- (2014-2015 Season) Michelle Aravena acted in Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's musical, "West Side Story," at the Drury Lane Productions in Chicago, Illinois. Rhett Guter was choreographer. Matt Hawkins was fight choreographer.
- (2015-2016 season) She acted in Michel Stewart's musical, "Bye Bye Birdie," at Drury Lane Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- (September 17 to October 25, 1997) She acted in the Ensemble for the musical, "The Wizard of Oz," at the Actors Theatre of Louisville (Mainstage) in Louisville, Kentucky with Danielle Ferland (Dorothy Gale); Stevie (Toto); Adale O'Brien (Auntie Em, Glinda the Good Witch of the North); Stephen Mo Hanan (Miss Almira Gultch, The Wicked Witch of the West); Robert Levine (Uncle Henry, Emerald City Guard); Don Goodspeed (Hunk, The Scarecrow); Dan Sharkey (Hickory, The Tin Man); Clent Bowers (Zeke, The Cowardly Lion); Derrick McGinty (Munchkin Mayor, Nikko, Ensemble); Vic DiMonda (Munchkin Coroner, Ensemble); John Leffert (Munchkin Barrister, Ensemble); Tim Santos (Head Jitterbug, Ensemble) and Cesar Samayoa (Head Winkie) in the cast. Randy Bobish, Kimberly Breault, Lynne Chenault, Debra Crawley, Hannah Meadows, Annette Hill-McCulloch, Kelly Pike, Tony Romero and Darryl Turpin played in the Ensemble. Aaron Harris, Amber Le Terese Hurst, Sara Elizabeth King, Claire Anne Longest, Corey Thomas Logsdon and Chelsea Jo Pattison played in the children's ensemble. L. Frank Baum wrote the novel. Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg were composers and lyricists. Herbert Stothart was background music composer. Peter Howard was dance and vocal arranger. Larry Wilcox was orchestra arranger. John Kane was adapter. Jon Jory was director. Pamela Sousa was choreographer. Robert Webb was music director, conductor and keyboardist. Hunt Butler played Woodwinds. Dick Martin and Gary Hicks played the trumpet and Flugelhorn. Lorna Larson was violinist. Rozanna Thompson was harpist. Sam Harris was drummer and percussionist. Tyrone Wheeler played Double Bass, Arco & Pizz.
- (September 16 to October 24, 1998) Original music by Moose Charlap, with original lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, for J.M. Barrie's play, "Peter Pan," in a Brown-Forman Series revival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA; with Woodwyn Koons (portraying Liza); Kevin Love (portraying Michael Darling); Drew Fracher (portraying Nana/Pirate); Dorothea Harahan (portraying Wendy Darling/Jane); Joseph Goldammer (portraying John Darling); Kathryn Kendall (portraying Mrs. Darling/Calico Kate/ Wendy Grown-up); Gregory North (as Greg Zenkle) (portraying Mr. Darling/Captain Hook); Kristi Lynes (portraying Peter Pan); Dick Decareau (portraying Smee); unknown actor (portraying Tiger Lilly); Avon Chandler, E. Clayton Cornelious, Zach Kleinsmith and Evan Prizant (portraying the Lost Boys); Sandor DeGrazia and Christopher Lamontagne (portraying the pirates); Michelle Aravena, Dore Manasevit, Karina Michaels and Gina Philistine portraying the Amazons. J.M. Barrie wrote the original play; Carolyn Leigh wrote the original lyrics; additional music by Jule Styne; additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; incidental music by Elmer Bernstein and Trude Rittman; original choreography by Jerome Robbins; directed by Jon Jory.
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