The day has hardly begun when Headmistress Julia Faysle reads in an unflattering remark about the quality of girls produced by her school.

Meanwhile, the headmistress and her faculty chum, Foresta Studley, get carried away with jolly memories of their own girlhood at Morrissey Hall.

The Fifth Form, in a history competition, has won a Bumper Car ride, and the huge amusement park contraption is now set on the campus.

Miss Winkle, faculty leader of the Fifth Form and now drunk with power as commander of the Bumper Car, whips them around in the ride.

The Fifth and Sixth have been arming themselves from mail order catalogues, and even the Headmistress' perennial optimism seems tentative to say the least, just prior to the outbreak of full scale, all-school, hell-bent-for-leather war.

The production had a well received engagement at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in 1976,[2] starring Jill Tanner as Headmistress Julia Faysle.

[5] The creative team included direction by Jackson, lighting by Howard Bay, costumes by David Graden, and choreography by Buddy Schwab.

Nancy Churnin of the Los Angeles Times said that "it is openly and unabashedly cartoonish", but that "nothing in the story of The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall is new or special.