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Geneva High School
GHS

It’s not the usual high school musical, either. Director Steve Duprey decided to think outside the box and present the original stage version of “Laugh-In,” published in 1968, the year the series replaced “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” on NBC. Needless to say, neither the Geneva High School cast — nor many of their parents — were born when the show premiered, but there is no question that its iconic characters and skits have profoundly influenced comedy, and society at large, ever since. It made the careers of cast regulars like Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn, and it popularized phrases like “sock it to me” and “here come de judge.” Its subversive humor poked fun at sexual mores, skewered political sacred cows and continually stretched the envelope.