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Mrs. Lauren Tobiason, Director
Mr. Robert Gross, Technical Director

Theatre Classes            New!  Fall Play '09 
The Cappies               
08-09 Theatre Events      Theatre Patron Program           One Acts & Dramastics Pics                   2007-08 Photos

(Picture at left: Cappies Gala 2008)
     
The Hammond High School Theatre Department
is comprised of students in theatre courses as well as students involved in the department's production and activities.

HHS Theatre produces
two major productions each year - a fall
play and a spring musical. Any student who is academically
 
eligible can audition for these productions or participate on a technical crew.
In addition to these productions, one-act plays are written and
performed by Advanced Theatre students and an improvisation group (Dramastics) performs in the spring. We seek to be an
inclusive, creative, and collaborative department where artistic
and personal growth are our highest goals.
 
     
2009-10 Fall Play: The Importance of Being Ernest
  New! Auditions for the fall play, The Importance of Being Earnest, will
be held September 8, 9, and 10 after school. Please sign up for a time slot
during the first week of school in the drama room.

Memorized monologues from the play are required
for the audition.
Please click here to download monologue options.
 
 
   
 

Our Theatre Department is proud to be a part of the Cappies of
Baltimore
, a critics and awards program that involves students writing reviews of high school plays. Reviews written by student critics are
selected to be published. Our reviewed production is eligible for awards in technical and acting categories.

For more information about the CAPPIES, please visit
www.cappies.com/bal/main.html.

 
 
2008-09
Dramastics
(Hammond's very talented and hilarious improvisational team) will be performing Wednesday, April 1, 2009 and Friday, May 8, 2009 at 7pm onstage. Tickets are
$5 at the door.


Advanced Theatre One Acts will perform Friday, May 1, 2009, and Saturday May 2, 2009, at 7pm. Tickets are $5 at the door. Join us for a celebration of student writing, directing and acting at its best!

The Cappies Gala will be held at the Hippodrome on Sunday, May 17 at 5:30pm. Please email Mrs. Tobiason for ticket information. Our fall production, "You Can't Take It With You" is up for many awards this year!

The Theatre Honor Society Banquet
will be held in Hammond's cafeteria at 6pm on Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Dramastics will be performing there as well!
Anyone who was involved with the department throughout the year is invited to share in this celebration and say farewell to our seniors!
 
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Performances:
     •Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 7:00 pm
     •Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:00 pm
     •Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm

Plot Synopsis:
The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, carries an unusual group of passengers. Included amongst them are a gangster (Moonface
Martin), a wealthy debutante and her mother (Hope and Evangeline
Harcourt), a nightclub singer (Reno Sweeny), and a wealthy New York
businessman and his stowaway assistant (Elisha Witney and Billy Crocker).
It turns out that Hope is Billy's long-lost love. Unfortunately, she is now
engaged to a wealthy Englishman, Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. After a series of
comedic happenings, Billy manages to win back Hope. Meanwhile, Billy's
friend, Reno, manages to seduce and win Lord Evelyn. All this happens
while Moonface Martin attempts to escape the law and Hope's mother, who
strives to maintain her social status. The show features catchy Cole Porter
numbers like "Delovely" and "You're the Top."

For pictures of ths production, click here!
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Anything Goes Rehearsal Pictures
Who's Who in the Cast
 
Part

Reno Sweeney
Hope Harcourt
Bonnie Latour
Billy Crocker
Sir Evelyn Oakleigh
Moonface Martin
Mrs. Harcourt
Elisha Whitney
Captain
Purser
Ling
Ching
Reporter
Camera Man
Bishop
Steward
Drunk
Angels

Actor
Taylor Washington
Mara Seibert
Sara Koeppel
Ricky Wise
David Kaiser-Jones
Riley Nichols
Hannah Grabenstein
Eric Bricker
Sam Ginty
Ian Brickey
Pat Burns
Janet Dabu
Jayda Simmons
Trevor Bublitz
Mikey Nugent
Nate Jackson
Kyla Sokoll-Ward
Adrianne DuChateau
Caitlin Rose
Rachel Fan
Julie Rose
Lauren Ory-Flowers
Liz Gildea
Olivia Plazak
Sarah O'Malley
 

Cast and Crew of You Can’t Take It With You
Show Information
                       
The Story:

At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive
young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice
that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view.

Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during
a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No
mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members
of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the
printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells
him he doesn't believe in the income tax.
                                                                                           ~ From www.dramatists.com

Performances:
     •Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
     •Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
     •Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm

Tickets:
     •$7.00 in advance (or under 12 years of age)
     •$9.00 at the door
Pictures from the Performance
See more pictures in the 2008-09 Photo Gallery
Who's Who in the Cast
 
Role

Penelope (Penny)
      Sycamore
Essie
Rheba
Paul Sycamore
Mr. De Pinna
Ed
Donald
Martin "Grandpa"      Vanderhoff
Alice
Henderson
Tony Kirby
Boris Kolenkhov
Gay Wellington
Mr. Kirby
Mrs. Kirby
Olga Katrina
Head Government
      Official
Male Understudy       
      & Officer
Female Understudy    
      & Officer


     Actor

     Hannah Grabenstein

     Sara Koeppel
     Nell Kropf
     Sam Ginty
     Pat Burns
     David Kaiser-Jones
     Ian Brickey
     Eric Bricker

     Caitlin Rose
     Kevin Walker
     Ben Eve
     Ricky Wise
     Rachel Nugent
     Shane Johnson
     Jayda Simmons
     Sarah O'Malley
     Laurel Rotter

      Jonathan Beahm

      Kaitlyn McKay

      Actor



      Katy Patchan
      Adrianne DuChateau



      Brian Nabors



      Jay Davis



      Mara Seibert
      Sean Jacobs
      Rachel Fan
      Kyla Sokoll-Ward
 
 
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