Dramatics Magazine's Most Performed Musicals and Plays in High Schools

Dramatics Magazine has published the results of their annual survey of what is being portrayed in American High School theaters.

It's looking like Disney's Beauty and the Beast may be the new perennial on top of the Musicals list. New or returning to the list this year is Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls and Bye Bye Birdie. Dropping out are Grease, Into the Woods, Footloose and Once Upon a Mattress.

Full and "Junior" productions are combined as one for the listing.

• 1. (1) Disney's Beauty and the Beast
• 2. (-) Little Shop of Horrors
• 3. (2) Seussical
• 4. (10) Thoroughly Modern Millie
• 5. (Tie) (6) The Wizard of Oz
• 5. (Tie) (-) Hairspray
• 7. (-) Guys and Dolls
• 8. (Tie) (8) The Music Man
• 8. (Tie) (-) Bye Bye Birdie
• 8. (Tie) (6) You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

For plays, Shakespere's A Midsummer's Night Dream returns to the top of the list after being knocked out for one year by Almost, Maine.  New or returning are Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace. Falling off the list are Noises Off, Fools and A Christmas Carol.

• 1. (2) A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 2. (6) Our Town
• 3. (1) Almost, Maine
• 4. (6) Alice in Wonderland
• 5. (3) You Can't Take It With You
• 6. (6) The Crucible
• 7. (5) Twelve Angry Men/Twelve Angry Women/Twelve Angry Jurors
• 8. (Tie) (-) Twelfth Night
• 8. (Tie) (-) Romeo and Juliet
• 8. (Tie) (-) Arsenic and Old Lace

Finally, for short plays, Check Please stays at number 1 while How to Succeed in High School move up from 8 to 2. New or returning are I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Drugs Are Bad, The Audition and Sure Thing. Dropping out are The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, Hard Candy and Competition Please

• 1. (1) Check Please
• 2. (8) How to Succeed in High School Wihout Really Trying
• 3. (3) 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview
• 4. (Tie) (10) This is a Test
• 4. (Tie) I Never Saw Another Butterfuly
• 6. (Tie) (3) The Actor's Nightmare
• 6. (Tie) (5) Check Please: Take 2
• 6. (Tie) (2) Check Please: Take 3
• 6. (Tie) Drugs Are Bad
• 10. (Tie) The Audition
• 10. (Tie) Sure Thing

Most Borrowed Music - 1999 to 2012

Our Music Library database now includes records for all loans back to 1999. The following lists the most borrowed pieces in each category.

Chorus

1. Al Shlosha D'Varim (Naplan & Avot/2-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 21 Loans
2. Three Madrigals (Diemer/SATB/Boosey & Hawkes) - 19
3. For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter & Pierpoint/SA/Hinshaw Music) - 17
4. If Music Be the Food of Love (Dickau & Heveningham/SATB/Colla Voce) - 17
5. Dirait-On (Lauridsen & Rilke/SATB/Peer Music) - 16
6. Ching-a-Ring Chaw (Copland/Fine/SATB/Boosey & Hawkes) - 15
7. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? (Traditional/Emerson/3-Part/Hal Leonard) - 15
8. Heart We Will Forget Him (Mulholland & Dickinson/SSA/Colla Voce) - 15
9. Nigra Sum (Casals/3-Part Treble/Contino) - 15
10. Praise His Holy Name (Hampton/SATB/Earthsongs) - 15
11. Shenandoah (Traditional/Erb/SSAATTBB/Alfred) - 15
12. Three Mountain Ballads (Traditional/Nelson/SSA/Theodore Presser) - 15
13. For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter & Pierpoint/SATB/Hinshaw Music) - 14
14. A Girl's Garden (Thompson & Frost/SAA/E.C. Schirmer) - 14
15. Salmo 150 (Aguiar/SATB/Earthsongs) - 14
16. Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin/Besig & Price/2-Part Treble/Alfred) - 13
17. Hine Ma Tov (Naplan/2-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 13
18. The Promise of Living (Copland & Everett/SATBB/Boosey & Hawkes) - 13
19. Zion's Walls (Copland/Koponen/SATB/Boosey & Hawkes) - 13
20. Blue Skies (Berlin/Emerson/SATB/Alfred) - 12
21. Cindy (Traditional/Wilberg/SATBSATB/Hinshaw) - 12
22. My Own Song (Kowalski/SA/Hinshaw) - 12
23. A Red, Red Rose (Mulholland & Burns/Rodby/SATB/European American Music) - 12
24. Scarborough Fair (Traditional/Emerson/3-Part Mixed/Hal Leonard) - 12

Band

1. Shenandoah (Traditional/Ticheli/Manhattan Beach Music) - 16 Loans
2. Galop (Shostakovich/Hunsberger/Boston Music) - 14
3. Symphonic Dance No. 3 (Clifton/Belwin) - 13
4. Prelude, Siciliano & Rondo (Arnold/Paynter) - 12
5. Espirit De Corps (Jager/Edwards/Hal Leonard) - 11
6. O Magnum Mysterion (Lauridsen/Reynolds/Peer Music) - 11
7. October (Whitacre/Hal Leonard) - 11
8. Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon (Grainger & Aldrich/G. Schirmer) - 11
9. Amazing Grace (Ticheli & Newton/Manhattan Beach Music) - 10
10. Black Horse Troop (Sousa/Fennell/Alfred) - 10
11. Encanto (Smith/Hal Leonard) - 10
12. Flourish for Wind Band (Williams/Oxford University Press) - 10
13. Fortress (Ticheli/Manhattan Beach Music) - 10
14. Varitions on a Korean Folk Song (Chance/Boosey & Hawkes) - 10
15. Chorale & Shaker Dance (Zdechlik/Neil A. Kjos) - 9
16. Courtly Airs and Dances (Nelson/Ludwig)  9
17. Pevensey Castle (Shelod/C.L Barnhouse) - 9
18. Slava! (Bernstein/Grundman/Boosey & Hawkes) - 9
19. Armeinian Dances (Reed/Alfred) - 8
20. Chester (Schuman/Theodore Presser) - 8
21. Elegy for a Young American (LoPresti/Theodore Presser) - 8
22. Folk Dance (Shostakovich/Reynolds/Carl Fischer) - 8
23. The Hounds of Spring (Reed/Hal Leonard) - 8
24. Incantation & Dance (Chance/Boosey & Hawkes) - 8
25. Lord of the Rings, The Hobbits (de Meij/Amstel Music) - 8
26. Rhosymedre (Williams & Vaughan/Beeler/Galaxy Music) - 8
27. Salvation is Created & Awake (Tschesnkoff & Wagner/Houseknecht/Neil A. Kjos) - 8

Orchestra

1. Academic Festival Overture (Brahms/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 11 Loans
2. Bacchanale (Saint-Saens/Isaac/Alfred) - 10
3. Carmen Suite No. 1 (Bizet/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 10
4. Hoe Down (Copland/Boosey & Hawkes) - 9
5. March to the Scaffold (Berlioz/Carter/Oxford University Press) - 9
6. Nabucco Overture (Verdi/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 9
7. Overture to Nabucco (Verdi/Dackow/Tempo Press) - 9
8. Russian Easter Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov/Nieweg/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 9
9. Emigma Variations (Elgar/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 8
10. Hungarian March (Berlioz/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 8
11. Intermezzo Sinfonico (Mascagni/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 8
12. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Holst/Leidig/Alfred) - 8
13. Variations on a Theme By Handel (Whitney/Alfred) - 8

String Orchestra

1. Folk Tune & Fiddle Dance (Fletcher/Boosey & Hawkes) - 7 Loans
2. Hopak (Mussorgsky/Isaac/Alfred) - 7
3. St. Paul's Suite (Holst/G. Schirmer) - 6
4. Queen Noor Suite (Washburn/Alfred) - 5
5. Simple Symphony (Britten/Oxford University Press) - 5
6. Adagietto From Symphony No. 5 (Mahler/Edition Peters) - 4
7. Capriccio Espagnol (Rimsky-Korsakov/Dackow/Tempo Press) - 4
8. Halcyon (Hofeldt/Neil A. Kjos) - 4
9. Rumanian Folk Dances (Bartok/Wilner/Boosey & Hawkes) - 4

Jazz

1. Don't Git Sassy (Jones/Kendor) - 5 Loans
2. Splanky (Hefti/Nestico/Alfred) - 5
3. Maiden Voyage (Hancock/Taylor/Jenson) - 4
4. Moten Swing (Moten & Moten/Wilkins/Sierra Music) - 4
5. Bemsha Swing (Monk & Best/Taylor/Hal Leonard) - 3
6. Central Park West (Coltrane/Fedchock/Kendor) - 3
7. Git it On (Chase & Marinan/Jennings/Jenson) - 3
8. It's Oh, So Nice (Nestico/Kendor) - 3
9. Land of Make Believe (Magione/Lopez/Alfred) - 3
10. Now's the Time (Parker/Niehaus) - 3

Vocal Jazz

1. Night and Day (Porter/Schmutte/Alfred) - 4 Loans
2. Voice Dance (Jasperse/Shawnee Press) - 4
3. Caravan (Ellington & Tizol/Meader/University of Northern Colorado) - 3
4. This Can't Be Love (Rodgers & Hart/Rutherford/Williamson Music) - 3

New Acquisitions: May 29, 2012

The following are new pieces that we have added to the Music Library since May 11.

Chorus

• Christ is Born by David N. Davenport (Hal Leonard/SSA/21 copies) (C-2520)
• Down a Different Road by Brent Pierce (Walton Music/SATB/60 copies) (C-2524)
• Five English Folk Songs, Traditional, arranged by R. Vaughan Williams (E.C. Schirmer/SATB/19 copies) (C-2521)
• Gloria by Franz Joseph Haydn, arranged by Patrick M. Liebergen (Alfred/SATB/37 copies) (C-2522)
• The Holly and the Ivy, Traditional English Carol, arranged by John Rutter (Oxford University Press/SATB/59 copies) (C-2525)
• I Gondolieri by Gioacchino Rossini, arranged by Ken Jennings (Hinshaw Music/SATB/146 copies) (C-2405)
• Medley From Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Richard Maltby Jr. & Alain Boublil, arranged by Ed Lojeski (Hal Leonard/SATB/105 copies) (C-2526)
• On My Own by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, John Caird, Trevor Nunn & Jean-Marc Natel, arranged by Ed Lojeski (Hal Leonard/SSA/31 copies) (C-2518)
• They're Playing Our Song (Choral Medley) by Marvin Hamlisch & Carole Bayer Sager, arrangedd by Ed Lojeski (Hal Leonard/SATB/53 copies) (C-2523)
• Three Choruses For Female Voices by Bedrich Smetana, arranged by Lynne Bradley (Roger Dean/SSA/24 copies) (C-2519)

Band

• Alligator Alley by Michael Daugherty (Hal Leonard/2 sets) (N-1536)

New Acquisitions: May 11, 2012

The following are new pieces that we have added to the Music Library since April 13.


Band

• Stormchasers by Larry Neeck (Bircn Island/2 sets) (N-1571)

Chorus

• The Ballad of John Henry, Traditional, arrangement by Neil Johnson (Jenson/TBB/26 copies) (C-2513)
• Blessing, Glory and Wisdom by Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Peter D. Tkach (Neil A. Kjos/SATB/20 copies) (C-2496)
• Dry Bones, Traditional, arranged by Theron Kirk (Pro Art/TTBB/19 copies) (C-2512)
• Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre & Hila Plitmann (Walton Music/SATB/170 copies) (C-2491)
• Joyful, Joyful by Ludwig Van Beethoven, adapted by Roger Emerson, arranged by Mervyn Warren (Hal Leonard/SSA/30 copies) (C-2509)
• Just a Closer Walk With Thee, arranged by Ed Lojeski (Hal Leonard/SATB/37 copies) (C-2495)
• Let Us Break Bread Together, Traditional Spiritual, arranged by Ed Lojeski (Hal Leonard/SATB/47 copies) (C-2497)
• Loch Lomond, arranged by Jonathan Quick (Cypress/SATB/171 copies) (C-2408) 
• The Lone Prairie, Traditional, arranged by Noble Cain (Pro Art/TTBB/26 copies) (C-2506)
• Mama Don't 'Low, Traditional, arranged by Robert W. Thygerson (Heritage Music Press/TTB/16 copies) (C-2514)
• Mame by Jerry Herman, arranged by Dick Averre (Hal Leonard/TBB/23 copies) (C-2508)
• Memories of You by Eubie Blake & Andy Razaf, arrange by Jack Litten (Shapiro, Bernstein/SATB/63 copies) (C-2494)
• My Love is Like a Rose by Eugene Butler (Heritage Music Press/TBB/16 copies) (C-2504)
• Sanctus From Imperial Mass by Joseph Haydn, arranged by Dwight Warner (Plymouth Music/SATB/60 copies) (C-2493)
• Save the Bones For Henry Jones by Danny Barker, Vernon Lee and Henry Jones, arranged by Kirby Shaw (Hal Leonard/2-Part Treble/13 copies) (C-2492)
• Simon and Garfunkel: Reunion by Paul Simon, arranged by Alan Billingsley (Warner Brothers/SATB/45 copies) (C-2502)
• Skye Boat Song, Traditional, arranged by Fenno Heath (G. Schirmer/TTBB/17 copies) (C-2503)
• Soft Rain by Janet & Douglas Cox, arranged by Douglas Cox & Jay Welch (Shawnee Press/SSATTBB/50 copies) (C-2498)
• Song of Praise by Carl Sitton (Galaxy Music/SATB/45 copies) (C-2516)
• Star Spangled Banner by John Stafford Smith & Francis Scott Key, arranged by Ronald Cox (Self Published/TBB/45 copies) (C-2507)
• Susceit Israel by Johann Sebastian Bach, English lyrics by Don Craig (Plymouth Music/SSA/39 copies) (C-2510)
• Think of Me by Andrew Lloyd Weber, Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe, arranged by Mac Huff (Hal Leonard/SSA/30 copies) (C-2517)
• Toot Toot Tootsie (Goodbye) by Gus Khan, Ernie Erdman & Ted Fiorito, arranged by Ruth Artman (Hal Leonard/TB/15 copies) (C-2501)
• Walk a Little Slower, My Friend by Don Besig & Nancy Price (Shawnee Press/SSA/30 copies) C-2515)
• We Will Remember Thy Name and Alleluia Amen by George F. Handel, arranged by Don Malin (Belwin Mills/SATB/58 copies) (C-2500)
• Yet a Little While by Knut Nystedt (Summy-Birchard/SATB/14 copies) (C-2499)