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PRODUCTION HISTORY

A work in progress.  If you are an alumnus or alumna of Topeka West and can fill in some gaps as we go through the yearbooks and scrapbooks, feel free to send an email to kmurphy1@tps501.org. 

Special Thanks to Todd Bullock for filling in the 1987-1990, Steve Paige for information about 1963-1965, and former director Roger Ramseyer for sending us programs from 1975-1981.

Click on the title of highlighted productions to link to production pictures and/or programs.

  • 2023-24

  • The World Premeire of I Heard You Were Dead by Don Zolidis ​

  • A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 

  • Chicago Teen Edition by Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander

  • The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis (TW Players Production) 

  • Love/Sick by John Carini

  • 2022-23

    • Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ​

    • Sister Act the Musical music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Glenn Slater 

    • The Garden (TW Players Production written by TW Players) 

    • Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl 

  • 2021-22

    • Check Please! by Johnathan Rand

    • She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen ​

    • Schoolhouse Rocks Live! music and lyrics by various artists and a book by George Keating, Scott Ferguson, and Kyle Hall.  

    •  Mirrors and Choose Your Heist (TW Players Production) by 

    • The Play That Goes Wrong Play by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer

  • 2020-21

    • The Pandemic That Didn't' Define Them by Emily Hageman ​

    • Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris 

    • Bang Bang Your Dead (TW Players Production) by William Mastrosimone

  • 2019-20

    • Rumors by Neil Simons

    • Once Upon A Mattress by Mary Rodgers, Marshall Barer, Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller

  • 2018-19

    • Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory

    • Pippin by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson

    • The Rose and the Rime (TW Players Production) by Nathan Allen

    • The Curious Savage by John Patrick

  • 2017-18

    • The Secret in the Wings by Mary Zimmerman

    • The Addams Family, the Musical

    • Snow Angel (TW Players Production) by David Lindsay-Abaire

    • Mr. Burns by Anne Washburn

  • 2016-17

  • 2015-16

  • 2014-15

    • The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman

    • Lucky Stiff (Musical) by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahrety

    • The Sparrow (TW Players production) by Chris Matthews, Jake Minton, and Nathan Allen

    • Middletown by Will Eno

  • 2013-14

  • 2012-13

  • 2011-12

  • 2010-11

  • 2009-10

  • 2008-09

  • 2007-08

    • Little Moon of Alban by James Costigan

    • Fiddler on the Roof (Musical)

    • The Good Doctor by Neil Simon

  • 2006-07

  • 2005-06

    • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

    • Urinetown, the Musical by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis - CJOnline Article

    • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

  • 2004-05

    • The Heiress

    • The Music Man (Musical) by Meredith Willson

    • Proposals by Neil Simon

  • 2003-04

    • The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley

    • Cabaret (Musical)

    • The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr.

  • 2002-03

    • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

    • Les Miserables (Musical)

    • Picnic by William Inge

  • 2001-02

    • The Cover of Life by R.T. Robinson

    • West Side Story (Musical)

    • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

  • 2000-01

    • Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonough

    • The Boyfriend (Musical)

    • Little Women

  • 1999-00

    • Ordinary People

    • The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

    • Something to Hide

  • 1998-99

    • The Crucible by Arthur Miller

    • State Fair by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

    • Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon

  • 1997-98

    • Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

    • Man of la Mancha (Musical)

    • The Foreigner

  • 1996-97

    • The Miracle Worker

    • Annie (Musical)

    • Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

  • 1995-96

    • Rebecca

    • Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

    • Hello, Dolly (Musical)

  • 1994-95

    • Dancing at Lughnasa

    • Diary of Anne Frank

    • Oklahoma! (Musical) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

  • 1993-94

    • What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney

    • Of Mice and Men

    • The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Musical) by Meredith Willson

  • 1992-93

    • Godspell (Musical)

    • The Corn is Green

    • 42nd Street (Musical)

  • 1991-92

    • Steel Magnolias

    • Dracula

    • Fiddler on the Roof (Musical)

  • 1990-91

    • The Innocents

    • Whose Life Is It Anyway?

    • Grease (Musical)

  • 1989-90

    • Our Town by Thornton Wilder

    • The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht

    • The Music Man (Musical) by Meredith Willson

  • 1988-89

    • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

    • The Crucible by Arthur Miller

    • Oliver (Musical)

  • 1987-88

    • Teahouse of the August Moon by John August

    • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

    • Little Mary Sunshine (Musical)

  • 1986-87

    • The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

    • Picnic by William Inge

    • Funny Girl (Musical)

  • 1985-86

    • Nightwatch

    • Little Moon of Alban

    • The Sound of Music (Musical) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

  • 1984-85

    • The Good Doctor by Neil Simon

    • Witness for the Prosecution

    • Anything Goes (Musical)

  • 1983 -84

    • Godspell

    • Dark of the Moon

    • Camelot

  • 1982-83

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  • 1981-82

    • The Miracle Worker

    • Once Upon a Mattress (Musical)

  • 1980-81

    • George Washington Slept Here by Mass Hart and George Kaufman

    • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

    • Oklahoma! by Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • 1979-80

  • 1978-79

    • Cactus Flower by Abe Burrow

    • I Used to be a Pig, But Now I'm a Fontessa by TW Theater's December Acting Ensemble

    • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

    • Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee

  • 1977-78

    • Our Town by Thornton Wilder

    • Stille Nacht (TW Touring Company production) by m. f. denny

    • South Pacific (Musical) by Rodgers & Hammerstein

    • Picnic by William Inge

  • 1976-77

    • Diary of Anne Frank by Goodrich & Hackett

    • Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams

    • Unsinkable Molly Brown (Musical) by Meredith Wilson

    • Private Ear/Public Eye by peter shaffer

  • 1975-76

    • Bus Stop by William Inge

    • Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson and William Berney

    • Oklahoma! (Musical)

  • 1975-76

    • Dracula by Phil Grecian

    • Crucible by Arthur Miller

    • West Side Story

  • 1974-75

    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wesserman

    • Story Theater by Paul Sills

    • Man of La Mancha (Musical)

    • Sandbox by Edward Albee

    • The American Dream by Edward Albee

  • 1973-74

    • Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

    • Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

    • Funny Girl (Musical)

  • 1972-73

    • My Three Angels

    • Hello, Dolly (Musical)

  • 1971-72

    • Arsenic and Old Lace

    • Fiddler on the Roof (Musical)

  • 1970-71

    • Bus Stop by William Inge

    • Camelot (Musical)

    • Once in a Lifetime

  • 1969-70

  • 1968-69

    • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

    • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Musical)

  • 1967-68

    • The Heiress by Ruth and Augustine Goetz

    • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Musical)

  • 1966-67

    • Harvey

    • The Pajama Game 

    • Cinderella by Bree Brady

  • 1965-66

  • 1964-65

    • Sound of Music 

  • 1963-64

    • My Fair Lady (Musical)

  • 1962-63

    • The Music Man 

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