GTG's 2010 Season
Almost, Maine garners TANYS awards!
The Geneva Theatre Guild's most recent production of Almost, Maine was awarded many Theatre Association of New York State Merit awards. The show was performed in the new Black Box Theatre at the Geneva Community Center February 4-7. The awards the the cast and crew received are:
Outstanding Achievement in Acting to Mariah Ernhout-Fegley for her role in Getting Back
Outstanding Achievement in Acting to Patrick Fegley for his role in Getting Back
Excellence in Acting to Laura D. Feligno for her multiple roles
Meritorious Achievement in Direction to Pam Rapoza
Meritorious Achievement in Costume Design to Kristen Lanphear
The TANYS roving adjudicator, Cindy Appleton, said that
“Geneva Theatre Guild’s production of "Almost, Maine" was a Valentine
for its audience, and for all of us who live in small town America.
It carried you along the path of love’s rocky road to an ending
that left us smiling with the knowledge that love “almost” always comes or
goes when we least expect it.”
Playwright’s Playreadings looking for submissions
Playwright’s playreadings is back for 2010! April 24 & 25, this show will be performed at Torrey Park Grill, 89 Ave. E at 3pm. This is a wonderful opportunity for area and state playwrights to get their plays read in a readers theatre format by area actors and for audiences to be the first to hear a playwrights words come to life off of the page. Auditions for Playwrights/Playreadings are March 24 & 25 at 7pm at the Presbyterian Church in Geneva.
GTG's Summer Musical... RENT!
The third production of the season is none other than Rent to be performed in the Smith Opera House in July 15-18 and directed by Steve Duprey. Set in New York’s East Village, Rent is the emotionally stirring story of a community of young artists struggling to live and celebrate life. Called a modern version of the opera La Boheme, the Broadway musical Rent took many awards, most notably the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. Since it opened on Broadway, it has been translated into 15 languages in 25 countries, luring audiences from all over the world. The Broadway production with its original cast closed in 2008 after a 12-year run with 5,124 performances, making it the eighth-longest-running Broadway show ever, eight years behind the longest, ``The Phantom of the Opera.'' Auditions for Rent will be May 20 & 21 at 7pm. Location TBD
The Laramie Project
How do we respond to senseless acts of violence and bigotry within our community? That is among the questions to be explored when GTG teams up with The Theatre Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for a joint production of The Laramie Project which chronicles the ways in which the citizens of a small college town struggled to come to terms with the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay student at the University of Wyoming. A compelling and challenging docudrama, The Laramie Project (by Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theatre Project) will be performed in the Black Box Theatre at the Geneva Community Center November 4-6 and November 11-13 and will be directed by Pat Collins.
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This organization is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralizaton Program, which is administered locally by Phelps Arts Center & Phelps Historical Society.
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