Gettysburg Community Theatre (GCT), the non-profit 501c3 organization located at 49 York Street within the first block of Lincoln Square in Gettysburg, PA, now in its 16th Season will present Cole Porter’s musical comedy Anything Goes 7pm Fridays and Saturdays and 2pm Sundays September 6-22, 2024 with direction and choreography by Bruce Moore. Ordering tickets in advance online is highly encouraged as seating is limited. The new GCT bar opens one hour before showtime.
Originally from Gettysburg, Bruce Moore has performed in three Broadway shows and has sung in six movies, five of them for Disney. His Broadway credits include Gypsy, which starred Tyne Daly, My Fair Lady starring Richard Chamberlain; and finally, the long-running revival of Grease, where he sometimes played Teen Angel, sometimes Doody, and was in the ensemble backing up a rotating cavalcade of stars such as Sutton Foster, Lucy Lawless, Linda Blair, Jeff Conaway, and Dominique Dawes. Bruce made his directing debut at Gettysburg Community Theatre with The Secret Garden, followed by Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, Beauty and the Beast Jr., and Guys And Dolls. Other major highlights in his career were singing in the Disney animated features “Aladdin,” “Pocahontas,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Mulan” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Off-Broadway Bruce was a standby in Olympus On My Mind at the Lamb’s Theatre and performed in two City Center Encore Series hits: Strike Up The Band, which starred Judy Kuhn, Lynn Redgrave, Philip Bosco, and Lil Abner starring Broadway’s Alice Ripley, Burke Moses and TV’s Catwoman in “Batman” – Julie Newmar. Bruce tap danced in the Broadway Bound National Tour of Busker Alley starring Tommy Tune and performed in the National Tour of Applause starring Stefani Powers, Grease starring Christopher Atkins and Lori Laughlin, Jack Wagner, and Tony winner Beth Level. He also toured with Gypsy, My Fair Lady, and Give My Regards to Broadway. Bruce was Barnaby with Lainie Kazan in Hello Dolly! at the Claridge in Atlantic City. Regionally, he has performed at the Kennedy Center in DC and the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in LA. He was Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street and Brucie in Little Me at the Historic Ford’s Theatre. Bruce has performed as Sparky and Jinx in Forever Plaid in Boston, George M! (George’s understudy) at the Broadway Dinner Theatre.
Anything Goes is a hilarious shipboard romp wrapped in one of Cole Porter’s most magical scores. It’s delightful, delicious, and de-lovely! Anything Goes premiered on Broadway on November 21, 1934, at the Alvin Theatre. A revised version of the show opened Off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre on May 15, 1962, starring Eileen Rodgers as Reno Sweeney and Hal Linden as Billy Crocker. In 1987, Lincoln Center Theater produced an updated version of the show. Opening at Broadway’s Vivan Beaumont Theater on October 19, 1987, the show starred Patti LuPone, Howard McGillin, and Bill McCutcheon, won the Tony Award for Best Revival, and played for 784 performances. In 2011, the Beaumont version was revived at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway, starring Sutton Foster and Joel Grey. Once again, Anything Goes won the Tony for Best Musical Revival, and the production ran for 521 performances. Anything Goes includes Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, Original Book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse, New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman. The GCT production is Directed & Choreographed by Bruce Moore, with vocal music direction by Jamie Bowman, stage management by Sue McCleaf Nespeca, props management by Vanessa Rice, costume assistance by N. Kay Lenhart, scenic painting by Juls Buehrer, lighting design by Chase Bowman under the direction of GCT Technical Director & Sound Designer Michael Connelly.
The cast includes Kate Sainer of Gettysburg as Reno Sweeney, Sean Mott of Gettysburg as Billy Crocker, Lindsey Ringquist of Gettysburg as Mrs. Harcourt, Paul Norfolk of Eldersburg, MD as Moonface Martin (September 6-15), Samuel Eisenhuth of New Cumberland as Moonface Martin (September 20-22), Carrie Conklin Garrett of Hanover as Hope Harcourt, Dave Bowman of Gettysburg as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, Ernie Kranias of Gettysburg as the Captain, Drew Derreth of Hanover as Elisha J. Whitney, Kaitlyn Ball of Gettysburg as Erma, and features an ensemble including Roman Diaz of York Springs, Myka Walker of East Berlin, Sharon Kaya, Jessy Ringquist, Kyle Meisner, Jamie Bowman, Jacob Hansen, Kylee Lorah, Desiree Bernavel Sanchez, Vanessa Rice, Jim O’Dell Jr. of Gettysburg, Lexi Connelly of Hanover, Allisa Baker and Curtis Musselman of Fairfield, Bevin Durant Fiddler of Aspers, Sue McCleaf Nespeca of Orrtanna, and Kevin Foster of Mechanicsburg.
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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.