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[[Image:Skule_Nite_0T9.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Skule Nite 0T9 Opening Act]]

Skule Nite is a musical revue / comedy / sketch show run entirely by Engineering students at the University of Toronto. It is put on annually at Hart House, and is a professional-level production done entirely by volunteers.  

==History==

===Early History===

===Early Hart House Era===

In 1923, the show was moved to Hart House. At the time, Hart House was only open to male students due to the stipulation of its founder, the Massey Foundation. However, Hart House could be opened to both genders for special events, so in order to “bring the lady friends into the House to enjoy all the facilities that it had to offer,” the Engineering Society organized "Faculty Night", a comprehensive showcase of displays and events put on by engineering students and departments of which the theatrical presentation was only a small part. At the same time, a new format of Skule Nite, combining a variety of theatrical reviews and displays, competitions and dancing, was established, and continued as such for over twenty years. In 1940′s, as the show evolved into the extravagant evening of theatre known today, so much time and effort was being put into production of the theatrical portion of Skule Nite that no time or support was left for the other events. The 'Revue', as it was referred at the time, became Skule Nite.  

At the close of World War II, during which Skule Nite had been cancelled once (in 1942) and displaced to the Royal Ontario Museum (in 1944), the show was moved to the fall and for the first time began to have an entire year of production behind it. Every aspect of the show was ramped up and the professionalism of the acting, singing, dancing and effects escalated. This trend continued for twenty years, until attendance at Skule Nite began to drop off in the mid-1960's. As a result, in 1968 the Engineering Society decided to put on a Broadway musical, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off", in place of Skule Nite. The show flopped and EngSoc was left stuck in debt from the production costs, leading to the cancellation of Skule Nite for the foreseeable future.

===Modern Era===

==Skule Nite Directors and Producers==

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||Julia Lobo (Assistant Director)

||Jonathan Norman (Assistant Producer)

||MSE 1T9+PEY

| rowspan="2"|[[Skule Nite 1T9|2018-2019]]

||Johnny McGroarty

||Angela Ma

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||Sean Pitre (Assistant Director)

||Bio MEng 1T7

||Kevin Vincze (Assistant Producer)

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| rowspan="2"|[[Skule Nite 1T7|2016-2017]]

||NΨ 1T3+PEY

||Laura Burget (Assistant Producer)

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| rowspan="2"|[[Skule Nite 1T4|2013-2014]]

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||Chunkei Tang

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| rowspan="2"|[[Skule Nite 1T2|2011-2012]]

| rowspan="2"|[[Skule Nite 1T1|2010-2011]]

||Mason Lau

| rowspan="2"|Katerina Daginis

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||Chris Tuff (Assistant Director)

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| rowspan="2"|[[Skule Nite 1T0|2009-2010]]

||Indy 0T8+1

||Katerina Daginis

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||Mason Lau (Assistant Director)

||Alvin Ho

||Elec 0T9+PEY

||[[Skule Nite 9T3|1992-1993]]

||Lydia Van Der Veen

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||[[Skule Nite 9T2|1991-1992]]

||Ed Bonner

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||[[Skule Nite 9T1|1990-1991]]

||[[Skule Nite 9T0|1989-1990]]

||Franco Minatel

||Hayley Ohlig

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||[[Skule Nite 8T9|1988-1989]]

||???

||Kenneth Kiang

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||[[Skule Nite 8T8|1987-1988]]

||Alec McTavish

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||[[Skule Nite 8T7|1986-1987]]

||Physical Geography 8T7

||Larry Breakwell

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||[[Skule Nite 8T6|1985-1986]]

||Ron Williams & Lynette Fairweather

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||[[Skule Nite 8T5|1984-1985]]

||Vic (Psy) 1T7

||Lee Verhoeff

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||[[Skule Nite 8T4|1983-1984]]

||Wayne Levin

||Ind 8T4

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||[[Skule Nite 8T3|1982-1983]]

||Rob West

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||Paul Baker

||NΨ 7T5

||Bruce Dodds

||Mech 7T7

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||1974-1975

||Michael Cox

||ELE 7T5

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||[[Skule Nite 7T3|1972-1973]]

||Michael Stanek

||Rick Fletcher

||Mech 7T3

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||Grant Coffey

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==List of Skule Nite Shows==