Hutchison's award-winning fine arts program presents a variety of theater, dance, and musical productions and programs each year.
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Upper School Musical: Cinderella - November 18-21, 2022
Hutchison's production of Cinderella is made possible by Dorothy Orgill Kirsch '51.
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of this classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein's most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It's Possible” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” alongside an up-to-date, hilarious and romantic libretto by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane. Our fall musical featured seventy-five girls in grades 1-12 together in this beautiful theatrical experience.
We would also like to extend our thanks to our Director's Circle sponsors: Karen and Tommy Higginbotham, and Mary Miles '72 and Bill Loveless.
Grade-Level Theatre Presentations
Our Lower School Grade Level Theatre Presentations are as unique as our girls are. Each year, the grade levels work with Anne Marie Caskey, our theatre artistic director, to explore components of a story and the power of sharing your voice from the mainstage. Girls often perform original works in poems and plays sharing their ideas and perspectives about the human experience.
Fourth Grade: September 30, at 12:30 pm
Third Grade: December 8, at 12:30 pm
Second Grade: February 10, or March 31, at 12:30 pm
First Grade: May 23, at 12:30 pm
Winter Music Concert - December 1, 2022
Join our instrumental ensembles and choirs in the theater for our annual Winter Music Concert on December 1, at 6:00 pm. Girls from kindergarten through twelfth grade share the stage to celebrate the season with a gift of song.
Hutchison's Heart and Soul Talent Show - DATE CHANGE
Benefiting Le Bonheur's Heart Institute, the Heart and Soul Talent Show is a long-standing tradition for middle and upper school girls. Sponsored by the Arts, Technology, and Service Learning Councils, the girls organize every aspect of the benefit. Join us on Wednesday, February 8, at 7:00 pm for a night of entertainment. Tickets are $10 and are available here.
** NEW DATE ANNOUNCEMENT ** The Heart & Soul Talent Show has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 8.
Upper School Play: Clue - March 3-5, 2023
Spring Dance Concert - April 4, 2023
An annual favorite, the Spring Dance Concert features over 50 girls studying dance in our Center for Excellence’s Arts Academy. This is one of the only times during the school year you get to watch early childhood girls performing alongside our upper school girls. Mark your calendar for April 4 at 6:00 pm to view a moving evening of dance inspired by women’s history in works of ballet, modern, and contemporary dance.
Spring Music Concert - April 24, 2023
Join our instrumental ensembles and choirs in the theater for our annual Spring Music Concert on April 24 at 6:00 pm. Girls from kindergarten through twelfth grade share the stage to celebrate the season with a gift of song.
Middle School Play: Peter and the Starcatcher - May 12-13, 2023
Hutchison's middle school play, Peter and the Starcatcher, will open in the Wiener Theater on May 12 and run through May 13. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults.
Peter and the Starcatcher is a play based on the 2004 novel Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, adapted for the stage by Rick Elice. The play provides a backstory for the characters of Peter Pan, Mrs Darling, Tinker Bell and Hook, and serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy.
From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair and the bonds of friendship, duty, and love. A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training, who realizes that the ship’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.
Kennedy Adeogba ’23, Lacy Williams ’23, and Nyla Johnson ’23 will make a short film with a $500 budget and receive mentoring from a professional filmmaker.
Hutchison girls won 57 Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards this year, with 11 Gold Keys, 15 Silver Keys, and 31 Honorable Mentions. Several students also won special awards for their work.
For her Certificate of Arts senior project, Camille Mattingly ’22 curated a gallery featuring work from 11 artists who are seniors in high school, including herself and seven other Hutchison students. It will be on view at Arrow through February 26.
Zoe Zerwig Ford ’23, Lacy Williams ’23, and Nyla Johnson ’23 will make a short film with a $500 budget and receive mentoring from a professional filmmaker.
The outlook for Amellia Hausmann ’21 is bright and sunny these days. She is one of only eight people in the country to earn the Gold Medal Portfolio Award in Art, the highest honor given by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 scholarship. Her work was selected from nearly 2,000 works that received National Medals, and among the 15,000 works that were awarded regionally with Gold Keys.
At Hutchison, a girl can explore her unique place in the world through the wonder of art. We're making sure that tradition continues, even in a pandemic.
Several of our girls were among a select group of students who danced alongside Collage Dance Collective for this year’s RISE program at Germantown Performing Arts Center.
You might think the inspiration to write a musical would come while sitting at a piano noodling some notes or after hearing a particularly inspiring song. Katy Gilmore ’20 said the first time she remembers committing to writing Sidekicks, The Musical with her father, Barry Gilmore, and her sister, Zoe ’22, they were in a parking lot.
Hutchison's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat received seven nominations in the Orpheum Theatre Group's annual High School Musical Theatre Awards.
At the National Scholastic Art & WritingAwards competition, Caroline Seamons '20 and Isabella Smith '22 earned prestigious Silver Medals for their artwork.
Congratulations to the 36 Hutchison girls who earned Scholastic Writing Awards at the recent Nonprofit Alliance for Young Writers’ Southeastern competition.