2015-2016 Season Brochure

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Celebrating 90 Years
SEASON SPONSORS
of Majestic Downtown Entertainment
2015 / 2016
Welcome to the 2015–2016 Season
On Saturday, November 14, 2015, Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater will celebrate
its 90th birthday which is traditionally marked by diamonds, a symbol of strength
and beauty. The Majestic was envisioned as “the cultural crossroads of the college
and the community” by its builder, Henry Scharf, long-time manager of the
Gettysburg Hotel and a graduate of Gettysburg College. Over the course
of 90 years, Majestic has displayed “strength and beauty” from countless,
memorable movies and sweet smooches in the balcony to high school
and college graduations to the Eisenhower years to surviving the 1983
Gettysburg Hotel fire, and eventually to its 2005 transformation into
the magnificent Jennifer and David LeVan Performing Arts Center
that presents world renowned artists and celebrates the cultural
heritage of Adams County.
It’s a season to celebrate. Join us! Help us honor the past,
present and future of “America’s grandest small town
theater.” I’ll be looking for you in the lobby.
Jeffrey Gabel
Founding Executive Director
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON
2015
NOVEMBER 14
SATURDAY
8:00PM
Majestic Theater’s 90th Birthday Gala
Neil Berg’s
100 Years of Broadway
This once-in-a-lifetime gala features the greatest moments from the finest
shows with the actual stars that performed them on Broadway in such long-running
hits as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar,
and Jekyll & Hyde. Host for the evening is award-winning composer, lyricist
and historian, Neil Berg.
TICKETS // $90 $44 $40 $36
$90 VIP ticket includes premium seating
and post performance champagne dessert
reception with the stars in the Majestic’s
Balcony Patron’s Lounge.
SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR
WILLIAM E. TROXELL,
Mayor of Gettysburg & Majestic
Theater Usher 1942–1944
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2015
JULY 4
SATURDAY
8:30PM
July 4th Gala
Pops Concert
Memorial Field, Gettysburg College
Celebrate America’s 239th birthday with the massed musical
forces of the Metta Ensemble, the Gettysburg Chamber
Orchestra, and students from the Sunderman Conservatory
under the direction of maestros Russell McCutcheon
and Norman Nunamaker with the Majestic’s own
Jeffrey Gabel as emcee. Destination Gettysburg’s
spectacular fireworks will immediately follow
the concert. Bring blankets, lawn chairs
and picnics! Free concert. Food and
drinks will be available for purchase.
RAIN LOCATION // College Union Ballroom
Imani Winds
“The ensemble is strikingly virtuosic,
immaculately tight, stylistically agile, and they
know how to engage the audience with sincere,
succinct and thoughtful comments about the
music they perform.”
Peter Van Zandt Lane, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
“Imani Winds isn’t your typical wind quintet. Although it
plays the standard classical repertoire, it also sinks its teeth
into jazz, Latino, African, Middle Eastern and any other style
of music that strikes its fancy.”
George Bulanda, Detroit News
Sponsored by The Gettysburg College’s Sunderman Chamber Music Foundation,
Majestic Theater and supported by the Adams County Arts Council.
TICKETS // $10 Adults
FREE for children 18 and under // FREE with a Gettysburg College ID
Presented by:
PayFlex
Fireworks presented by:
2015
SEPTEMBER 18
FRIDAY
7:30PM
Special thanks to:
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON
Guaranteed to be great fun
for the whole family!
2015
SEPTEMBER 29
TUESDAY
7:30PM
Arlo Guthrie
Alice’s Restaurant
50th Anniversary Tour
In 1965, an incident inspired Arlo Guthrie to write a
clever, rambling tirade of a song at the Newport Folk
Festival that seemed to sum up all the sentiments of the
1960s counterculture. Alice’s Restaurant, the hit song and
the record, launched his career, later became a Hollywood film,
and helped foster a new political commitment among his generation.
American folk music royalty, Guthrie carries on his family’s legacy
in concerts that combine inspirational music with timeless stories
steeped in social consciousness.
This concert has been selling-out all over
the country so buy your tickets today!
TICKETS // $65 $60 $55
2015
OCTOBER 24
SATURDAY
8:00PM
Rhythmic Circus
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now!
Fresh from their first Broadway run,
this charismatic collection of dancers,
musicians and vocalists with their trunk
full of tap shoes, funky costumes and
big brass instruments deliver a potent
mix of rapid-fire tap, sidesplitting
humor and infectious grooves.
Sponsored by an
anonymous donor.
TICKETS // $45 $38 $32
GETTYSBURGMAJESITC.ORG // 717 - 337 - 8200
2015
NOVEMBER 4
WEDNESDAY
7:30PM
Duo Amal
Piano virtuosos Yaron Kohlberg and Bishara Haroni are the
preeminent pianists of their generation in their respective
homelands: Israel and Palestine. For the past four years they have
performed together as Duo Amal. Their finesse and energy have
taken them to some of the world’s most prestigious auditoriums,
from the Beijing Concert Hall and New York’s Metropolitan
Museum of Art to the legendary Beethovenhalle in Bonn.
Whether playing two grand pianos nestled together
or sharing the same keyboard, Kohlberg and
Haroni create music that rises above the national
barriers that see them pushed apart.
Sponsored by The Gettysburg College’s
Sunderman Chamber Music Foundation,
The Eisenhower Institute, Majestic Theater
and Dora Townsend & David Rice.
TICKETS // $20 Adults
FREE with a Gettysburg College ID
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON
2016
JANUARY 14
THURSDAY
7:30PM
Band of the
Royal Marines
Featuring the Pipes & Drums
of the Scots Guards
Thrill to the pomp, pageantry, and patriotic sights
and sounds of two of Her Royal Majesty’s most legendary
regimental bands. Resplendent in their colorful uniforms,
these active duty soldiers will muster a performance of
fanfares, marches, light classics and traditional tunes, all
while executing intricate marching maneuvers
on the Majestic’s historic stage.
TICKETS // $62 $58 $55
“A show that will delight the
young at heart from age 3 to 300.”
The Oregonian Newspaper
Imago Theatre
2016
MARCH 18
FRIDAY
7:30PM
ZooZoo
ZooZoo celebrates animals, exotic and familiar,
tiny and huge. Lugubrious anteaters, lumbering hippos with
serious sleep problems and giant fluffy polar bears with a
tendency to sit on audience members’ laps. ZooZoo wowed
audiences at the New Victoria Theater in New York City
and all across America.
TICKETS // $29 $26 $23
2016
FEBRUARY 13
SATURDAY
7:30PM
Robert Osborne
Host of Turner Classic Movies Presents Casablanca
In celebration of the Majestic’s 90th anniversary of presenting
films in downtown Gettysburg, join Robert Osborne, beloved
host of Turner Classic Movies, who will discuss the important role
movie theaters have played in the life of small town America with
Jeffrey Gabel, the Majestic’s Founding Executive Director. Afterwards,
Mr. Osborne will introduce the classic film, Casablanca starring
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, on the big screen.
TICKETS // $25
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2016
MAY 20
FRIDAY
7:30PM
2016
APRIL 3
SUNDAY
3:00PM
Cherish the Ladies
They’ve grown from a one-time concert concept to
an Irish traditional music sensation, literally the
most successful and sought-after Irish-American
group in Celtic music. Now celebrating their
30th anniversary, hear firsthand why
The Washington Post dubbed them
a “thoroughly engaging performance
brimming with spirit and soul.”
TICKETS // $36 $33 $27
Kathleen
Madigan
In her 25 year career, Kathleen Madigan has
had countless appearances on The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman,
Late Night with Conan O’Brien and more. She’s had
her own specials on HBO and Comedy Central.
Madigan also has won the American Comedy
Award for “Best Female Comedian”
and the Phyllis Diller Award for
“Best Female Comedian.”
TICKETS // $47 $39 $34
“The funniest comic
in America, bar none.”
Lewis Black, Comedian
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON
ALL SHOWS MONDAY 7:00PM
TICKETS // $23 Adults $21 Seniors $12 Students
Man & Superman
Starring Ralph Fiennes
2015
JUNE 1
National Theatre Live is a groundbreaking project to
broadcast the best of British theatre recorded live
from the London stage to cinemas around the world.
The Audience
2015
JULY 13
Everyman
2015
AUGUST 3
Beaux Stratagem
2015
OCTOBER 26
Les Pêcheurs
de Perles
Hamlet
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
2015
NOVEMBER 9
2016
JANUARY 16
1:00PM
Visit gettysburgmajestic.org for new shows
added during the season.
Turandot
TICKETS // $25 Adults $21 Seniors $17 Students
2016
JANUARY 30
1:00PM
Il Trovatore
Tannhäuser
Manon Lescaut
Roberto
Devereux
Otello
Lulu
Madama Butterfly
Elektra
2015
OCTOBER 3
1:00PM
2015
OCTOBER 17
1:00PM
2015
OCTOBER 31
12:00 NOON
2015
NOVEMBER 21
12:30PM
2016
MARCH 5
1:00PM
2016
APRIL 2
1:00PM
2016
APRIL 16
1:00PM
2016
APRIL 30
1:00PM
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Gettysburg College’s
Sunderman Conservatoryof Music
Wind Symphony and
Symphony Orchestra Concert
Wind Symphony Concert
Jazz Ensemble Concert
Sunderman Conservatory
of Music 10th Anniversary
Gala Weekend
2015
OCTOBER 2
8:00PM
2015
OCTOBER 2
8:00PM
Symphony Orchestra Concert
2015
NOVEMBER 21
8:00PM
2015
DECEMBER 4
8:00PM
2016
FEBRUARY 27
8:00PM
Wind Symphony Concert
2016
APRIL 8
8:00PM
TICKETS // $5 Adults
FREE for children 18 and under
FREE with a Gettysburg College ID
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON
Jazz Ensemble and
Dispatch Concert
Percussion Ensemble
Concert
Symphony Band Concert
Opera Performance
2016
APRIL 9
8:00PM
2016
APRIL 10
3:00PM
Symphony Orchestra Concert
2016
APRIL 15
8:00PM
2016
APRIL 17
3:00PM
2016
APRIL 22
7:00PM
Wind Symphony Student
Conductor Concert
2016
APRIL 25
5:00PM
2015
DECEMBER 9–20
2:00PM MATINÉE // WED THURS SAT SUN
8:00PM EVENING // FRI SAT
Totem Pole Playhouse Presents
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Rediscover the Magic of the Christmas Spirit...
...at Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater!
Since its first presentation in 1987, Totem Pole Playhouse’s
production of A Christmas Carol has been celebrated by
thousands of theatergoers and had become a favorite
holiday tradition for young and old alike. After a
10 year hiatus, A Christmas Carol returned last
winter. This year it will be bigger and better
than ever in its new home at the Majestic
Theater. Join us in rediscovering the
magic of the Christmas Spirit.
TICKETS // $36 $33 $30
STUDENTS // $20
SCHOOL SHOWS // December 10–11, 15–18 at 10:00AM
To arrange your group visit at a special discounted rate contact:
ADAMS COUNTY SCHOOLS // Judi Marti at
[email protected] or 717-334-5006
ALL OTHER SCHOOLS // Renee Rankin at
Totem Pole Box Office 717-352-2164, ext. 2
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2015 / 2016 SEASON