AUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE PRODUCTION HISTORY

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1 AUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE PRODUCTION HISTORY 436 productions and counting (7) Peter and the Starcatcher; Ascension Day; The Lion King Kids; Xanadu; Dead Man s Cell Phone; The Chopin Playoffs (UIL); Shrek (6) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; Almost, Maine; Godspell; Living Together; An Inspector Calls (UIL); The Red Dragon Revue (5) Fuddy Meers; Talking With; Gypsy; Rabbit Hole (UIL); Red Dragon Revue (6) Bald Soprano; Ordinary People; I Kissed a Vampire; Lend Me a Tenor (UIL); Dearly Beloved; Red Dragon Revue (7) Round and Round the Garden; A Midsummer Night s Dream; Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas; Legally Blonde; What I Did Last Summer (UIL); The Red Dragon Revue; The Laramie Project (7) The Jungle Book; The Magic Fire; Spring Awakening: School Edition; The Cinderella Waltz; King o the Moon (UIL); Red Dragon Revue; The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (5) Mad Forest; Over the Tavern (UIL); The Dining Room; The Miss Firecracker Contest; Broadway Musical Revue (7) Six Degrees of Separation; Season s Greetings; Musical Theatre Showcase; Talking With; Reckless (UIL); All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten; Wonderland High (5) Major Barbara; Holiday Hoopla; The Diary of Anne Frank; Into the Woods; Over the River and Through the Woods (UIL) (7) Dearly Departed; Willy Wonka; Museum; Someone Who ll Watch Over Me;... And the Rain Came to Mayfield (UIL); Annie, Jr.; Radio Eyes (9) The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Disney's High School Musical; Home for the Holidays; In the West; The Triangle Factory Fire Project; Round and Round the Garden (UIL); 101 Dalmatians; Red Dragon Revue; Urinetown 1

2 (10) The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade; The Speed of Darkness; A Christmas Carol; Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas; Bye, Bye, Birdie; The History of Tom Jones (UIL); The Jungle Book; Love Letters; Crime and Punishment; Red Dragon Revue: Get Wired (10) The Shadow Box; All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten; Antigone; Table Manners; Reckless; Talking With; Crimes of the Heart; Alice in Wonderland; Anna in the Tropics (UIL); Little Shop of Horrors (5) Paganini; The Bald Soprano; The Exception (UIL); The Laramie Project; Night of January 16th (6) Brighton Beach Memoirs; Five Women Wearing the Same Dress; Chamber Music; A Lie of the Mind; Noises Off (UIL); Noises Off (full-length) (6) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; Sleuth; Don't Dress for Dinner; The Secret Rapture; After the Fall (UIL); The Foreigner (faculty) (4) Mariner; Season's Greetings; Our Country's Good (UIL); Baby With the Bathwater (5) The Crucible; The Desk Set; Rumors; Reckless (UIL); Sylvia (6) The Rivers and Ravines; Measure for Measure; The Real Inspector Hound; Black Comedy; Machinal (UIL); Dearly Departed (7) Tom Jones; An Inspector Calls; Schoolgirl Figure; Vanities; Noises Off (UIL); Noises Off (full-length); Bedroom Farce (7) La Casa de Bernarda Alba; A Flea in Her Ear; The Miss Firecracker Contest; The American Dream; Equus; Ghetto (UIL); Play On (6) Our Country's Good; The Children's Hour; The Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater; The Boys Next Door; Juno and the Paycock (UIL); Alice in Wonderland (4) Holy Ghosts; The Whole Darn Shooting Match; To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday (UIL); Dearly Departed 2

3 (5) Brighton Beach Memoirs; Reckless; The Shadow Box; After the Fall (UIL); Rumors (4) The House of Blue Leaves; Look Homeward, Angel; The Madwoman of Chaillot; Of Mice and Men (UIL) (4) Variety; Macbeth; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Rope Dancers (UIL) (8) Romeo and Juliet; Working; Steel Magnolias; The Rimers of Eldritch; Vietnam War Stories; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; All My Sons (UIL); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (4) The Foreigner; Cabaret; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; To Kill a Mockingbird (UIL) (3) Auntie Mame; My Three Angels; Dark of the Moon (UIL) (3) Tom Jones; Little Shop of Horrors; Macbeth (UIL) (5) Grease; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Pygmalion; Threads (UIL); Broadway at West First (5) The Crucible; Godspell; The Madwoman of Chaillot (UIL); Going to See the Elephant; The Philadelphia Story (5) Scapin; The Fantastiks; Mother is a Freshman (UIL); To Kill a Mockingbird; Alice in Wonderland (6) I Remember Mama; Gorey Stories; The Torchbearers (UIL); Asylum; Requiem; Spring Follies (4) Dracula; Tevya and His Daughters (UIL); Charley's Aunt; Student Talent Cabaret (3) The Hobbit; Guys and Dolls; Tom Jones (UIL) (2) Little Red; Ring Round the Moon (UIL) (3) Another Part of the Forest; Mrs. McThing (UIL); The Music Man (4) Ah, Wilderness; Peck's Bad Boy; Carnival; A Midsummer Night's Dream (UIL) (2) Romeo and Juliet; Chamber Music (UIL) 3

4 (3) The Wizard of Oz; Twelfth Night; The Little Foxes (UIL) (5) A Clearing in the Woods; Blithe Spirit; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Golden Grotto (UIL); Carousel (3) The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Gammar Gurton's Needle; The Birds (UIL) (7) The Great Western Melodrama; The Birds; State Fair; Jane Seymour (UIL); He Done Her Wrong; The Ugly Duckling; The Marriage Proposal (4) Dora the Beautiful Dishwasher; David and Lisa; The Mikado; The Bald Soprano (UIL) (3) The Merchant of Venice; Our Town; Tartuffe (UIL) (9) She Stoops to Conquer; Royal Gambit; The Miller and His Men; The Importance of Being Earnest; Bye, Bye, Birdie; Oedipus the King (UIL); The Diary of Adam and Eve; The Apple Tree; The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (4) Take Her, She's Mine; This Property Is Condemned; Kiss Me Kate; The Crucible (UIL) (6) The Mouse That Roared; The Old Lady Shows Her Medals; Dangerfield Newby Moves Uptown; Oklahoma!; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Mary of Scotland (UIL) (5) Spoon River Anthology (UIL); The Cave Dwellers; The Teahouse of the August Moon; The Romancers; Sparkin' (4) A Thurber Carnival; The Wonderful Adventures of Don Quixote; Winterset; Othello (UIL) (3) Thor With Angels (UIL); The Glass Menagerie; The Enchanted (8) A Roomful of Roses; Stella for a Star; The Romancers; The Death of the Hired Man; The Farce of the Worthy Master Pierre Patelin; The Devil s Cuspidor; Pygmalion; The Grass Harp (UIL) (7) Inherit the Wind; Mr. Flannery's Ocean; The Boor; The Song of Bernadette; The Flowering Peach (UIL); Harvey; The Devil and Daniel Webster (3) Star Wagon; Alice in Wonderland; The Miracle Worker (UIL) 4

5 (3) The Skin of Our Teeth; The Teahouse of the August Moon; Ondine (UIL) (5) The Diary of Anne Frank; Mrs. McThing; The Old Lady Shows Her Medals; A Murder Has Been Arranged; Smilin' Through (UIL) (4) I Remember Mama; The Importance of Being Earnest; Twelve Angry Men; The Red Shoes (UIL) (3) A Roomful of Roses; Teach Me How to Cry; Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil (UIL) (5) The Glass Menagerie; The Little Minister; Goodbye Mr. Fancy; Ring Around Elizabeth; The Summons of Sariel (UIL) (4) Lady Windermere's Fan; Stage Door; Kind Lady; The Shining Hour (UIL) (5) Ladies of the Jury; Medea; Ladies in Retirement; John Doe; Little Women (UIL) (6) Seven Women; Smilin' Through; The Lottery; The Trumpet; The Slave With Two Faces; Jane Eyre (UIL) (2) Our Hearts Were Young and Gay; Out of the Thunder (UIL) (2) Green Grow the Lilacs; Blithe Spirit (UIL) (3) You Can't Take It With You; Kind Lady; Elizabeth the Queen, Act III (UIL) (3) The Curse of an Aching Heart; Our Town; The Silver Cord (UIL) (4) On Borrowed Time; Pride and Prejudice; Sorry, Wrong Number; The Heritage of Wimpole Street (UIL) (3) The Whole Town's Talking; The Barretts of Wimpole Street; The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Act I (UIL) (3) Ever Since Eve; Ring Around Elizabeth; Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers (UIL) (4) Sky Fodder; Our Hearts Were Young and Gay; Ring Around Elizabeth; Indian Giver (UIL) 5

6 (3) Every Family Has One; Double Door; Dust of the Road (UIL) (3) Junior Miss; On Borrowed Time; The Southern Cross (UIL) (3) Best Foot Forward; Lost Horizons; Road Into the Sun (UIL) (3) Seven Sisters; The Late Christopher Bean; Senor Freedom (UIL) (4) Charley's Aunt; Family Portrait; A Slight Case of Murder; 'Lijah (UIL) (5) Through the Night; Pride and Prejudice; Sham (UIL); Saved; Command Performance (1) The Sponge (UIL) (5) Seen But Not Heard; Big-Hearted Herbert; Brother Rat; Eighth Annual Revue; The Man Who Wouldn't Go to Heaven (UIL) (5) Kind Lady; Flammule; Night Must Fall; A Bird in the Hand (UIL); Seventh Annual Revue (4) Arms and the Man; Growing Pains; Sixth Annual Revue; The Princess Who Married the Page (UIL) (5) Double Door; The Bad Man; Smilin' Through; The Cajun (UIL); The Revue of (6) Second Childhood; Helena's Husband; The Elopement; Death Takes a Holiday; The Boor; Three-Cornered Moon (5) Tons of Money; El Cazador; The Devil Comes to Alcaraz; The Bride the Sun Shines On; The Giant's Stair (UIL) (1) Master Wayfarer (UIL) (6) The New Poor; The Birthday of the Infanta; The Mouse; Our Lady Smiles; The Black Flamingo; The No 'Count Boy (UIL) (6) It Won't Be Long Now; Gloria Mundi; Casualties (UIL); The Old Lady Shows Her Medals; The Call of the Banshee; Aren't We All? (3) The Whole Town's Talking; The Swan; El Cristo (UIL) 6

7 (5) The Country Cousin; three one-act plays (titles unknown); The Monkey's Paw (UIL) (2) Never-the-less; The Trysting Place (UIL) 1921 (1) The Two Rivals 1920 (1) Twelfth Night 1919 (1) Romeo and Juliet 1918 (1) The School for Scandal 1917 (1) The Taming of the Shrew 1915 (1) The Old Curiosity Shop 1914 (1) The Old Curiosity Shop 1909 (2) The Worsted Man; The Servant of the House 1908 (2) As You Like It; Bachelor Hall The Senior High Dramatic Club was formed in 1913 and lasted, we believe, until The Junior Curtain Club was formed in The Red Mask Dramatics Club was formed in 1926 and co-existed with the JCC. The Junior Curtain Club and the Red Mask Dramatics Club joined in February of 1929 to become the Austin High School Little Theatre. The Red Dragon Players began in the fall of 1929, under the direction of James R. Burton. The last show on the Rio Grande campus was The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in the spring of 1975, and the first show on the current campus was A Clearing in the Woods in the fall of

8 DIRECTOR TIMELINE Early (pre-1926) theatre directors Junior Curtain Club (1926) Red Mask Dramatic Club (1927) Austin High School Little Theatre (1927) Florence Brooke Raymond Gerhardt Eva Mae Moore (?) Clel Thurman Silvey Effie Wiley Effie Mae Moore RED DRAGON PLAYERS Years directed director's name # of shows James R. Burton Juanita Simpson Robbie Wells Smith Naomi (Davis) Norton Margaret Breedlove Gloria (Cole) Wyndham Terri (Flynn) Bown Warner T. Dahlberg Candy Buckley Jana Schrum Jan Diane Arp 2 Jan Larry D. Preas Billy Dragoo Billy Dragoo & Suewannee Eubank Billy Dragoo 21 8

9 Billy Dragoo & Annie Dragoo Billy Dragoo & Tommy Grubbs Billy Dragoo & Shannon Tipton present Billy Dragoo & Annie Dragoo 31 9

10 Stephen F. Austin High School One-Act Play History Year Title Director Championships 1928 The Trysting Place Gerhardt 1929 The Monkey's Paw Moore 1930 El Cristo Burton D, R 1931 Casualties D, R, S - 1st 1932 The No 'Count Boy D 1933 Master Wayfarer D, R, S - 2nd 1934 The Giant's Stair D, R, S - 2nd The Cajun D, R, S - 2nd 1937 The Princess Who Married the Page 1938 A Bird in the Hand D, R 1939 The Man Who Wouldn't Go To Heaven D, R 1940 The Sponge 1941 Sham Simpson D 1942 'Lijah D, R, S - 2nd 1943 Senor Freedom Wells 1944 Road Into the Sun D, R, S - 2nd 1945 The Southern Cross D 1946 Dust of the Road 1947 Indian Giver Davis D, R 1948 Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers D, R, S - 2nd 1949 The Barretts of Wimpole Street D, R, S - 2nd 1950 The Heritage of Wimpole Street D, R, S - 2nd 1951 The Silver Cord, Act III 1952 Elizabeth the Queen, Act III D, R 1953 Blithe Spirit D, R 1954 Out of the Thunder 1955 Jane Eyre Breedlove D, R 1956 Little Women 1957 The Shining Hour D, R, S - 2nd 1958 The Summons of Sariel D, R, S - 2nd 1959 Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil D 1960 The Red Shoes 10

11 1961 Smilin' Through Cole D 1962 Ondine Flynn 1963 The Miracle Worker D, R, S - 2nd 1964 The Flowering Peach D 1965 The Grass Harp D 1966 Thor, With Angels D 1967 Othello 1968 Spoon River Anthology 1969 Mary of Scotland, Act III Dahlberg 1970 The Crucible 1971 Oedipus the King 1972 Tartuffe 1973 The Bald Soprano 1974 Jane Seymour Z, D 1975 The Birds 1976 The Golden Grotto 1977 The Little Foxes Z 1978 Chamber Music Buckley Z, D, A 1979 A Midsummer Night's Dream Shrum 1980 Mrs. McThing Z 1981 The Miracle Worker 1982 Tom Jones Preas Z, D, A, R, S -- 2nd 1983 Tevya and His Daughters Z, D 1984 The Torchbearers 1985 Mother is a Freshman 1986 The Madwoman of Chaillot Z, D 1987 Threads Z, D 1988 Macbeth Z 1989 Dark of the Moon Z, D, A, R 1990 To Kill a Mockingbird Z, D 1991 All My Sons Z, D, A 1992 The Rope Dancers Z 1993 Of Mice and Men Z 1994 After the Fall Dragoo Z, D 1995 To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday 1996 Juno and the Paycock Z 1997 Ghetto 1998 Noises Off D, A 1999 Machinal 11

12 2000 Reckless D 2001 Our Country's Good 2002 After the Fall 2003 Noises Off 2004 The Exception Dragoo and Dragoo Z 2005 Anna in the Tropics Z, D 2006 The History of Tom Jones Z 2007 Round and Round the Garden Z, D, A, R And the Rain Came to Mayfield Z, D, A, R 2009 Over the River and Dragoo and Grubbs Z, D, A, R, S - 1st Through the Woods 2010 Reckless Z, D, A, R 2011 Over the Tavern D, A, R, S 1 st 2012 King o the Moon Dragoo, Tipton & Dragoo D, A, R, S 1 st 2013 What I Did Last Summer Dragoo and Dragoo 2014 Lend Me a Tenor Z, D 2015 Rabbit Hole Z, D, BD, A 2016 An Inspector Calls Dragoo, Dragoo & Mills Z, D, BD 2017 The Chopin Playoffs D, BD, A, R, S-2 nd 90 years of competition 50 District Championships 13 Area Championships 28 Region Championships 4 State Championships 12