Performing Arts
The Horace Mann School has a rich tradition of performing arts. Students participate in the theater in the roles of both actors and stagecrew. The theatre department puts on four major productions each year, including one Middle School production. Foreign language productions (in 1996, Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was performed by students in its original French), as an optional part of language classes, are not uncommon. As a part of a student project or just on their own, students often direct and/or star in their own productions; in the fall of 1995, two juniors directed Much Ado About Nothing, and in April and May, 1997 a junior directed The Lover, a senior directed scenes from The Bald Soprano (in its original French), and another senior directed a play of her own that she had written as an Independent Study Project that year. In the 1999-2000 school year, Into the Woods was performed.

Students may also perform in the Horace Mann Glee Club (including its Girls Ensemble, Boys Ensemble, and Chamber Chorus), Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and Concert Band. The groups often perform all across the country. The Glee Club has performed at the Jefferson Music Festival in Washington, D.C., and everywhere from the Czech Republic to San Francisco, and are planning a concert tour in Brazil for June, 1998. The Concert Band has performed at and won awards in band contests, including one in Boston and the Orlando Heritage Music Festival. The Orchestra, along with the Glee Club, has played at churches all over New York City, and have even played concerts at Disney World!

The 2002-2003 Theatre Season:
Moveable Feast
  • For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
  • Humulus the Mute
  • Dangerous When Wet - Water Ballet
  • Balcony Scene - Romeo and Juliet
  • Milano
Three Sisters (Fall Production)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Middle School Musical)
Dance Concert
The Lark (Winter Production)
Twelfth Night (Middle School)
Pirates of Penzance (Spring Musical)
The 2001-2002 Theatre Season:
Moveable Feast
  • Theatron
  • Trio
  • Sure Thing
  • Steps Toward Unity
  • Actor's Nightmare
You Can't Take it With You (Middle School)
Student Written One Acts
  • No Turn on Red
  • Dolphin Up a Tree
Under Milkwood (Winter Production)
Little Shop of Horrors (Winter Musical)
Once Upon a Mattress (Middle School Musical)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Spring Production)
The 2000-2001 Theatre Season:
Maria No Kubi (Fall Drama Production)
Much Ado About Nothing (Middle School Production)
The Way of the World (Winter Production)
Carousel (Spring Musical Production)
The 1999-2000 Theatre Season:
Reckless (Fall Drama Production)
The World We Live in (Middle School Production)
Thesmophoriazousai (Winter Production)
Into the Woods (Spring Musical Production)
Woman in Mind (Student Directed Production)
The 1998-1999 Theatre Season:
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Fall Drama Production)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Middle School Production)
Brigadoon (Winter Production)
As you like it (Spring Musical Production)
The 1997-1998 Theatre Season:
The Illusion (Fall Drama Production)
Little Mary Sunshine (Middle School Production)
Death and the King's Horseman (Winter Production)
"An Evening of Dance" (Horace Mann Students' Dance Recital)
Guys and Dolls (Spring Musical Production)
The 1996-1997 Theatre Season:
La Calle de la Gran Occasion (Fall Drama Production)
"An Evening of Dance" (Horace Mann Students' Dance Recital)
"HM Onstage" (Horace Mann Faculty Show)
The Comedy of Errors (Winter Comedy Production)
Listen to the Wind (Middle School Production)
42nd Street (Spring Musical Production)
The 1995-1996 Theatre Season:
Bus Stop (Fall Drama Production)
The Beggar's Opera (Winter Musical Production)
Oklahoma! (Middle School Production)
The Real Inspector Hound (Spring Comedy Production)
"A Night of Broadway" (Horace Mann Theatre Faculty Show)



Take a look at the web pages all about the Horace Mann Theatre Company's fantastic April, 1997 production of the musical 42nd Street. Our cast list, photos, song list (with downloadble clips), more photos, scrapbook, funny photos, funny lines, and did I mention photos? are all online for your viewing pleasure.

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