The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged

Connally Theatre presented Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" as their 2007 UIL One Act Play entry.

Tom Stoppard's Arcadia moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, complete with a hermitage, thirteen year old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve into intellectual and romantic issues. Present day scenes depict the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are researching a possible scandal at the estate in 1809 involving Lord Byron. This brilliant play moves smoothly between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits---the attraction Newton left out. Arcadia was the winner of the 1995 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play and the 1994 Olivier Award.

Connally Theatre presented Disney's "High School Musical" as their 2006 musical production.

The new stage version of Disney's popular movie "High School Musical" is hot off the press and Connally theatre is one of the first schools in the nation to perform it. The students at East High are comfortable in their cliques: the jocks, the nerds, the thespians, the brainiacs and the skaters. When brainiac Gabriella Montez moves to town, and she and Troy Bolton, the star of the basketball team, decide to try out for the high school musical pandamonium ensues.

Connally Theatre's Thespian Troupe 6763 was selected to perform "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare at the Texas State Thespian Festival.

"Much Ado About Nothing" is one of Shakespeare's seventeen comedies, one of the mature festive romantic comedies. Celebrates combative wit. Major motifs are the mask and overhearing. Combines two contrasting plots, the battle between the sexes with Beatrice and Benedict, & the more conventional romance of Hero and Claudius.

Connally Theatre presented as the first show of the 2006 - 2007 season "The Complete works of William Shakespeare Abridged" by Adam Long, Reed Marin and Austin Tichenor.

Three guys, one dead playwright, and 37 plays. In this universally acclaimed theater experience, three actors will compress the complete works of Shakespeare into about an hour of high-speed over-the-top hilarity. Knowledge about Shakespeare's works is helpful, but not at all necessary. All that is needed is time enough to watch and someone to dial 911 in case you pass out from laughing so much.

Connally Theatre has selected "A Company of Wayward Saints" by George Herman as its UIL One Act Play entry.

The company is a commedia dell' arte group who wander by mistake into the eye of an allegory. They are humanity, wayward saints all, who are far from home and without means. A nobleman may be their salvation if they can put on a good show for him. Surprisingly, the company chooses to present the history of man, from the Garden of Eden through Everyman in birth, adolesence, marraige and death. Along the way they enact other wayward adventures such as the assassination of Julius Ceaser and the homecoming of Odysseus. It is a fine mosaic of life redeemed by humor and human understanding.

Connally Theatre presented "Snoopy!!!" with music by Larry Grossmann and lyrics by Hal Hackady.

Snoopy is a musical based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz and is the sequel to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The "Peanuts" gang includes Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, Peppermint Patty, and Woodstock. Songs from Snoopy include Just One Person, Where Did that Little Dog Go?, and Don't Be Anthing Less (Than Everything You Can Be).

Connally Theatre presented as its first show of the 2005 - 2006 season Neil Simon's "Rumors".

Rumors is a farce by America's premier comic playwright, Neil Simon. Four couples arrive at the townhouse of the deputy mayor of New York City to celebrate his and his wife's tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it's alright, it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer's cover-up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom. The real fun begins when two New York City police officers arrive!

Connally chose Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's "Assassins" as its UIL One Act Play entry.

Leave it to Stephen Sondheim to make things difficult for himself. After writing his most accessible mature musical, Into the Woods, in 1987, he collaborated with author John Weidman on an extremely disturbing topic: Assassins, which depicts the various people who tried--with or without success--to kill a United States president. The characters, ranging from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley Jr., all express different motivations--love, fame, freedom from tyranny, stomach pain--but are united in their frustration with the idea of the American dream and believe that killing a president is the only way to achieve it.

Connally Theatre presented Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" as its first productoin of the 2004 school year, the show was a huge success.

Noises Off presents the story of a hapless acting troupe who are touring a production of a farce called Nothing On. Nothing On must be about something, but it's hard to figure out what exactly. Expect lots of doors slamming, sexual dalliances, confusions, and, of course, plates of sardines. The encompassing story about the acting troupe is every bit as convoluted. The questions about the actors - who's in love with whom, who doesn't know what, why is everyone angry - are every bit as deep (and irrelevant) as the questions about the characters they portray.

Connally Thespian Troupe 6763 presented Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle: Tall Tales" at the Texas State Thespian Festival in Wichita Falls.

"Tall Tales," which takes place in 1890, presents a gripping tale of the exploitation of land and people as coal mining comes to this particular corner of eastern Kentucky.

Connally Theatre presented Jim Jacob's and Warren Casey's "Grease" as its musical for the 2004 school year. The show was a huge success playing to over one-thousand people in two nights.

"Grease tells the story of friendships, romances, and the adventures of a group of Rydell high school kids in the 1950s."