2024-2025 Performances

From witches and gods to kings and stars, Decatur High School and Beacon Hill Middle School are ready to entertain and inspire audiences with these imaginative, beloved works. We’re also bringing beautiful music to the community with outstanding chorus and orchestra performances you won’t want to miss!

Witches!? In Salem?!

October 16-17, 19-20 |  DHS Acting

PG, 10+

A darkly comedic, yet (mostly) historically accurate take on the Salem Witch Trials and all the (mostly) historically accurate horrors which may occur when populism runs rampant, injustice is a day-to-day occurrence, and a rigid religious minority sets the laws of the land. You know, old-timey problems. Jenny Anne Bishop, an eighth grader who got “way too into her class lesson plan on The Crucible” guides us through all the fun facts from the years leading up to, during, and after the Trials. Meet culprits, victims, and bystanders alike as a village in turmoil comes to life.
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Hadestown: Teen Edition

November 13-17  |  DHS Musical Theatre

PG, 10+

This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.

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Lion King Jr.

January 25-26  |  BHMS Theatre

Based on the 1994 Disney animated feature film of the same name and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Lion King is the story of Simba, an adventurous and energetic lion cub who is next in line to be king of the Pride Lands, a thriving and beautiful region in the African savanna. When Simba’s father Mufasa is killed by his uncle Scar, though, Simba is led to believe that his father’s death is his fault, and he is encouraged to run away forever. Scar seizes power and with his already unstable mind deteriorating, the Pride Lands experiences a darkness and desolation from which only Simba can save the animals of the kingdom. The Lion King is a story and a spectacle about identity, family, and responsibility that is enjoyed worldwide by people of all ages.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

February 27- March 2, March 6-9  |  DHS Musical Theatre

This show is recommended for ages 12+ as it contains mild adult themes and language.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel of the same name. In the small town of Cloisterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone else even more dastardly and villainous? Dickens passed away before he was able to reveal the culprit. Rupert Holmes’ award-winning musical solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote.

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Dinner at Eight, Dead by Nine

Mar. 28-29  |  DHS Intermediate Acting & DHS Culinary Arts

At the head table of a banquet room, guest of honor, Eleanor Van Heusen, falls face-first into her plate of spaghetti, the guests are suddenly witnesses to a murder! Luckily, Inspector Bungles is there to help solve this whodunit. With plenty of room for audience interaction and a delicious meal prepared by our DHS Culinary team, this dinner theatre event, Chefs, Dinner at Eight, Dead by Nine, by Michael Druce, will help you cook up the perfect evening of entertainment.

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Peter and the Starcatcher

Apr. 24-27  |  DHS Acting

Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels delivers 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.

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The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon

May 2-3 |  BHMS Theatre

G, Suitable for all ages

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are turned on their heads in this fast-paced, rollicking ride as two narrators and several actors attempt to combine all 209 stories ranging from classics like Snow White, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel to more bizarre, obscure stories like The Devil’s Grandmother and The Girl Without Hands. A wild, free-form comedy with lots of audience participation and madcap fun.

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Chorus Performances

BHMS and DHS Fall Concert

Oct. 7, 7:00PM
Glenn Memorial UMC

BHMS 6th Grade Treble Fall Concert

Oct. 22, 7:00PM
Holy Trinity

BHMS 6th Grade Treble Winter Concert

Dec. 9, 6:30PM
Holy Trinity

BHMS Winter Concert

Dec. 11, 6:30PM
Gospel Hope Church

Holiday Spectrum Concert

Dec. 16, 7:00PM
First Baptist Church Decatur

DHS & Alumni Winter Concert

Dec. 18, 7:00PM
DHS Performing Arts Center

BHMS Concert

May 6, 6:30PM
First Baptist Church Decatur

BHMS 6th Grade Treble Concert

May 12, 6:30PM
Holy Trinity

DHS End of Year Concert and Awards

May 13, 7:00PM
DHS Performing Arts Center

Orchestra Performances

BHMS Fall Concert

Oct. 17, 6:30PM
Beacon Hill Middle School

DHS Fall Concert

Oct. 22
DHS Performing Arts Center

DHS Winter Concert

Dec. 12, Time 7:00PM
DHS Performing Arts Center

BHMS Winter Concert

Dec. 16, 6:30PM
Beacon Hill Middle School

Holiday Spectrum Concert

Dec. 16, 7:00PM
First Baptist Church Decatur

DHS and BHMS Spring Concert

May 1, 6:30PM
DHS Performing Arts Center