2011-2012 Season
DON’T MISS JCC Cabaret Night
Saturday, March 31 – 8:00pm
Award winning Broadway singer Amy Wolk will bring her funny, sassy, laugh-out-loud, one-woman cabaret show, We Can Wolk it Out to the JCC on Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. Mark your calendar today! A portion of the proceeds will go toward supporting the JCC’s Gallery Players. Individual tickets are $30, and $25 each for groups of 10 or more.
Call (614) 231-2731 for tickets or,
Relatively Close (May 2012)
Relatively Close by James Sherman, is the story of three adult sisters who return to the family vacation home on the shores of Lake Michigan where they spent the summers of their childhood. Now that their parents are gone, the house is just sitting there, and the sisters contemplate what to do with it. One sister wants to keep it, one sister wants to sell it, and one sister just wants everyone to get along. With their respective spouses and one surly teenager in tow, will they even make it to the end of the week? Not likely!
Showtimes for Relatively Close, are Saturdays, May 12 and 19, at 8 p.m.; Sundays, May 13 and 20, at 2:30 p.m., and Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m.
Call (614) 231-2731 for tickets or,
Past Theater Events
Lost in Yonkers (October 2011)
A record-breaking crowd for a non-musical in recent Gallery Players history (more than 800 audience members at 5 shows), cheered Lost in Yonkers, which opened Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, at 8 p.m.
The Neil Simon play is a coming-of-age tale focusing on brothers Arty and Jay, who are left in the care of their Grandma Kurnitz and Aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York, by their financially desperate father, Eddie. While Eddie heads off to work as a traveling salesman to pay debts incurred following his wife’s death, Grandma’s severe, frightfully intimidating immigrant viewpoint threatens to terrify her grandsons. Balancing Grandma’s strictness is Aunt Bella’s sweet, wistfulness as she longs to marry an usher at the local movie house. A small-time, tough-talking hoodlum on the lam, and a psychologically asthmatic sister, bring the climax to a dramatic confrontation that threatens to create a permanent fissure in this highly dysfunctional family.
Cast:
Jay – Noah Portman; Arty – Avi Kahn; Eddie – Rick Holt; Grandma Kurnitz – Laurie Alexander; Louie – Todd Covert; Gert – Julie Russell; Bella – Amy Silver Judd.
Crew:
Mark Mann – Director; Rebecca Prater – Stage Manager; Jason Banks – Light/Sound Design; Len Williams and Trish Brown – Set Design/Construction; Pam Bloom – Costume Design; Karen Tylak – Props Master; Edie Dinger – Scene Painter; Ariel Cohen – Assistant Stage Manager; Ira Scheer – Light Board Operator;
Jared Saltman – JCC Cultural Arts Director.
Seussical the Musical Jr. (December 2011)
Gallery Players presented Seussical the Musical , the first two weekends in December in the Roth-Resler Theater. Stephanie Stephens directed the production.
“Some things are so much fun that they have to be revisited. Such was the case with Seussical the Musical Jr., which was a big hit with the JCC Summer Theater campers. This time, however, the cast was expanded a bit and the show was remounted by Gallery Players,” said Halle Schwartz, director of Children, Youth, Teen and Camping at the JCC.
Cast:
Sophie Schiff – Cat in the Hat; Molly Rosen – Jojo; Jack Rossio – Horton the Elephant; Ally Schuster – Mr. Mayor;
Olivia Beckman – Mrs. Mayor; Taylor Paine – Gertrude McFuzz; Gillian Herszage – Mayzie LaBird; Adira Kahn – Yertle the Turtle; Emma Beckman – Sour Kangaroo. The Bird Girls were Shayna Herszage, Rena Kahn and Rose Kalef, while the Wickerham Monkeys were Lucy Rosen, Juliet Schiff, and Margaret Zirwas. The Whos of Whoville were Nate Eisenberg, Maddie Johnson, Adira Kahn, and Hani Wolfson. Nate Eisenberg and Hani Wolfson were the Hunters. Playing the roles of Fish were Emma Beckman, Nate Eisenberg, Gillian Herszage, Shayna Herzage, Maddie Johnson, Adira Kahn, Rena Kahn, Rose Kalef, Taylor Paine, Lucy Rosen, Juliet Schiff, Hani Wolfson and Margaret Zirwas.
The Rubenstein Kiss (February 2012)
Gallery Players is collaborating with CATCO to produce The Rubenstein Kiss. The play by James Phillips will be presented in the Riffe Center’s Studio Two Theatre, Feb. 1-19, 2012. Inspired by the true story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, this powerful American premiere winds through the mysterious corridors of history to reveal the anguish of a family and their yearning for justice. When Jakob and Esther Rubenstein are punished for an act of industrial espionage, the audience is left to decide if they were guilty or the victims of Cold War zealots.
A New Brain (March 2012)
Gordon, a promising young composer, is discovering the hard way that he does not write songs for frogs, much less frogs like tyrannical children’s TV host, Mr Bungee. But Gordon soon has bigger problems than his deadline for the green-booted dictator. During lunch with his best friend and agent, Rhoda, Gordon collapses face-first into his food, waking in the hospital to discover he has a potentially life-threatening arteriovenous malformation. His greatest fear is dying with his best work still inside him. So, he continues to write throughout his ordeal, hallucinating as he undergoes treatment. The musical, written by William Finn and James Lapine, deals directly with Finn’s own harrowing personal experience and the healing power of art.
Showtimes for A New Brain, are Saturdays, March 3,10,and 17 at 8 p.m.; Sundays, March 4,11, and 18 at 2:30 p.m., and Thursday, March 8 and 15 at 7:30 p.m.
