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NPR Ed
The Most
Popular High School Plays And Musicals
Elissa Nadworny
September 15, 2017
NPR Ed published the first-ever database of the most popular high
school plays and musicals in the U.S. in July 2015. Today, the 2017
numbers are out, so we've updated our original story.
The brilliant script, the "really fun" music and the exciting tech and
staging feats were just a few of the reasons John Minigan decided to
have his students perform The Addams Family.
"A lot of the students didn't know The Addams Family TV show at all,"
says Minigan, the drama teacher at Weston High School, just outside
Boston. The nostalgia may be more for the adults in the audience, but
the show, he says, still asks an increasingly relevant question for
students: "What is the American family?"
Weston High was not the only one making this selection. For the third
year in a row, The Addams Family was the most popular high school
musical in the United States, according to the annual survey from
Dramatics magazine.
The new numbers just out also show that Mary Poppins stint on the list
was short lived: it was replaced this year by The Wizard of Oz. The
most-produced shows (both plays and musicals) remained the same as last
year: For full-length plays, Almost, Maine, again, topped the list.
That's not a surprise: The collection of two-person scenes by John
Cariani has been the most popular production for high schools this
decade.
It's appealing to high schools because it's adaptable, says Rebecca
Skrypeck, the theater director who oversaw a production of the play at
Springfield High School in Springfield, Vt.
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