Theatre Production History
More than 150 productions have entertained and enlightened our campus and community since 1935. Here is a brief history of Centralia College theatre productions:2007-2008
Barrymore, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, In the Sawtooths, Nunsensations!, Weekend Live2006-2007
Mere Mortals, Peter Pan, The Two Gentlemen of Verona2005-2006
Fuddy Meers, Northwest Passage, Pippin, The Great Cross Country Race2004-2005
Talking With, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Much Ado About Nothing2003-2004
"ART," Fortinbras, The Little Shop of Horrors, A Midsummer Night's Dream2002-2003
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Ordinary People, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Importance of Being Earnest2001-2002
The Taming of the Shrew, A Few Good Men, West Side Story, Bang, Bang You're Dead, Love or Baseball2000-2001
The Comedy of Errors, The Diviners, The Pirates of Penzance1999-2000
As Bees In Honey Drown, Forever Plaid, Private Eyes, Psychopathis Sexualis1998-1999
Woofer, the Psychic Dog, Children of Eden, The Curate Shakespeare, As You Like It1997-1998
The Yellow Boat, A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine, The House of Yes1996-1997
Twelve Angry Jurors, The Compleat Shkspr Abridged, True West, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat1995-1996
All in the Timing, As Is, Dancing at Lughnasa, Into the Woods1994-1995
Lost in Yonkers, Our Town, Scapino!, Damn Yankees, Parallel Lives, The Kathy and Mo Show1993-1994
The Boys Next Door, The Grapes of Wrath, The Heidi Chronicles, Godspell, Lend Me a Tenor1992-1993
Steel Magnolias, Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown1991-1992
The Nerd, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Grease1962-1991
The following shows were produced and/or directed by Phillip Wickstrom, 1962-1991; they are not in chronological order:Outward Bound, The Typist and the Tiger, Noah, The Importance of Being Earnest, Antigone, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Village Wooing, Passion, Poison and Petrification, Box and Cox, The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, No Exit, Let's Get a Divorce, Mother Courage and Her Children, Hello Out There, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Endgame, The 12 Pound Look, LUV, Charley's Aunt, Admirable Chrichton, The Public Eye, The Private Ear, John Brown's Body, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Jewish Wife, Dial "M" For Murder, Trial by Jury, Picnic on the Battlefield
Corbet Hall opened in 1972, and the following productions were staged there:
The Pirates of Penzance, The Hostage, A Flea in Her Ear, Born Yesterday, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, I Am a Camera, Company of Wayward Saints, Finnigan's Rainbow, Playboy of the Western World, Riders to the Sea, Time of Your Life, Oklahoma, The Homecoming, Mame, Crimes of the Heart, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon-Marigolds, The Potting Shed, The Adding Machine, R.U.R., Hot L Baltimore, Of Mice and Men, Tartuffe, The Lady's Not For Burning, Awake and Sing, All My Sons, The Taste of Honey, Up the Hill Apiece, The Norman Conquest, Ubu Roy, The Physician In Spite of Himself, Night Must Fall, The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch, Arms and the Man, Black Comedy, Thurber Carnival, Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii, The Tavern, Twelfth Night, Play Without Words, The Firebugs, Noises Off, The Elephant Man, Deathtrap, Blood Wedding, The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness, Picnic, The Real Inspector Hound, You Can't Take It With You, La Rond, Krapp's Last Tape
1951-1963
Between 1951-1963, a number of different directors produced the following 15 plays:1963: The White Sheep of the Family; Director: Ed Eaton
1962: The Curious Savage; Director: Ed Eaton
1961: Outward Bound; Director: Ed Eaton
1960: Blithe Spirit; Director: Frank Rosa
1959: Dial "M" For Murder; Director: Frank Rosa
1958: You Can't Take It With You; Director: Frank Rosa
1957: The Rainmaker; Director: Ruth Stauffer
1956: My Three Angels; Director: Richard Lindner
1955: Harvey; Director: Norma Leigh Rudinsky
1954: The Brat; Director: Norma Leigh
1953: The Late Christopher Bean; The Blazer Blackouts; Director: Norma Leigh
1952: Sod, Sparkin'; After the Tempest; Director: Lucille Johnson
1951: The Man Who Came to Dinner; Director: Donald Houghton
1925-1950
The first 11 productions produced at Centralia College were directed by Margaret Corbet between 1925-1950:1950: Wings of the Morning
1949: Strange Boarders (rehearsed but not performed due to the 1949 earthquake)
1948: Ladies of the Jury
1947: Captain Applejack
1943: The Miser
No other plays performed during the WWII years (1940-1946)
1930: You Never Can Tell
1928: Captain Applejack
1926-1927: Polish Pebbles; Wisdom Teeth; Stop Thief
