Past Productions
2023-2024
Fall Musical- THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL
Winter One-Acts - THE EVERYDAY ADVENTURES OF HARRIET HANDLEMAN (SUPER GENIUS)
Spring Musical - RENT: School Edition
Senior Directed One-Acts:
2022-2023
Fall Musical- GODSPELL
Winter One-Acts - LOST GIRL
Spring Play - OUR TOWN
Senior Directed One-Acts: Zero Sum Mind, Loverboy, The Girl of Dreams, The Lost Elevator, The Big Eleven, Mona Lisa
2021-2022
Fall Musical- LEGALLY BLONDE
Winter One-Acts - HORSE GIRLS
Spring Play - EPIC PROPORTIONS
Senior Directed One-Acts: Happy Anniversary, That Darned Wedding Cake, A Regency Romance, JFK: Zombie Slayer, and How To Overthrow Your Student Government
2020-2021
Fall Play/Film- SEUL
Winter One-Acts - THE TEMPEST & LOVE ALONE
Spring Musical - LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S NEW YORK
Senior Directed One-Acts: Homecoming; Bobrauschenbergamerica; Cut; 15-Minute Hamlet; Forever and Always, Cam
2018-2019
Fall Musical - YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN - A Student-Faculty Production
Drama Festival - PRONOUN
Spring Play - SHE KILLS MONSTERS
Senior Directed One-Acts: EURYDICE, LA MOUCHE, NERVOSA, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
2017-2018
Fall Musical - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Drama Festival - RECKLESS
Spring Play - ALMOST, MAINE
Senior Directed One-Acts: OUT LOUD, PRODUCTION WEEK, and DAYBREAK
2016-2017
Fall Musical - CLUE
Emerson Fest - KENT STATE
Spring Senior Show - [TITLE OF SHOW]
Spring Play - THE PLAY'S THE THING
2013-2014
Fall Play - DEAD ON ARRIVAL (D.O.A.)
Emerson Fest - COBB
Spring Musical - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
2012-2013
Fall Play - VOICES FROM THE FIRE
Emerson Fest - BOTTOM'S DREAM
Spring Musical - THE WHO'S TOMMY
2011-2012
Fall Play - ALISON GRIMM AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
**** LITTLE THEATER CLOSES; WHS MAINSTAGE IN NEW HIGH SCHOOL OPENS. 1/2012 ****
Spring Musical - FAME
2010-2011
Fall Play - LARRY MARRS AND THE RADIO ALL STARS featuring WAR OF THE WORLDS
Spring Musical - LES MISERABLES
2009-2010
Fall Musical - FLIGHT OF THE LAWN CHAIR MAN
Special Project - THIEVES OF MERCY
Spring Play - MACBETH
2007-2008
Fall Musical - URINETOWN
Emerson Show: EARTHBOUND (Original Dance Production)
Spring Show: Five Stories Up (A collection of 5 short plays including The Actor's Nightmare, Pullman Car Hiawatha, and Aria da Capo)
2006-2007
Musical: GODSPELL
Emerson Show: HAMLET
Spring Show: RETURNING ROAD (Original Production)
2005-2006
Musical: WORKING
Winter Week: Peggy the Pint-Sized Pirate, Four Little Words, A Minded-Side Romance, Ludlow Fair
Emerson Show: SOUTH DAKOTA
Spring Show: A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM
2004-2005
Musical: SMILE
Spring Show: CLICKER DAVIS OR THE BOOK OF LIGHT (Original Production)
2003-2004
Musical: FOOTLOOSE
Winter week: The Scheme of the Shiftless Drifter, Phoney TV, Movie Madness, Almost Famous
Emerson Festival: The Winter Stories: Three One-Act Plays: Too Much, Not Enough; The Troubles; The Actor’s Nightmare
Spring Show: TWELTH NIGHT
2002-2003
Fall Musical: INTO THE WOODS
Winter Week Plays: The Good Doctor, Four Little Words, The Day the President Called… and Called… and Called, BYOC: Bring Your Own Compass
Spring Show: BOOMER
2001-2002
Musical: THE WHO'S TOMMY
Winter Week: Snow.. Sort of… White, Cut, Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast, English Made Simple
2000-2001
SONG FOR A SOUL
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
Winter Week: ONCE UPON A BEGINNING, THE LOST ELEVATOR, WAR OF THE WORLDS, SURE THING
Spring Show: LETTERS THAT YOU WROTE (Original Production)
1999-2000
FAME
Winter Week: The Mystery of Dullsville, The Prodigal Son, The Lottery, Schemes of the Driftless Shifter
1998-1999
1999 Working
Winter Week: Pullman Car Hiawatha, Sorry, Wrong Number, The Crazy, Mixed Up Island of Dr. Moreau, Crawling Alfonso
1997-1998
1998: Jesus Christ Superstar
*starring Dan Zaitchik, who just won the Kleban Award for musical theater this last year)
Winter Week: Reunion 2031, A War of Words, Anybody for Tea?, Voices from the High School
1996-1997
1997: Animal Farm
Winter Week: Senior Square, Four Little Words, God, The Day the President Called
1995-1996
1996: Once On this Island
Contest Play: The Boy Who Killed Superman
Winter Week: How to Eat Like a Child ,The Prize, And Stuff… (name of freshman play not included)
1994-1995
1995: Once Upon a Mattress
Contest Play: Don’t Sleep Under the Mapou Tree
Winter Week: The Bald Soprano, Paxton Douglass: The World’s Greatest Pianist, Oz Vegas, senior play not named
1993-1994
1994
Fall Play: The Rimers of Eldrich
Contest Play: Rare Monkey
Winter Week: Once Upon a Playground, the Monster, Overruled, Growing Up
1992-1993
1991-1992
Contest Play: The Family Continues
Fall Drama: Being Frank
Winter Week: Lottery, Madly in Love, TV Bride, Tall Men of Average Height
1990-1991
Contest Play: Mad Dog Blues
Winter Week: A Mad Breakfast, The Ugly Duckling, An Overpraised Season, Call it What You Want
1989-1990
Fall Play: TV
Contest Play: Sins of the Father
Winter Week: My Dearest Magaret, Ground Zero, Two Small Fries to Go, Impromptu
1988-1989
Fall Play: Waiting for Lefty
Contest Play: Love Letters to America
Winter Week: The Lesson, The Waiting Room, Sorry Wrong Number, Breaking Up is Hard to Do
1987-1988
Spoon River Anthology
Winter Week Plays: The Real Inspector Hound, And Stuff…., The Insanity of Mary Girard, The Curious Savage
GODSPELL
A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM
Before 1987 -- Theater at Wayland High School:
1987
Fall Play: Twelfth Night
Winter Week: California Suite, I Remember Mama, The Balcony Scene, Feiffer’s People
1986:
Play: Dracula
Winter Week: Bridges… Are When You Cross Them, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wilde, The Acting Lesson, The Waiting Room
1985:
Musical: Grease
Winter Week: The Great American Cheese Sandwich, Overtones, Wait Until Dark, Little Fears
1983-84:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Winter Week: You Can’t Take it With You, The Eighteenth Noel, The Dining Room, Overruled
1983:
Fall Musical: Pirates of Penzance
Contest Play: The Good Doctor
Winter Week: Scenes from American Life, Simon Suite, The Bald Soprano, Voices from High School
1982
Play: The Miracle Worker
Contest Play: The Shadow Box Act 1
Musical: Pippin
Winter Week: The Children’s Story, Wings, Feiffer’s People, Mr. Flannery’s Ocean
1981: The Real Inspector Hound
Winter Week: Games, Subject to Change Act 1, Spoon River Anthology, A Thurber Carnival
Contest Play: School for Wives
Spring Musical: Guys and Dolls
1980: “I’m Nobody”
Winter Week: A Storm in the Dorm, Adaptations, Early Frost, Love’s the Best Doctor
1979: “Not Gonna Let it Bother Me Tonight” (sketches/songs)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on the Main-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Contest Play: A Different Drummer
Winter Week: Sorry Wrong Number, The Sisters MacIntosh, Infancy, Bits and Pieces
1975: Arsenic and Old Lace and The Admirable Crichton
Winter Week: Mimsy and the Borogoves, Adaptation, Impromptu, Wings
1974:
Winter Week: No Why, A Trysting Place
Drama:
Everybody’s Got Their Song
A Thousand Clowns
1973
Remember When (musical revue)
The Crucible
Winter Week: The Bald Soprano, Gloria Mundi, Mr. Flannery’s Ocean, The Interview
Senior Production: Deadwood Dick
1972
Crazy Carousel
Once Upon a Mattress (Senior Play, their first musical - “for the first time in school history, the seniors decided to deviate from doing a strict dramatic production to producing a musical”)
Winter Week: Ugly Duckling (other plays not named)
1971
Star Spangled Girl
Winter Week: Early Frost, The Hairy Falsetto, Nobody Wins
1970
winter week senior play (no title provided)
1969
The Ghost
Alice in Wonderland
Winter Week: The Truth, Impromptu, Infancy, The Devil and Daniel Webster
1960 Senior Class Play, Curtains Going Up by Gregory Johnson