Ahoskie - Gallery Theatre Spotlight

The 39th Annual Summer Youth Theatre Workshop will be held July 15 and 16 at 8 PM each evening. This summer’s productions are Once Upon A Lily Pad and Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. [the Broadway Junior version].

Ticket prices are $10 at the door and $9 in advance for adults or $8 at the door and $7 in advance for students.

The Gallery Theatre's 40th Anniversary season will be something special for everyone. The season will consist of two musicals and two plays and will begin September 23-25, 2005, with the musical Forever Plaid, written and originally directed by Stuart Ross. The Plaids are a four-part harmony group from the 50’s on the way to their first big gig [the Airport Hilton cocktail lounge] and to pick up their custom-made plaid tuxedos. The group is broadsided by a school bus filled with eager Catholic teens on their way to see the debut of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. It is at this moment, when their careers and lives ended, that the story of Forever Plaid begins.

By some cosmic intervention, the Plaids are allowed to come back to perform the show they never got to do in real life and must return to their astral home when they finish. Songs like Three Coins In The Fountain, Moments To Remember, Chain Gang, and Love Is A Many Splendored Thing take us back to a simpler time when kids and grownups danced to the same music, of proms & chaperones, dreamy romance, and Ford Mercury convertibles!

The Gallery Theatre, Inc. is located at 115 W. Main Street, Ahoskie, NC.

For information about this event and others on the schedule, please call (252) 332-2976 or email gallerytheatre@gate811.net For more detailed information check out the web site at www.gate811.net/gallerytheatre