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Coming to the Performing Arts Center lobby

A permanent home for 41 seasons.

Every Friend de Coup performer, director, volunteer, and champion belongs to the same story — and right now that story lives in scrapbooks and memories. The FDC Hall of Fame wall puts it where it belongs: on the wall of the theater where it happened.

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The Hall of Fame

The people who built it.

Four decades of Friend de Coup have produced Grand Champion seasons, a home-grown invitational, and hundreds of students who found their footing on that stage.

The Hall of Fame honors the performers, directors, and volunteers behind all of it — inducted in classes, one group at a time, so the roll keeps growing as long as the program does. The wall gives every one of those names a place a family can stand in front of on a show night and point to.

Inductee classes Grand Champion seasons Founding donors
FDC Hall of Fame emblem

The FDC Hall of Fame

Honoring the people who built the legacy — and inspiring the students writing its next chapter.

The Wall

Three directions, one wall.

Twenty-four feet of the Performing Arts Center lobby, three ways to fill it. Nothing is built yet — this is the part where you get a say.

See how each wall reads once the lobby goes dark
FDC HALL OF FAME FDC HALL OF FAME GRAND BENEFACTORS CHAMPION’S CIRCLE FOUNDING DONORS
Direction one

The Laurel

The classic hall-of-fame look. Cast letters across the top, the emblem lit at the center, and matched grids of engraved brass either side — with the founding donor band running along the bottom. Formal, symmetrical, and unmistakably permanent.

  • 48 name plates, individually replaceable
  • Room for the next 25 years of inductees
  • Founding donors recognized by giving level
FDC HALL OF FAME ONE MARK PER SEASON · 1985 → GRANDBENEFACTORS CHAMPION’SCIRCLE FOUNDINGDONORS ’85’90’95 ’00’05’10 ’15’20’25 ★ CHAMPION SEASON
Direction two

The Season Line

One line running the whole wall, with a mark for every season since 1985 and a gold star on every champion year. Hall of Fame classes hang above it at the year they were inducted. The line points off the end of the wall on purpose — the story isn't finished.

  • Every season on the wall, 1985 to today
  • Champion years called out in gold
  • Next season is a new mark, not a redesign
FDC HALL OF FAME FRIEND DE COUP · EST. 1985 CLASS OF 2023 CLASS OF 2024 CLASS OF 2025 CLASS OF 2026 NEXT CLASS
Direction three

Curtain Call

The dancers from the Hall of Fame emblem, cut from steel and standing off a lit panel so they throw a real shadow. Names live alongside on engraved brass ribbons, one per induction class, with the next one already waiting. This is the wall students stop and photograph.

  • Backlit — it comes alive after the house lights drop
  • A ribbon for every induction class
  • Built from our own emblem artwork
On the wall

Three kinds of names.

Whichever direction wins, the wall carries the same story.

Inductees

Performers, directors, and volunteers, honored in classes — each on their own engraved plate so the roll can grow every year.

Champion seasons

Every Grand Champion year marked permanently, so a season nobody wrote down still gets remembered in twenty years.

Founding donors

The people and families who made the wall possible, recognized by giving level right on it — the first names to go up.

Be on it

Help us put 41 seasons on the wall.

Founding donors are recognized on the wall itself. Have a favorite of the three? Tell us — the Committee is choosing a direction now.

Become a Founding Donor Tell us which one