Theatre, Technical Theatre & Media Production

WHAT IS ENCORE?

Encore is the parent group that supports HPHS Theatre! Every parent of an HPHS Theatre student is automatically a member of Encore.

WHY DONATE?

Your annual donations to Encore support special programming for HPHS theater students.  Monies are used to fund or subsidize special activities and programs including:

• Production rehearsal meals for cast and crew

• Student workshops and classes led by guest artists

• Original performances

• Equipment needs

• Company celebrations after STUNTS and the annual musical

• Awards and gifts to be presented at the Theatre Banquet

• Summer theatrical programs

• Theatre-related field trips, including local field trips, an annual trip to the Illinois High School Theatre Festival, and scheduled trips to New York

Donations should be brought to the Fine Arts Office (E-100a) or to the Theatre Office (E-100).

ENCORE COMMITTEES

Please email Encore co-chairs to indicate your interest in assisting with one or more of the following committees:

• Production Concession Sales. Parent volunteers set up, run and clean up a sale of concessions before each show and during intermission. You are required to be there 30 minutes prior to curtain.  

• Rehearsal Meals.  Production weeks require long rehearsals and we fuel our students for the challenge.  Members of this committee will order food from a local eatery, pick up or arrange delivery, set up and serve the meal, and assist with clean up.  Meals are often served on Monday and Tuesday of production weeks, right after school.  Obligations on such days last approximately an hour.

• Company celebrations.   Following the last performances of STUNTS and the musical, all production members gather in the cafeteria to celebrate.  Parent volunteers arrange for food and drink for the students, set up the meal and clean up afterwards. 

• Theatre Banquet.  Our end of the year celebration is a special time for all involved.  In particular, it is time to honor the senior class.  The committee helps with table decorations, set up, selected gifts and other related duties.

Please contact the Encore Co-Chairs Lilah Shapiro (lilahs1972@gmail.com) or Rebecca Nathanson (rnathanson1@hotmail.com) to donate money, volunteer for a parent committee, or with questions.

All are welcome to join Stage Crew! Contact Mr. Zishuk for any questions!

jzishuk@dist113.org

Stage Crew FAQ's

• What do I have to do to join crew?

• All you have to do to join is show up at any crew session.

• Do I need to have any prior experience to join crew?

• No! We will teach you everything you need to know.

• I missed the first day of crew. Can I still join?

• Yes! Anyone can join at any time during the school year.

• Can I participate in other activities or athletics?

• Yes! Stage Crew students are often involved in other activities or athletics. Students can come when they are not involved in other programs or during their offseason.

• What is the time commitment for stage crew?

• Stage crew meets daily from 3:15-5:00 PM. As we move into tech week, we stay until 6:00. During production week, we rehearse until 7:00. The Encore parent group provides dinner for those rehearsals. More detailed information about specific days and weeks is available on the calendar below.

This list consists of all productions dating back to 1990. Each year also included STUNTS and the Short Play Festival (One Acts until 2006). The Stunts production history dates back to 2000.

Production History

2022-2023

A Monster Calls, Mamma Mia!, Our Town

2021-2022

Rumors, Chicago, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

2020-2021

Love/Sick, The Best Medicine: Stories of Love and Laughter, The Drowsy Chaperone

2019-2020

Mother Hicks, The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy

2018-2019

O Beautiful, The Music Man, School for Scandal

2017-2018

The Diary of Anne Frank, Heathers: The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher

2016-2017

Equus, Evita, A Perfect Wedding

2015-2016

The Government Inspector, Mary Poppins, Orpheus Descending

2014-2015

Argonautika, Les Miserables, Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches

2013-2014

An Enemy of the People, Almost Maine, Spring Awakening

2012-2013

August: Osage County, Legally Blonde, Cyrano de Bergerac

2011-2012

On Stars Not Falling, Distracted, Jekyll and Hyde, The Sparrow

2010-2011

Romeo and Juliet, Footloose, A Streetcar Named Desire

2009-2010

The Man Who Came to Dinner, A Chrous Line, Pangs of the Messiah

2008-2009

The Laramie Project, Rent, Because They Have No Words

2007-2008

Full Circle, Urinetown, The Diary of Anne Frank

2006-2007

A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Cats, The Arabian Nights

2005-2006

Metamorphoses, All My Sons, The Scarlet Pimpernel

2004-2005

Medea, Beauty and the Beast, Rumors

2003-2004

You Can’t Take It With You, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, Fiddler On The Roof

2002-2003

A Flea in Her Ear, Les Miserables, The Laramie Project

2001-2002

Amadeus, Remember My Name, Guys and Dolls

2000-2001

The Secret Garden, One Voice: The Legend of King Arthur, Beautiful Thing

1999-2000

The Tempest, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Music Man

1998-1999

The Miracle Worker, The Heidi Chronicles, Once On This Island

1997-1998

The Seagull, Prelude to a Kiss, Sweet Charity

1996-1997

Hamlet, Beau Jest, A Chorus Line

1995-1996

Cyrano De Bergerac, Lend Me A Tenor, Anything Goes

1994-1995

A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Glass Menagerie, Godspell

1993-1994

The Grapes of Wrath, The Fifth of July, Pippin

1992-1993

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Workroom, Little Shop of Horrors

1991-1992

Romeo and Juliet, Rumors, Brigadoon

1990-1991

The House of Blue Leaves, Strider, Grease

STUNTS Production History

2022: STUNTS Across America

2021: Lights, Camera, STUNTS!

2020: My Big Fat Greek Stunts

2019: Stunts Ever After

2018: Stunts Uncharted

2017: Stunts on Fire

2016: Make Stunts Great Again

2015: Stunts: An Unexpected Journey

2014: Stunts Gets Real

2013: Stuntz of the Living Dead

2012: Stunts in the Name of Love

2011: Stunts on Tour

2010: Stunts in Black and White

2009: Stunts Upon A Time

2008:  Stairway to Stunts

2007: Star Spangled Stunts

2006: Stunts Untitled

2005: Stunts on This Island

2004:  The Write Stunts

2003:  Stuntstasia

2002:  SuperStunts

2001:  Stunts of a Lifetime

2000: Stunts Then and Now