NHS THEATRE HISTORY

2018-2019: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mr. Jacob Everetts

  • Fall Production: Play On!

  • Competition Show: Selfie

  • Spring Musical: The Wiz!

2017-2018: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mr. Jacob Everetts

  • Fall Production: Penny for Your Thoughts

  • Competition Show: Waylen (State Champs & Chapter Select)

  • Spring Musical: Godspell (original)

2016-2017: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mr. Jacob Everetts

  • Conference Show: Lockdown -- Directed by Mr. Jacob Everetts

  • Fall Production: The Butler Did It

  • Spring Musical: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

2015-2016: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Directors: Mrs. Krystal Thibault & Mr. Jacob Everetts

  • Conference Show: The Yellow Boat -- Directed by Mr. Jacob Everetts

  • Fall Production: The Diary of Anne Frank

  • Spring Musical: Once Upon A Mattress

2014-2015: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Directors: Mrs. Krystal Thibault & Mr. Jacob Everetts

  • Conference Show: All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten -- Directed by Mr. Jacob Everetts (State Runners-up)

  • Fall Production: Murder's in the Heir

  • Spring Musical: Disney's Beauty and the Beast

2013-2014: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mrs. Krystal Thibault

  • Conference Show: School Spirits

  • Fall Production: Miracle on 34th Street

  • Spring Musical: Oklahoma!

2012-2013: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mrs. Krystal Thibault

  • Fall Production/Conference Show: Almost, Maine

  • Spring Musical: The Sound of Music

2011-2012: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mrs. Krystal Thibault

  • Fall Production: Any Number Can Die

  • Dinner Theater/ Conference Show: Insane with Power

  • Spring Musical: ALICE

2010-2011:  

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mrs. Krystal Thibault

  • Fall Production: Hollywood Hillbillies

  • Dinner Theater/Conference Show: Hex Marks the Spot

  • Spring Musical: Bye Bye Birdie 

2009-2010: 

Director: Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce
Assistant Director: Mrs. Krystal Thibault

  • Regional/State Conference: Cinderella?

  • Fall Production: Up the Down Stair Case

  • Dinner Theatre: A Very Bad Day for Brandon Butterworth

  • Spring Musical: ANNIE

2008-2009: 

Directors: Mr. Marty Zeis & Mr. Jeremy Leazenby Bruce

  • Fall Production: Our Town

  • Spring Musical: The Wiz

  • Dessert Theater: Cinderella?

2007-2008: 

Director: Mrs. Amanda Blunt & Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Production: Aladdin

  • Spring Musical: Brigadoon

2006-2007: 

Director: Mr. Mary Zeis, Mr. Mason McKinley & Mr. Moore

  • Fall Play: Robin Hood

  • Spring Musical: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

2005-2006: 

Director: Mr. Marty ZeisFall Play: Our Miss Brooks

  • Spring Musical: Annie Get Your Gun

2004-2005: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: The Miracle Worker

  • Spring Musical: I Remember Mama

2003-2004: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis & Miss Kathy Hossom

  • Fall Play: Little Women Christmas: A Christmas Carol

  • Spring Musical: Cinderella

2002-2003:  

Director: Miss Kathy Hossom

  • Fall Play: The Importance of Being Ernest

  • Spring Musical: Footloose

2001-2002: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • One Act: Cinderella?

  • Fall Play: Robin Hood

  • Spring Musical: The Wiz

2000-2001: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis & Miss Kathy Hossom

  • Fall Play: Much Ado About Nothing

  • Spring Musical: Sound of Music

1999-2000: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis & Miss Kathy Hossom

  • Fall Play: M.A.S.H.

  • Spring Musical: Brigadoon

1998-1999: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis & Miss Kathy Hossom

  • Fall Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Spring Musical: Grease

1997-1998: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: The Nutcracker

  • Spring Musical: Stand and Deliver

1996-1997: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • Spring Musical: Li'l Abner

1995-1996: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

  • Spring Musical: Oliver!

  • Summer Workshop: The Trial of Goldilocks

1994-1995: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • Spring Musical: FAME

  • Summer Workshop: The Reluctant Dragon

1993-1994: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: Robin Hood

  • Spring Musical: The Wizard of Oz
    (The 1st Sunday show to be performed at NHS)

  • Summer Workshop: Frankenstein Slept Here

1992-1993: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: Subject to Change

  • Spring Musical: ANNIE

  • Summer Workshop: Cinderella?

1991-1992: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: Witness for the Prosecution

  • Spring Musical: Fiddler on the Roof

  • Summer Workshop: Red Riding Hood

1990-1991: 

Director: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Fall Play: Cheaper by the Dozen

  • Spring Musical: Give My Regards to Broadway

1989-1990: 

Director: Ms. Marsha Ward

  • Fall Play: Captain Fantastic!

  • Spring Musical: Bye Bye Birdie

1988-1989: 

Director: Ms. Sandee Schwenger & Mr. Brett Davis

  • Fall Play: The Jury Room

  • Spring Musical: Oklahoma! 

1987- 1988: 

Directors: Ms. Valerie Wolf & Mr. Brett Davis

  • Fall Play: Mummy Sea, Mummy Do

  • Spring Musical: My Fair Lady

1986-1987: 

Directors: Mr. Brett Davis & Mrs. Judy Whorley 

  • Fall Play: The Mouse that Roared

  • Spring Musical: Li'l Abner

1985-1986: 

Director: Mr. Cliff Lehman
International Thespian Society Chapter was founded at NHS

  • Fall Play: Ten Little Indians

  • Spring Musical: Camelot

1984-1985: 

Director: Mr. Cliff Lehman

  • Fall Play: Arsenic and Old Lace

  • Spring Musical: Fiddler on the Roof

1983-1984: 

Director: Mr. Cliff Lehman

  • Spring Musical: South Pacific

1982-1983: 

Director: ??

  • Spring Musical: ??

1981-1982: 

Director: ??

  • Spring Play: "Toga, Toga, Toga"

1980-1981: 

Director: Ms. Marilee Evans

  • Production: Charley's Aunt

1979-1980: 

Director: ??

  • Production: ??

1978-1979: 

Director: ??

  • Production: ??

1977-1978: 

Director: Mr. Baklridge/Sponsor: Mr. Marty Zeis

  • Production: Harvey 

1976-1977: 

Director: ??

  • Production: ??

1975-1976: 

Director: Miss Joy Viney

  • Production: Ourtown

1974-1975: 

Director: Ms. Joyce Hardebeck

  • Production: Up the Down Stair Case

1973-1974: 

Director: ??

  • Production: ??

1972-1973: 

Director: ??

  • Production: ??

1971-1972: 

Director: Miss Joyce Hardebeck

  • Production: You Were Born on a Rotten Day

1970-1971: 

Director: Ms. Cheryl Newton

  • Production: Tom Jones

1969-1970:  

Director: Ms. Cheryl Newton

  • Christmas Show: Christmas Windows

  • Production: Flowers for Algeron

1968-1969: 

Director: Mr. John VanMeter

  • Production: Carousel

  • Fundraiser: Oklahoma!

  • Christmas Play: Spoon River

1967-1968: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Mr. David Schulz

  • Production: My Family Tree

  • Musical: Fiddle on the Roof

1966-1967: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Mr. David Schulz

  • Musical: On the Subject of Change

  • Dramatics Class Production: Good Grief, It's Snow White

1965-1966: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Mr. David Schulz

  • Musical: Where Have You Been?

1964-1965: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Mr. David Schulz

  • Musical: Scratch a Clown

1963-1964: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Mr. David Schulz

  • Musical: Sir Hubert

1962-1963: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Mr. David Schulz

  • Production: The Ballad of Ulysses Gulch

1961-1962: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Production: Chinese Fortune Cookie Incident

1960-1961: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Production: Madison Avenue Madness

1959-1960: 

Director: Mr. Robert Williams & Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Musical: Wake Up Singing
    (NHS's First Musical-- Written and composed by NHS students and staff!)

1958-1959: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider & Ms. Margaret Ayers

  • Junior Play: Tattletale

  • Senior Play: One Too Many

1957-1958: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider & Ms. Margaret Ayers

  • Junior Play: His Ozark Cousin

  • Senior Play: We Shook the Family Tree

1956-1957: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider & Mr. George R. Davis

  • Junior Play: Oh, Aunt Jerusha

  • Senior Play: Quiet Weekend

1955-1956: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider & Ms. Lenora Cline

  • Junior Play: If Mother Only Knew

  • Senior Play: Spring Fever

1954-1955: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider & Mr. George R. Davis

  • Junior Play: Take Your Medicine

  • Senior Play: The Great Ben Allah

1953-1954: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Junior Play: Sittin' Pretty

  • Senior Play: No More Homework

1952-1953: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Junior Play: Mr. Beane From Lima

  • Senior Play: Strangers Beware

1951-1952: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Junior Play: No Soap

  • Senior Play: ??

1950-1951: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Junior Play: ??

  • Senior Play: Junior Prom

1949-1950: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Junior Play: Rest Assured

  • Senior Play: Never Say Die

1948-1949: 

Director: Ms. Eleanor Schneider

  • Junior Play: Desperate Ambrose

  • Senior Play: The Campbells Are Coming

NOTE: If you have information or pictures of ANY of the Northwestern Theatre Productions, we would like for you to please share. We are trying to develop a picture archive of ALL the shows performed at Northwestern. Please contact me via e-mail: nhs.theater@nwsc.k12.in.us if you can help, let me know!