Past Shows

Shelby High School Theatre Department

Show History

*Suggestions for alterations or additions should be sent to Dan Treharne

Plays performed at old Shelby High School, Marion Street, unless otherwise noted.

1960

• Meet Corliss Archer

1961

• Don't Take My Penny!

1962

• The Perfect Idiot

1963

• Clementine

1964

• Seventeen is Terrific

1965

• Brother Goose

1966

• Boys and Ghouls Together

1967

• Act Your Age

1969

• Tattletale

1970

• Girl Crazy

1971

• Rest Assured

1972

• Pick A Dilly

1973

• Annie Get Your Gun

• Hello Dolly 

1974

• No, No, Nanette

1975

• Bye, Bye Birdie

1976 - Spring

• Guys and Dolls

Shows from the fall of 1976 to the present were performed at Malcolm Brown Auditorium, unless otherwise noted.

1976 - Fall

• Up the Down Staircase

• George Washington Slept Here

• Pure As The Driven Snow

1977

• My Fair Lady

• The Saga Of Sagebrush Sal

• Treasure Island

• A Night Of One Acts

  • 1. Ralph Oister Doister

  • 2. The Stolen Prince

  • 3. The Love Knot

1978

• The Sound of Music

• A Night Of One Acts

  • 1.The Happy Scarecrow

  • 2. Pandora’s Box

  • 3. The Steadfast Tin Soldier

• The Show

• Tom Sawyer

1979

• Hello Dolly

• Rumplestiltskin and The Emporer’s New Clothes

• Spoon River Anthology

1980

• Oklahoma

• The Prince and the Pauper (

• Agatha Christie Made Me Do It

1981

• Annie Get Your Gun

• The Frankensteins Are Back In Town

1982

• Gypsy

1983

• Finian’s Rainbow

1984

• George M

1985

• Dames At Sea

1986

• Carnival

1987

• Grease

• Slam

1988

• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

• The Wiz

1989

• Godspell

• The Diary Of Adam And Eve

• Pippin

1990

• Dark Of The Moon

• Cant Be Buried Tales

• To Whom It May Concern

1991

• J.B.

• This Is A Test

• Dear God….Childrens Letters To God

• Juvie (Play Festival)

1992

• Once Upon A Mattress

• The Velveteen Rabbit (KBCTW)

• No Man Knoweth His Sepelchre

• Flickers (Play Festival)

• Death Of A Salesman (Play Festival)

1993

• Bye Bye Birdie

• How To Eat Like A Child (KBCTW)

• Dearly Departed

• 45 Minutes (Play Festival)

• The Actors Nightmare (Play Festival)

1994 

• A Midsummer Nights Dream

• Guys and Dolls

• Beehive (Play Festival)

• Taming Of The Shrew (Play Festival)

• The Foreigner

• Charlotte's Web (KBCTW)

1995

• The Boys Next Door

• Lil Abner

• Tony & Tina's Wedding

• Godspell (KBCTW)

• Come Back To The Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Play Festival)

• Children Of A Lesser God (Play Festival)

1996

• Romeo and Juliet

• How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

• Brighton Beach Memoirs (Full Show)

• Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Cry Wolf (KBCTW)

• 1940s Radio Hour (Play Festival)

• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf (Play Festival)

1997

• The Wiz

• Student Directed One Acts

  • Laundry and Bourbon/ Lone Star

• Cotton Patch Gospel (KBCTW)

• Brighton Beach Memoirs (Play Festival - State Winner: went to Birmingham, Alabama)

• Big River (Play Festival)

1998

• Tartuffe

• Fiddler On The Roof

• Steel Magnolias

• Schoolhouse Rock (KBCTW)

• Pippin (showcase at State Play Festival)

1999

• Ruthless (Play Festial - Honorable Mention Distinguished Play)

• Scooter Thomas Makes It To The Top Of The World

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

• You Cant Take It With You

• Into The Woods Jr. (KBCTW)

2000

• Hamlet

• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

• Annie Jr. (KBCTW)

• Cotton Patch Gospel (Play Festival)

• The Colored Museum (Play Festival)

2001

• The Music Man

• Dearly Departed

• Guys And Dolls Jr. (KBCTW)

• Art (Play Festival)

2002

• Damn Yankees

• Barefoot In The Park

• Fiddler on the Roof Jr. (KBCTW)

• Psycho Beach Party (Play Festival)

• This Is A Play (Play Festival)

2003

• Grease

• Miss Firecracker Contest [full show]

• Music Man Jr. (KBCTW)

• Guys and Dolls Jr. (Play Festival)

• Miss Firecracker Contest (Play Festival)

2004

• Bye Bye Birdie

• Oliver (KBCTW)

• Lost In Yonkers

• The Rainmaker (Play Festival)

• Sweet Charity (Play Festival)

2005

• Big River

• A Midsummer Nights Dream

• Alice In Wonderland (KBCTW)

• Lost In Yonkers (Play Festival)

• A Midsummers Nights Dream (Play Festival)

2006

• Hello Dolly

• The Smell Of The Kill

• Peter Pan (KBCTW)

• Fried Pies: The Tawdry Tale Of Mitzi Massingale (Play Festival - State Winner: went to Atlanta, Georgia)

2007

• Anything Goes

• You Cant Take It With You

• 101 Dalmations (KBCTW)

• Fried Pies 2 (Play Festival)

• Scooter Thomas Makes it to the Top Of the World (Play Festival)

2008

• Oklahoma

• Feiffers People [ full show ]

• Pinocchio

• Big Bad Musical (KBCTW)

• 1776 (Play Festival)

• Feiffers People (Play Festival)

2009

• Once Upon A Mattress

• Tartuffe

• Robin Hood

• The Wizard Of Oz (KBCTW)

• Lone Star  (Play Festival - State Winner: went to Lexington Kentucky)

• Pippin (Play Festival)

2010

• My Fair Lady

• Inherit The Wind (Play Festival)

2011

• The Unsinkable Molly Brown

• Gods Favorite

• Winnie The Pooh (KBCTW)

• The Hardy Boys and The Mystery of Where Babies Come From (Play Festival)

• The Taming Of The Shrew (Play Festival)

2012

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee [ full show ]

• Check Please

• Puss In Boots (KBCTW)

• The Plays The Thing (Play Festival written by SHS Drama student Jacob Bell)

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Play Festival)

2013

• Crazy For You

• You Can't Take It With You

• The Jungle Book (KBCTW)

• Laundry and Bourbon (Play Festival)

• This Is A Play (Play Festival)

2014

• You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Don't Count Your Chickens Until They Cry Wolf (KBCTW)

• Kids Will Be Kids (Play Festival)

• 12 Angry Women (Play Festival)

2015

• Legally Blonde

• Almost, Maine

• Jungle Book, Jr. (KBCTW)

• Talking With (Play Festival)

• Sweeney Todd (Play Festival)

2016

• Shrek

• Much Ado About Nothing (canceled)

• School House Rock Live! (KBCTW)

• The Hysterical History of the Trojan War  (Play Festival)

• Lovers  (Play Festival)

2017

• Emma

• How to Eat Like a Child (KBCTW)

• S.P.A.R.  (Play Festival)

• The Rules of Comedy  (Play Festival)

2018

• Beauty and the Beast

• The Crucible (canceled)

• Seussical, Jr. (KBCTW)

• 12 Incompetent Jurors (Play Festival)

• Tracks (Play Festival)

2019

• The Wiz

• The Mousetrap 

• Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (KBCTW)

• Flowers for Algernon (Play Festival)

• The Boy Who Stole the Stars (Play Festival)

2020

• Little Shop of Horrors (1 school performance then canceled due to COVID)

• Dearly Departed (canceled due to COVID)

2021

• Godspell (2012 Version)

• Much Ado About Nothing (Play Festival)

• Jerry Finnegan's Sister (Play Festival)

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

2022

• The Addams Family

• Ken Ludwig's Treasure Island (canceled)

• Shrek, Jr. (KBCTW)

• She Kills Monsters:Young Adventurer's Edition (Play Festival)

• The Murderous Mansion of Mr. Uno (Play Festival)

2023

• Fiddler on the Roof

• Brighton Beach Memoirs

• The Little Mermaid, Jr. (KBCTW)

• The Complete History of America (abridged) (Play Festival

• That's Not How I Remember It (Play Festival)

2024

• 9 to 5

• His House

• The Other Room

• Willy Wonka, Jr. (KBCTW)