Holiday Party!

Our Drama Club holiday party is coming up Tuesday, Dec. 9, in the Drama Dance room!

The Mousetrap--FIELD TRIP

Purchase tickets now for a field trip to see Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery The Mousetrap at Northlight Theatre on Nov. 20th (a Gold day).   This is a professional, Equity production, and they are offering a special student matinee for us on Nov. 20th at 10:30.  Here are the details:

1. Tickets are $12 and are available now in the bookstore.  When you buy your ticket, you will get a permission slip for your parent to sign.
2. Nov. 20th is a Gold day.  We will be leaving at 9:30 am, so you will only be missing the last five minutes of Block 1.  You will miss Blocks 2 and 3.  We will  be back at GBS for Block 4.
3. Bring a sack lunch and beverage with you on the bus.

The Mousetrap is currently in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s longest-running play (the original production is still running in London)!

Click HERE for Northlight Theatre website

Winter Play Cast

Watch this space for winter play cast and rehearsal information.

Click here for cast list

Please meet in the Drama/Dance room this Thursday from 3:25 to 3:45 to pick up scripts and schedules.

Zeitgeist opens

The Freshman/Sophomore play performs this Tuesday at 4:30 and 7:30, and Wednesday at 4:30.  All shows are in the Lyceum.

Glenbrook Musical 2015 announced

The Glenbrook Musical is How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.

Winter Play Auditions info

Auditions are coming up for the Winter Play on Wednesday, Oct. 29, or Thursday, Oct. 30.  There will be cold reading from the scripts, so prepare by being familiar with the 2 scripts.  You can read them by clicking the links below.  The show is called Identity Crisis, and is made up of two hilarious one-act plays by Christopher Durang:  'Dentity Crisis and The Actor's Nightmare.  The play itself will be performed on Jan. 16 & 17th.  Rehearsals will begin in mid November. The rehearsal schedule will NOT conflict with speech team, Comedy Sportz, V- show  (except singer-dancers), or Chamber Singers. Each one act will only rehearse 3 or 4 days a week, and there will be one evening rehearsal as well, helping people who may have an after school commitment.  The show is directed by Mr. Knight--please see him if you have any questions.

Especially need:  a male who can perform several different character, including a French accent
Actors who can perform short scenes from Hamlet as well as Private Lives (British accent a plus)!

click for audition scenes and monologues

click to read 'dentity Crisis

THE STORY: Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jane is nursed and nagged by her relentlessly cheerful mother, and confused by her oversexed brother—who keeps changing into her father, her grandfather and her mother's French lover. Eventually all (including Jane's psychiatrist, who undergoes a sex change operation and swaps places with his wife) change characters again and become Jane herself—leaving her with no identity at all and pointing up the near impossibility of self-identification in our uncertain times.

click to read The Actor's Nightmare

THE STORY: Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons—by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers. Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner's axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion—denying him a well-earned curtain call

Zeitgeist in 2 weeks!

Zeitgeist, the freshman/sophomore fall 2014 play will be performed on Tuesday, October 14 at 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, October 15 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lyceum. Cost is $3.00 or free with activity pass.  Click here for poster.

Fall Play poster-Harvey

This fall, GBS Theatre will present Harvey, a comedy about a man, Elwood P. Dowd, who believes his best friend is a six-foot tall rabbit. 

When his sister tries to put him in a sanitarium, but is mistakenly put in instead, hilarity ensues. Audience members will enjoy the great characters, funny lines and charming chemistry between Elwood and Harvey.

The comedy runs Wednesday, October 22, through Saturday, October 25, and includes 21 students starring in the cast. 

Big week for Drama Club

Get ready!  This week we have a drama club meeting on Tuesday (the 16th), our field trip to see Comedy Sportz is this Friday night (buy your tickets before they are gone in the bookstore), and Sunday morning is the run/walk benefit for Special Gifts theatre.  Sign up online for the walk if you have not yet, and continue getting sponsors!  Direct people to the link where they can donate:  Donate to Special Gifts Theatre

Zeitgeist Cast 2014

Congratulations to the freshman and sophomores in the cast of this year's Zeitgeist!

Alejandro Alvarado

Emily Browder

Derek Cernek

Isabella Duan

Hannah Goldberg

Nicholas Horvat

Audrey Hwang

Julius Khamoo

Erin Kirby

Sara Liu

Marina Madsen

Michael McNeela

Megan O'Laughlin

Sarah Patt

Ethan Reiss

Sofie Schwartz

Illinois Theatre Festival Information

It's time to sign up for Theatre Fest field trip!  This year it is at the University of Illinois.  Check out the following links for requirements and trip info, as well as the Theatre Fest website.  All money and forms are due by OCT. 10 if you plan on attending the theatre fest field trip with us.

Click for field trip info

Click for Theatre Fest website

Charity 5k Run for Special Gifts Theatre

Join Drama Club on Sunday, Sept. 21, to help the Special Gifts Theatre in Wilmette. 

Members of the Drama Club will be either walking or running in a 5K to raise money for Special Gifts Theatre, a program that provides creative drama for students with special needs. Several of our own GBS students are involved in the program! The race is called "Walk to Neverland" because this year's main production in March will be Peter Pan. If you would like to sponsor any member of the drama club who will be participating for any amount, you may do this by clicking the following link.  You may also register to walk or run yourself!  Come join us for a healthy, fun time and a good cause!

Click here:

Special Gifts Register and/or donate

Auditions--Freshman/Sophomore play

Zeitgeist will be holding auditions Tuesday, Sept. 9, in the Lyceum.  Come find out out more!  This is a student-written and performed show directed by Mr. Maranto for freshman and sophomores only!

Harvey Cast List

Thank you to all who tried out! Congratulations to the cast of Harvey.  The first rehearsal is Monday, Sept. 8 at 4:10 in room 557. You will be receiving a rehearsal schedule, a script, and reading through the play. The rehearsal is scheduled until 6:30.

Myrtle Mae Simmons – Megan Noone,  Anna Madsen  

Veta Louise Simmons – Anna Busch,  Dahlia Maleh 

Elwood P. Dowd – Alessandro Berto,  Chuck Quinn IV

Miss Johnson – Anna Bundy

Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet – Melissa Scherer               

Ruth Kelly, R.N. – Rory Penepacker,  Abby Roberts

Duane Wilson – Michael Kirby, Brendan Redfern                  

Lyman Sanderson, M.D. - Patrick Szczerbowski, Michael Sarov                

William R.  Chumley, M.D. – Aiden Demski, Landon Hartfield                  

Betty Chumley - Jordan Zelvin        

Judge Omar Gaffney – Jake Biales, Jack Riley  

E.J. Lofgren – Danny Fookson, Riaz Gillani     

Assistants to the Director – Eyram Agbenya,  Aaron Kahn, Jeffrey Reid

The Fall Play is the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey by Mary Chase, directed by Mrs. Barber.  Auditions will be Tuesday, Sept. 2 (after the Drama Club meeting) and Wednesday, Sept. 3.  Come to the Drama Club meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 2, for more information.  Also, check the drama callboard next to room 555.

Upcoming season

Freshmen/Sophomore play—Oct. 10

Fall Play—Oct. 22-25

Comedy Sportz—Nov. 13-14

Winter Play—Jan 16-17

V-Show—Feb. 25-28

Musical—April 29, 30, May 1, 2

Drama Banquet-May 8

Senior Awards

Congratulations to this year’s seniors who won the Outstanding Senior in Drama Award:

Zach Bauer, Atticus Hebson, and Robert Poyser.

Comedy Sportz

Thanks to all who turned out for a special Comedy Sportz performance at Marcello’s restaurant Monday night, June 9!  A good time was had by all.

Welcome to the new GBS theatre website.