Performances

Performances at Gorham High School

For decades there have been student performances at Gorham High School. Plays and musicals are an annual tradition. In the past there have been annual operettas and senior class plays, put on solely by the senior class. This page will list the performances put on by the students at GHS.

This is an incomplete list. Not all of the performances, plays, musicals, etc. were mentioned in the yearbook. The years that are not listed do not have any performances mentioned.

Information provided from the following:

• Digitized yearbooks by Baxter Memorial Library, at the link here: Click

• Gorham Times news articles

1938-1939

• Senior Class Play

  • "A Prince to Order" - May 16th-17th, 1939

• Operetta 

  • "The Magic Ruby" - May 26th, 1939

1941-1942

• One-Act Plays

  • "The Old Pinter Place" - April 1942

  • "A Wedding" - April 1942

  • "He Ain't Done Right By Nell" - April 1942

• Senior Class Play

  • "The Mad Hatters"

• Operetta

  • "Uncle Sam's Boys in Camp" - January 22nd, 1942

1942-1943

• Senior Class Play

  • "Ma's New Husband" - March 18th, 1943

1943-1944 (mentioned in 1946 yearbook)

• Senior Class Play

  • "The Midnight Ghost"

1944-1945

• Senior Class Play

  • "Don't Take My Penny" - December 14th, 1944

1945-1946

• Senior Class Play

  • "Professor, How Could You!" - November 28th, 1945

1946-1947

• Senior Class Play

  • "The Little Honey" - April 2nd, 1947

1947-1948

• Drama Club

  • "The Count of Unoware" - Musical

• Senior Class Play

  • "Girl Shy" - December 18th, 1947

1948-1949

• Senior Class Play

  • "Ever Since Eve" - January 21st, 1949

• Operetta

  • "The Pirates of Penzance" - Spring 1949

1949-1950

• Senior Class Play

  • "Don't Darken My Door" - December 15th, 1949

• Operetta

  • "Patience" - March 30th-31st, 1950

1950-1951

• Senior Class Play

  • "Home Sweet Homicide" - November 17th, 1950

• Operetta

  • "The Gondoliers" - March 1951

• Drama Club

  • "I Love You Truly" - One-Act Play

  • "The Mystery of the Silver-Backed Hairbrush" - April 4th, 1951

1951-1952

• Senior Class Play

  • "Meet a Body" - November 1951

• Operetta

  • "Iolanthe" - March 1952

• Drama Club

  • "Liliom" - May 9th, 1952

1952-1953

• Senior Class Play

  • "Act Your Age" 

1953-1954

• Senior Class Play

  • "State Fair" - November 19th-20th, 1953

• Operetta

  • "The Mikado" - March 25th, 1954

• Drama Club

  • "The High Window" - March 17th, 1954

  • "Hansel and Gretel" - April 1954

1954-1955

• Senior Class Play

  • "Years Ago" - November 18th-19th, 1954

• Drama Club

  • "Balcony Scene" - March 29th, 1955

  • "Sleeping Beauty" - Spring 1955

1955-1956

• Senior Class Play

  • "Professor, How Could You!" - November 3rd-4th, 1955

• Operetta

  • "The Pirates of Penzance" - March 1956

1956-1957

• Senior Class Play

  • "The Little Dog Laughed" - December 13th-14th, 1956

1957-1958

• Operetta

  • "The Gondoliers"

• Senior Class Play

1958-1959

• Senior Class Play

  • "Take Care of My Little Girl"

• Operetta

  • "Iolanthe"

1959-1960

• Operetta

  • "The Mikado" - March 31st-April 1st, 1960

• Senior Class Play

  • "June Graduate" 

1960-1961

• Drama Club

  • "The Lord's Prayer"

  • "Trifles"

• Operetta

  • "Patience" - Spring 1961

1962-1963

• Drama Club

  • "Only an Orphan Girl"

1963-1964

• Drama Club

  • "Her Majesty Miss Jones" - November 15th, 1963

1964-1965

• Drama Club

  • "More Than Meets the Eye"

1965-1966

• Operetta

  • "The Gondoliers" - March 25th-26th, 1966

• Drama Club

  • "Tom Jones"

1966-1967

• Operetta

  • "The Mikado" 

• Drama Club

  • "You Can't Take It With You"

1968-1969

• Drama Club

  • "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay"

1971-1972

• Senior Class Play

  • "Up the Down Staircase" - January 1972

  • Unknown play - Spring 1972 (mentioned in yearbook)

1972-1973

• Senior Class Plays

  • "Neighbors"

  • "The Still Alarm"

  • "Aria Da Capo"

• Unnamed play (mentioned in 1974 yearbook)

1973-1974

• Two unnamed Christmas one-act plays (mentioned in 1974 yearbook) - December 1973

• Senior Class Play (mentioned in 1974 yearbook) - Spring 1974

1974-1975

• Drama Club

  • "The Lottery" - November 1974

1975-1976

• Drama Club

  • "The Storm" - March 1976

  • "Apple for Teacher" - March 1976

1977-1978

• Drama Club

  • "Fiddler on the Roof"

1979-1980

• "Oklahoma" - Musical - Spring 1980

1980-1981

• "Anything Goes" - Musical

1981-1982

• "South Pacific" - Musical

1982-1983

• Drama Club

  • "Blithe Spirit"

  • "Harvey" (either 1982 or 1983)

• "Once Upon a Mattress" - Musical

1983-1984

• Drama Club

  • Several unlisted plays (mentioned in yearbook)

  • "The Man Who Came to Dinner"

1984-1985

• Drama Club

  • "The Mouse That Roared"

• Unnamed musical (mentioned in 1988 yearbook)

1987-1988

• "Grease" - Musical

1990-1991

• "Fiddler on the Roof" - Musical

1992-1993

• Drama Club

  • "Ramshackle Inn"

1994-1995

• Drama Club

  • "Foreigner"

1995-1996

• Drama Club

  • "The Importance of Being Earnest"

• "Oklahoma" - Musical

1996-1997

• Drama Club

  • "The Dining Room"

• "My Fair Lady" - Musical

1997-1998

• Drama Club

  • "The Taming of the Shrew"

• "Anything Goes" - Musical

1998-1999

• "Once Upon a Mattress" - Musical

• Drama Club

  • "Twelve Angry Men and Women"

1999-2000

• Drama Club

  • "Harvey"

• "Guys and Dolls" - Musical

2000-2001

• Drama Club

  • "The Crucible"

2001-2002

• Drama Club

  • "Rumors"

2002-2003

• Drama Club

  • "The Curious Savage"

2003-2004

• Drama Club

  • "More Than Meets the Eye"

2004-2005

• Drama Club

  • "I Shot My Rich Aunt"

2006-2007

• Drama Club

  • The Good Doctor

  • Booby Trap

2007-2008

• Drama Club

  • Almost, Maine

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

• "Guys and Dolls" - Musical

2008-2009

• Drama Club

  • And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

  • Several unnamed one-act plays (mentioned in yearbook)

• "West Side Story" - Musical

2009-2010

• Drama Club

  • "Twelfth Night"

  • "14 Lines"

• "FAME!" - Musical

2010-2011

• Drama Club

  • "Arsenic and Old Lace" - link to Gorham Times article

• "The Music Man" - Musical - link to Gorham Times article

2011-2012

• Drama Club

  • "Is He Dead?" - link to Gorham Times article

  • "Elephant's Graveyard" - link 

• "South Pacific" - Musical

2012-2013

• Drama Club

  • "The Miracle Worker"

  • "Face Forward: Growing Up in Nazi Germany"

• "Oklahoma" - Musical

2013-2014

• Drama Club

  • "The Imaginary Invalid"

  • "Mother Hicks"

• "The Wizard of Oz" - Musical

2014-2015

• Drama Club

  • "You Can't Take it With You"

  • "Baby"

• "Anything Goes" - Musical

2018-2019

• "Cinderella" - Musical (no poster)

2020-2021 Musical

Due to COVID-19, there was no musical at Gorham High School in spring 2021.