Appendix: R.P.I. Players Productions

Prod. #	Date	Title
1929-1930
1	Feb. 1930	The Rising of the Moon and A Night at an Inn
2	March 1930	Tunnel Trench
3	May 1930	Anthony and Anna
1930-1931
4	Nov. 1930	The Whispering Gallery
5	Dec. 1930	Meteor
6	March 1931	High School One Acts Contest[1] Poor Aubrey The Valiant Fancy Free
7	April 1931	Volpone
8	May 1931	Wings over Europe
1931-1932
9	Nov. 1931	The Donovan Affair
10	Dec. 1931	Loud Speaker
11	April 1932	High School One Acts Contest[2] Trifles A Dollar The Rising of the Moon
12	March 1932	You Never Can Tell
13	May 1932	The Front Page
1932-1933
14	Nov. 1932	The Young Idea
15	Dec. 1932	The Ghost Train
16	Feb 1933	One Acts Directing Competition[3] Episode The Grand Chan's Diamond Behind the Beyond
17	March 1933	The Devil Passes
18	May 1933	June Moon
1933-1934
19	Nov. 1933	The Better Man
20	Dec. 1933	Sherlock Holmes
21	March 1934	One Acts Directing Competition3 Submerged The Man Who Died at Twelve O'Clock The Tender Passion
22	April 1934	Death Takes a Holiday
23	May 1934	The Racket
1934-1935
24	Nov. 1934	Whistling in the Dark
25	Jan. 1935	Springtime for Henry
26	Feb. 1935	One Acts Directing Competition3 The Passing of Chow Chow A Message from Khufu / Khupe / Khofu Amateur Rehearsal
27	April 1935	Both Your Houses
28	May 1935	The Guardsman
1935-1936
29	Nov. 1935	Ten Minute Alibi
30	Dec. 1935	Three Cornered Moon
31	Feb. 1936	Time Out[4]
32	April 1936	Men Must Fight
33	May 1936	Laburnum Grove
1936-1937
34	Oct. 1936	The Moon and the Yellow River
35	Dec. 1936	The Wind and the Rain
36	Feb. 1937	Give It to 'Em4
37	April 1937	She Stoops to Conquer
38	May 1937	Petticoat Fever
1937-1938
39	Oct. 1937	Ceiling Zero
40	Dec. 1937	End of Summer
41	Feb. 1938	Murder in the Old Red Barn
42	April 1938	The Taming of the Shrew
43	May 1938	Three Men on a Horse
1938-1939
44	Oct. 1938	Excursion
45	Dec. 1938	Yellow Jack
46	Feb. 1939	The Drunkard
47	March 1939	Life Is a Dream[5]
48	April 1939	Heartbreak House
49	May 1939	French without Tears
1939-1940
51	Oct. 1939	The Bishop Misbehaves[6]
52	Dec. 1939	Room Service
53	Feb. 1940	The Streets of New York
54	April 1940	The Inspector General
55	May 1940	The Ghost of Yankee Doodle
1940-1941
56	Nov. 1940	Candle Light
57	Dec. 1940	The Bellamy Trial
58	Feb.-March 1941	Charley's Aunt
59	April 1941	The Importance of Being Earnest
60	May 1941	Six Hours to Sailing
1941-1942
61	Oct.-Nov. 1941	What a Life
62	Dec. 1941	George Washington Slept Here
63	Feb.-March 1942	Seven Keys to Baldpate
64	April-May 1942	The Long Voyage Home
1942-1943
65	Oct.-Nov. 1942	The Man Who Came to Dinner
66	May 1943	Room Service
1943-1944 to 1945-1946
		No productions due to World War II
1946-1947
67	Dec. 1946	Arsenic and Old Lace
68	March 1947	Kiss and Tell
69	May 1947	The Queen’s Husband
1947-1948
70	Nov. 1947	The Male Animal
71	March 1948	Ten Little Indians
72	May 1948	I Have Been Here Before
1948-1949
	Nov. 1948	Three One Act Plays[7] Trifles The Killers Antic Spring
73	Nov. 1948	Accent on Youth
74	April 1949	The Devil’s Disciple
	May 1949	Three One Act Plays7 Overtones Trick of Hearts Mooney’s Kid Don’t Cry
1949-1950
75	Nov. 1949	John Loves Mary
76	March 1950	Command Decision
77	May 1950	The Alchemist
1950-1951
78	Nov. 1950	Born Yesterday
79	March 1951	All My Sons
80	May 1951	Arms and the Man
1951-1952
81	Nov. 1951	The Front Page
	Feb. 1952	Box and Cox[8]
	April 1952	It Isn’t Done9
82	May 1952	High Tor
1952-1953
83	Nov. 1952	Light up the Sky
84	Feb.-March 1953	Thunder Rock
85	May 1953	Two Blind Mice
1953-1954
86	Oct.-Nov. 1953	Three Men on a Horse
	April 1954	Pride and Prejudice[9]
87	April-May 1954	Playboy of the Western World[10]
1954-1955
89	Oct. 1954	Mister Roberts[11]
90	Feb.-March 1955	My Three Angels
91	May 1955	The Torch Bearers
1955-1956
92	Dec. 1955	Home of the Brave
93	April-May 1956	Dial ‘M’ for Murder
1956-1957
94	Nov. 1956	Summer and Smoke
95	March 1957	The Happy Time
96	May 1957	Beyond the Horizon
1957-1958
97	Nov. 1957	Darkness at Noon
98	March 1958	Love Rides the Rails or Will The Mail Train Run Tonight?
99	May 1958	Six Characters in Search of an Author
1958-1959
100	Nov. 1958	A Visit to a Small Planet
101	March 1959	Death of a Salesman
102	May 1959	The Rainmaker
1959-1960
103	Dec. 1959	King Henry IV, Part I
104	March 1960	Man and Superman
105	May 1960	Juno and the Paycock
1960-1961
106	Dec. 1960	The Golden Fleecing
107	March 1961	Antigone
108	May 1961	Hotel Universe

1961-1962
109	Nov. 1961	The Killer
110	March 1962	Billy Budd
111	May 1962	Purple Dust
1962-1963
112	Nov. 1962	Winterset
113	March 1963	An Evening with George Bernard Shaw[12] Overruled Don Juan in Hell from Man and Superman
114	May 1963	Once More, With Feeling
1963-1964
115	Nov. 1963	The Brass Butterfly
116	March 1964	The Father
117	May 1964	A Shot in the Dark
1964-1965
118	Nov. 1964	The Tempest
119	March 1965	The Fantasticks
120	May 1965	The Importance of Being Earnest
1965-1966
121	Nov. 1965	The Brass Butterfly
122	May 1966	A Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
1966-1967
123	Nov. 1966	The Threepenny Opera
124	March 1967	Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
125	May 1967	Five Finger Exercise
1967-1968
126	Nov. 1967	Rhinoceros
127	March 1968	Once upon a Mattress
128	May 1968	Three One Acts The Stronger The Apollo of Bellac The Dumb Waiter
1968-1969
129	Nov. 1968	A Man for All Seasons
130	March 1969	West Side Story
131	May 1969	A Thurber Carnival
1969-1970
132	Nov. 1969	America Hurrah
133	March 1970	My Fair Lady
134	May 1970	The Physicists
1970-1971
135	Nov. 1970	Dark of the Moon
	Dec. 1970	Albert’s Bridge and Botticelli[13]
136	March 1971	Man of La Mancha
137	May 1971	One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1971-1972
138	Dec. 1971	J.B.
139	March 1972	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
140	May 1972	Play It Again Sam and The Dwarfs
1972-1973
141	Oct. 1972	Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
142	Nov. 1972	Indians
143	Feb. 1973	The Knack
144	April-May 1973	Cabaret
1973-1974
145	Aug. 1973	The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd[14]
146	Sept. 1973	Tango[15]
147	Nov. 1973	Catch-22
148	Feb. 1974	The Skin of our Teeth
149	April-May 1974	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1974-1975
150	Nov. 1974	The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton, Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
151	Feb. 1975	Three One Acts American Dream The Sand Box The Bald Soprano
152	April-May 1975	Two Gentlemen of Verona
	Aug. 1975	An Evening of ...[16] James Thurber Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Allen Poe Noel Coward ...and others
1975-1976
153	Fall 1975	Moonchildren
154	Feb. 1976	Hamlet
155	April 1976	Sweet Charity
1976-1977
	Aug.-Sept. 1976	No Opera at the Op'ry House Tonight or Too Good to Be True[17]
156	Nov. 1976	The Lion in Winter
157	Feb. 1977	The Mousetrap
158	April 1977	Applause
1977- 1978
159	Sept. 1977	When You Comin Back, Red Ryder?[18]
160	Nov. 1977	A Cry of Players
161	Feb. 1978	The Ritz
162	April-May 1978	Mack and Mabel
1978-1979
163	Sep. 1978	What the Butler Saw18
164	Nov. 1978	The Taming of the Shrew
165	Feb. 1979	Equus
166	April 1979	Jesus Christ, Superstar
1979-1980
167	Nov. 1979	The Ruling Class
168	Feb. 1980	The Passion of Dracula
169	April 1980	Company
1980-1981
170	Aug.-Sept. 1980	The Prisoner of Second Avenue17
171	Nov. 1980	Something's Afoot
172	Feb. 1981	Wait until Dark
173	April 1981	The Devils
1981-1982
174	Sept. 1981	Twelfth Night or What You Will18
175	Nov. 1981	Camino Real
176	Feb. 1982	Don't Drink the Water
177	April 1982	Pippin
1982-1983
178	Oct.-Nov. 1982	The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
179	1982	The Apple Tree
180	Feb.-March 1983	The Man in the Glass Booth
181	April 1983	Tribute
1983-1984
182	Nov. 1983	West Side Story
183	Feb. 1984	Deathtrap
184	April 1985	Camelot
1984-1985
185	Nov. 1984	A Flea in Her Ear
186	Feb. 1985	The Desperate Hours
187	April 1985	Sweeney Todd

1985-1986
188		A Night of One-Acts18 The American Dream Adaptation 'dentity Crisis
189	Sept. 1985	You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown18
190	Nov. 1985	Measure for Measure
191	April 1986	Guys and Dolls
1986-1987
192	Sept. 1986	The Foreigner18
193	Nov. 1986	Merrily We Roll Along
194	April 1987	A Night of One Acts Black Comedy Death Visitor from Forest Hills (Act III of 'Plaza Suite')
1987-1988
196	Nov. 1987	The Adding Machine[19]
197	April 1988	archy and mehitabel
1988-1989
198	Nov. 1988	The Crucible
199	Feb. 1989	You Can't Take It with You
200	April 1989	The Pirates of Penzance
1989-1990
201	Nov. 1989	Inherit the Wind
202	Feb. 1990	Gemini
203	April 1990	The Threepenny Opera
1990-1991
204	Nov. 1990	Noises Off
205	Feb. 1991	The Tempest
206	April 1991	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1991-1992
207	Nov. 1991	Tonight We Improvise
208	Feb. 1992	An Enemy of the People
209	April 1992	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1992-1993
210	Nov. 1992	Doonesbury
211	Jan.-Feb. 1993	A Night of One Acts This Is a Test Gertrude the Governess Rumplestiltskin
212	April 1993	David and Lisa
1993-1994
213	Nov. 1993	The Mandrake
214	1994	Winter One Acts Reasonable Circulation Too Cool Pyramus & Thisby
215	April 1994	Barnum
1994-1995
216	Nov. 1994	Out of the Frying Pan
217	April 1995	Chicago
1995-1996
218	Nov. 1995	Frankenstein
219		An Evening of Performance The Bald Soprano The Actor's Nightmare A Tell Tale Heart
220		Me & My Girl
1996-1997
221	Nov. 1996	A Midsummer Night's Dream
222	Feb.-March 1997	An Evening of Performance Boom Box Women and Wallace Why We Have a Body
223	April 1997	Company
1997-1998
224	Nov. 1997	Lysistrata
225	Feb. 1998	An Evening of Performance Removing the Glove Sheer Idiocy[20] All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
226	April 1998	Cabaret
1998-1999
227	Nov. 1998	Deathtrap
228	Feb. 1999	An Evening of Performance The Line That's Picked up 1,000 Babes (and How It Can Work for You) Sheer Idiocy20 And That's What Friends Are For!
229	April 1999	Brigadoon
1999-2000
230	Nov. 1999	Witness for the Prosecution
231	Feb. 2000	An Evening of Performance Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You Selections from "All in the Timing" Sure Thing The Philadelphia Foreplay, Or the Art of the Fugue God (a Play)
232	April 2000	A Chorus Line
2000-2001
233	Nov. 2000	The Good Doctor
234	Feb. 2001	An Evening of Performance The Real Inspector Hound Adaptation The Scheme of the Driftless Shifter
235	April 2001	Chess
2001-2002
236	Nov. 2001	Shakespeare's Women
237	Feb. 2002	An Evening of Performance Cuttin' Line Hidden in this Picture The Ugly Duckling Sheer Idiocy20 The Tooth Hurts
238	April 2002	Kismet
2002-2003
239	Nov. 2002	The Tempest
240	Nov. 2002	The Importance of Being Earnest
241	Feb. 2003	An Evening of Performance Making Nice No Exit Cut
242	April 2003	Pippin
243	May 2003	Guys and Dolls
2003-2004
244	Oct. 2003	Up the Down Staircase
245	Nov. 2003	Lend Me a Tenor
246	Feb. 2004	An Evening of Performance Hush Little Celia, Don’t Say a Word A Style of the Eye Black Comedy
247	April 2004	Anything Goes
2004-2005
248	Nov. 2004	The Crucible
249	Feb. 2005	Evening of Performance
250	April 2005	Man of La Mancha

End Notes

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[1] Three local high school groups presented works to be judged by the RPI Players. Each school was given a list of three one acts and asked to select one to perform for the competition. The winning presentation was Poor Aubrey performed by Mont Pleasant High School, Schenectady. The Players also presented Fancy Free at the competition, but not for judging.

[2] Three local high school groups presented works to be judged by the RPI Players. The winning presentation was Trifles by the Mont Pleasant High School, Schenectady.

[3] Directed by student members of the RPI Players, these one-acts were performed in a competition for best direction.

[4] Spoof revues put together by students containing original material, student directed shows, songs, music and some faculty presentations.

[5] Special production celebrating the Players’ 10th anniversary.

[6] Number 50 was skipped in programs. No reason known.

[7] Presented by RPI Players, but produced by members of a special play production class. The productions were not numbered.

[8] RPI Players productions on live television. Single performances were aired on Community Campus on WRGB, Schenectady.

[9] Pride and Prejudice was performed by the Green Mountain Junior College Drama Club and presented at Rensselaer by the Players as part of a theatrical exchange program. It is often erroneously attributed to RPI Players.

[10] Playboy of the Western World was also performed by the Players at the Green Mountain Junior College as part of an exchange program.

[11] Production number 88 was skipped, evidently in deference to Pride and Prejudice, which was never numbered.

[12] Excerpts of George Bernard Shaw plays were compiled for the show.

[13] RPI Players Winter Workshop.

[14] RPI Players Summer production. For consistency, all summer productions are listed as having occurred with the season following the summer.

[15] Special October production.

[16] A summer production that consisted of scenes and acts from several playwrights' works.

[17] An RPI Summer Players and wE, the Free Theatre co-production.

[18] An RPI Players Summer production.

[19] Number 195 was skipped. A production of Harvey was planned but cancelled.

[20] Sheer Idiocy is the RPI Improvisational Theatre organization.

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