Production History

The CDH Theater Department is ever changing.  In order to provide students with a well-rounded experience in theater, work is chosen that varies in style, genre, concept, time period, etc.  Our seasons have evolved into the following format:

  • FALL PLAY – Varies
  • CHILDREN’S PLAY– The script is geared toward young audiences. This show is reserved for actors who have not played a major role in a CDH production.
  • WINTER  PLAY – Often used as a discussion piece for curriculum within CDH's school year. The show is typically staged in the Black Box Theater.
  • SPRING MUSICAL  - Varies

2023-2024

  • Fall Play - The Lion King, Jr.
  • Winter Show - A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Spring Musical - Matilda the Musical

2022-2023

  • Fall  - Much Ado About Nothing
  • Children's Show - A Christmas Carol
  • Winter - Sense and Sensibility
  • Spring Musical - Mama Mia

2021-2022

  • Fall - The Somewhat True Story of Robin Hood
  • Children's Show - The Velveteen Rabbit
  • Spring Musical - Chicago

2020-2021

 

  • Fall Play – Alice in Wonderland 

  • Winter Show – She Kills Monsters 

  • Spring Musical – High School Musical 

2019-2020

 

  • Fall Play – The Hobbit
  • Children’s Show – Miss Nelson is Missing
  • Black Box Show – 1984
  • The Spring Musical – Holiday Inn 

2018-2019

  • Fall Play - Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

  • Children’s Play – Merry Christmas Strega Nona
  • The Lillian Theater 25th Aniversary Show
  • Spring Musical – Jesus Christ Superstar

 

2017-2018

  • Fall Musical - One Man, Two Guvnors'
  • Children's Play - Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells Batman Smells
  • Winter Play - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • Spring Musical - 42nd Street

2016-2017

  • Fall Musical - She Loves Me
  • Children's Play - Lyle the Crocodile
  • Winter Play - Anonymous
  • Spring Musical - In The Heights

2015 - 2016

  • Fall Musical - Children of Eden
  • Children's Play - WILD
  • Winter Play - Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
  • Spring Musical - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  • Summer Community Show - CHICAGO

2014-2015

  • Macbeth
  • The Hundred Dresses
  • A Christmas Carol (Featuring Mark McGuire, CDH Math Teacher & Parent)
  • Here I Am
  • Hairspray
  • As You Like It (Featuring Angie Haigh, CDH 1995 Alumna)

2013-2014

  • The Drowsy Chaperone
  • Journey to World’s End
  • The Phantom Tollbooth 
  • The Bluest Eye
  • Oklahoma!
  • Pippin (Featuring Matt Riehle, CDH 2004 Alumnus)

2012-2013

  • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
  • Free To Be You and Me
  • Charlotte's Web
  • Picnic
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Fiddler on the Roof

2011-2012

  • Completely Hollywood (Abridged)
  • The Crucible
  • Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
  • Almost Maine
  • Her Cage
  • Sweet Charity
  • Oliver!

2010-2011

  • All in the Timing
  • Little Women (The Musical)
  • A Village Fable
  • James and The Giant Peach
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Pajama Game
  • Into the Woods

2009-2010

  • The Learned Ladies
  • And Then There Were None
  • Whatevs
  • The Jungle Books
  • King of Hearts
  • Seussical
  • Jesus Christ Superstar

2008-2009

  • The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) 
  • Twelfth Night
  • Madeline's Christmas
  • The Little Prince
  • Crazy For You
  • Noises Off

2007-2008

  • Everyman
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead!
  • Once Upon A Mattress

2006-2007

  • A Servant of Two Masters
  • Good and Plenty
  • A Thousand Cranes
  • Boy Gets Girl
  • Bye Bye Birdie

2005-2006

  • The Compleat Wrks of Willm Shkspre (Abridged)
  • Godspell
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Pippi Longstocking
  • Singin' in the Rain

2004-2005

  • The Birds
  • Dracula/Edgar Allen Poe Pieces/Macbeth Witches
  • Evita
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • An American in Edinburgh (An original script written and performed for the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.)

2003-2004

  • Twelfth Night
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • The Lillian Theater's Ten Year Anniversary Celebration
  • Wagon Wheels A Rollin’
  • Pippin

2002-2003

  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile
  • A Christmas Carol
  • The Tempest
  • Damn Yankees

2001-2002

  • The Boys Next Door
  • WILD
  • The Lesson
  • Camelot

2000-2001

  • You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown!
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Hush: An Interview with America
  • Guys and Dolls

1999-2000

  • Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • The Honorable Urashima Taro
  • Tribute
  • Grease

1998-1999

  • The Shadowbox
  • Revenge of the Space Pandas
  • TV
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

1997-1998

  • Steel Magnolias
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • JB
  • The Boyfriend

1996-1997

  • The Foreigner
  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
  • Dylan
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

1995-1996

  • The Dining Room
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
  • Our Country's Good
  • The Sound of Music

1994-1995

  • Noises Off
  • Interview
  • The Wiz

1993-1994

  • Working