SHOW ARCHIVE

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST SHOW?

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Lakewood playhouse Past Seasons

1938 ​Season 1	Boy Meets Girl
1939 ​Season 2	​Hay Fever
1940	Lakewood Players undergo "A Study" for a Theatre
1941 ​Season 3	Pomeroy's Past Petticoat Fever Personal Appearance
1942 ​Season 4	You Can't Take It With You A Good Fellow
1943 ​Season 5
1944 ​Season 6
1945 ​Season 7	The Brat Comes Through Apartment To Let Fresh Fields Accidentally Yours
1946 ​Season 8	Junior Miss The Man Who Came To Dinner They Knew What They Wanted George Washington Slept Here Spring Dance Charley's Aunt
1947 ​Season 9	A Male Animal A Perfect Alibi Androcles And The Lion Arsenic And Old Lace What A Life!
1948 ​Season 10	First Lady The Bishop Misbehaves Stage Door Tonight At 8:30 Personal Appearance John Loves Mary Hands Across The Sea
1949 ​Season 11	Night Must Fall Springtime For Henry The Taming Of The Shrew Ladies Of The Jury Uncertain Wings
1950 ​Season 12	Over Twenty-One Suds In Your Eye Lilliom The Philadelphia Story Laura See How They Run
1951 ​Season 13	Born Yesterday The Old Maid Three's A Family Father Of The Bride Kiss And Tell
1952 ​Season 14	Light Up The Sky The Guardsman Lo And Behold You And I Mother Is A Freshman
1953 ​Season 15	Goody My Fancy Kind Lady The Milky Way The Curious Savage Years Ago
1954 Season 16	Three Men On A Horse Harvey My Three Angels Claudia Time Out For Ginger
1955 ​Season 17	Two Blind Mice Dial "M" For Murder Miranda Gold In The Hills Blithe Spirit
1956 ​Season 18	Mister Roberts Fancy Meeting You Again The Royal Family The Perfect Alibi Yes, My Darling Daughter
1957 ​Season 19	Portait In Black Reclining Figure The Silver Whistle The Rainmaker
1958 ​Season 20	The Man Who Came To Dinner The Fifth Season Separate Tables The Physician In Spite Of Himself Because Their Hearts Were Pure
1959 ​Season 21	Sabrina Fair Janus The Importance Of Being Earnest The Crucible You The Jury
1960 ​Season 22	The First Lady The Man In The Dog Suit The Gazebo The Chalk Garden The Moon Is Blue
1961 ​Season 23	Tunnel Of Love Send Me No Flowers Ten Little Indians The Playboy Of The Western World
1962 ​Season 24	The Solid Gold Cadillac Speaking Of Murder Under The Yum Yum Tree A Hole In The Head Once More, With Feeling
1963 ​Season 25	The Pleasure Of His Company The Third Best Sport Critic's Choice Private Lives The Miser
1964 ​Season 26
1965 ​Season 27	The Taming Of The Shrew Sunday In New York Ladies In Retirement Bell, Book And Candle Love Rides The Rails Makah Lullaby
1966 ​Season 28	Everybody Loves Opal A Majority Of One The Tender Trap Poor Richard A View From The Bridge Visit To A Small Planet Thirteen Clocks
1967 ​Season 29	Luv Barefoot In The Park Two For The SeeSaw A Man For All Seasons The Odd Couple Two Gentlemen From Soho The Bald Soprano
1968 ​Season 30	Stop The World, I Want To Get Off The Adding Machine The Lion In Winter Any Wednesday Come Live With Me Inadmissable Evidence Dirty Work At The Crossroads Clean Air Smells Funny
1969 ​Season 31	Once Upon A Mattress Look Homeward Angel Star Spangled Girl A Taste Of Honey The Rivals Toys In The Attic Volpone Summer Stock And Rock Festival #1
1970 ​Season 32	You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running Summertree A Thurber Carnival David And Lisa The Importance Of Being Earnest The Member Of The Wedding Black Comedy/White Lies Summer Stock And Rock Festival #2
1971 ​Season 33	J.B. Auntie Mame The Owl And The Pussycat The Typist The Private War The Middle Of The Night Blithe Spirit Wait Until Dark The Curse Of The Aching Heart Clean Air Smells Funny
1972 ​Season 34
1973 ​Season 35	The Last Of The Red Hot Lovers Arsenic And Old Lace Poole's Paradise
1974 ​Season 36	Oliver! The Blue Kangaroo
1975 ​Season 37	A Cole Porter Revue Company The Blue Kangaroo Fallen Angels Prelude Dance Ensemble The Wizard Of Oz
1976 Season 38	Sondheim Tonight Man With A Load Of Mischief Two Gentlemen From Verona Merrily Ever After The Forest Ring Candide
1977 ​Season 39	The Unexpected Guest The Philadelphia Story Damn Yankees The Blue Kangaroo Fallen Angels
1978 ​Season 40	The Good Doctor The Gift To Amuse Little Murders Pirandello In Two Keys The Vise CeCe No, No, A Thousand Times No!
1979 ​Season 41	The Hollow Something Extraordinary: Jason West The Dancing Dragon And The Magic Christmas Tree Butterflies Are Free Madly In Love Next You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running
1980 ​Season 42	Vicki Flacks Ah, Wilderness The Fantasticks The Real Inspector Hound Behind The Beyond Beauty And The Beast
1981 ​Season 43	Funny Girl
1982 ​Season 44	Romantic Comedy A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
1983 ​Season 45	Blithe Spirit Veronica's Room
1984 ​Season 46	The Odd Couple Charley's Aunt Christmas Show    No Sex Please, We're British Night Must Fall The Women Tell Tale Birthmark
1985 ​Season 47	You Can't Take It With You The Gingerbread Lady Lovers And Other Strangers Reflection Of Christmas A Thousand Clowns Go Back For Murder
1986 ​Season 48	Woman Of Song Rehearsal For Murder Grease The Imaginary Invalid Bell, Book And Candle
1987 ​Season 49	She Loves Me
1988 ​Season 50	Harvey
1989 ​Season 51	Pippin The Elephant Man Don't Drink The Water Extremities The Secret Garden
1990 ​Season 52	Steel Magnolias Arsenic And Old Lace Talley's Folly The Lion In Winter The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail The Wind In The Willows
1991 ​Season 53	On Golden Pond Cotton Patch Gospel Fools The Hound Of The Baskervilles The Dining Room A Family Classic
1992 ​Season 54	The Miser Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii Ten Little Indians Other People's Money Great Expectations Lies And Legends: The Music Of Harry Chapin
1993 ​Season 55	The Foreigner Cotton Patch Gospel The Tempest The Diary Of Anne Frank Bleacher Bums Two Rooms
1994 ​Season 56	The Nerd A Christmas Carol The Miss Firecracker Contest The Hollow The Odd Couple (Female Version) Is There Life After High School?
1995 ​Season 57
1996 ​Season 58	The Crucifer Of Blood Betrayal Inside Out
1997 ​Season 59	The Taming Of The Shrew Dial "M" For Murder Born Yesterday The Philadelphia Story
1998 ​Season 60	Much Ado About Nothing Witness For The Prosecution Cyrano! Bus Stop Tons Of Money Play It Again, Sam
1999 ​Season 61	Sherlock's Last Case It's A Wonderful Life Lend Me A Tenor Poe's Midnight Dreary 84 Charing Cross Road
2000 ​Season 62	The Fantasticks An Evening With Edgar Allen Poe Little Women As You Like It Murder On The Nile Barefoot In The Park You Can't Take It With You
2001 ​Season 63	The Man Who Came To Dinner The Haunting Of Hill House Pride And Prejudice To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday The Unexpected Guest A Midsummer Night's Dream
2002 ​Season 64	The Matchmaker Murder At The Vicarage To Kill A Mockingbird Romeo And Juliet You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
2003 ​Season 65	Ah, Wilderness! The Miracle Worker Steel Magnolias Nunsense The Comedy Of Errors
2004 ​Season 66	Private Lives Communicating Doors Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol The Chosen Man Of La Mancha The Merry Wives Of Windsor Something's Afoot The Guys (9/11)
2005 ​Season 67	Appointment With Death Lillies Of The Field You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown A Raisin In The Sun The Three Musketeers Fiddler On The Roof Hard Knock Christmas
2006 ​Season 68	Black Coffee Our Town Seussical The Diary Of Anne Frank Amadeus The Pirates Of Penzance
2007 ​Season 69	The Hollow Holes The Sound Of Music How The Other Half Loves Once On This Island One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2008 ​Season 70	Lucky Stiff Macbeth A Christmas Carol Greater Tuna Absent Friends Into The Woods Once In A Lifetime Angry Housewives
2009 ​Season 71	The Mousetrap Tuesdays With Morrie Tom Sawyer: The Musical You Can't Take It With You HMS Pinafore The Grapes Of Wrath   A Tuna Christmas
2010 ​Season 72	Sherlock Holmes And The Doom Of Devilsmore The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Ring Around The Moon My Name Is Asher Lev The Lion In Winter Sweeney Todd:  The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
2011 ​Season 73	Something Wicked This Way Comes Oliver! Play It Again, Sam The Farnsworth Invention The Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
2012 ​Season 74	Love Letters Sherlock's Last Case Twelfth Night Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Youth Theatre) The Children's Hour The Woman In Black The Rainmaker The Importance Of Being Earnest
2013 ​Season 75	Arsenic And Old Lace Pride And Prejudice The Chronicles Of Narnia (Youth Theatre) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Twelve Angry Men The Odd Couple Monty Python's Spamalot
2014 ​Season 76	Ten Little Indians Little Women Frog & Toad - The Musical (Youth Theatre) Glengarry Glen Ross The Miracle Worker The 39 Steps Drood: The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
2015/2016 ​Season 77	A Few Good Men The Comedy Of Errors Treasure Island (Youth Theatre) Arcadia Death Of A Salesman Noises Off Avenue Q
2016/2017 ​Season 78	The Hound Of The Baskervilles The Wizard Of Oz (Youth Theatre) It's A Wonderful Life The Rocky Horror Show Doubt: A Parable Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead/15-Minute Hamlet The Pirates Of Penzance
2017/2018 ​Season 79	Wait Until Dark Alice In Wonderland (Youth Theatre) A Christmas Carol (Original Production) Green Day's American Idiot - The Musical The Glass Menagerie Peter And The Starcatcher Little Shop Of Horrors
2018/2019 ​Season 80	Brighton Beach Memoirs Velveteen Rabbit (Youth Theatre) Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits Angels In America - Parts One & Two Inspecting Carol The Producers
2019/2020 ​Season 81	Biloxi Blues Pippi Longstocking (Youth Theatre) The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Heathers: The Musical The Wolves (closed 1 week early, COVID-19 Shutdown) Murder On The Nile (canceled, COVID-19 Shutdown) Ragtime (postponed, COVID-19 Shutdown)
2020/2021 Season 82 ​COVID-19 Virtual Season	Space Cook (6 episode radio series) An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe (one-man show) Christmas Carol (virtual radio show) She Stoops To Conquer (virtual reading) The Asymmetrical Embrace (livestreamed) New Writers Festival (virtual reading)
2021/2022 Season 83 ​Return To In-Person Productions	Broadway Bound Something Wicked This Way Comes (Youth Theatre) A Christmas Carol...More or Less The Haunting Of Hill House (canceled) Head Over Heels The Diary Of Anne Frank Ragtime (rescheduled from Season 81)
2022/2023 ​Season 84	Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol Much Ado About Nothing Love, Loss & What I Wore
2023/2024 ​Season 85	The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] The Seafarer The Giver Incorruptible The Niceties