Theatre
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Performing Arts Program is a dynamic and engaging program that reaches out to all students who wish to grow as actors performers, theatre technicians, directors, playwrights and dancers. Whether you have been acting all of your life, or are just getting started you will find your voice at Morris Catholic.
In addition to the Theatre Studies courses listed on the main arts page, we also offer several performing arts opportunities per year:
Spring Musical: large-scale production, featuring close to 100 students every year in the cast, crew and orchestra. Rehearsal goes from January until May, when the show is performed. All are welcome, and no one is cut from the production. Past productions include: Big Fish, Footloose, Ragtime, The Civil War, Titanic, Les Miserables, Fame, Godspell.
Fall Production: audition- based production, featuring some of the strongest acting talent in the school. This year’s production, Little Women features the largest cast of 50 students. Previous productions include: You Can't Take it With You, Little Women, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Crucible, Our Town.
Winter One Act: an hour-long one act play written by upper level Theatre Studies 3 and 4 Honors students, and performed by new talent in the freshmen and sophomore classes.
The Performing Arts students compete annually in the New Jersey Thespian Festival in numerous dramatic, comedic and musical performance categories. We also have the Drama Club, which has bi-weekly meetings and once a month Coffeehouse nights, where students perform and play theatre games in the KPAC. Distinguished theatre students will also be inducted into the Thespian National Honor Society.
Past Productions:
2012-2013
- Over 125 students currently enrolled in the four-level Theatre Studies Program.
- In 2018, Theatre 3 and 4 Honors wrote, directed, and produced their fifth annual original one-act, Headspace.
- 2018 Spring Musical, Big Fish, featured over 90 students in the cast and crew and orchestra!
- Over 50 students in the cast of last year's fall play, You Can't Take it With You which has a sold out five show run.
- 19 talented singers in our new audition-based choir, Carmen Fidelium, performed as part of the National Festival Chorus at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.
- Troupe 23 won 10 awards at the 2018 NJ Thespian Festival, for categories of monologue, contrasting monologue, musical solo, and dramatic duo.
- In addition two performers were recognized in their chapter select performance of You Can't Take it With You as Best Featured Actress and Best Supporting Actress (Third Place)
- Skyler Easterbrook was named the recipient of the Governor's Award for Performing Arts in 2018.
- Notable performing arts alumni get into prestigious performing arts colleges including: Muhlenberg College, American University, Marymount, PACE, NYU Tisch, Emerson, Manhattanville, Drew, Wagner, American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA), Rowan, Marshall.
- February 2014 - Cast of Titanic perform with Manhattan Concert Productions' concert of "Titanic the Musical" at Lincoln Center, with original cast.
- 2012 & 2013 NJ State Thespian Champions for performances of Our Town and The Crucible.
- Chapter Select performers at the 2012 and 2013 National Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska.
