The Saint Ignatius Harlequins
The Harlequins have a rich history at Saint Ignatius for more than 75 years. Each season, students along with girls from area high schools produce a play in the fall and a musical in the spring.
There are various ways for students to get involved in our shows, whether it is onstage, backstage, or in the orchestra pit. Learn more about our productions and how to get invovled below!
2025 Fall Play
The Saint Ignatius Harlequins present
Clue: High School Edition
in the Breen Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Ignatius High School
Auditions: September 10th-11th
Shows: November 14th-16th
It’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, CLUE is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.
Keep an eye out on this page and our Instagram @SIHS_harlequins for information meetings and audition workshops in August and September! Visit our Harlequins audition page for information on preparing your headshot, resume, and monologue for auditions.
2026 Spring Musical
The Saint Ignatius Harlequins present
Guys and Dolls
in the Breen Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Ignatius High School
Auditions: December 9th-11th
Shows: March 20th-22nd, 27th-28th
Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards, including Tony Awards, Drama Desks and Oliviers. Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
More information about auditions and audition workshops will be posted in November. Visit our Harlequins audition page for information on preparing your headshot, resume, and song for auditions.
Stage and Technical Crew
Students have the opportunity to learn and work in a state-of-the-art theater while mentoring with professionals who excel in their fields. All those wishing to join stage crew will be trained in how to work the shop: building, power tools, and theatre etiquette. Those wishing to join build crew are not obligated to work run crew. Build crew meets 3:30-6:30 Monday through Thursday. Run crew members will be selected further into the show process.
The Harlequins' mentor program is unparalleled. We believe that students should be empowered to discover themselves as artists rather than just watching others design. Our professional mentors in stage management, light design, sound design, set design, costume design, props, and electrical maintenance supervise our student designers so that, in collaboration with the director, they can create a production. Interested students first work to learn the ropes of their area, then may be selected to work as assistant to our junior and senior designers and managers. Our students leave their time with the Harlequins able to work and design at the professional level.
Interested in getting involved with crew and design? Contact John Ebert, the Breen Center Technical Director, at jebert@ignatius.edu.