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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is based on a book written by Barbara Robinson in 1972. It tells the story of six delinquent children surnamed Herdman. They go to church for the first time after being told that the church offers snacks. Despite protests from other church members, the Herdmans are given roles in the Sunday school’s Christmas play, in which they tell the Christmas story in a nonconventional fashion.
The Production was held at Hillside United Methodist Church for an audience of 250 people.
In the GCTC’s first Summer Drama Camp production, One Small Acorn, Chef Monsieur Puffbello is catering the towns 100th Anniversary feast — but finds that the villagers have destroyed all their fruit trees.  One young boy has an idea to save the celebration with the help of his animal friends.
The production featured 46 campers with the help of 27 volunteers and had an audience of over 300.
Four couples arrive at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to attend a party celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. However, the four couples soon discover that there are no servants, the hostess is missing and the deputy mayor has shot himself in the head (it’s only a flesh wound). Comic complications arise when, given everyone’s upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening’s events from the local police and the media.
Plaza Suite was a Reader’s Theatre production in Feb. 2004. The event was hosted at the Maximum House in Princeton, In.
Plaza Suite was one of Broadway’s biggest hits by popular playwright, Neil Simon. This wonderful comedy is a three-act play that details the misadventures of three very different couples as they face crucial moments in their respective lives – at different times, but all in the same hotel suite in the famous Plaza Hotel.
In Act One, a suburban housewife books the suite in an attempt to bring back a spark into her marriage. She thinks it’s the same suite they shared on their honeymoon, 24 or was it 23 years ago? And was it really 719 or was it on the 8th floor? Her husband, tied up with work (and other “things”) doesn’t share her romantic intentions. A bittersweet look at marriage, lost memories, and couples who “grow apart” without realizing it. more…