Previous Productions
PAST PRODUCTIONS AT CRANSTON HIGH SCHOOL WEST
(Under the direction of Ms. Vitulli)
* denotes RI State Drama Festival Winner
Spring, 1996 Our Town, Thornton Wilder
Fall, 1996 The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
Spring, 1997 The Princess Plays, Colleen Neuman
Fall, 1997 Pippin, book by Roger O. Hirson; music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
*Spring, 1998 I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Celeste Raspanti (Holocaust)
Fall, 1998 America Revisited (two one act plays including Fashion, Anna Cora Mowatt and The Dancers, Horton Foote)
Spring, 1999 The Cave, Tim Kelly
Fall, 1999 Jesus Christ Superstar, Lyrics by Tim Rice Andrew Lloyd Webber
*Spring, 2000 Memorial, Charles LaBorde (An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans)
Fall, 2000 The Sound Of Music, Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
*Spring, 2001 The Rememberer, Stephen Dietz (Native American assimilation into Ameican culture)
Fall, 2001 A Midsummer's Night Dream, William Shakespeare
Spring, 2002 Hosted the New England Drama Festival
Fall, 2002 Once on This Island, book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty
Spring, 2003 The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Fall, 2003 Godspell, Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelac
Spring, 2004 The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (Civil Disobedience)
Fall, 2004 Cinderella, music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
*Spring, 2005 The Ice Wolf, Joanna Halpert Kraus (Inuit Tale about Discrimination)
Fall, 2005 Fiddler on the Roof, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein
*Spring, 2006 Bocon, Lisa Loomer (Immigration and Political Oppression)
Fall, 2006 Grease, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (a parody of 1950’s Greasers)
Spring, 2007 Acting Out, an evening of student directed one acts
Fall, 2007 Oklahoma!, Music by: Richard Rodgers Lyrics and Book by: Oscar Hammerstein II
*Spring, 2008 And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Jim Leonard, Jr. (Disability Discrimination)
Fall, 2008 High School Musical, stage adaptation of the smash-hit Disney Channel Original Movie, Peter Barsocchini
*Spring, 2009 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
Fall, 2009 Hair, book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot
Fall, 2010 Our Town, Thornton Wilder
Spring, 2011 Once on this Island, book and lyrics Lynn Ahrens music by Stephen Flaherty
Fall, 2011 Acting Out!, an evening of student directed one acts
Spring, 2012 Broadway Then and Now! a musical review
Fall, 2012 You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Book by John Gordon, Lyrics and music by Clark Gesner
Spring, 2013 The Women of Lockerbie, Deborah Brevoort
Fall, 2013 The Wizard of Oz, Book by L. Frank Baum, music by Harold Arnlen and lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
*Spring,2014 The Orphan Train, Aurand Harris
Fall, 2014 Pippin, book by Roger O. Hirson; music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
*Spring, 2015 Radium Girls, D. W. Gregory
Fall, 2015 Salute to Broadway: A Musical Revue
*Spring, 2016 Nora's Lost, Alan Haehnel
Fall, 2016 Hairspray, Musical by Marc Shaiman, Mark O'Donnell, and Thomas Meehan
Spring, 2017 Pandora's Black Box, by M. Tauseef Zaman '09
Fall, 2017 The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein
*Spring 2018 Still Life with Iris, Steven Dietz
Fall 2018 Fiddler on the Roof, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein
*Spring 2019 Hosted the New England Drama Festival
Fall, 2019 Oklahoma!, Music by: Richard Rodgers Lyrics and Book by: Oscar Hammerstein II
Spring, 2020 Anony(mous), Naomi Iizuka (cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic)
Fall, 2020 "the show must go on" a virtual night of musical entertainment (due to the COVID-19 Pandemic)
Fall, 2021 All Together Now!, a musical review
Spring, 2022 Clue on Stage, based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn, written by Sandy Rustin
Fall, 2022 Bye, Bye Birdie, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart
Fall, 2023 Our Town, Thornton Wilder
Spring, 2024. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare