Music and Theater
In 2006 the theater department took second place in the One-Act Play Regionals, winning a number of first and second place awards in the VHSL competition, including best duo, monologue, and readers theater. In 2007, the theater sports team won first place.
Over the years, the department has won Cappies for Best actor/actress, best set, best lighting, and best cameo actor/actress. They have been the only National Capital Area high school to have been nominated for Costumes for a play and have had numerous student critics been published in The Washington Post over the years. In 2007, Chantilly was nominated for 12 Cappies awards, including featured actress, featured actor, critics team, graduating critic, costumes, hair and makeup, and more. They went on to win Comic Actor in a play, Best Set and Best Play for The Man Who Came to Dinner.
In 2011, the theater department took first place in the VHSL State One-Act Play competition for the second time in school history. Also in 2011, Chantilly's One Act Play AP Theatre, written and directed by Ed Monk, won the AAA Virginia State Championship with a perfect score.
In 2011, Chantilly's Indoor Drumline won the world championship in WGI's PSA group.
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Famous quotes containing the words music and/or theater:
“How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe.—Without music life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd.... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)