Most-Produced High School Plays and Musicals of 2022-2023*
8 Jun
THE ADDAMS FAMILY #1 musical and CLUE ON STAGE #1 play! AGAIN!
THE ADDAMS FAMILY returns to the #1 most performed full length musical again this year. A clear high school favourite in the US is also one of our region's most popular high school musicals too!
"The Addams Family musical has always been about one thing: family. From our families we learn about love, loss, joy, heartbreak, and all the feelings and fuzziness in the world. The family Addams are, like I wish all families were, embracing of change, welcoming of the stranger, deeply curious about everything and everybody, and filled with unbounded love. It's these qualities that have kept our musical at the top of the list of most-produced high school musicals in America year after year. When you're an Addams, you express your love to the fullest."
-- Andrew Lippa, Composer/Lyricist
Adapted from the iconic Nickelodeon series, THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL makes the top ten again and growing in popularity CHICAGO: TEEN EDITION appears for the first time in the top ten list.
Following the success of THE ADDAMS FAMILY full length musical in the survey, THE ADDAMS FAMILY YOUNG@PART has made the top 10 list of most performed short musicals for the first time!
CLUE retains the #1 full length play for the fourth year running followed by the very popular PUFFS in #2. Other repeat full length play favourites are RADIUM GIRLS, SHE KILLS MONSTERS (YOUNG ADVENTURER'S EDITION), ALICE IN WONDERLAND and the Reginald Rose classic, 12 ANGRY JURORS. Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN just missed out on the top 10 this year after placing on almost every list since its inception in 1938!
Playwright Don Zolidis continues to dominate the most-produced short plays with five of his works to make the list this year. The most popular being 10 WAYS TO SURVIVE THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE tying with Jonathan Rand's CHECK PLEASE for the top spot. Ian McWethy takes three of the spots with BAD AUDITIONS BY BAD ACTORS the highest in the list at spot #4.
We are delighted to report that we license nearly all of the top 10 short plays. Links to all the top 10 musicals and plays that we have to offer can be found in the lists below along with how they placed in the 2022-2023 EdTA survey.*
FULL-LENGTH MUSICALS:
#1. The Addams Family (Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, and Rick Elice)
#7. The SpongeBob Musical (Kyle Jarrow, Tina Landau, and various)
#8. Chicago: Teen Edition (John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Bob Fosse)
#1. The Addams Family (Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, and Rick Elice)
#7. The SpongeBob Musical (Kyle Jarrow, Tina Landau, and various)
#8. Chicago: Teen Edition (John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Bob Fosse)
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS:
#1. Clue On Stage (Sandy Rustin, Hunter Foster, and Eric Price)
#2. Puffs (Matt Cox)
#4. Radium Girls (D.W. Gregory)
#7. She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurer's Edition (Qui Nguyen)
#9. Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), Various adaptations
#10. 12 Angry Jurors (Reginald Rose)
SHORT PLAYS:
#1. 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (Don Zolidis)
#3. The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (One-Act) (Don Zolidis)
#4. Bad Auditions by Bad Actors (Ian McWethy)
#5. The One-Act Play Disaster (Dan Zolidis)
#6. Too Much Light Makes Baby Go Blind (Greg Allen)
#7. 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview (Ian McWethy)
#8. (tie) Our Place (Terry Wayne Gabbard)
#8. (tie) Tracks (Peter Tarsi)
#10. (tie) The 9 Worst Breakups of All Time (Ian McWethy)
#10. (tie) 15 Reasons Not to Be in a Play (Alan Haehnel)
#10. (tie) Game of Tiaras (One-Act) (Don Zolidis)
#10. (tie) The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza (One-Act) (Don Zolidis)
*The Educational Theatre Association has unveiled its list of the most-produced plays, musicals, and short plays in U.S. high schools during the 2022-2023 school year, the result of a survey that has been conducted annually since 1938.
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