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Staples Players
The nationally recognized Staples Players, founded in 1957, is the high school's theater group comprised of around 200 Staples students. Staples Players puts on 7-8 productions a year, with two "mainstage" musicals presented in the school's 982-seat auditorium, a major production in the school's 200-seat Black Box Theater, two student-directed "studio" productions in Westport's Toquet Hall student coffeehouse, as well as the One Act Play Festival, where 20+ student-directed one act plays are showcased in the Black Box Theater. Staples Players also often collaborates with Staples' radio production classes to produce radio plays around the holidays. Recent major productions include "Back to the 80s", "Our Town", "Curtains", "Legally Blonde", "12 Angry Men", "Merrily We Roll Along", and "Newsies". Staples Players has worked with Disney Theatricals to pilot new shows for high schools, including being one of six schools in the United States to pilot "Newsies" in fall of 2017 as well as two one-act plays as a part of "The Marvel Project" in January of 2019. Staples Players has an extensive crew program, where students work on crews such as costumes, props, hair and makeup, fundraising and outreach, and publicity, as well as some students being fully dedicated to technical crews such as lighting, sound, and sets. Staples Players uses technical equipment commonly found in Broadway theaters to help expose students to theatrical life after high school. Staples Players also often rents sets and costumes out from previous shows to local high schools and community theaters. Their website is staplesplayers.com