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Appleton North High School is a comprehensive secondary school in Appleton, Wisconsin. It is part of the Appleton Area School District. Opened in August 1995, it's the most recently built of the three four-year public schools in the district.
   The school has roughly 1800 enrolled students. The school colors are gold, silver and navy blue. The school's nickname is the Appleton North Lightning.
   North is led by Principal Barry O'Connor, with Associate Principals David Pynenberg and David Mueller.
   Students at North and other Appleton Area schools typically perform above the Wisconsin state average on standardized tests.

North Theatre Department

The theatre department is well-known in the Fox Valley for the musicals that they produce. Some of the musicals the department has done are Cinderella, The Sound of Music, Aida, Les Misérables, and The Secret Garden. In march of 2008, they performed Miss Saigon. The school was the first to introduce two weekends of shows and double casting to the Valley. The One-Act Team has won the prestigious Critics Choice Award nine years in a row at the Wisconsin High School Theatre Festival. For the 2006 Festival, the school did a One Act of Hamlet. The spring drama for the 2006-2007 school year was The Arabian Nights and was the 2007-2008 One Act. Ron Parker is the head of the theatre department and director. Since his arrival in 1999, Parker has brought many challenging and successful productions to North's stage. North was one of the first high schools in the country to produce Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award-winning play Metamorphoses, complete with an 1800 gallon pool of water on stage. In 2003, North's production of Les Misérables featured a rotating stage.
Appleton North High School is also the setting of Appleton's Summer Shakespeare Theatre.
Past Productions:
Cinderella, The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Les Misérables, The Secret Garden, You Can't Take It With You, Our Town, A Christmas Carol, The Arabian Nights, Schoolhouse Rock, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Aida, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, Saint Joan, The Tempest, Metamorphoses, Hamlet, Tartuffe

Appleton North Band Department

The Appleton North High School Band, under the direction of Mr. Jim Thaldorf, is one of the best high school bands in the country. The students are separated into five bands (increasing in experience and talent of members): Lightning Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Wind Symphony, and Honors Band. The music department contains approximately 226 band members that participate in multiple parades, pep band at the home sporting events, the half time show for the homecoming football game, and three concerts a year. Mr. Thaldorf also directs two jazz ensembles.

Appleton North Choir Department

Appleton North is traditionally known for its outstanding Choral Department, and it has received recognition as one of the best choral departments in the state. The program consists of six choirs, three directed by Craig Aamot and the other three by Ed Baseman. North Choir is the mixed choir for the best singers in the program. There has routinely been widespread support for the choir program not only within the school, but also within the community of Appleton and the Fox Cities. North's Holiday Classics is a set of musicals put on by the choirs at North during the Christmas season, and the school sells thousands of tickets for the show annually.

Other Achievements

During the 2006-2007 season, the Appleton North Math Team won the Fox Valley Math League competition for the first time in school history.
During the 2004 football season Appleton North went undefeated.

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