Theatrical Arts

The Canandaigua Academy Players present

The Addams Family

A new Musical Comedy

Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on characters created by Charles Addams

Canandaigua Academy Theatre

began in 1923 with the production of The Love Pirates of Hawaii under the direction of Miss Mattison and Miss Curtis. In 1964, twenty-three productions later, the actual Academy Players Drama Club began. From 1960-1990, the Academy Players put on thirty-two productions, all under various directors. In 1991, Mr. Scott Schauman, began to direct and produce the productions.

1943 - 1990

Ever Since Eve - 1943
Once and For All - 1944
The Christmas Carol Stars - 1948
Divine Flora - 1949
Meet Me in St. Louis - 1950
Seventeenth Summer - 1951
Mr. Barry's Etchings - 1951
The Case of the Silent Caroler - 1951
Our Miss Brooks - 1952
No Room for a King - 1952
At the Feet of the Madonna - 1953
Men Are Like Street Cars - 1954
Breen Valley - 1955
Who Stayed Home? - 1955
Curtain Going Up - 1956
The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners - 1957
The Family Nobody Wanted - 1958
Love Your Neighbor - 1959
Rebel Without a Cause - 1960
On With the Show - 1960
The Thread That Runs So True - 1961
Bye Bye Birdie - 1963

1964 - Actual Academy Players Drama Club Began

Finian's Rainbow - 1965
Love Makes the World Go Square - 1966
The First Mrs. Paris - 1967
Music Man - 1968
The Miracle Worker - 1969
Oklahoma! - 1970
Under Milkwood - 1970
Little Wormen - 1971
Spoon River - 1971
The Crucible - 1972
The Cave Dwellers - 1972
Hello Out There - 1972
Camelot - 1973
The Rimers of Eldritch - 1973
Cactus Flowers - 1974
Murder Takes the Stage - 1975
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail - 1975
Petey's Choice - 1976
You Can't Take it With You - 1976
Our Town - 1977
What's Wrong with the Girls - 1978
Don't Drink the Water - 1978
The Simple Truth - 1978
The Braggart - 1978
Ten Little Indians - 1980
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail - 1981
Bye Bye Birdie - 1985
I Know I Saw Gypsies - 1987
Godspell - 1987
Bye Bye Birdie - 1988
The Face on the Barroom Floor - 1988
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown - 1989
Once Upon a Mattress - 1990

1991 - Present

All Productions from 1991 - present were produced and directed by Mr. Scott Schauman. Musical Direction by Mrs. Mary Hamlin 1991 - 1999

Damn Yankees - 1991
The Mouse That Roared
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - 1992
Dark of the Moon - 1992
Grease - 1993
Kiss and Tell - 1993
Fiddler on the Roof - 1994
The Crucible - 1994
Oklahoma! - 1995
The Good Doctor - 1995
West Side Story - 1996
Death of a Salesman - 1996
Into the Woods - 1997
3 "Plays in a Round": The Real Inspector Hound, Fool's Paradise, The Still Alarm - 1997
Anything Goes - 1998
Harvey - 1998
Oliver! - 1999
Our Town - 1999