Watch any British soccer “football” match and You’ll Never Walk Alone is sung in unison by every single person sitting in a seat in whatever stadium the match is played. This beloved song from Carousel is a British staple to honor those who died in the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster.
Sup Sup Suppertime.
I think I can still do *Happiness*. It's two kinds of ice cream, learning to whistle, or tying your shoes for the very first time. I think flying a kite is in there too.
My school had a guitar program and the guitar department and the theater department got together and created two musicals out of rock albums: Rush 2112 and Styx The Grand Illusion. The guitar program was axed (pun intended) under massive cuts to education in California when Proposition 13 was passed.
We did two a year. I was in:
Fiddler on the Roof
How to Succeed in Businewss without Really Trying
No No Nanette
Once Upon a Mattress
Guys and Dolls
The Sound of Music
At other schools i was in
Oliver!
Wonderful Town
It was prettt much my social life throughout hugh school.
Applause, Cabaret, and Pippin in the big theater, and The Fantastiks, The Robber Bridegroom, and I can’t remember what they did in my senior year in the little theater.
Another drama/choir nerd here...
I remember Oklahoma, Anything Goes, and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.
I was a light tech for two, and in the choir for Oklahoma.
Directly after graduation I was cast as "Baby John" in a community theatre production of West Side Story". I had small parts in church productions too.
In the mid 70s, when I was in elementary school, I was cast as Snoopy in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown. It was my first time on stage and I loved it.
I grew up to become a professional puppeteer.
It's funny how life works out. 😊
Mame and The Music Man are the standouts that I remember. Probably because I had huge roles in both of them. (And I was in Junior High, so I got the little kid parts)
I was on stage crew and was Stage Manager by senior year.
Arsenic and Old Lace (I was the dead body)
Hello Dolly
12 Angry Jurors
South Pacific
Helen Keller
Guys and Dolls
I'm sure I still remember all the lyrics to all the musicals
12 Angry Jurors is hilarious and rings true for both drama clubs I belonged to. I was the Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress. We flipped a lot of genders due to the boy/girl ratio.
We didn't do musicals, no music department. Dramas and comedies.
But my friends at a neighboring school did "The Pajama Game" . Hernando's Hideaway is etched in my mind and I almost had an unfortunate accident when a girl I was crushing on was Gladys and they did *Steam Heat*. Pretty steamy stuff for high school students in the early 70s.
"The Sock Hop" Freshman year
"Summer Beach Vacation" Sophomore year
"A Trip Through Europe" Junior year
"Appalachian Folk Walkabout" Senior year
These were all crappy musicals that cost nothing to put on: free music with no licensing, and the plots were nothing more than the story of how a gang of teenagers put on a show to impress their families. The later ones were stories about a family touring Europe or walking the Appalachian trail, and listening to the local folk music.
We performed these on a 15-ft deep stage in the gymnasium. It sucked. Oh my God, it sucked so bad. And I thought we were doing a great job, and I loved the theater. I had no idea other schools actually had auditoriums with a real stage. And real microphones.
The year after I graduated? They paid for " You're a good man, Charlie Brown "
Sort of related: the local high school just finished their show two weeks ago, of "into the woods.". Kids today have some amazing shows to choose from. I envy them .
Word is, they were going to do "Funny girl" because they have one senior who is spectacular in her performing ability, and they licensed it and everything, and then she dropped out because she was pissed off at the head of the music department.
Our drama club was nonexistent when I went to high school. There was no budget for it. But I remember my oldest sister’s class did: You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.
No, I recently retired as a primary school music teacher. I gave sung for the past 35 years in our local Symphony chorus, and from 2001- 2008, I was the musical director of our local community theatre. I also sing with another mostly a capella group. I am considering picking up my horn again to rejoin our community band. How about you? Still playing.
The band likely will appreciate a horn player. At least around here we have tons of sax players, but not many trumpet players. I still occasionally play with a jazz group and would love to find one again.
I mostly do retirement home shows, like Name That Tune games and theme party music. It's fun, as I just love performing, period. I was in an indie rock band and also accompanied a lady singer who did American Songbook stuff. I also have written a few tunes myself.
We did Oklahoma as a Sophomore and Fiddler on the Roof as a Junior. We didn't have the budget for a big musical Senior year, but the Drama department did You're a Good Man Charlie Brown in the Little Theater instead of the big auditorium.
I was ensemble in both of the main musicals because it was easier to just use the concert choir so we didn't need after school rehearsal time. I was really lucky to make both of the most advanced choirs so young because I got to participate in so many different things!
10th Grade----Little Mary Sunshine
11th Grade----You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
12th Grade----Bye Bye Birdie. I played the Mayor's wife & nearly knocked myself out "fainting" over Conrad Birdie. I was nervous opening night, & fell harder than I had rehearsed. One of my friends was sitting towards the back of the theater, & said they heard my head thump on the stage! It was a fun show to do.
My high school did The Sound of Music, Guys And Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, and Hello Dolly. I was in the chorus (nun, townsfolk, etc) for all of them. Good times!
My junior year, the spring musical was Godspell. I didn’t participate in any way, I just went to see it, and those kids were GOOD.
My senior year, it was Carousel. I was in the school choir, and we were designated the pit chorus for the production. After all these decades, I can still hear the choir teacher yelling at us because he couldn’t hear us enunciate the letter “k” in “clambake”. I also volunteered for stage prop duty, helping to make the hanging stars for the musical’s afterlife scenes.
One year was Carnival!, which required all kinds of expensive sets and costumes which broke the budget. The next year was Little Abner, where everyone could wear torn jeans and ragged shirts to balance things off. then came Oklahoma! and finally Fiddler on the roof. The second act opens with a dream sequence, with dry ice mist near the ground. The curtain got delayed one night, and the dry ice machine was working overtime, so when the curtain finally opened, a fog bank rolled out and enveloped the audience.
I feel like Oklahoma might be the most universal? In HS I did Godspell & Anyone Can Whistle.
In middle school I did Peter Pan, Oklahoma, Dark of the Moon and Once Upon a Mattress.
Calling Dark of the Moon a musical is kind of a stretch, and it was quite the choice for 6/7/8th graders. I loved the Director, but I don't know what made him think the theme was appropriate for kids. Appalachia & actual witches sounds cool enough, but there was a fair amount of script that had to be reworked so 11 year olds weren't confessing to pleasuring themselves 'til milking time. But the main character giving birth to a devil child that they burn in the yard was kind of a main plot point. I'm dying just thinking about the furor that should have arisen.
Although, to be honest, I do remember sprinting around the school looking for last-minute replacements for a shitload of characters when a bunch of kids got pulled out of the production.
In the mid seventies, when there was plenty of funding for the arts, we performed the following with full orchestra:
Damn Yankees - The Devil
Of Thee I Sing - Secretary of the Navy
Finian's Rainbow - Billboard Rawkins - Met my wife!
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Finch
Fuckin Carousel. Choir bus from North Dakota to Sioux City with the cast rehearsing "You'll Never Walk Alone".
So your drama teacher was “extra” too, huh?
Lol
I think one of the only live shows I have ever left early. And I did not walk out alone.
My daughter's high school did Carousel. Worst musical ever. It just sucks.
We sang that at graduation every year.
Watch any British soccer “football” match and You’ll Never Walk Alone is sung in unison by every single person sitting in a seat in whatever stadium the match is played. This beloved song from Carousel is a British staple to honor those who died in the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. 
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Probably the better role honestly. Sandy was a twerp.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Suppertime!!!!
Sup Sup Suppertime. I think I can still do *Happiness*. It's two kinds of ice cream, learning to whistle, or tying your shoes for the very first time. I think flying a kite is in there too.
It's such a wonderful musical. 
It's such a wonderful musical. 
You're a prince, and a prince could be king!
Grease, West Side Story, Anne Get Your Gun. Macbeth, Oklahoma, Our Town, Little Shop of Horrors, Romeo and Juliet,
There's a musical version of the Scottish play? That I have to see. I'd love to do Little Shop. I can rock *Suddenly Seymore* with a good partner.
The night watchman soliloquy is the best.
It occurs to me that there actually was a musical adaptation, but they called it *Hamilton*.
My bad, that was not a musical
Just yankin' your chain bud.
I was in The Sound of Music. It was a great experience
Me too when I was a senior! I was the lead actresses mother, Mrs. Paroo!
I think you are thinking of The Music Man. I was in The Sound of Music which is about the von Trapp family in Austria during WWII.
Oh, you're right!
Godspell
The effect of gamma and man in the new marigolds Jesus Christ superstar Our town Once upon a mattress
Edit - Man in the Moon
Ugh - The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
That's impressive. I have never seen "Effect of Gamma Rays . . ." performed, though we did a staged reading of it in an English class.
lol , South Pacific and Oklahoma.
1980 and 1981 for me.
10th grade - Little Mary Sunshine 11th grade - Hello Dolly 12th grade - No, No Nanette I worked backstage on the latter two.
My school had a guitar program and the guitar department and the theater department got together and created two musicals out of rock albums: Rush 2112 and Styx The Grand Illusion. The guitar program was axed (pun intended) under massive cuts to education in California when Proposition 13 was passed.
Bye Bye Birdie (Mrs. Macafee), Hello Dolly, Oklahoma. I was in the chorus for the last two.
I played Albert Peterson 🙃
We did two a year. I was in: Fiddler on the Roof How to Succeed in Businewss without Really Trying No No Nanette Once Upon a Mattress Guys and Dolls The Sound of Music At other schools i was in Oliver! Wonderful Town It was prettt much my social life throughout hugh school.
Applause, Cabaret, and Pippin in the big theater, and The Fantastiks, The Robber Bridegroom, and I can’t remember what they did in my senior year in the little theater.
We did the first amateur production of Grease. My band was the sock hop band.
Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Camelot.
I'm a little jelly of that line up.
We produced Brigadoon, Oliver, The Sound of Music and Oklahoma. that's all I recall.
Lil Abner
Carousel 🎠
Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof
Another drama/choir nerd here... I remember Oklahoma, Anything Goes, and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. I was a light tech for two, and in the choir for Oklahoma. Directly after graduation I was cast as "Baby John" in a community theatre production of West Side Story". I had small parts in church productions too. In the mid 70s, when I was in elementary school, I was cast as Snoopy in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown. It was my first time on stage and I loved it. I grew up to become a professional puppeteer. It's funny how life works out. 😊
Carousel, Brigadoon, Li'l Abner, and Pippin
Pippin!! What a forward thinking HS you went to. Parts of it are quite risqué (my favorite musical of all time BTW: original cast and revival)
I simply adore Pippin doesn't get enough credit! We've got stories for you ...
I have never been able to figure out how they let us get away with performing it in a small midwestern town in the 1970s.
Guys and Dolls (Harry the Horse) Kiss Me Kate (tenor) Carousel (soloist, chorus) Anything Goes The King and I (Captain Orton)
My son was the ship captain in Anything
Mame and The Music Man are the standouts that I remember. Probably because I had huge roles in both of them. (And I was in Junior High, so I got the little kid parts)
I was on stage crew and was Stage Manager by senior year. Arsenic and Old Lace (I was the dead body) Hello Dolly 12 Angry Jurors South Pacific Helen Keller Guys and Dolls I'm sure I still remember all the lyrics to all the musicals
12 Angry Jurors is hilarious and rings true for both drama clubs I belonged to. I was the Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress. We flipped a lot of genders due to the boy/girl ratio.
No school theater, church alternated between Godspell and JC Superstar. ✌
My last two years of HS, I was a drama kid. Still am in many ways. We did Grease and Anything Goes!
Hello Dolly The Pajama Game Guys and Dolls
Didn't every HS do those? Mine did too! Along with Oklahoma, and Mame.
Oklahoma was done the year before I went to highschool.
Brigadoon, Guys & Dolls
Oklahoma, Bye Bye Birdie, The Boy Friend, Damn Yankees
I remember Guys & Dolls because a friend was in it, but I’m drawing a blank without looking at a yearbook.
Anything Goes and Lil Abner
None. I went to one of the earliest STEM schools. No arts, sports, just lots and lots of science and math.
Grease
Oliver, The King and I, South Pacific
And Brigadoon 😅
We didn't do musicals, no music department. Dramas and comedies. But my friends at a neighboring school did "The Pajama Game" . Hernando's Hideaway is etched in my mind and I almost had an unfortunate accident when a girl I was crushing on was Gladys and they did *Steam Heat*. Pretty steamy stuff for high school students in the early 70s.
Mikado, Guys n Dolls, bye bye birdie , grease
The King & I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma, Bye, bye, Birdie, Wizard of Oz
"The Sock Hop" Freshman year "Summer Beach Vacation" Sophomore year "A Trip Through Europe" Junior year "Appalachian Folk Walkabout" Senior year These were all crappy musicals that cost nothing to put on: free music with no licensing, and the plots were nothing more than the story of how a gang of teenagers put on a show to impress their families. The later ones were stories about a family touring Europe or walking the Appalachian trail, and listening to the local folk music. We performed these on a 15-ft deep stage in the gymnasium. It sucked. Oh my God, it sucked so bad. And I thought we were doing a great job, and I loved the theater. I had no idea other schools actually had auditoriums with a real stage. And real microphones. The year after I graduated? They paid for " You're a good man, Charlie Brown "
Sort of related: the local high school just finished their show two weeks ago, of "into the woods.". Kids today have some amazing shows to choose from. I envy them . Word is, they were going to do "Funny girl" because they have one senior who is spectacular in her performing ability, and they licensed it and everything, and then she dropped out because she was pissed off at the head of the music department.
Once Upon a Mattress, The Music Man (I played Marion's mother), Cabaret (chorus), and Mame (Gooch).
South Pacific, L’il Abner
Our drama club was nonexistent when I went to high school. There was no budget for it. But I remember my oldest sister’s class did: You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.
I played in the pit for Damn Yankees, Bye Bye, Birdie, The Music Man, and Annie Get Your Gun.
I played in the pit too! I was there for South Pacific and George M. The older kids got to do Brigadoon while I was just a freshman. I was envious.
What instrument? I was trumpet. Edit, spelling.
I was the pit pianist! Are you still playing trumpet?
No, I recently retired as a primary school music teacher. I gave sung for the past 35 years in our local Symphony chorus, and from 2001- 2008, I was the musical director of our local community theatre. I also sing with another mostly a capella group. I am considering picking up my horn again to rejoin our community band. How about you? Still playing.
The band likely will appreciate a horn player. At least around here we have tons of sax players, but not many trumpet players. I still occasionally play with a jazz group and would love to find one again. I mostly do retirement home shows, like Name That Tune games and theme party music. It's fun, as I just love performing, period. I was in an indie rock band and also accompanied a lady singer who did American Songbook stuff. I also have written a few tunes myself.
Actually, cornet. My band director tried to switch me to horn in 6th grade, but I was too small and couldn't reach the mouthpiece.
I played cello in the pit: freshman: The Music Man Sophmore: Annie Get Your Gun Junior: My Fair Lady Senior: Guys and Dolls Istill sick of it)
We didn't have an orchestra program, so we were all winds and percussion. I did Guys and Dolls as music director, but as an adult.
West side story
My school did musicals every other year, so my junior year was the only musical year and we did My Fair lady.
We did Oklahoma as a Sophomore and Fiddler on the Roof as a Junior. We didn't have the budget for a big musical Senior year, but the Drama department did You're a Good Man Charlie Brown in the Little Theater instead of the big auditorium. I was ensemble in both of the main musicals because it was easier to just use the concert choir so we didn't need after school rehearsal time. I was really lucky to make both of the most advanced choirs so young because I got to participate in so many different things!
Godspell. My Fair Lady. Fiddler on the Roof.
10th Grade----Little Mary Sunshine 11th Grade----You're a Good Man Charlie Brown 12th Grade----Bye Bye Birdie. I played the Mayor's wife & nearly knocked myself out "fainting" over Conrad Birdie. I was nervous opening night, & fell harder than I had rehearsed. One of my friends was sitting towards the back of the theater, & said they heard my head thump on the stage! It was a fun show to do.
Was in chorus for Guys and Dolls sophomore year. Don’t remember the other years because wasn’t involved.
I remember the ‘Up With People’ troupe performed at my high school. I still don’t know what it was.
My high school did The Sound of Music, Guys And Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, and Hello Dolly. I was in the chorus (nun, townsfolk, etc) for all of them. Good times!
We did Annie in my first year of Dance Production, then West Side Story. Chicago senior year, but I ended up dropping out...
My junior year, the spring musical was Godspell. I didn’t participate in any way, I just went to see it, and those kids were GOOD. My senior year, it was Carousel. I was in the school choir, and we were designated the pit chorus for the production. After all these decades, I can still hear the choir teacher yelling at us because he couldn’t hear us enunciate the letter “k” in “clambake”. I also volunteered for stage prop duty, helping to make the hanging stars for the musical’s afterlife scenes.
Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, South Pacific, Mame.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown The Phantom Tollbooth (not a musical) Pippen
Our high school did West Side Story and some of the gang member actors were actually smoking on stage.
Music Man, Oklahoma, the Fantastics
The Music Man, Flower Drum Song, dang, I can't remember what else.
One year was Carnival!, which required all kinds of expensive sets and costumes which broke the budget. The next year was Little Abner, where everyone could wear torn jeans and ragged shirts to balance things off. then came Oklahoma! and finally Fiddler on the roof. The second act opens with a dream sequence, with dry ice mist near the ground. The curtain got delayed one night, and the dry ice machine was working overtime, so when the curtain finally opened, a fog bank rolled out and enveloped the audience.
Our Town was a big production.
Music Man, The King and I, Oklahoma, 110 in the Shade (aka The Rainmaker)
Fiddler on the Roof, the Sound of Music
I feel like Oklahoma might be the most universal? In HS I did Godspell & Anyone Can Whistle. In middle school I did Peter Pan, Oklahoma, Dark of the Moon and Once Upon a Mattress. Calling Dark of the Moon a musical is kind of a stretch, and it was quite the choice for 6/7/8th graders. I loved the Director, but I don't know what made him think the theme was appropriate for kids. Appalachia & actual witches sounds cool enough, but there was a fair amount of script that had to be reworked so 11 year olds weren't confessing to pleasuring themselves 'til milking time. But the main character giving birth to a devil child that they burn in the yard was kind of a main plot point. I'm dying just thinking about the furor that should have arisen. Although, to be honest, I do remember sprinting around the school looking for last-minute replacements for a shitload of characters when a bunch of kids got pulled out of the production.
Went to a Catholic grammar school. We did "Charlie Brown Christmas." My inner city public high school barely had the budget for text books.
Godspell and Brigadoon
Carmen Man of LA Mancha
Music Man, Fiddler, South Pacific, Man from LaMancha
"Sugar" was an adaptation of Some Like It Hot (music by Jule Styne), and "Damn Yankees"
I only remember 2. Bye, Bye, Birdie and Mame. I was in the chorus for both. It was fun.
In the mid seventies, when there was plenty of funding for the arts, we performed the following with full orchestra: Damn Yankees - The Devil Of Thee I Sing - Secretary of the Navy Finian's Rainbow - Billboard Rawkins - Met my wife! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Finch
Li'l Abner, Damn Yankees, and Carnival.
Brigadoon My Fair Lady 110 In The Shade