Performing Arts

Mason Kimont
Director of Performing Arts

Archbishop Mitty High School’s Department of Performing Arts is a college preparatory program dedicated to the artistic development of its students through all performing arts. We provide the most professional caliber performance experiences possible – both for the sake of our students’ enrichment and for our audiences’ enjoyment. Through the interpretation of music and literature, we challenge our musicians, performers, technicians, and designers to discover their own artistic talents. We seek to develop and enrich qualities in our performing artists that will serve the participating individual and the community.

Here at Mitty, we proudly offer the most challenging curricular and extra-curricular program possible. Whether it’s our Symphony performing Dvorak’s New World Symphony or our talented cast and crew performing The Who’s Tommy, you can expect the best in Mitty’s Department of Performing Arts!

2010-2011 Season
	Cabaret October 15-16, 21-23, 2010 The scene is a nightclub in Berlin, as the 1920's are drawing to a close. The Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience to the show and assures them that, whatever their troubles, they will forget them at the Cabaret. His songs provide wry commentary throughout the show. On the train to Berlin we find Cliff, a young American writer, and Ernst, a German who surprises Cliff by putting his briefcase among Cliff's luggage at the German border. History is in the process of being made. Musical numbers include It Couldn't Please Me More, Willkommen, Cabaret, Don't Tell Mama and Two Ladies. We find Cliff on the train again, now leaving Berlin alone. He writes about Sally and the people of Berlin leading up to the Third Reich. It has been a tumultuous and heartbreaking era.
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde January 14-15. 20-22, 2011 Archbishop Mitty brings a new and shocking version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of depravity, lust, love and horror. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self—Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.
	*The Drowsy Chaperone* March 18-19, 24-26, 2011 A rare combination of unprecedented originality and blinding talent, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE boldly addresses a great unspoken desire in all of our hearts: to be entertained. If you've ever sat in a dark theatre and thought, "Dear Lord in heaven, please let it be good," this is the show for you! It all begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan plays his favorite cast album on his turntable, and the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love.
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