Programs From The 2010s
The Wedding Singer
Drama Night 2010
School House Rock
Drama Night 2011
Drama Night 2012
The Crucible
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Fall 2014 - Drama NightSix Seniors Came together to direct their peers in a night full of comedy, drama, and mystery!
The Ha-Ha House What happens when a group of teens stumble across an abandoned mansion whose owner has just escaped an insane asylum? Will they make it out alive? Haunted Hamlet Combine Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet together and what do you get? Haunted Hamlet! A modern day take on two classics, what happens when two stories converge into one plot line? Ten Ways To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse Zombies are coming, and you need to act fast! We have ten ways to survive them, we hope you make it out alive! Friday & Saturday, November 7th-8th, @7PM GHS Auditorium |
Spring 2015 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumOn a spring day in ancient Rome, the houses of Senex, Lycus, and Erronius are in for a wild and chaotic ride full of pirates, maids, courtesans, and clowns! You're in for a comedy tonight as Hero hopes to marry his one true love, and then he discovers she is already engaged to a captain from far away. His slave Pseudolus is there to serve, with a little help from his friend Lycus and his boss Hysterium. What happens when Hero's parents come home from their far off journey? Will the captain make off with his bride? A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Forum has it all!
Friday & Saturday, April 24th-25th, @7PM Sunday, April 26th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
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Fall 2015 - The Addams FamilyWhat happens when our creepy and kooky family has to entertain "normal" guests for dinner? Wednesday Addams has fallen in love...with a normal boy. They want to get married, but will her parents approve? Gomez is keeping a secret, and Fester is in love with the moon. It's never a normal night when it comes to the Addams Family!
Friday & Saturday, November 13th-14th, @7PM Sunday, November 15th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
Spring 2016 - FootlooseRen and his mom have just hit the small town of Bomont for a fresh start but Ren is shocked to learn there is one law that nobody breaks...the law against dancing. Pretty soon Ren is on the wrong side of the law as he rallies the kids of Bomont to end the ban against dancing. The only thing in his way is Reverend Shaw Moore, who has problems of his own with rebellious daughter Ariel. Can Ren bring dancing back to Bomont? Kick up your Sunday shoes and find out!
Friday & Saturday, April 22-23rd, @7PM Sunday, April 24th, @3PM GHS Auditorium 
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Fall 2016 - And Then There Was NoneTen strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.
Friday & Saturday, November 11th-13th, @7PM Sunday, November 14th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
Winter 2017 - 1st Annual Middle School Drama NightThe Anti-Play: A Pompous Drama Teacher obsessed with winning the state drama competition is forcing his students to perform a cutting from the trendy Broadway play Neck-Wuss by Peter Schnauffer. Disgusted by the ridiculous play, the drama students rebel and set out to disqualify themselves from the competition by performing their very own “anti-play” with a few imaginative alterations.
The Audition: A controlling, dictator-like stage manager is holding auditions for a production of Medea! Unfortunately, she gets an interesting selection of actors that show up- A confused girl who doesn’t seem to know her right from left, an air-headed singer, a mime, and a British fellow with something just a little off about him. Can they make it work? Friday & Saturday, February 10th-11th, @7PM GHS Auditorium |
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Spring 2017 - CinderellaThe timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. When Cinderella is kept from attending the ball, her fairy godmother appears to make all her dreams come true.
Friday & Saturday, April 28th-29th, @7PM Sunday, April 30th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
Fall 2017 - 30 Reasons Not to Be in a PlayStage kisses, pinkeye, inciting World War III -- these are only a few of the many things that can go wrong during the production of a play. From the author of 15 Reasons Not To Be in a Play comes a full evening of the horrors and hardships that befall those who feel the call of the stage. In a series of hilarious examples, this play proves that drama can be a very dangerous thing and it must be avoided at all costs.
Friday & Saturday, November 10th-11th, @7PM Sunday, November 12th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
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Winter 2018 - 2nd Annual Middle School Drama Night
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The True Story of Cinderella: Boy, did the "evil" stepsister and stepmother get a bum rap. They tell their side of the story...about how little Cinderella martyred herself into subservient and squalor, about how she gave up control of her life, waiting for the right man to take care of her, and about how her two step sisters, Anastasia and Drizella, used education to come out on top. Cinderella is made herself so hapless, hopeless, and helpless that when the big ball comes, Mama has to pretend to be a fairy godmother to convince her to go. Then they have to try and make sparks fly between Cinderella and the Prince so they can finally get her out of the house. A delightful twist on a long-time favorite story.
And Then There Was One: A Spoof: This take-off of Agatha Christie's famous stage mystery is all comedy, filled with hilarious sight gags and dialogue. Ten people are brought together by a mysterious invitation to the Reef Mansion on a tiny, isolated island,. Not one of them knows the host, who is nowhere to be found. Still, she has left an anonymous recording that bodes evil for the guests. Like the chocolate soldiers that inexplicably disappear from the mantel one by one, the guests begin to die one by one. Luckily, Inspector Miles is among the guests, but even she is stymied as to who the murderer could be! In the final scene, we discover the farcical twist! Friday & Saturday, February 2nd-3rd, @7PM Sunday, February 4th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
Spring 2018 - The Music ManThe Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall.
Friday & Saturday, April 27th-28th, @7PM Sunday, April 29th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
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Fall 2018 - The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
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During the World War II bombings of London, four English siblings are sent to a country house where they will be safe. One day Lucy finds a wardrobe that transports her to a magical world called Narnia. After coming back, she soon returns with her brothers, Peter and Edmund, and her sister, Susan. There they join the magical lion, Aslan, in the fight against the evil Winter Witch.
Friday & Saturday, November 9th-10th, @7PM Sunday, November 11th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
Winter 2019 - 3rd Annual Middle School Drama NightWashington's Axe portrays a huckster who tries to sell an antique axe to a customer, purporting that it is the actual hatchet used by George Washington to cut down his father’s prized cherry tree. The situation begs the age-old question: if you replace all the parts of an object, does it still retain its identity?
The Alamo parodies the events of the infamous battle at the Alamo in Texas, where folk hero Davy Crockett summons a superhero team of American legends, including Abraham Lincoln, Lady Liberty, and more, to defend the fortress. It is July 4, 1776 and while the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia are debating the Declaration of Independence, seven women wait in a nearby tavern for the outcome. Betsy Ross experiments with different colors and patterns for the new flag, Martha Washington and Martha Jefferson complain about the Quaker food, Abigail Adams follows the Congressional debate on her laptop, Mrs. Paul Revere plays solitaire on her iPhone, and Mrs. Ben Franklin runs her Underground Railroad operation through her cell phone. The women discuss the same things being argued at Independence Hall and come to some insightful conclusions of their own. The Ladies Declare is a wacky and anachronistic look at an historic day, but is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. Milestones in Comedy 339 BCE: Aristophanes Discovers the Spit Take follows how Greek playwright Aristophanes discovers his comedic devices while visiting the legendary philosopher Plato, who suffers from writer’s block after his teacher Socrates drank poison. Friday & Saturday, February 8th-9th, @7PM Sunday, February 10th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
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Spring 2019 - Honk!The classic story of our favorite little ugly duckling. Ida is patiently waiting for her little babies to hatch when out pops Ugly. The barnyard doesn't quite know what to do with him, but the cat has some ideas. Along the way, Ugly meets a gaggle of geese, a friendly bullfrog, and a pretty swan named Penny. When Ugly and the cat get lost in a blizzard, will Ida ever find her long, lost son?
Friday & Saturday, April 26th-27th, @7PM Sunday, April 28th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
Fall 2019 - I Remember MamaNorwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband, stern great Uncle Chris, and a highly-educated lodger who reads to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
Friday & Saturday, November 8th-9th, @7PM Sunday, November 10th, @3PM GHS Auditorium |
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