Past Productions

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Fall 2024 - Footloose

Footloose the Musical bursts onto the stage with high-energy dance, music, and a story of rebellion and redemption! When big-city teen Ren McCormack moves to a small town where dancing is outlawed, he challenges the rules, ignites a movement, and brings the town back to life. Packed with hits like Holding Out for a Hero and Let’s Hear It for the Boy, this show is a celebration of freedom, friendship, and the power of music to unite!
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2024 Spring One Acts - Antigone Now, Alice, Black Comedy

Antigone Now follows a modernized Antigone as she defies the law to bury her brother, with tragic consequences. Alice reimagines Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as she navigates a surreal world of strange characters and logic. In Black Comedy, a power outage turns into chaos as characters stumble in the dark while the audience sees everything.
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Fall 2023 - NEWSIES

Based on the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, this Disney musical tells the story of Jack Kelly, a rebellious newsboy who dreams of a life as an artist away from the big city. After publishing giant Joseph Pulitzer raises newspaper prices at the newsboys expense, Kelly and his fellow newsies take action.
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2023 Spring One Acts - Hamlet, The Actor's Nightmare

In Hamlet, the ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The Actor's Nightmare involves an accountant named George Spelvin, who is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play for which he does not know any of the lines.
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Fall 2022 - Amélie

Amélie is an extraordinary young woman who lives quietly in the world but loudly in her mind. She covertly improvises small but surprising acts of kindness that bring joy and mayhem.
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August 2022 - Amélie Staff Preview

Under the guidance of Stacy Chadwell, Cameron Brownell, Jeff Tobrocke, and Jason Fearon, CVU Performing Arts held a two-week Theater Camp. Students auditioned and rehearsed for the fall performance of Amélie. On Friday, they gave CVU staff a sneak preview of the show.
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2022 Spring One Acts

CVU Performing Arts performed four plays for the Spring One Acts: Hallmarks of Horror, Murder in the Knife Room, The Real Inspector Hound, & Almost, Maine.
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Spring 2021 - Mamma Mia!

CVU sparkled with the iridescent blues of the Aegean as they performed Mamma Mia! The classic story celebrates friendship, love, and the joy of new beginnings with chart-topping hits from Abba. Due to Covid-19, the performance took place in the spring on an outdoor stage June 4 and 5.
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Spring 2021 - As You Like It

Due to Covid-19, performances were livestreamed on April 29 - May 1, 2021.
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Fall 2019 - The Drowsy Chaperone

Spring 2019 - The Laramie Project

Fall 2018 - Legally Blonde

2018 Spring One Acts

This year’s shows are: Attack of the Moral Fuzzies, a politically correct game show where contestants make life altering decisions; 9 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview, demonstrating a variety of things you should never do at a college interview; Death, a comedy by Woody Allen about a maniac loose on the streets of New York; and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, about the spectacular imaginary dream life that consumes a very dull fellow.
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