For the first time in CVHS history, this production is a collaboration between two advanced performing arts classes: Musical Theater Ensemble and Honors Entertainment Technology and Live Performance.  If you’re interested in being part of next year’s musical production, either onstage or behind the scenes, contact Ms. Chaplar or Ms. Dominguez for more information.

Musical Numbers:

• The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Company
• The Spelling Rules- Panch and Spellers
• My Favorite Moment of the Bee - Rona
• My Friend, the Dictionary - Olive and Company
• The First Goodbye – Company
• Pandemonium – Panch, Chip, Mitch, and Spellers
• I'm Not That Smart - Leaf
• The Second Goodbye – Company
• Magic Foot - Barfée and Company
• Pandemonium (Reprise)– Mitch, Chip, and Company
• My Favorite Moment of the Bee (Reprise) - Rona
• Prayer of the Comfort Counselor – Mitch and Company
• My Unfortunate Distraction  (Chip's Lament) – Chip
• Woe is Me – Logainne, Carl, Dan, and Company
• Spelling Montage - Panch and Spellers
• I'm Not That Smart (Reprise) – Leaf
• I speak Six Languages – Marcy and Company
• Marcy's Epiphany - Marcy, Mitch, and Company
• The I Love You Song – Olive and Olive's Parents
• Woe is Me (Reprise) – Logainne, Mitch, and Company
• My Favorite Moment of the Bee (Reprise) - Rona
• Second – Barfée, Olive, Rona and Company
• Finale – Company
• The Last Goodbye – Company

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Middle School

The non-profit Foundation was established in 2008 to allow individuals and businesses in our community to make tax-deductible donations to support our exceptional drama program. 

Donations to the Foundation allow us to:  

● Keep Theater classes small, 15-17 students per class
● Hire outside professionals and guest directors to assist with classroom instruction and to professionally guide our students
● Pay for productions royalties; and,
● As necessary to pay for sets, costumes, props, lights, makeup, wigs, etc. 

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our department needed to be 100% self-supporting this year. Typically, CV’s theater department relies on ticket sales, concessions and small fundraisers to reach a $40,000 - $60,000 annual budget. Unfortunately, because in-person performances and ticket sales are not currently an option, making donations to the Crescenta Valley Theater Arts Foundation are even more critical. Please click the DONATE tab for more information on how you can support the Foundation.  

As always, we thank you for your continued support.  The show must go on!  

Board Members ('21-'22):  

President - Mandy Cary

Vice President - Gigi Garcia

Treasurer - Amy Matalas

Secretary - Yvette Caudillo

Crescent Valley Theater

Located in La Crescenta, CA, the CVHS Theater Arts program produces over 10 productions each year in 2 performance spaces.  There are four performances groups including Falcon Players, CV Players, Theater Troupe, and Musical Theater Ensemble as well as a student director component culminating in a spring student director theater festival.  Musical productions include: Little Shop of Horrors, The Wiz, Bye Bye Birdie, Fiddler on the Roof, Crazy for You, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Once Upon a Mattress, Pippin, Sweeney Todd,  Once On This Island, Hello Dolly, Grease, Annie, Oliver, and the Fantastics. 

Stage Productions include: The Foreigner, House of Blue Leaves, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Laramie Project, The Crucible, Frankenstein, Metamorphosis, Noises Off,  Midsummer's Night's Dream, The Dairy of Anne Frank, Dark of the Moon, and Oedipus. 

Every year, professional directors are hired to direct student's including, Tartuffe, 1984, Cyrano DE Bergerac,  The Misanthrope, Moon Over Buffalo, Macbeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, Antigone, Fools, The Rhinoceros, Twelve Night, A Comedy of Errors, Radium Girls,  The Man Who Came to Dinner, Stage Door, and Crimes of the Heart