Brand new for 2025 is GCT's “Readings On Stage” Series!
We know that there a lot of great scripts and stories that deserve to be heard but sometimes just don't get an opportunity. With “Readings On Stage”, local directors and actors will be bringing some scripts to life that we hope you will find entertaining, challenging and educational. While these are simply readings on stage by actors and not a full mounted production with costumes etc, you never know, you might see one of these shows on our stage in the future.
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Auntie Mame - May 16th at 7pm
This fabulously successful hit hardly needs introduction. Besides being the source for one of America’s most popular musicals, AUNTIE MAME set a standard for Broadway comedy that’s been sought after ever since. “Auntie Mame was a handsome, sparkling, scatterbrained and warm-hearted lady who brightened the American landscape from 1928 to the immediate past by her whimsical gaiety, her slightly madcap adventures and her devotion to her young nephew, who grew up to be Patrick Dennis. Through fortunes that rose and fell and a pleasant but brief marriage to a likable Southerner, who had the bad luck to tumble down from the Matterhorn, Auntie Mame’s chief concern was that nephew, whom she raised…[the play’s] central figure is a woman of spirit, innate kindness and undefeatable courage…” —New York Post.
Auntie Mame is a comedic stage play written by American playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The play was adapted from the novel of the same name first published in 1955 by Patrick Dennis. It originally opened on Broadway in 1956 starring Rosalind Russell who also starred in the 1958 film. It inspired the 1966 Broadway Musical, MAME.