Past Productions of RPI Players
(Footnotes at end of list)
R.P.I. Dramatic Club moves into Old Gymnasium
1929 - 1930
1. The Rising Of The Moon and A Night At An Inn
2. Tunnel Trench
3. Anthony And Anna
1930 - 1931
4. The Whispering Gallery
5. Meteor
6. High School One Acts Contest (1) and Fancy Free
Poor Aubrey
The Valiant*
7. Volpone
8. Wings Over Europe
1931 - 1932
9. The Donovan Affair
10. Loud Speaker
11. High School One Acts Contest (2)
Trifles*
A Dollar
The Rising Of The Moon
12. You Never Can Tell
13. The Front Page
1932 - 1933
14. The Young Idea
15. The Ghost Train
16. One Acts Directing Competition (3)
Episode
The Grand Chan's Diamond
Behind The Beyond
17. The Devil Passes
18. June Moon
1933 - 1934
19. The Better Man
20. Sherlock Holmes
21. One Acts Directing Competition (3)
Submerged
The Man Who Died At Twelve O'Clock
The Tender Passion
22. Death Takes A Holiday
23. The Racket
1934 - 1935
24. Whistling In The Dark
25. Springtime For Henry
26. One Acts Directing Competition (3)
The Passing Of Chow Chow
A Message From Khufu
Amateur Rehearsal
27. Both Your Houses
28. The Guardsman
1935 - 1936
29. Ten Minute Alibi
30. Three Cornered Moon
31. Student Revue: Time Out (4)
32. Men Must Fight
33. Laburnum Grove
1936 - 1937
34. The Moon And The Yellow River
35. The Wind And The Rain
36. Student Revue: Give It To 'Em (4)
37. She Stoops To Conquer
38. Petticoat Fever
1937 - 1938
39. Ceiling Zero
40. End Of Summer
41. Murder In The Old Red Barn
42. The Taming Of The Shrew
43. Three Men On A Horse
1938 - 1939
44. Excursion
45. Yellow Jack
46. The Drunkard
47. Life Is A Dream (5)
48. Heartbreak House
49. French Without Tears
1939 - 1940
51. The Bishop Misbehaves (6)
52. Room Service
53. The Streets Of New York
54. The Inspector General
55. The Ghost Of Yankee Doodle
1940 - 1941
56. Candle Light
57. The Bellamy Trial
58. Charley's Aunt
59. The Importance Of Being Earnest
60. Six Hours To Sailing
1941 - 1942
61. What A Life
62. George Washington Slept Here
63. Seven Keys To Baldpate
64. The Long Voyage Home
1942 - 1943
65. The Man Who Came To Dinner
66. Room Service
1943 - 1944
No Productions - World War II
1944 - 1945
No Productions - World War II
1945 - 1946
No Productions - World War II
1946 - 1947
67. Arsenic And Old Lace
68. Kiss And Tell
69. The Queen's Husband
1947 - 1948
70. The Male Animal
71. Ten Little Indians
72. I Have Been Here Before
Move to Lounge 15 for renovation of Old Gymnasium
1948 - 1949
Three One Act Plays (7)
Trifles
The Killers
Antic Spring
73. Accent On Youth
74. The Devil's Disciple
Three One Act Plays (7)
Overtones
Trick Of Hearts
Mooney's Kid Don't Cry
1949 - 1950
75. John Loves Mary
76. Command Decision
77. The Alchemist
Return to renovated Old Gymnasium
1950 - 1951
78. Born Yesterday
79. All My Sons
80. Arms And The Man
1951 - 1952
81. The Front Page
Box And Cox (8)
It Isn't Done (8)
82. High Tor
1952 - 1953
83. Light Up The Sky
84. Thunder Rock
85. Two Blind Mice
1953 - 1954
86. Three Men On A Horse
Pride And Prejudice
87. Playboy Of The Western World (9)
1954 - 1955
89. Mister Roberts
90. My Three Angels
91. The Torch Bearers
1955 - 1956
92. Home Of The Brave
93. Dial 'M' For Murder
1956 - 1957
94. Summer And Smoke
95. The Happy Time
96. Beyond The Horizon
1957 - 1958
97. Darkness At Noon
98. Love Rides The Rails or Will The Mail Train Run Tonight?
99. Six Characters In Search Of An Author
1958 - 1959
100. A Visit To A Small Planet
101. Death Of A Salesman
102. The Rainmaker
1959 - 1960
103. King Henry IV, Part I
104. Man And Superman
105. Juno And The Paycock
1960 - 1961
106. The Golden Fleecing
107. Antigone
108. Hotel Universe
1961 - 1962
109. The Killer
110. Billy Budd
111. Purple Dust
1962 - 1963
112. Winterset
113. An Evening With George Bernard Shaw (10)
Overruled
Don Juan in Hell from Man And Superman
114. Once More, With Feeling
1963 - 1964
115. The Brass Butterfly
116. The Father
117. A Shot In The Dark
1964 - 1965
118. The Tempest
119. The Fantasticks
120. The Importance Of Being Earnest
1965 - 1966
121. The Brass Butterfly
Permanent move out of Old Gymnasium to 15th Street Lounge
122. A Slow Dance On The Killing Ground
1966 - 1967
123. The Threepenny Opera
124. Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In The Closet
And I'm Feeling So Sad
125. Five Finger Exercise
1967 - 1968
126. Rhinoceros
127. Once Upon A Mattress
128. Three One Acts
The Stronger
The Apollo Of Bellac
The Dumb Waiter
1968 - 1969
129. A Man For All Seasons
130. West Side Story
131. A Thurber Carnival
1969 - 1970
132. America Hurrah
133. My Fair Lady
134. The Physicists
1970 - 1971
135. Dark Of The Moon
Albert's Bridge and Botticelli (11)
136. Man Of La Mancha
137. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1971 - 1972
138. J.B.
139. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
140. Play It Again Sam and The Dwarfs
1972 - 1973
141. Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris
142. Indians
143. The Knack
144. Cabaret
1973 - 1974
145. The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd (12)
146. Tango (13)
147. Catch-22
148. The Skin Of Our Teeth
149. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
1974 - 1975
150. The Persecution And Assassination Of Jean Paul Marat As
Performed By The Inmates Of The Asylum Of Charenton,
Under The Direction Of the Marquis de Sade
151. Three One Acts
American Dream
The Sand Box
The Bald Soprano
152. Two Gentlemen Of Verona
An Evening of ... (14)
James Thurber
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Allen Poe
Noel Coward
...and others
1975 - 1976
153. Moonchildren
154. Hamlet
155. Sweet Charity
1976 - 1977
No Opera At The Op'ry House Tonight or
Too Good To Be True (15)
156. The Lion In Winter
157. The Mousetrap
158. Applause
1977- 1978
159. When You Comin Back, Red Ryder? (16)
160. A Cry Of Players
161. The Ritz
162. Mack And Mabel
1978 - 1979
163. What The Butler Saw (16)
164. The Taming Of The Shrew
165. Equus
166. Jesus Christ, Superstar
1979 - 1980
167. The Ruling Class
168. The Passion Of Dracula
169. Company
1980 - 1981
170. The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (15)
171. Something's Afoot
172. Wait Until Dark
173. The Devils
1981 - 1982
174. Twelfth Night or What You Will (16)
175. Camino Real
176. Don't Drink The Water
177. Pippin
Beginning of 'Season on the Road'
15th Street lounge Renovation starts
1982 - 1983
178. The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
179. The Apple Tree
180. The Man In The Glass Booth
181. Tribute
Return to newly renovated R.P.I. Playhouse
1983 - 1984
182. West Side Story
183. Deathtrap
184. Camelot
1984 - 1985
185. A Flea In Her Ear
186. The Desperate Hours
187. Sweeney Todd
1985 - 1986
188. A Night Of One-Acts (16)
The American Dream
Adaptation
'dentity Crisis
189. You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (16)
190. Measure For Measure
191. Guys And Dolls
1986 - 1987
192. The Foreigner (16)
193. Merrily We Roll Along
194. A Night Of One Acts
Black Comedy
Death
Visitor From Forest Hills (Act III of 'Plaza Suite')
1987 - 1988
196. The Adding Machine (17)
197. archy and mehitabel
1988 - 1989
198. The Crucible
199. You Can't Take It With You
200. The Pirates Of Penzance
1989 - 1990
201. Inherit The Wind
202. Gemini
203. The Threepenny Opera
1990 - 1991
204. Noises Off
205. The Tempest
206. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
1991 - 1992
207. Tonight We Improvise
208. An Enemy Of The People
209. The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
1992 - 1993
210. Doonesbury
211. A Night Of One Acts
This Is A Test
Gertrude The Governess
Rumplestiltskin
212. David And Lisa
1993 - 1994
213. The Mandrake
214. Winter One Acts
Reasonable Circulation
Too Cool
Pyramus & Thisby
215. Barnum
1994 - 1995
216. Out Of The Frying Pan
217. Chicago
1995 - 1996
218. Frankenstein
219. An Evening Of Performance
The Bald Soprano
The Actor's Nightmare
A Tell Tale Heart
220. Me & My Girl
1996 - 1997
221. A Midsummer Night's Dream
222. An Evening Of Performance
Boom Box
Women And Wallace
Why We Have A Body
223. Company
1997 - 1998
224. Lysistrata
225. An Evening Of Performance
Removing The Glove
Sheer Idiocy (18)
All I Really Needed To Know I Learned
In Kindergarten
226. Cabaret
1998 - 1999
227. Deathtrap
228. An Evening Of Performance
The Line That's Picked Up 1,000 Babes
(And How It Can Work For You)
Sheer Idiocy (18)
And That's What Friends Are For!
229. Brigadoon
1999 - 2000
230. Witness For The Prosecution
231. An Evening Of Performance
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Selections From "All In The Timing"
Sure Thing
The Philadelphia
Foreplay, Or The Art Of The Fugue
God (A Play)
232. A Chorus Line
2000 - 2001
233. The Good Doctor
234. An Evening of Performance
The Real Inspector Hound
Adaptation
The Scheme of the Driftless Shifter
235. Chess
2001 - 2002
236. Shakespeare's Women
237. An Evening of Performance
Cuttin' Line
Hidden in this Picture
The Ugly Duckling
Sheer Idiocy (18)
The Tooth Hurts
238. Kismet
2002 - 2003
239. The Tempest
240. The Importance of Being Earnest 19
241. An Evening of Performance
Making Nice
No Exit
Cut
242. Pippin
243. Guys and Dolls 19
2003 - 2004
244. Lend Me A Tenor
245. Up The Down Staircase 19
246. An Evening of Performance
Hush Little Celia, Don't Say A Word
A Stye of the Eye
Black Comedy
247. Anything Goes
2004 - 2005
248. The Crucible
249. Evening of Performance
Selections from All in the Timing
Words, Words, Words
The Universal Language
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread
Seven Short and Very Short Plays
Trevor
250. Man of La Mancha 20
2005 - 2006
251. Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
252. The Dining Room 19
253. An Evening Of Performance
Old Saybrook
Don’t Take Sides Against The Family
Love Stories During the Armageddon of a Citrus Fruit
254. Titanic
2006 - 2007
255. The Last Five Years 19
256. Macbeth
257. An Evening Of Performance
The Line That's Picked Up 1,000 Babes
(And How It Can Work For You)
The Mystery At Twicknam Vicarage
The Nature And Purpose Of The Universe
258. City Of Angels
2007 - 2008
259. Picasso at the Lapin Agile 19
260. Rossum’s Universal Robots
261. An Evening Of Performance
262. Zanna Don’t
End Notes:
1.) Three local high school groups presented works
to be judged by R.P.I. Players. Each competing school was given a list
of three one acts and asked to select one to perform for the
competition. The winning presentation was Poor Aubrey by the Mont
Pleasant High School, Schenectady. The R.P.I. Players also presented
Fancy Free at the competition, but not for judgment.
2.) Three local high school groups presented works
to be judged by R.P.I. Players. The winning presentation was Trifles by
the Mont Pleasant High School, Schenectady.
3.) Student directed one-acts in competition. Directed by members of R.P.I. Players, a prize was awarded for the best direction.
4.) Spoof revues put together by students containing
original material, student directed shows, songs, music and some
faculty presentations.
5.) Special production celebrating 10th anniversary.
6.) Number 50 was skipped in programs. No reason known.
7.) Presented by RPI Players, but produced by members of a special play production class. The productions were not numbered.
8.) RPI Players production on live TV. Single
performances presented on the show Community Campus on WRGB,
Schenectady. Box And Cox was presented on February 27th. It Isn't Done
was presented on April 30th.
9.) Preceded by a mid-winter RPI Players
presentation of Pride And Prejudice by the Green Mountain Junior
College Drama Club. Often erroneously attributed to RPI Players, this
was part of an exchange with Green Mountain. Playboy Of The Western
World was also performed there. Pride And Prejudice was never numbered,
but after Playboy Of The Western World the program number 88 was
skipped, evidently in deference to Pride And Prejudice.
10.) Excerpts of George Bernard Shaw plays were compiled for the show.
11.) R.P.I. Players Winter Workshop.
12.) R.P.I. Players Summer production. For
consistency, all summer productions are listed as having occurred with
the season following the summer.
13.) Special October production.
14.) A summer production that consisted of scenes and acts from several playwrights' works.
15.) An RPI Summer Players and wE, the Free Theatre co-production.
16.) An RPI Players Summer production.
17.) Number 195 was skipped. A production of Harvey was planned but cancelled.
18.) Sheer Idiocy is the RPI Improvisational Theatre organization.
19.) A Project Sideshow production. These productions offered participation
for those not involved in the chosen Fall play or Spring musical.
20.) The 75th Season Banquet was held at 2pm on Saturday, April 16, 2005 in
the McNeil Room of the Rensselaer Union prior to the closing night
performance of Man Of La Mancha. The luncheon reunited many old-timers to
celebrate the membership, 75 seasons and 250 productions of RPI Players.
- Kristopher Nasadowski
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