JMU School of Theatre and Dance Production History

This is a work in progress. There are lots of holes in the data and there are likely a few mistakes as well. If you are a part of the JMU Theatre/Dance Family and in a position to add further information, do send your notes to Jonathan Stewart [email protected]

Bold Listing = Mainstage, Masterpiece Season Production Other Listings denote student-produced work, or summer shows, etc. * denotes Children's Playshop/ JMU Summer Theatre Production DT - denotes Dinner Theatre Production

2017-2018  New Dance: Featuring Eisenhower Dance Ensemble  New Dance: Featuring Christopher K Morgan  Anton in Show Business and Artists  Shakuntala  Equus  The Wild Party  The School for Scandal  Pretty Theft  Dancescapes: VA Repertory Dance Concert  First Lady Suite  Parade  Dancescapes: VA Repertory Dance Concert  Stained Glass  New Voices in Dance: Contemporary Dance  New Voices in Dance: Contemporary Dance Ensemble Ensemble  Danceshare  Out of Line  The Aliens  The Women  The Pillowman  Broadway Classics*  Dogfight  Revolt She Said Revolt Again  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concert  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concert  Senior Dance Concert  Senior Dance Concert  The Beaux' Stategem  Blood Run  The Sound of a Voice  Death and the Maiden  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare  Bridge to Terabithia (Abridged)[Revised]  I and You  Little Woman  Scab  The Yellow Boat  Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical*  School House Rock *  Just So Stories*  Rumpelstiltskin *  Rapunzel* 2016-2017  Broadway and Beyond *  New Dance: Featuring Attack Theatre 2014-2015  Serpentine Pink  New Dance: Featuring Christopher K. Morgan &  Children of Eden Artists  The Tempest  How I Learned to Drive  Guys and Dolls  Machinal  Picnic  Sweet Charity  Dancescapes: VA Repertory Dance Concert  The Cherry Orchard  New Voices in Dance: Contemporary Dance  Gone Missing Ensemble  Dancescapes: VA Repertory Dance Concert  Bad Jews  New Voices in Dance: Contemporary Dance  Nathan the Wise Ensemble  Orlando  Man Speak Dance  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concert  Other Desert Cities  Senior Dance Concert  Stop Kiss  Lake Monsters  Assassins  Body Awareness  Bent  Still Alive  Shipwrecked  Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play  Avenue Q 2015-2016  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concert  Senior Dance Concert  Movie Musical Madness *  Dead Man’s Cell Phone  Broadway Classics *  Sweeney Todd  Upside-Down Fairy Tales *  The Servant of Two Masters  Fancy Nancy: the Musical *  Contemporary Dance Ensemble in Concert  Go, Dog. Go! *  New Dance Festival  VA Repertory Dance Concert 2013-2014  Macbeth  New Dance: Featuring Amaranth Contemporary  Lucky Stiff Dance  A Girl Called Vincent  Boeing Boeing  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon  The Trojan Women Marigolds  Namely Muscles  Poe  From Here...to Broadway...and Beyond  Two Week Theatre  Dancescapes: VA Repertory Dance Concert  Experiamental Theatre Replugged  Takuya Maramatsu of Dairakudakan  Bat Boy: The Musical  All Shook Up  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concerts  Clybourne Park  Senior Dance Concert  New Voices in Dance: Contemporary Dance  Pinkalicioius* Ensemble  The Velveteen Rabbit*  Godspell 2010-2011  Peter Pan This marks our move to and first season in the new  Dr. Faustus Forbes Center  Dark Play or Stories for Boys  Arcadia  Experimental Theatre  Metamorphoses  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concert  Letters to Sala  Senior Dance Concert  Kiss Me Kate  Our Glorious Cause  Contemporary Dance Ensemble in Concert  Light At The End of Water Street  New Dance Festival  A Fear of Falling  VA Repertory Dance Concert  Middletown  Defiance  Mercy Killers  Bright Lights, Big City  Much Ado About Nothing  Jewelers Shop  Cabaret  Reckless  Cinderella: The Fairy Godmothers Tale*  I Love You Because  A Year with Frog and Toad *  Two Masters  The True Story of the Three Little Pigs *  Songs for a New World (Faculty directed studio 2012-2013 musical)  subUrbia  True West  For Sale  Our Town  Anna in the Tropics  Dog Sees God  Spring Awakening  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concerts  Romeo and Juliet  Senior Dance Concert  Six Degrees of Andrew Lloyd Webber  The Diary of a Worm, a Spider and a Fly*  Contemporary Dance Ensemble in Concert  Cinderella*  New Dance Festival  Metaphors in Motion: VA Repertory Dance 2009-2010 Concert  The Diviners 9/29/20  Awake and Sing!  Picasso at the Lapin Agile 11/3/09  R.U.R: Rossum's Universal Robots  Oklahoma 2/23/2010  Grey Gardens  bobrauschenbergamerica (4/27/2010- Last show  Slyvia in Latimer-Schaeffer Theatre)  Gruesome Playground Injuries  Contemporary Dance Ensemble in  They're Playing Our Song Concert 3/25/2010  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee  New Dance Festival 9/4/2009  Alumni Dance Concert  VA Repertory Dance Concert 12/3/2009  Fall and Spring Student Dance Concerts  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 9/8/2009  Senior Dance Concert  The Woman Who Always Got What She Wanted  The Mouse and The Motorcycle * 9/22/2009  Charlotte's Web *  Originals 10/6/2009  "49" 10/27/2009 2011-2012  An Oak Tree 1/26/2010  Our Country’s Good  Red Light Winter 2/16/2010  Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls 3/16/2010  Frat Boys, Mean Girls, and 586 Other Reasons to  Nine 4/6/2010 Boycott Women’s Magazines 2/20/2007  Senior Dance Concert 2/12/2010  Fat Pig 10/10/2006  DanceShare 10/9/2009  The Real Inspector Hound 1/23/2007  Student Dance Concert 11/12/2009  Eleemosynary 2/6/2007  Student Dance Concert 4/22/2010  The Goat 3/13/2007  Miss Nelson is Missing * (8/5/2010- First show in  See What I Wanna See 4/3/2007 the new Forbes Center)  Prometheus 4/24/2007 2008-2009  Wild Party (Lippa) 9/26/06  Seventy Scenes of Halloween 9/30/2008  Wild Party (La Chiusa) 11/18/06  The Rover 11/4/2008  Emperor Jones 10/24/06

 City of Angels 2/24/2009  Blood Wedding 4/28/2009 2005-2006  The New Dance Festival 9/5/2008  Blur  Virginia Repertory Dance Company in  Noises Off Concert 12/4/2008  How to Succeed in Business Without Really  Contemporary Dance Concert 4/2/2009 Trying  Tomatoes at a Funeral 9/9/2008  Oedipus Variations  Chess 10/7/2008  Ripen Our Darkness  Closer 10/28/2008  New Dance Festival  Anyone Can Whistle 11/14/2008  Virginia Rep  The Chairs 1/27/2009  Contemporary Dance Ensemble  Ubu Roi 2/17/2009  Wit  The Little Beautifuls 3/17/2009  Brighton Beach Memoirs  columbinus 4/7/2009  Alice in Wonderland  All the Things I Want to Say 4/21/2009  Bug  Alumni Dance Concert 1/23/2009  Best Supporting  Senior Dance Concert 2/13/2009  How to Fall Apart  Student Dance Concert 4/22/2009  Boy Gets Girl  I Never Sang for my Father 2007-2008  Hanah and Gretel *  What the Butler Saw 10/2/2007  The Mouse and the Motorcycle *  Jane Eyre 11/6/2007  The Velveteen Rabbit *  Urinetown 2/19/2008  Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp *  Twelfth Night 4/22/2008 2004-2005  The New Dance Festival 9/7/2007  Shakespeare’s R&J  Virginia Repertory Dance Company in  Chaucer in Rome Concert 12/6/2007  Mystery of Edwin Drood, The  Contemporary Dance Concert 3/27/2008  Our Town  Danceshare 10/12/2007  Bash  Student Dance Concert 11/5/2007  Angels in America, Part I  Senior Dance Concert 2/15/2008  Angels in America, Part II  Student Dance Concert4/17/2008  The Last Five Years  The Merchant of Venice 9/18/2007  1776  Side Show 10/9/2007  36 Views  Everyman 10/30/2007  Nocturne  Julius Caesar 11/15/2007  Lilith is Dead (Original Student Production)  Woyzeck / Agamemnon 1/23/2008  Pinocchio *  Suddenly Last Summer 2/12/2008  Androcles and the Lion *  The Pillowman 3/11/2008  The Princess and the Pea *  Edges 4/15/2008  Wind in the Willows * 5/22/2008 2003-2004  Rumpelstiltskin * 6/12/2008  Keeping Up With the Joneses  The Near-Sighted Knight and the Far-Sighted  Medea Dragon * 7/10/2008  Anything Goes 2006-2007  Hamlet Variations  Sweetest Swing in Baseball  Bat Boy the Musical  The Laramie Project  Pieces (Original Student Play)  Thoroughly Modern Millie  Stitching  All My Sons  References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot  Better Don’t Talk (Guest Performance)  Caucasian Chalk Circle  Proof  Betty’s Summer Vacation 3/23/2004  Strictly Experimental 4/20/2004  Equus  Peter Rabit and His Friends  The House of Blue Leaves  The Fabulous Fable Factory 2002-2003 1999-2000  A Flea in Her Ear  Good Woman of Setzuan (10/5/1999)  The Glass Menagerie  Moon for the Misbegotten (11/9/1999)  Pippin  110 in the Shade (2/22/2000)  The Misanthrope  The Foreigner (4/18/2000)  Thousand Clowns  Fences (12/10/1999 [or 1998?] )  The Flip Side  The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles  Sexual Perversity in Chicago 1998-1999  The Laramie Project  The Shadowlands 10/10/1998  This is Our Youth  The Tempest 10/10/1998  Fall Student Dance Concert  The Robber Bridegroom 2/23/1999  Waiting for Godot  Three Sisters 4/20/1999  The Striker  Everyman  Of Mice and Men  Orpheus Descending  Trust  True West  The Shape of Things  Looking for it - one acts including...  Cabaret  Andre’s Mother by Terrence McNally  Polaroid Stories  Yesterday’s Window by Chiori Miyagawa  Grooming  American Saint by Adam LeFevre  Mineola Twins  Sure Thing by David Ives  One Hundred  Death and the Maiden  Magic and Mischief (Original Student Play)  Endgame  Five Women Wearing the Same Dress  Rumpelstiltskin 5/27/1999 *  Cinderella *  The Bremen Town Musicians 6/17/1999 *  Puss 'n Boots *  Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse * 1997-1998  Sylvia 9/30/1997 2001-2002  Carriage 11/4/1997  A Fair Country (10/9/2001)  The Mikado 2/24/1997  The English Teachers (11/6/2001)  The Importance of Being Earnest 4/28/1998  Carnival  Sunday, Monday, and Albert Drew 11/19/1997  The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock (2/16/2002)  The Betrayal  You're a Good Man Charlie Brown  July ‘74  Buried Child  Goodnight Desdemona  Animal Remains  Mother, Father, Man 9/10/1997  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the  Static 9/10/1997 Forum  Blenders With Guns 10/1/1997  The Big Honkin' Sketch Show  Blood Brothers 10/22/1997  Chicago  Fool for Love  Design for Living  Arcadia 2/1998  Crave  Raised in Captivity 11/4/1997  Feeding the Moonfish  Charlotte’s Web5/28/1998 *  Suburban Garden  Rapunzel 6/18/1998 *  The Lovliest Afternoon of the Year 1996-1997  In this Valley (A Dance piece) 3/21/2002  Filumena 10/8/1996  Shopping and Fucking (4/17/2002)  Agnes of God 2000-2001  Kiss Me Kate  Cripple of Inishmaan 10/3/2000  The Professional 4/15/1997  Macbeth 11/7/2000  Little Shop of Horrors 4/8/1997  Into The Woods  Christopher Durang's one-act play, "Titanic"  The Twin Menaechmi  As Bees in Honey Drown 1995-1996  Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll AND Savage/Love  Brigadoon (10/17/1995) (11/16/2000)  School for Wives (Moliere) 11/14/1995  A Midsummer Night's Dream  The Wake of Jamie Foster 2/20/1995  Valpraiso  King Lear (4/16/1996)  Oleanna  Blithe Spirit (summer)  Three Dead Bodies Lying on the Ground  Moonlight (10/9/1996)  The Vagina Monologues 1994-1995  She Loves Me 10/18/1994  Folk Dance Ensemble  Talley's Folly ?  VA Rep  The Bacchae (2/14/1995)  Contemporary Dance Ensemble  Rosencranz... 4/18/1995 Joining the staff:  American Buffalo Mary K. Hart (Departmental Secretary)  Wait Until Dark Sharon Ratner (Dance Secretary)  Man From Ganymede (original) Gary Tremblay (Scene Shop Foreman)  Cloud 9 Traci Batchelor (Costume Shop Asst.)  Small Domestic Acts 1988-1989  Penetrator  All’s Well That Ends Well 10/4/1988  Assassins  Red in the Morningby Glyn Jones 11/15/1988  The Color Wheel  Uncle Vanya 4/18/1989  The Diviners  Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, by Tom  Godspell Stoppard2/14/2009  The Libertine  The Matchmaker 7/27/1989 LST

 On the Verge (Unsure of date) 1993-1994  Seven Dreams / Awakening & House  Eleemosynary  Steel Magnolias (Harling) 6/1 DT  Street Scene 11/9/1993  Little Shop of Horrors 6/22 DT  The Play’s the Thing 2/22/1994  Night of the Iguana 1987-1988  Uncommon Women and Others  Six Characters in Search of an 1992-1993 Author (Pirandello) 11/17  Defeat Partyby JMU alumnus, William  The Imaginary Invalid (Moliere) 2/23 Whalen(10/13/1992)  Orphans (Kessler) 4/19  Stars in the Morning Sky 11/17/1992  Major Barbara (Shaw) 10/6  Working 2/23/1993  The Dining Room (Summer) ?  Artist Descending a Staircase by Tom  The Fantasticks (Schmidt/Jones) DT Stoppard4/14/1993  Fools (Simon) DT  Thompson and Trammell Dance  Contemporary Ensemble 3/17 Concert 9/11/1992  Repertory Touring Company 12/3  VA Rep. Dance Concert 12/3/1992  Folk Ensemble 4/7  Contemporary Dance Ensemble 3/23/1993 1986-1987  The Ninth Step by Tom Zeigler (summer)  Lysistrata (Aristophanes) 10/14 7/22/1993  Betrayal (Pinter) 11/18  The Taffetas DT  A Chorus Line 2/17  Love Letters DT  A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) 4/21  Alone Together DT  Our Town (Summer) 7/30

 The Nightingale 1991-1992  The Game of Love (Tom Jones) 6/4 DT  A Lie of the Mind (10/8/1991)  Not Now Darling (Cooney/Chapman) 6/25 DT  The Lion and the Jewel (11/5/1991)  Contemporary Dance Ensemble 3/19  Another Antigone  Repertory Touring Company (Dance) 12/4  Tamburlaine the Great (4/12/1992)  Folk Dance Ensemble 4/9  Another Antigone (2/11/1992)  The Boys Next Door (summer) (7/23/1992) 1985-1986 1990-1991 (Theatre and Dance are now listed together on the  Moliere by Bulgakov 2/5/1991 same Season Brochure)  Sizwe Bonsi is Dead 4/2/1991  Holy Ghosts (Linney) 10/8  Uncommon Women  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)  Fences 11/19  The Memorandum (summer) (7/25/1991 LST)  The Firebugs (Frisch) 2/25 Havel  And a Nightingale Sang (Taylor) 4/22  Aladdin 1989-1990  Spoon River Anthology (Summer) 7/31  George Washington Slept Here 10/3/1989  Baby 6/19 DT  The Tempest 10/13/1989 ???  The Foreigner (Shue) 6/1 DT  The Revenger’s Tragedy 11/14/1989  Contemporary Ensemble 3/20  Little Mary Sunshine 2/15/1990  Repertory Touring Company 12/5  The Road to Mecca 4/17/1990  Folk Ensemble 4/3  You're A Good Man Charlie Brown (Gesner) DT  Requiem for a Heavyweight 2/27/1986  The Nerd (Shue) DT (14th season) 1984-1985  Crimes of the Heart (Henley)10/2 1976-1977  The Country Wife (Wycherly) 11/13  The importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) 10/7  Jesus Christ Superstar 2/26  Woyzeck (Buchner) 11/11  Buried Child (Shepard) 4/23  A Delicate Balance (Albee) 2/17  The Arkansas Bear ?  Cinderella (Luter) 2/1  Under Milk Wood 8/1 (Summer)  Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) 4/14  The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson) 6/8 DT  The Mousetrap (Christie) (Summer) 7/28  Children of a Lesser God (Medoff) 6/27 DT 1975-1976 1983-1984 (Marks the inaugural year of the Dinner Theatre,  Wiley and the Hairy Man which played for 17 seasons) 1982-1983  Captain Jinks and the Horse  Rabbits (Student Written by Charles Webb) 10/11 Marines (10/9/1975)  The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare) 11/15  The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (11/13/1975)  The Lion in Winter (Goldman) 2/21  Death of a Salesman (2/19/1976)  The Diviners  Guys and Dolls (4/15/1996)  Macbeth  The Rainmaker (summer) (7/29/1976)  Picnic  Children's Show (2/13/1976)  The Shadow Box 1974-1975  In One Box  King Lear (Shakespeare) 10/18  Twain by Tale (Summer)  What the Butler Saw (Orton) 11/14

 Hedda Gabler (Ibsen) 2/20 1981-1982  Carnival (Merrill/Stewart) 4/17  Servant of Two Masters (Goldoni) 10/13  Hot L Baltimore  Plaza Suite (Simon) 7/29  Momentum (Sutton) 11/17 1973-1974  Rhinoceros (Ionesco) 4/20  Summer and Smoke (11/29/1973)  Death Trap (Levin) 6/24 DT  How to Succeed in Business Without Really  Curley McDimple (Boyland/Dahdah) 6/11 DT Trying 1980-1981  Rosencranz... (2/1974)  Vanities (Heifner) 10/7 1972-1973  Punch Henry’s Jazz Funeral (Wells/Potter) 11/18  Our Town (10/19/1972)  Dr. Faustus (Marlowe) 2/24  Arms and the Man (Shaw) 4/21 1971-1972  Wait Until Dark (Knott) 7/30 (Summer Show)  Hay Fever  Golliwhoppers  Ten Nights in a Barroom (8/3/1971) 1970-1971 1979-1980  Lovers and Other Strangers (2/22/1970)  Henry IV, pt. 1 (Shakespeare) 10/2  The Pendragon Institute (Sutton) 11/13  Three Sisters (2/17/1969)  Man of LaMancha (Wasserman) 2/19 1967-1968 (Strindberg) 4/15  The Father Prelude to a Tragedy Black Comedy (Shaffer) 7/30/80    The Male Animal 1978-1979  Barefoot in the Park  Fancies (Ficher) 10/10  Rashomon  A Man for all Seasons (Bolt) 11/14  Oklahoma 2/20 1966-1967  Tartuffe 4/17  Death Takes a Holiday  Of Mice and Men 7/26 (summer production)  Little Women

 The Valiant 1977-1978  The Sandbox Season flier announces name change from Madison  The Murder College Theatre to James Madison University Theatre  Androcles and the Lion  Heracles (Euripides) 10/11  Spoon River Anthology  La Perioche (Offenbach opperetta) 2/21  Rashomon  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon  Ways and Means Marigolds (Zindel) 11/15 Shows without years listed on archival materials:  Loot (Orton) 4/18 If you know when these shows were presented, do  Bus Stop (Inge) (Summer) 7/27 send your information to Jonathan Stewart-  The Runner Stumbles [email protected]  In the Boom Boom Room (directed by student  Everyman (not the production from recent times) Warner Crocker)  The Bacchae Mainstage 2/14 - not the thr 2 prod of 12/9/1994  Chess (mainstage 2/17)  Fences - stratford (12/6)  Red in the Morning (11/15) LST  Stop the World I Want to Get Off 3/15 LST  Tally’s Folly 11/15  The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles - ThII - 10/6  Three Short Plays by Woody Allen - LST (LST Summer 198?. Allen Lyndrup directed. Featured play was "Kugelmass Revisited," adapted from "The Kugelmass Episode" (short story published in the collection, "Side Effects) Specific year still needed.  Accidental Death of an Anarchist Experimental Theatre with Tom King  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Sam Shephard  Things That Go Bump in the Night  La Ronde  Marat/Sade  Glass Menagerie, Thr I