Gettysburg Community Theatre Enters its 10th Year

Gettysburg Community Theatre (GCT) the not-for-profit 501c3 community theatre located at 49 York Street in historic downtown Gettysburg, is preparing to enter its 10th Season with the opening of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which will perform 8pm Fridays and Saturdays and 2pm Sunday January 5-21, 2018. Founding Executive/Artistic Director Chad-Alan Carr will reprise the title role in this revival production having played it previously both in Houston and also here in Gettysburg at the Lutheran Theological Seminary Chapel with Music, Gettysburg! back in 2010. Carr is thrilled to see his life-long dream GCT not only come to fruition but now be entering its 10th year.

"It really is remarkable", says Carr, "and we are so grateful to be in such an arts supportive community with so much talent in this region. I never would have thought this dream of mine would become so big so fast. With everything we have achieved and so many programs created here, now I find myself thinking, 'what are we gonna do next?'"

Literally hundreds of patrons, students, and volunteers of all ages and abilities have come through the GCT stage door each year. GCT is thrilled to have brought to its community a year-round theatre education program for children, an annual theatre production that stars youth with special needs working side by side their peer mentors youth without special needs, a Senior Citizen theatre program, a free after-school program for 1st-8th grade, and 60-100 performances a year!

"It takes countless volunteers hours and hours to put on each production year-round at GCT", says Carr, "and we are so happy that our community supports this live theatre full of LOCAL talent in all our plays, musicals, improv nights, and cabarets year after year. We look forward to the future."

Singing memorable tunes such as "Any Dream Will Do", Carr shares the stage in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with co-star Carrie Trax of Gettysburg and a cast of over 20 directed by Shane Miller and supported by a 10 piece live orchestra hidden in the large dressing room off to the left side of the stage conducted by Nick Werner.

Among the cast are many family members sharing the stage together, including three generations of a family together on stage with Pat and Dave Conklin, their daughter and son-in-law Carrie and Greg Trax, with their daughters Tessa and Audrey Trax, all of Gettysburg.

The cast also includes: from Gettysburg: Shane and Marilyn Miller, Liliana and Kalia Hoedemaker, Justin and Hope Beach, Harrison Crow, D. Scott Hartwig, Betty Brownley, Edward Riggs, Connor Peterman, Max Carlson, Sarah Kirk and her daughters Emma and Maria Kirk, Lindsey Ringquest, from Gardners: Natalie Witherow-Hurwitch, from Emmitsburg: Rich Coursey, from Cashtown: Sue McCleaf-Nespeca, from Littlestown: Debbie Williams and her daughter Rebecca Williams, from Hanover: April Howard and Drew Derreth, and from York Springs: C. Andrew Adcock and Tanner Lake.

Tickets are on sale now for Joseph as well as all the 2018 Season productions including Disney's Sleeping Beauty kids -February 2-18, 2018, Godspell -March 2-18, 2018, Disney's Beauty & The Beast jr. -April 27-May 13, 2018, Into The Woods -June 1-17, 2018, Children Of The Battlefield and America The Beautiful -July 6-22, 2018, A Year With Frog And Toad -August 10-26, 2018, Annie -September 7-23, 2018, The Diary Of Anne Frank -October 5-21, 2018, The Wizard Of Oz -November 16-18, 2018 (performances held at and tickets on sale through The Eichelberger Performing Arts Center in Hanover), and Home For The Holidays November 23-December 2, 2018.

Reserved seating tickets for performances held at GCT are available in advance online at www.GettysburgCommunityTheatre.org ,or via phone, or at the door one hour before each show time if seats are still available in GCT's very intimate, and almost always sold out, 80 seat theatre. GCT is located at 49 York Street within the first block of Lincoln Square in historic downtown Gettysburg in the building that was once The Elks Lodge. GCT box office phone number is 717-334-2692. Audition, ticket, educational, donation, volunteer opportunities and more can be found online at www.GettysburgCommunityTheatre.org

GCT Mission Statement: To inspire creativity and confidence, provide cultural enrichment, and instill a love of the theatre arts in people of all ages and abilities through quality education and performance.

Photo Credit: Cindie Leer

 

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