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We Will Rock You
HAPA Holidays (2018)
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Tempest
Legends Concert
Choir Concert 2012
Band Concert 2012
A street car named desire
Vocal Concert
Tick Tick Boom !
Once On The Island
Nunsense
Band concert
Children Hour
Harvey
Dance 2012
The Wiz
Falling into dance 2013
Vocal Concert 2013
Dancing With the Hammond Stars 2014
Mother Hicks
Almost Maine
A year with Frog and Toad
Cats
Dancing With The Hammond Stars 2015
Jakes Women
Falling into Dance
Songs for a new world
Cinderella
The Hedi Chronicles
Falling into Dance 2015
All My Sons
Jazz Concert 2016
Dancing With The Hammond Stars 16
Midsummer Night Dream
Spring Dance 2017
Reckless
China Summer
Fall into Dance 2017
Edges
The Skin of our Teeth
Sister Act
Isn't It Romantic
A Streetcar Named Desire
2011-2012
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
2011-2012
Our graduating class of 2012 perform their own pieces in their final performance at HAPA
2011-2012
Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy it is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The show includes elements of the Romeo and Juliet story and elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid. It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes.
Dance 2012
2011-2012
2011-2012
Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical tale of a young composer on the brink of turning 30 and falling into oblivion. His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city (TICK,), his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue (TICK…), yet Jon is still waiting on tables and trying to write the great American musical (BOOM!).
Harvey
2012-2013
Elwood P. Dowd is a middle-aged, amiable though somewhat eccentric man whose best friend is an invisible 6 foot, 3 inch tall rabbit named Harvey. As described by Dowd, Harvey is a pooka, a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who is especially fond of social outcasts.
2012-2013
The Super Soul Musical “Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of modern African-American culture.
Nunsense
2012-2013
The hilarious spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to manage a fundraiser. Sadly, the rest of the sisterhood died from botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia. Thus, the remaining nuns – ballet-loving Sister Leo, street-wise Sister Robert Anne, befuddled Sister Mary Amnesia, the Mother Superior Sister Regina, and mistress of the novices Sister Mary Hubert – stage a talent show in order to raise the money to bury their dearly departed.
2013-2014
The evocative story, richly realized through all of the resources of theatre including poetry, character and story. Focusing on three outsiders—a foundling girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence; and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch.
2014-2015
This 1989 Pulitzer Prize focuses on the women’s movement of the late twentieth century, and is told through the story of Heidi Holland, a successful feminist art historian. Notable themes include, but are not limited to: feminism; the role of women in society at different times in history, specifically the late twentieth century; social justice; homosexuality; gender roles; and sexuality.
2014-2015
The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year – the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.
2014-2015
HAPA students are paired with a member of the Hammond community to perform a dance choreographed by the students themselves. The winner of the competition is voted on by the audience themselves. Who will take home the mirror ball trophy?
Songs for a New World
2015-2016
It’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to make a choice… or take a stand… or turn around and go back. These are the stories and characters of today.
2015-2016
Tech Gallery
You see the performers on the stage, but what about the ones behind the scenes? See our technical team in action and see what it takes to make sure HAPA’s performances look visually stunning.
2015-2016
Joe Keller, a successful businessman, who lives comfortably with his wife, Kate, and son, Chris, in a suburban American neighborhood. They have only one sadness in their lives – the loss of their other son, Larry, who went missing in World War II. After three years, Kate still clings to the hope that her son is alive.
China Summer 2017
2016-2017
This Shakespeare comedy portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
SCROOGE! The Musical
2016-2017
Closely following the plot of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in which the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of a Christmas Eve night, after being visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
The Skin of Our Teeth
2017- 2018
Thornton Wilder’s 1942 play is an allegory about the history of mankind told through the story of one family, the Antrobuses, who lived through a new ice age, a great flood, and a devastating war.
A Year with Frog and Toad
2014-2015
A whimsical musical that tells the story of two best friends: the cheerful Frog, and curmudgeonly Toad. The musical follows Frog and Toad through four colorful seasons, from hibernation to hibernation. Frog and Toad, along with their playful, quirky friends Snail, Turtle, the Birds, and more, enact many adventures, from rushing down a hill in a runaway sled in the winter, to taking a picnic and a quiet moment in the summer.
Almost, Maine
2014-2015
Comprising of nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine.
Jake's Women
April 4
Jake talks to many of the women he knows, both in real life and in his imagination, as he works to save his marriage. Jake, suffering with psychosis and seeing representations of his daughter at age 12, his late wife Julie and recently divorced wife Maggie, is dealing with the inability to write productively and must resolve these issues before he does so.
Jazz Concert 2016
2016-2017
Reckless
April 8
At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life.
