WTOT Titles
This listing of WTOT titles has been compiled from various sources and most probably contains errors, especially as to the year a show took place. This is most evident in lists from the ‘80s where sources vary as to what titles were performed during a particular year.
GLEASON
no indication of any tours
OWENS
no indication of any tours
SLAVET
1971 - - Selections from Story Theatre
1972 - - Time, Here: Place, Now
The Marriage Proposal
Nobody Knows Where It Comes From (a school show)
1973 -- Virginia Folk Tales
1974 - - Folk Trails Across America
FURMAN
1975 - - We, the People
1976 - - Nutz ‘n Bolts
1977 - - Once Upon the Hedley Kow
KIRKLAND
1978 - - Virginia Ghost Stories of the Civil War
1979 - - Shakes & Co
STEELE
1980 - - Virginia Summer Mysteries by Ken Lambert
1981 - - The Revolution – Virginia’s Way
1982 - - The Women of Virginia -- Fall
Mark Twain, Himself -- Spring
1983 - - Fall Virginia Folk Tales
Spring - Our American Poets
Spring - Mark Twain, Himself (performed for groups and/or schools year-round upon
request from 1982 through summer 1986).
1984 - - More Folk Tales & Trails - - Fall
American Tradition & History -- Fall
Legends of Virginia -- Spring
1985 Mark Twain, Himself - - available between September 23 and Christmas; also
available any time during the year
American Music & Legends – available between September 23 and Christmas
American Traditions and History – for middle and high school students using
music from all periods, from the Industrial Revolution to the Depression to the
world wars. Offered in Spring
Another source lists the following available Spring and Fall of 1985:
More Folk Tale and Trails
Mark Twain, Himself
Shakespeare - - Alive and Well
1986 - - Bully -- Fall
American Music and Legends -- Spring
Mark Twain -- Twixt and Twain -- Spring
OWENS
1987 Christmas in Old Vic - - tour November and December, 1987
Billy Bishop Goes to War - - tours in April and May of 1988
Mark Twain – Twixt and Twain
Teddy - - Ed Steele - - available September through October, 1987
1988 The Good Doctor (Neil Simon)
Billy Bishop Goes to War (cabaret musical)
A Christmas Sampler adapted by Christopher Owens
1989 The following titles were available from September 18 – December 16, 1989
The Good Doctor by Neil Simon
Great Shakes -- audience participation using selections from some of the funniest
comedy of Shakespeare. Featured three actors: Steve Satta, Joe McCullough, Ellen
Nichols.
Fables and Foibles -- a 45-minute program featuring updated version of Aesop’s fables;
suitable for younger children.
1990 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was originally scheduled, but replaced
with An Evening with Shaw, (a work appropriate for high school and adults)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Jaime Meyer (for children)
A Vote for Murder by Christopher Owens (a Mystery for adults)
1991 Deuce or Death by Christopher Owens
1992 The Neptune Incident by Christopher Owens (also listed as The Neptune Project)
1993 The Deadly Diet (email from Owens states this was after The Neptune Incident)
1993 Curse of the Scottish Play by Christopher Owens, available from mid-October 1993
through April 1994
1994 Vote for Murder by Christopher Owens
1995 Roses Run Red by Christopher Owens
1996 The Dangerous Illusion
1997 Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1998 The Frog Prince by David Mamet
1999 Aesop’s Fables (performed in March 1-5 of that year)
I am Deborah Sampson Gannett (NOTE: There is mention of a performance of this title at Roaney Junior High School in Roaney, WV in March 3, 1999 at 9:30 a.m. This most likely took place in Romney, not Roaney, WV).
CROCKER
2000-2001 - Fractured Fairy Tales Greatest Hits.
Written by Wayside intern, Scott Ruble, for a speech and drama class at Lord Fairfax
Community College. The script ‘modernized’ some traditional tales such as having a
dance number in the middle of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ to the music of Michael
Jackson’s 1984 hit, “Thriller.”
2001 – Fractured Fairy Tales Greatest Hits performances on the Theatre’s Mainstage
Saturdays during March and April of 2002 and was also available for school visits.
Two titles by Nick Nerangis were also available for touring.
2002-2003
The Legend of Robin Hood
A Life of Honor — written and performed by Nick Nerangis
84 Charing Cross and Ethel and George
2003-2004
Tom Sawyer — written by Cephe Place and Bentley Kinney
A Life of Honor — written and performed by Nick Nerangis
Tending the Wounded — written and performed by Nick Nerangis
2004-2005
A Life of Honor -- written and performed by Nick Nerangis
Tending the Wounded -- written and performed by Nick Nerangis
Tattershood’s Tales from Around the World
2006-2007
Furry Tails with a Twist (school tour, Spring 2006)
Tattershood’s Tales from Around the World
2007-2008
A Life of Honor -- written and performed by Nick Nerangis
Tending the Wounded -- written and performed by Nick Nerangis
There is no information in the files beyond 2008 regarding productions performed away from the Theatre. By this time the big educational activity in the fall was the play-writing event followed by the Shakespeare production in the spring, along with some drama classes. The files do mention a Youth Ensemble Stage Summer Camp that was held in July of 2013. To date, only the titles of the three productions along with the names of the performers has surfaced.