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Donna Letzter, the theater director at West Aurora High School in Aurora, Ill., has put on ambitious shows in the past like Cats and Les Misérables, and last year she even figured out a way to get a helicopter to lift off the stage for a production of...
In high school auditoriums where Oklahoma! and Guys and Dolls once ruled, times are changing. For one thing, the spring high school musical these days is increasingly likely to be, quite literally, High School Musical - the Disney Channel hit that is now one of the most produced high school shows...
The new vitality of high school musical theater can be traced, at least in part, to the popularity of reality TV shows like American Idol and Dancing With the Stars, as well as to Broadway's new wave of family shows, from The Lion King to Wicked -which have turned...
Putting on a musical is also a good way to draw together the student body - and the community. "What people are realizing is when you do a musical at your school, it's not just about the kids in the cast," says John Prignano, senior operations officer of Music Theatre...
Doing edgier shows can still get you into trouble with conservative school administrators or community groups. A high school in Stevens Point, Wis., had to cancel a planned production of Urinetown in 2006 when the school administrators decided it wasn't appropriate for kids. An Indianapolis high school production of...