Past Productions

University Productions

Each academic year the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance – through the auspices of University Productions – presents works featuring students from the Departments of Dance, Musical Theatre, Theatre & Drama, and Voice & Opera. These performances perennially delight our audiences and provide invaluable experience for student-artists.

Current Season (2024-2025)

  • Julius Caesar | Theatre & Drama
  • Twelfth Night | Musical Theatre
  • Hänsel und Gretel | Voice & Opera
  • John Proctor Is the Villain | Theatre & Drama
  • Dance Concert | Dept. of Dance
  • A Few Good Men | Theatre & Drama
  • The Government Inspector | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • The Turn of the Screw | Voice & Opera
  • Our Oz | Theatre & Drama
  • Titanic: The Musical | Musical Theatre

2023-2024 Season

2022-2023 Season

2021-2022 Season

2020-2021 Season (Virtual)

2019-2020 Season

2018-2019 Season

2017-2018 Season

2016-2017 Season

2015-2016 Season

  • All My Sons | Theatre & Drama
  • Green Day’s American Idiot | Musical Theatre
  • How to Deceive Your Family: A Ravel/Puccini Double Bill | University Opera Theatre
  • The Arabian Nights | Theatre & Drama
  • Henry IV, Part I | Theatre & Drama
  • The Light in the Piazza | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • Momentum | Dept. of Dance
  • Clybourne Park | Theatre & Drama
  • Fortinbras | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • Così fan tutte | University Opera Theatre
  • The Imaginary Invalid | Theatre & Drama
  • Guys & Dolls | Musical Theatre
  • 2016 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase | Musical Theatre

2014-2015 Season

  • Good Kids | Theatre & Drama
  • Cabaret | Musical Theatre
  • Dead Man Walking | University Opera Theatre
  • Caroline, or Change | Musical Theatre
  • Fuente Ovejuna | Theatre & Drama
  • Currents & Crossings | Dept. of Dance
  • Stupid F###ing Bird | Theatre & Drama
  • The Tempest | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • Julius Caesar | University Opera Theatre
  • Iphigenia at Aulis | Theatre & Drama
  • The Music Man | Musical Theatre
  • 2015 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase | Musical Theatre

2013-2014 Season

  • Red Noses | Theatre & Drama
  • A Little Night Music | Musical Theatre
  • The Barber of Seville | University Opera Theatre
  • Three Sisters | Theatre & Drama
  • The Comedy of Errors | Theatre & Drama
  • Moving Pictures | Dept. of Dance
  • Hay Fever | Theatre & Drama
  • Romeo & Juliet | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • The Magic Flute | University Opera Theatre
  • Marisol | Theatre & Drama
  • Les Misérables | Musical Theatre

2012-2013 Season

  • Almost, Maine | Theatre & Drama
  • Sunday in the Park with George | Musical Theatre
  • Don Giovanni | University Opera Theatre
  • Bat Boy, The Musical | Musical Theatre
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Theatre & Drama
  • Translation | Dept. of Dance
  • The Skin of our Teeth | Theatre & Drama
  • The Laramie Project | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos | University Opera Theatre
  • August: Osage County | Theatre & Drama
  • Crazy for You | Musical Theatre

2011-2012 Season

  • Suddenly Last Summer | Theatre & Drama
  • The Full Monty | Musical Theatre
  • Falstaff | University Opera Theatre
  • Trumpets & Raspberries | Theatre & Drama
  • The Beaux’ Stratagem | Theatre & Drama
  • Little Women: the Musical | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • Dancelucent 2012 | Dept. of Dance
  • Spring Awakening | Musical Theatre (Studio)
  • Noises Off | Theatre & Drama
  • The Rake’s Progress | University Opera Theatre
  • Cloud 9 | Theatre & Drama
  • Chicago | Musical Theatre

2010-2011 Season

  • Pentecost | Theatre & Drama
  • Into the Woods | Musical Theatre
  • The Elixir of Love | University Opera Theatre
  • Gibson Fleck | Musical Theatre
  • Much Ado About Nothing | Theatre & Drama
  • Dancing Americas | Dept. of Dance
  • Arms and the Man | Theatre & Drama
  • Little Women | University Opera Theatre
  • The Crucible | Theatre & Drama
  • Brigadoon | Musical Theatre

2009-2010 Season

  • Tartuffe | Theatre & Drama
  • Evita | Musical Theatre
  • The Marriage of Figaro | University Opera Theatre
  • Uncommon Women and Others | Theatre & Drama
  • Macbeth | Theatre & Drama
  • (Re)Visionary Dances | Dept. of Dance
  • Our Town | Theatre & Drama
  • Armide | University Opera Theatre
  • Trafford Tanzi | Theatre & Drama
  • Ragtime | Musical Theatre

2008-2009 Season

  • Madmen and Specialists | Theatre & Drama
  • Rent | Musical Theatre
  • Eugene Onegin | University Opera Theatre
  • Ella Minnow Pea | Musical Theatre
  • Pride & Prejudice | Theatre & Drama
  • Arcs in Time | Dept. of Dance
  • The Show-Off | Theatre & Drama
  • Albert Herring | University Opera Theatre
  • Department of Musical Theatre 25th Anniversary Concert
  • Jonesin’ | Theatre & Drama
  • 42nd Street | Musical Theatre

2007-2008 Season

  • Our Lady of 121st Street | Theatre & Drama
  • Big River | Musical Theatre
  • La Bohème | University Opera Theatre
  • Two by Fassbinder – Pre-Paradise Sorry Now and Katzelmacher | Theatre & Drama
  • J.B. | Theatre & Drama
  • Stravinsky Revisited | Dept. of Dance
  • As You Like It | Theatre & Drama
  • Postcard from Morocco | University Opera Theatre
  • You Never Can Tell | Theatre & Drama
  • Carousel | Musical Theatre

2006-2007 Season

  • The Cradle Will Rock | Theatre & Drama
  • The Pajama Game | Musical Theatre
  • The Pursuit of Persephone | Musical Theatre
  • Così fan tutte | University Opera Theatre
  • You Can’t Take it With You | Theatre & Drama
  • Rituals & Reveries | Dept. of Dance
  • She Stoops to Conquer | Theatre & Drama
  • The Bartered Bride | University Opera Theatre
  • Playing for Time | Theatre & Drama
  • The Who’s Tommy | Musical Theatre

2005-2006 Season

  • 1918 | Theatre & Drama
  • The Boys from Syracuse | Musical Theatre
  • The Coronation of Poppea | University Opera Theatre
  • The Laramie Project | Theatre & Drama
  • A Flea in Her Ear | Theatre & Drama
  • Dance to the Music: A Celebration of UM Composers | Dept. of Dance
  • The Gold Diggers | Theatre & Drama
  • Jackie O & The Dreamy Kid/De Organizer | University Opera Theatre
  • The Burial at Thebes | Theatre & Drama
  • Seussical | Musical Theatre

2004-2005 Season

  • In Arabia We’d All Be Kings | Theatre & Drama
  • A Chorus Line | Musical Theatre
  • Hansel and Gretel | University Opera Theatre
  • The Water | Musical Theatre
  • The Rover | Theatre & Drama
  • Jazzin’ | Dept. of Dance
  • Romeo and Juliet | Theatre & Drama
  • Tartuffe | University Opera Theatre
  • The Hot L Baltimore | Theatre & Drama
  • City of Angels | Musical Theatre

2003-2004 Season

  • Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) | Theatre & Drama
  • Guys and Dolls | Musical Theatre
  • Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi | University Opera Theatre
  • The Diary of a Scoundrel or Too Clever by Half | Theatre & Drama
  • The Nutcracker | Theatre & Drama
  • Dances for Petersburg | Dept. of Dance
  • The Quick-Change Room | Theatre & Drama
  • Don Giovanni | University Opera Theatre
  • An Arthur Miller Celebration | Theatre & Drama
  • Jesus Christ Superstar | Musical Theatre

2002-2003 Season

  • The Imaginary Invalid | Theatre & Drama
  • Children of Eden | Musical Theatre
  • The Cunning Little Vixen | University Opera Theatre
  • Don’t Dress for Dinner | Theatre & Drama
  • Hamlet | Theatre & Drama
  • Resonant Rhythms | Dept. of Dance
  • A Streetcar Named Desire | Theatre & Drama
  • Xerxes | University Opera Theatre
  • After a Fashion | Theatre & Drama
  • Oklahoma! | Musical Theatre

2001-2002 Season

  • The Good Person of Szechwan | Theatre & Drama
  • Good News! | Musical Theatre
  • The Consul | University Opera Theatre
  • The Secret Rapture | Theatre & Drama
  • The Grapes of Wrath | Theatre & Drama
  • Ancient Steps, Forward Glances | Dept. of Dance
  • The Tavern | Theatre & Drama
  • La Cenerentola | University Opera Theatre
  • The Balcony | Theatre & Drama
  • Parade | Musical Theatre

2000-2001 Season

  • A View From the Bridge | Theatre & Drama
  • Of Thee I Sing | Musical Theatre
  • Lysistrata | Theatre & Drama
  • Falstaff | University Opera Theatre
  • To Kill a Mockingbird | Theatre & Drama
  • The Tempest – Revival | Theatre & Drama
  • Dances of Passion | Dept. of Dance
  • The Heiress | Theatre & Drama
  • La Périchole | University Opera Theatre
  • Measure for Measure | Theatre & Drama
  • Side Show | Musical Theatre