Joliet West High School has a rich history of musicals dating well back to its inception as a high school. In 2023, students performed "The Hello Girls", which tells the non-fiction story of some of the first women in the United States Army serving as switchboard operators. Prior selections include "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" (2022), "A Killer Party" (2021), "Matilda" (canceled in 2020), "Narnia" (2019 and 2007) "The Addams Family" (2018), "Cinderella" (2017 and 2005), "The Light in the Piazza" (2016), "Into the Woods" (2015), "The Music Man (2014), "Crazy for You" (2013) "Fiddler on the Roof" (2012), "Secret Garden" (2011), "Beauty and the Beast" (2010), "Little Shop of Horrors" (2009), Too Many Sopranos (2008), My Fair Lady (2006), and The Pirates of Penzance (2004). Many students both in the choral program and not have participated in the musicals at Joliet West with several continuing on to study Music Theater at the collegiate level.
