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Season 12

2022-2023

Season 11

2021-2022

Main Shows

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Matilda

We started our 12th season with the full version of Matilda.  This challenging show relied heavily on the younger member as the kids.  It featured many of our high schoolers playing the adults and several of the kids in the class from our 2019 production were in the teen ensemble.

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Elf Jr.

We switched up the season this year and decided to perform the musical Elf Jr. instead of the usual Best Christmas Pageant.  Performed at the Cox Theatre, this show was a wonderful dose of holiday cheer.

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Frozen Jr.

We headed back to Arendelle this year to reprise Frozen Jr.  This time we performed six shows and over 900 people came to see this production, smashing the overall attendance record.  

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Barkus Parade 2023

The day after Frozen Jr. closed, we participated in the annual Barkus Parade.  Our Theme was "The Earth without Art is just Ehh" and honored Amanda Kelly.  It was a beautiful day and we won for Best Group!

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Fools

This full-length Neil Simon comedy is about a town cursed with stupidity.  Full of funny twists, it was a hilariously fun way to wrap up the season and featured Katie in her final MYO show. 

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Sing For Your Supper

This season marked the return of the tradition Sing for Your Supper.  This year's group songs included some songs from Six, A Little More Homework, and Nobody's Side.

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One Acts Festival: How We Saved Our Homeroom Teachers

Directed by Noah, this play featured a class of students on a quest to rescue their teacher from an Evil Wizard.

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Shrek

We pulled out all the stops for this production including a giant rented dragon and all the prosthetics. This was a wonderful final show for Senior Bailee as she was the perfect Fiona.

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One Acts Festival: Hallmarks of Horror

Directed by Ian, this comical play highlights all the ridiculous things one finds in horror movies. Full of Bad decisions, all-to-perfect families, and lots of high-pitched screams.  This show kept the audience laughing.

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One Acts Festival: The Diviners

Directed by Daci, this was a cutting of the full length play about a traumatized boy, his fear of water, and a former preacher.

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Beauty and the Beast

This was a special full-circle moment because back in eighth grade, many of the seniors had performed the Jr. version of Beauty and the Beast.  With a cast of almost 70, this rendition was even more grand than the last time we performed it.

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Best Chirstmas Pagenat Ever

The classic returned, this time with Sydney completing her BCP bucket list by finally playing mom.  Always a fun time, this was a particularly memorable version.

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CATS

Cats was Kai's first-ever show at MYO, and it was so much fun to revisit this classic at the Cox Theatre in Plano.  We have done this show three times now and each time it is fun to watch the evolution of the program.

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The Play That Goes Wrong 

When the rights because available for this show, we simply had to find a way to work it into the season.  An absolutely hilarious show, it was one of the most technically challenging shows we have ever produced.  It was a HUGE crowd favorite 

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Into the Woods Jr. Opening Cast

This was the perfect show to feature our younger performers The jr version is only the first act only of the full show. It is a tradition to have them do the jr in middle school and then produce the full version four years later. 

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Into the Woods Jr. Closing Cast

This was the perfect show to feature our younger performers.  The jr version is only the first act only of the full show. It is a tradition to have them do the jr in middle school and then produce the full version four years later. 

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Sweeney Todd

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Dear Edwina Jr.

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Season 11 Special Projects

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One Act Play Festival: Ragdolls

Kai had long been asking to direct a one-act play, so for his senior year, we finally made it happen.  We had four brave directors for our inaugural year and Kai chose to direct the very dramatic play Ragdolls about a girl physically abused by her stepfather.

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One Act Play Festival: Alice in Cyberland

Directed by Noah, this comedic play is all about Alice heading down the rabbit hole of zoom rooms after she falls asleep while working on homework.

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One Act Play Festival: Young Scrooge

Directed by Bekah, this retelling of the traditional Christmas story featured the characters when they were growing up.

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One Act Play Festival: How to Eat Like a Child

Sydney directed this one act musical all about lesson ins not being a grown up.  This was also one of the first shows she was in.

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All Together Now- A Global Concert

We were one of over 2000 theatre groups in 31 countries who participated in this musical theatre review concert put together from MTI.

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Veterans Day Concert

The last time we did a patriotic concert was in 2014.  Our own Captain Woodward had just returned from a year-long overseas deployment, so we wanted to honor him and all those who serve our country.  

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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Directed by Sydney, this neo-futuristic one-act featured thirty plays in thirty minutes that were selected by the audience.

Season 10

2020-2021

Main Shows

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School House Rock Live!

This was full circle moment for Keelin, starting her senior year by reprising the first show she ever did with MYO.  This was the first show with covid precautions and a great opening to season 10.

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Little Women the Musical

A stunningly gorgeous musical based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.  This show featured an incredibly talented cast led by Kamarri as Jo.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Covid protocols meant only siblings could touch and the two separate casts rehearsed and performed separately.  This was definitely the most unique version of BCP we have ever produced.

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

The first play (other than BCP) that we have ever done just for the younger set.  This fantastical tale came out beautifully.

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Merrily We Roll Along

This rarely performed Sondheim show is incredibly challenging and brilliantly written.  It is an experience like no other.

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Descendants the Musical

MYO was one of the first groups in the area to premiere this musical and were the first group in the country to use Richard Frendt's digital projections.

 

Season 9

2019-2020

Main Shows

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The Addams Family

A hilarious, yet also touching at the same time show centered around the plot of Wednesday growing up and getting married, this show was a favorite with both the performers and audience.

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These Shining Lives

Performed after a one week workshop, this dramtic play about the women who worked at the radium dial factory was absolutely stunning.  A true once in a lifetime experience.

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Virtual Christmas Show

Covid precautions prevented most of the special projects we usually complete during the year, but we wanted to make sure the residents at nursing homes still had a way to experience the caroling, so we recorded songs in downtown McKinney and sent the link out so they could still enjoy some Christmas performances.

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Matilda

Based on the Roald Dahl Novel of the same name, this show was a hit in the West End and on Broadway and was the opening show of our ninth season.

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Firebringer Student Edition

MYO was the first group to license and perform this brand new student version of the Youtube cult hit

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Really Rosie

With music by Carol King and a book by Maurice Sendak, this rarely done musical follows the adventures of Rosie and her friends on a summer day on in Brooklyn.  

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

This year's version featured Alicia as Beth and Bailee as mom.  It was particularly special because Sean revived his role as Dad for his senior year and it was Doug's 19th time to direct this show!

Urinetown

Yes, the title's awful, but the musical is great!  Performed at the Cox playhouse with a live band, this darkly comedic show won the tony award for best musical in 2002

Frozen Jr. 

This Disney hit was performed the first weekend in March right before things began shutting down for the Covid Crisis.  A beautiful production and a huge success, the Saturday matinee holds the record for the largest single audience.

Season 9 Special Projects

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Broadway the Cirque Way

A collaboration with Lone Star Circus Youth Elite Troop produced and directed by OnSTAGE member Tilda.

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Season 9 Sing For Your Supper

The theme for this year's show was songs that featured colors in the lyrics.  

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Nailed It and Project Runway 

We held three different virtual competitions.  Two for nailed it and one for project runway.  Tons of fun and our special guest judge for the Tony Award nailed it was our favorite Tony Award Winning Alumni (and recent Harvard Grad) Eric Cornell.

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Broadway Bound Workshop

A collaboration with PDT Dance Arts that included classes on sight reading music, audition prep, multiple different styles of dance, and a lecture and talk back session with Tony Award Winning OnSTAGE Alumni Eric Cornell.

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McKinney Barkus Parade

Official MYO Dog Mascot Scout dressed up as Vanilla Ice and the Frozen Cast joined him as his Frozen Crew.  We had a great (though kind of cold) time and came away with a win for best group!

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College Bound Vocal Workshop with Scott Guthrie

One of our many OnSTAGE Alumni currently working as a college professor, Scott Guthrie, offered a special workshop and coaching session for some of our college bound OnSTAGers. 

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Chirstmas Tours

We once again sang at various holiday events including Fairview's Candy Canes for Kids, Stonebriar Mall, and Lola's Small Business Saturday.

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Quarantine Classes

As soon as we went on quarantine, we immediately sought out OnSTAGE members to teach classes.  Each day there were at least three hours of classes.

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NYC Virtual Workshops

Our virtual class instructors volunteered and spent numerous hours preparing and instructing the other MYO members.  As a surprise, we sent each instructor to an online workshop with some of broadway's biggest stars including Ashley Park, Eva Noblezada, Ali Stroker, Reeve Carney, and Jeremy Jordan.

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Lion King Workshop with Stephen Carlile

One of the favorite quarantine activities and workshops was when we got to work with Stephen Carlile who currently plays Scar on broadway and in the live action movie.  We learned warm up activities, sang for him, and got a change to ask questions.

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It's The Distanced Life Music Video

We couldn't let the quarantine pass without making a parody music video.  This parody to "It's a Hard Knock Life" was filmed individually at everyone's house and edited together.

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ASL Class Music Video

As a final project, the ASL class learned the sign language to the song "This is Me" and created a music video in downtown McKinney to celebrate Deaf Awareness Month

Season 9 Virtual Shows

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10 Ways to Survive in Quarantine

We licensed and presented this Don Zolodis play online within two weeks of it being made available.  We had a virtual audience of over 200 people!

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Tales of the Quaranteens

This original production was the culminating project of Doug's

playwriting class and featured monologues, scenes, and Jude even wrote an original song.  

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We Hold These Truths

This original show written by Patty Jantho featured stories of the leader of the women's suffrage moment.  It was originally going to be performed live at the League of Women Voters Centennial Celebration of the 19th Amendment.   We moved it online when the event was cancelled.

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MYO Tribute to Memorial Day 

This show featured numerous patriotic songs, poems, a montage of chalk art designs, and the ASL class learned and performed the sign language for the song "American Tears."

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You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

This show was cast before the quarantine started.  We rehearsed the entire show virtually and then brought in the performers one at a time to record their scenes in front of a green screen.  Several hundred hours of editing later, we had a final product put together despite never once rehearsing in person and no one ever being in the same place!

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25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

This amazing cast had one rehearsal before the quarantine started.  After rehearsing virtually for a couple of months, the cast decided to indefinitely postpone the production.  The cast for this was incredible and we hope we can find some way to get them together on stage.

Season 8

2018-2019

Main Shows

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Newsies

This high energy dance musical was a huge challenge, but also so much fun to perform.  It tells the story of the New York Newsboy strike and how a group of underdogs challenged a bully and won!

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Into the Woods

This was the third time for MYO to take a trip into the woods and Doug's sixth time to produce this class Sondheim musical. And as always, "Everything you learn there will help when you return there." 

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

This was a more reasonably sized cast this year and featured Noelle as Beth and Jessica as Mom.  It was also Everest's second time to play dad.

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Little Shop of Horrors

This dark comedy musical is a cult classic and features a giant man eating plant.  Performed at the Cox with a live band, this small cast show was a season favorite.  It also won numerous Broadwayworld.com Dallas Region Awards.

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The Bad Seed

This famous 1950's play is all about nature vs. nuture.  It tells the story of a dangerous eight year old psychopath who seems like the perfect child to everyone around her.  

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Alice in Wonderland Jr.

With plenty of bright and fun costumes, wigs, makeup and lots of set changes, this Disney classic is always entertaining.  The glowing blacklight number "Zip a Dee Doo Dah" was a crowd favorite.  We also had our McKinney Chamber of Commerce Ribbon cutting during dress rehearsal week.

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Children of Eden

This musical full of stunning songs is one of the few Stephen Schwartz musicals that was never produced on broadway.  It is loosely based on the book of genesis and examines the themes of growing up, letting go, and the things we do for those we love.

Season 8 Special Projects

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Coffeehouse @ the Cox

The Larsen family were important members of MYO from the very start.  Aaron Larsen was one of the original MYO Dads and was always willing to lend a hand even as he fought cancer.  After he lost his battle in spring of 2018, the MYO families rallied together to hold a coffee shop night to raise funds for his family.  

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Sing for Your Supper Season 8

The theme for this year's dinner show was "The Golden Age of Broadway."  It was nice to hear so many classic tunes of old Broadway.

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Spring Tours 2019

Since we didn't do Christmas tours this year, we decided to so a series of spring tours instead.  We performed at Duino Coffee, Fairview Town Center, Filterd, and EJ Will Gastropub.

Season 7

2017-2018

Main Shows

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The Little Mermaid Jr.

We split the group by ages fort his season and the younger kids were up first with Little Mermaid Jr.  This show is always a lot of fun and Valerie's costumes were incredible!

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Pippin

Pippin was our very first MYO Edge Show meaning it was only open to those in  7-12 grade.  Matilda was able to use many of her incredible cirque skills and Sydney, Keelin, Daci, and Ashlyn also learned how to perform on a aerial ring.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

This was the fifth time to produce this show in Texas and it was by far the largest cast of any show we have ever had.  There were 70 children involved in the show!  It also won the 2018 Broadwayworld.com Dallas award for best overall youth play.

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Heathers High School Edition

Our second MYO Edge show of the season, this incredible cast of 8-12th graders did an amazing job bringing this rock musical based on the 80's cult classic movie to life.

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A Chorus Line High School Edition

Arguably the most famous dance musical of all time, this classic was brought to life using the all new high school edition script.  The cast even mastered the original choreography for song "One."

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Beauty and the Beast Jr.

We performed the full version of Beauty and the Beast in season 6.  Since the elementary and middle school kids were almost exclusively relegated to the ensemble roles last year, we decided to let them do the Jr. Version this season.  They did not disappoint!

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Runaways

This show was written by Elizabeth Swados in the seventies and features the true stories of runaways living on the streets of New York.  Harsh, uncensored, and groundbreaking on so many levels, this was one of the only shows on broadway to ever feature a cast exclusively of children and teens.  It was also contains the first ever rap that was included in a broadway score.

Season 7 Special Projects

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National Adoption Day 2017

This was the fifth year in a row that we performed as part of the National Adoption Day festivities at the Collin County Courthouse.  We love being apart of such a special day for new families!

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Candy Canes For Kids 2017

For the second year in a row, we performed as part of the Candy Canes for Kids Festival at the Fariview Town Center.  Candy Canes for Kids is a huge fundraiser benefitting the Collin County Children's Advocacy Center.

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Season Seven Sing For Your Supper

The theme for this year's show was "do-overs"  It was so much fun to revisit old numbers performed in previous shows. We had at least one song from every single MYO musical to date!

Season 6

2016-2017

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Cats

This was our second time to produce this Andrew Lloyd Webber hit.  This production happened to coincide with the revival of the show on Broadway and Alumni Scott Guthrie arranged for his friend Mimi Paris who was getting ready to take over the role of Grizzabella to send a message to the cast on opening night.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The fourth Texas Production of this class holiday show.  This prodcution was particularly unique as Brett who played Charlie in 2012 was now dad and Paige who played a baby angel in 2012 was Beth.

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Spamalot Young at Part

This musical is based on the cult classic Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.  The cast was outstanding and had the audiences rolling every night. 

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A Children's Story

This dramatic one act play is set in an elementary classroom the day after America loses a war.  Presented in real time it explores how easily and quickly young minds can be swayed and turned against everything they have ever believed. 

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Beauty and the Beast

This Disney classic was our biggest and grandest production to date.  Mrs. Enoch made every single costume from scratch and the show looked incredible.  It was also Ashley's first show as music director and she immediately brought the program to a new level.

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Jr.

This was another musical based on a popular movie.  This cautionary tale about five children who all earn golden tickets to tour the Wonka factory was so much fun to produce and perform even though the Oompa Loompas were impossible to tell apart.  

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25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

This small cast musical comedy features hilarious characters, some incredible songs, and lots of improv and audience participation.  

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Sing for Your Supper Season Six

The theme this year was MYO Unplugged and featured mostly acoustic numbers.

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Christmas Tours 2016

National Adoption Day, Candy Canes for Kids, Willowbend Mall, Stonebriar, and the Melissa Navtivity festival were a few of this year tour locations.

Season 5

2015-2016

Main Shows

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Shrek

We opened season five with the full version of this Broadway hit.  We added our own interpretation of the show, giving  all the characters and set a hipster/urban feel and really delving into the anti- establishment themes and the messages about embracing diversity that the movie's author's discussed in depth in interviews when the movie first came out.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 

After a two year hiatus, we brought back this Holiday Classic.  A unique fact about this cast is the Delaney and Keelin who are sisters in real life were playing mother and daughter!  This was the last show we performed in Melissa.

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The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks is the world's longest running musical.  This tiny cast show was unlike any other show we had ever done. We were not sure how it would work out, but it quickly became one of the favorite productions we have done.  It was also the first show performed outside of Melissa at the Cox Playhouse in Plano. 

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Dear Edwina Jr.

This musical follows the plight of Edwina Spoonapple, advice giver extraordinaire.  Not only does this show contain wonderful messages about being yourself, it also teaches some really helpful things like the correct way to set a table.  This was the first MYO production at the Church Street Auditorium. 

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The Addam's Family

This musical opened on Broadway in 2010.  It features the same characters from the tv show and movies, but in this show, Wednesday is all grown up and wanting to get marries.  This show has a fabulous script and score and the costumes were so much fun to put together!

Season 5 Special Projects

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Melissa Fall Festival 2015

We performed a selection of numbers from Shrek as part of the Melissa Fall Festival and Farmer's Market.

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Christmas Tours 2015

Year three for the Christmas Ensemble and we did National Adoption Day, all the different malls, and added the Melissa Nativity Festival to our tour stops.

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Sing For Your Supper Season 6

The theme for this year's show was "Love Notes" and all songs had a love theme.

Season 4

2014-2015

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Alice in Wonderland Jr.

We opened season four with this musical based on the classic Disney film.  This was our largest cast to date.  

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Godspell

Performing in this Stephen Swartz musical is a unique experience and every team of performers becomes very close during the rehearsals.  This was Doug's 8th time to direct this beautiful show.

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Legally Blonde Jr.

Based on the movie of the same name, this musical comedy has a lot of a laughs and actually some great life lessons and themes mixed in.

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Celebrate Freedom 2014

This was our fourth year to perform a patriotic show for the community while they waited for the fireworks to begin.  This year we let the little siblings join in the performance.

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You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown was one of the shows we produced at MRI and McKillop that inspired us to start MYO.  It was fun to revisit this classic and was exciting to have another Vaughan son get to play Charlie Brown!

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Sing for Your Supper

The theme for this year was simply Broadway Favorites.  Each person got to pick their own solo or small group songs.

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Into the Woods

When we performed Into the Woods Jr. for our first production, we promised to revisit the show and perform the full version when the cast was older.  Four years later that promise was fulfilled!

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Christmas Ensemble 2014

The Christmas Ensemble was a huge hit again this year, performing over ten different shows this year.  We even brought the little siblings in on the act.  We performed at Adoption Day, all the malls, Santa Fest, and nursing homes this year.  It was a great way to get into the Christmas spirit!

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Spring 2015 Variety Show

Even though we added a fifth show this year, we were still able to fit the spring variety show into the schedule.  This year the little ones tackled a medley from Annie and the older girls performed "Wash that Man Right out of My Hair" from South Pacific.  As always there were numerous great solos and duets.

Season 3

2013-2014

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School House Rock LIVE!

We chose this fun show to open our third season.  This show was one of the last shows Doug and Karen directed in Oklahoma and two of the cast from that production drove down to surprise us!

The Greek Olympia Extravaganza

Instead of another production of Best Christmas Pageant, we decided to do something completely different.  The largest ice storm ever to hit North Texas nearly caused this show to not happen, but we persevered!

How to Eat Like a Child

This show contains lessons on "not being a grown up."  A wonderful homage to the wonderful perks of being a kid, this show is always so much fun to produce and watch.

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The Apple Tree

This rarely done musical is actually three one act shows about love each with a different moral and presented in sequence.  Act One is Adam Eve, Act two is the Lady or the Tiger, and Act three is the story of Passionella, a Cinderella story set in 1960's New York City.

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Spring 2014 Variety Show- Changes

The theme for this year's show was songs about change.  A highlight was the dance under the blacklight to the song "I Sing the body Electric" from Fame.

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Celebrate Freedom 2013

This was our third year to perform for the community before the annual fireworks show.  It is always a lot of fun and always extremely HOT!

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Season 3 Sing for Your Supper-

The theme for this year was "Leader of the Pack" and featured numerous girl group songs from the sixties.

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Melissa Fall Festival 2013

We performed a selection of songs from Schoolhouse Rock Live at the Melissa Fall Festival and Farmer's Market.

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Christmas Ensemble 2013

This was the first year for the Christmas Ensemble.  With a mix of carols, solos, and fun songs and dances, the ensemble was a huge hit.  We had about eight different tour stops including National Adoption Day, Collin Creek Mall, Belk Santa Fest, Stonebriar Mall, Willow Bend Mall, and Melissa Town Hall.  

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Anna Ice Cream Festival 2014

Another fun (and hot) outdoor festival that we performed at. This one included free homemade ice cream after we finished!

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Hannah at the Rough Riders

Every year the Rough Riders receive hundreds of submissions from people auditioning to sing the National Anthem before their home games.  We were so excited to help Hannah prepare a submission and thrilled when she was selected!

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Belk Kid's Fest 2014

We performed at Kids Fest for the second year in a row.  This year's show included songs from School House Rock, Apple Tree, and How to Eat Like a Child.  We also had several MYO members selected to model fall fashions in the fashion shows.

Season 2

2012-2013

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Cats

This show opened our second season and was the first full length, two act production produced by MYO.  Cats was the longest running show on Brodway and the West end for many years.  Cats ran for 18 years on broadway with 7,485 performances and 21 years on the West End with 8 ,949 performances.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

We decided to try and make this a yearly tradition here in Texas like it had been in Oklahoma.  This was the second production in Texas and Doug's 14th production overall.

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The Little Mermaid Jr.

This was the first Disney show produced by MYO.  The set and costumes for the sea and sea creatures were all designed to look like an Eric Carle book.  

Season 2 Special Projects

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Melissa Celebrate Freedom 2012

Our second year to perform for the community as they awaited the fireworks show.

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Coffee Shop Tours

Several members performed sets at the coffee and tea house in Anna.  It is always nice to listen to kids perform. It is even better when you can listen while enjoying some delicious coffee drinks!

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Spring 2013 Variety Show

This year we tackled songs form Les Mes, Matilda, Wicked, and Starlight Express- complete with skating.  

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McKillop Fall Carnival 2012

The fall carnival is always a fun day for the community and we were glad to provide entertainment for the second year in a row.

Melissa Christmas Parade 2012

This was our second year to have the Christmas Pageant Cast participate in the Parade.

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Season 2 Sing for Your Supper- Travel

Our second annual dinner fundraiser had a travel theme this year.  Every song featured the name of a location in the lyrics.

Race Track Opening 2012

The opening of the Racetrack was a huge event for the city of Melissa. We were happy to sing the National Anthem and perform several numbers at the grand opening event.

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Belk Kidsfest 2013

We were very excited to be asked to perform at Belk's kidfest on the tax free weekend.  We performed some numbers from summer camp and Revolting Children from the variety show.  We also had some MYO kids picked to wear some fall fashions and walk in the fashion shows.

Season 1

2011-2012

Main Shows

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Into the Woods Jr. 

The first show performed by MYO was the Jr. version of this Stephen Sondheim musical.  We made a promise that when they reached high school we would do the full version.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Doug first directed this play based on the children's book by Barbara Robinson in 1987.  We were glad to bring this yearly tradition to Texas.  This was Doug's thirteenth time to direct this show.

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Really Rosie

This musical is loosely based on the Maurice Sendak book The Sign on Rosie's Door and his Nutshell Gang series.  The music was written by Carol King.  As with most things written by Maurice Sendak, the power of imagination reigns supreme in this musical!

Season 1 Special Projects

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Melissa's Celebrate Freedom 2011

We were asked to perform for the crowds of people gathered to wait for the fireworks show that night.  This show featured numerous patriotic songs and dances.  

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McKillop Fall Carnival 2011

After a successful performance at the Melissa Celebrate Freedom fest, we were invited to provide entertainment for the McKillop Fall Carnival.  We had a great time!

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Season 1 Sing For Your Supper- Food Glorious Food

We wanted to start an annual tradition of putting on a dinner show as a fundraiser.  The students sand an opening and closing number together and each also sang a solo that all had to do with food.  They also served a three course meal.  

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Melissa Christmas Parade 2011

We had kids, a Christmas Show to advertise and access to a truck, a trailer, and a driver.  Next thing you know, we were in the Christmas Parade.  It was actually a really fun experience!

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Christmas CD

One of the more unique projects this year, was recording a CD of Christmas Music.  It was the first time for everyone to experience being in a sound booth and recoding a song.  

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Spring 2012 Variety Show

While musicals and plays are great fun, the variety shows allows everyone to develop their acting, singing, and dance skills, gives everyone their own moment to shine, and allows them to become familiar with many different broadway shows.  This year's show included songs from Cats, Cinderella, and Chicago.  

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The First MYO Production

We knew the students enjoyed performing after school, but we were not sure if they were interested in taking their enjoyment of performing to new level outside of school.  We decided to offer an opportunity to learn some songs, short scenes, and dances and see what happened.  Fourteen kids from Melissa decided they wanted to give it a try and MYO was officially up and running.

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