Christina Lee, Senior Photographer

Students will be able to buy tickets for the beloved annual Yale Symphony Orchestra Halloween Show on Monday at 10:31 p.m.

The Yale Symphony Orchestra hosts its annual Halloween concert every year on Oct. 31 from 11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. The hour-long performance is accompanied by a student short film made specifically for the event. The theme of this year’s performance is Lord of Yale: Fellowship of GPT.

For the first time ever, a student-band, Flannel, will open the Halloween show.

“This is one of my favorite YSO traditions,” Tobias Liu ’26, the president of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, said. “It’s one of the only times we have something entirely student produced. I’m never in my life going to be playing music for 2,500 students screaming and cheering.”

Because of its popularity, the YSO Halloween concert is notoriously difficult to attend.

According to Sasha Tarassenko ’27, a YSO social and activities officer, tickets for last year’s show sold out in under five minutes. She said that students wanting a ticket should plan to be on the website as soon as the window to purchase tickets opens. Rachel Kim ’26, a member of YSO, said that in years’ past she even struggled to get tickets for her friends.   

The accompanying film for this year’s show was produced by Mina Chang ’28, Ben Graham ’28 and Juliette Mandelbrot ’28.

“Audience members can really expect to see a story that is not only super funny and pokes fun at a lot of the issues we as students face especially here at Yale,” Tarassenko said. “We have a really cool cameo, I am excited for people to see who they are. Be on the lookout for that.”

Previous accompanying films have included cameos from notable alumni or public figures, including Jodie Foster ’85, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Laufey, an Icelandic-Chinese singer.

Preparations for the film began at the end of March and continued throughout the summer. The writing team — Diana Yang ’26, Ray Nassar ’27 and Bipul Soti ’27 — met on an almost weekly basis to create a final draft of the film, they said.

In this year’s film, the producers and writers decided to decentralize references to Greek life. They said they wanted to ensure all students could feel a connection to the production.

“This year, we have cameos from a few different faculty members so hopefully it will be exciting for the general Yale population to see their professors, deans and head of colleges on the screen,” Chang said. “We wanted to make it more general and enjoyable for Yalies of all different niches.”

The first YSO Halloween Show was in 1975.