Joliet West High School has a rich history of musicals dating well back to its inception as a high school. In 2024, students tackled "Mean Girls - High School Version", the story of Cady Heron who moves from Africa to Illinois, the jungle to high school. With a fantastic soundtrack, audience members will follow a story full of hurt feelings but ultimately redemption. Prior selections include "The Hello Girls" (2023) "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.
