Musicals
Plays
Shakespeare
Traditions
100

The musical for this year, based on a kooky, gothic family that had an acclaimed tv show in the 60s.

What is The Addams Family?

100

1999 play featuring the tiny nation of Grand Fenwick run by Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy performed at PAHS 1969.

What is The Mouse That Roared?

100

You should never say this play name before a show.

What is Macbeth?

100

Pre-show green room tradition where each senior members give their testimony.

What are senior speeches?

200

The musical PAHS performed last year about a young girl with a love for reading who discovers she has supernatural abilities.

What is Matilda?

200

1962 play detailing the story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate, performed at PAHS in 1980. 

What is The Miracle Worker?

200

"Goodnight, my sweet prince". 

What is Hamlet?

200

Pre-show chant to get everyone's energy up. 

What is Energy?

300

Famous musical was performed in 1983, named after a state.

What is Oklahoma?

300

1989 play that follows David Quinn as he tells tales on the radio which is just making its way west. performed at PAHS in 1992.

What is Voice of the Prarie? 

300

This play is about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

What is Romeo and Juliet?

300

This pre-show tradition is an enunciation practice involving coffee and copper cup.

What is a proper Cup of Coffee?

400

This musical features the song "How To Raise A Child"

What is Suessical?

400

The story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s which was performed at PAHS 1984. 

What is The Diviners?

400

This comedy is about the courtship and scandal involving young Hero and her suitor, Claudio

What is Much Ado About Nothing?

400

This pre-show enunciation practice involves bugs and bears

What is The Big Black Bug?

500

This musical based on a popular cartoon includes the song "Hero Is My Middle Name". 

What is Spongebob the Musical?

500

This 1950s' comedic play about Ethel P. Savage, an elderly woman whose husband recently died and left her approximately ten million dollars. This was performed at PAHS 1978.

What is The Curious Savage?

500

The tragedy following a Moorish military commander who was serving as a general of the Venetian army in defence of Cyprus against invasion by Ottoman Turks.

What is Othello?

500

This new pre-show tradition begins with "Fi! Fi Fie! Fi Fie Foe!" 

What is Vista?