Law School Musical 2025: The Legal Mermaid

A group of people standing on a stage visibly singing with their hands outstretched and raised above their heads.

1Ls, 2Ls, and LLMs kick off the show by singing about life at “C-H-I-C-A-G-O” (Hot to Go).

A person wearing a grey wig and a black blazer is belting out a song on stage with their eyes closed.

Deputy Dean William Hubbard (played by Rosie Gruen, ’25) sings about how he wants to experience life as a student again.

A man wearing a gold dress and a grey wig is singing center stage; on either side of him is a person wearing a grey suit and dancing; behind the trio are a group of people standing and watching.

Professor Geoffrey Stone (played by Andy Wang, ’25) and his henchmen, Professor Douglas Baird (Sam Hallam ’25) and Professor Saul Levmore (Brian Huang ’25), lament those in professorial roles (“Poor Unfortunate Souls”) tragically disconnected from student life as they convince Hubbard to take Stone’s deal.

A dimly lit scene with red lighting that shows a large group of people dancing in front of a large screen that shows a row of chairs.

1Ls, 2Ls, and LLMs play students having fun at Bar Review on Halloween night (Brev-O-Ween).

A group of people wearing costumes such as skirts and oversized glasses are dancing in a thin cloud of smoke.

1Ls, 2Ls, and LLMs dance to Thriller at Brev-O-Ween.

A man wearing a shoulder-length brown wig is standing center stage singing with arms raised; behind him are people sprawled out on the floor.

Associate Dean Ann Perry (played by Nicholas Amador, ’26) sings about the admissions team seeing a suspicious new student (whom they don’t remember admitting) roam through the halls.

Professor Ginsburg and Professor Birdthistle are standing center stage holding microphones while students are moving and waving their arms behind them.

In a cameo appearance, Professor Tom Ginsburg (left) and Professor from Practice William Birdthistle haunt Brev-O-Ween and taunt the students’ weekend procrastination.

A man wearing a gold crown on his dead, a dark suit, and a red tie is sitting on a chair, holding an open textbook in one hand, while his eyes are looking cautiously to the side.

Dean Miles (played by Diego Quesada, ’25) is accosted by professors in the faculty lounge on professorial issues, in lieu of disappeared Hubbard.

A wide shot of the entire stage that shows a group of people lined up and waving; in the middle of the stage is a man kneeling on the floor with a gold crown on his head.

The entire cast joins Harry Bigelow (Lexi Harwick, ’26), Edward Levi (Bima Adhijoso, LLM’25), Sophonisba Breckenridge (Leah Iosevitch, ’27), and William Rainey Harper (Clara Harms, ’27) in a tribute song—“Someone Like You”—to Dean Miles (Quesada) in celebration of his final year as dean.

The 2025 Law School Musical was based on the Walt Disney classic, The Little Mermaid. Sponsored by Sidley Austin LLP and Cooley LLP, the play follows Deputy Dean William H. J. Hubbard, ’00, who dreams about leaving his role as a professor to become a student again. Enticed to the lair of Professor Geoffrey R. Stone, ’71, who is secretly plotting to become dean of the Law School (again) after Dean Thomas J. Miles steps down, Hubbard is magically transformed by Stone into a student—in exchange for his Civil Procedure knowledge. Hubbard must try and get his journal comment published before spring break (without his Civil Procedure knowledge), or else be stuck as Professor Stone’s unpaid research assistant for the rest of his life.

The Legal Mermaid was directed by Michaela Fleischer, ’25, and Brian Huang, ’25; produced by Andrew Obeso, ’25; written by John Benhart, ’25, Rachel Caldwell, ’25, Ben Chanenson, ’25, and Sam Hallam, ’25; and musically led by band director Bridgette Meyer, ’26. The band musicians, including band director Meyer, were Daniel Abraham, ’26, Timothy An, ’26, Nathan Hensley, ’25, Alfredo Hernandez, ’27, Lauren Hinton, ’26, and Patrick Wu, ’27.