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Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney's Descendants: The Musical is a brand-new musical jam-packed with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs from the films!

Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now. When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?

The Delaware Hayes Thespian Troupe is a group of student thespians who attend or live in the Delaware City School District. Most of our students attend Rutherford B. Hayes High School, though some of our students attend the Delaware Area Career Center, attend Post Secondary or College Credit Plus Classes, or are home schooled within the district. 

The Hayes Thespians were founded as an official Troupe within the International Thespian Society in 1940 and has a history of performing high quality theatre productions for the city of Delaware, Ohio.  All of the past productions were staged in the Willis Auditorium until the new auditorium was added to Rutherford B. Hayes High School in 1997. The list of past musical productions dating back to 1973 can be found in our annual spring musical program, however in the last decade or so  it includes fabulous productions such as:

2009 Fiddler on the Roof
2010 Guys and Dolls
2011 The Phantom of the Opera
2012 Legally Blonde: The Musical
2013 Hello, Dolly!
2014 Anything Goes
2014 You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
2015 Footloose
2016 Les Miserables
2017 Damn Yankees!
2018 Shrek The Musical
2019 Mary Poppins
2020* Chicago High School Edition
2021* Little Women
2022 Bye Bye Birdie
2023 The Spongebob Musical
2024 Legally Blonde: The Musical
2025 Something Rotten
2026 Descendants The Musical

*Chicago High School Edition and Little Women were not staged in front of a live audience due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Alternative performance types were used for these productions. 

The Hayes Thespians also perform one fall play every year that takes place around the month of October. Our typical season involves a fall play and a spring musical that is performed in March. Occasionally an additional show is added in a year, however, this is not a regular occurrence. Shows which occurred at different times in the same year are indicated below. 

 In the past, play productions performed by the Hayes Thespians have included shows such as:

2015 (Spring) The Ugly Duckling and The Frog Prince One Acts
2015 (Fall)  Harvey
2016 Our Town
2017 Arsenic and Old Lace
2018 Noises Off
2019 The Crucible
2020 Digital Monologue Showcase*
2021 (Fall) Alice in Wonderland
2021 (Winter) A Charlie Brown Christmas
2022 Almost, Maine
2023 The Great Gatsby
2024 Clue: High School Edition
2025 Queens

*In 2020, in lieu of a full play production, a digital monologue showcase was put together and premiered for a very limited time on YouTube. This was done because of restrictions due to the COVID-19 Pandemic