Musical Theatre program. She has a husband, Andrew Heitz, and one daughter, Stella.