Wharton Follies is a student organization in the MBA program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania that puts on an annual amateur musical theater production. It is both one of the largest clubs and highest profile organizations at Wharton, staging one of the largest productions of its kind at any professional school. Over the years, Follies has been transformed into a Broadway-level production boasting a six-figure budget and with successive producers and directors building on their predecessor's accomplishments.
In addition to a live stage show featuring the school's most talented students, Follies writes, shoots and edits its own Saturday Night Live-style video features for public consumption. The videos treat typical business school topics in a humorous fashion. Recent topics have included "The Evolution of an MBA," "Drunken Case History" and "MBAs Assemble a Malm Bed."
2016 Back to the Follies (40th Annual Wharton Follies)
2015 The Huntsman Hangover
2014 The Book of Wharton
2013 It’s a Whartonful Life
2012 How to Succeed in Business School Without Really Trying
2011 Assets and Liabilities: The Parable of Your Personal Brand
2010 The 34th Annual Follies Awards: It's a Dishonor Just to be Nominated
2009 The Trojan Wharton: A Greek Comedy About a Financial Tragedy
2008 A Midsemester Night’s Dream
2007 D’Anjani Code
2006 Springtime for Harker
2005 Fast Times at Huntsman High
2004 Whatchu Talkin’ Bout Anjani?
2003 Dial 5 For Wharton
2002 Crouching Market Hidden Offer
2001 All’s Fair in Love and Wharton
2000 The VC Who Loved Me… A Dotcomedy
1999 There’s Something About Gerrity
1998 Hey! Get Your Hands Outta My Vance!
1997 The Trea$ury Hunt
1996 Mission Improbable
1995 Heaven Can Waitlist
1994 As Wharton Turns
1993 CLUEless, or Death of a Curriculum
1992 The Wharton Television Network
1991 Alice in Whartonland
1990 Willy Wharton and the MBA Factory
1989 Follies the Thirteenth
1988 Between the Balance Sheets
1987 Publish and Perish
1986 Yield to Maturity
1985 Retained Yearnings
1984 Big Deal: A Dramatic Offering
1983 ET – The Economy’s Terrible
1982 Pirates of Penn Vance
1981 Ain’t Calculatin’
1980 Vancin’
1979 Shall We Vance?
1978 Harry, Is This Wharton?
1977 A Placement Line
