2015-2016 Season Brochure - Majestic Theater

901925 2015

SEASON SPONSORS Celebrating 90 Years

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 SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR
and post performance champagne dessert WILLIAM E. TROXELL,
reception with the stars in the Majestic’s Mayor of Gettysburg & Majestic
Balcony Patron’s Lounge. Theater Usher 1942–1944

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2015 2015
JULY 4 SEPTEMBER 18
SATURDAY
8:30PM FRIDAY
7:30PM
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Imani Winds
Memorial Field, Gettysburg College
“The ensemble is strikingly virtuosic,
Celebrate America’s 239th birthday with the massed musical immaculately tight, stylistically agile, and they
forces of the Metta Ensemble, the Gettysburg Chamber know how to engage the audience with sincere,
Orchestra, and students from the Sunderman Conservatory
under the direction of maestros Russell McCutcheon succinct and thoughtful comments about the
and Norman Nunamaker with the Majestic’s own music they perform.”
Jeffrey Gabel as emcee. Destination Gettysburg’s
spectacular fireworks will immediately follow Peter Van Zandt Lane, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
the concert. Bring blankets, lawn chairs
and picnics! Free concert. Food and “Imani Winds isn’t your typical wind quintet. Although it
drinks will be available for purchase. plays the standard classical repertoire, it also sinks its teeth
into jazz, Latino, African, Middle Eastern and any other style
RAIN LOCATION // College Union Ballroom
of music that strikes its fancy.”
Presented by:
George Bulanda, Detroit News
PayFlex
Sponsored by The Gettysburg College’s Sunderman Chamber Music Foundation,
Fireworks presented by: Special thanks to: 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

CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON

Guaranteed to be great fun
for the whole family!

2015
SEPTEMBER 29
TUESDAY
7:30PM

Arlo Guthrie 2015
Alice’s Restaurant OCTOBER 24
50th Anniversary Tour
SATURDAY
In 1965, an incident inspired Arlo Guthrie to write a 8:00PM
clever, rambling tirade of a song at the Newport Folk
Festival that seemed to sum up all the sentiments of the Rhythmic Circus
1960s counterculture. Alice’s Restaurant, the hit song and Feet Don’t Fail Me Now!
the record, launched his career, later became a Hollywood film,
and helped foster a new political commitment among his generation. Fresh from their first Broadway run,
American folk music royalty, Guthrie carries on his family’s legacy this charismatic collection of dancers,
in concerts that combine inspirational music with timeless stories musicians and vocalists with their trunk
steeped in social consciousness. full of tap shoes, funky costumes and
big brass instruments deliver a potent
This concert has been selling-out all over
the country so buy your tickets today! mix of rapid-fire tap, sidesplitting
humor and infectious grooves.
TICKETS // $65 $60 $55
Sponsored by an
anonymous donor.

TICKETS // $45 $38 $32

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2015 2016
NOVEMBER 4 JANUARY 14
WEDNESDAY
7:30PM THURSDAY
7:30PM
Duo Amal
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Piano virtuosos Yaron Kohlberg and Bishara Haroni are the Featuring the Pipes & Drums
preeminent pianists of their generation in their respective of the Scots Guards
homelands: Israel and Palestine. For the past four years they have
performed together as Duo Amal. Their finesse and energy have Thrill to the pomp, pageantry, and patriotic sights
taken them to some of the world’s most prestigious auditoriums, and sounds of two of Her Royal Majesty’s most legendary
from the Beijing Concert Hall and New York’s Metropolitan regimental bands. Resplendent in their colorful uniforms,
Museum of Art to the legendary Beethovenhalle in Bonn.
these active duty soldiers will muster a performance of
Whether playing two grand pianos nestled together fanfares, marches, light classics and traditional tunes, all
or sharing the same keyboard, Kohlberg and
Haroni create music that rises above the national while executing intricate marching maneuvers
barriers that see them pushed apart. on the Majestic’s historic stage.

Sponsored by The Gettysburg College’s TICKETS // $62 $58 $55
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

“A show that will delight the 2016
young at heart from age 3 to 300.” MARCH 18

The Oregonian Newspaper FRIDAY
7:30PM

ZooZooImago Theatre

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 2016
APRIL 3 MAY 20
SUNDAY FRIDAY
3:00PM 7:30PM

Cherish the Ladies KMaathdliegaenn

They’ve grown from a one-time concert concept to In her 25 year career, Kathleen Madigan has
an Irish traditional music sensation, literally the had countless appearances on The Tonight Show
most successful and sought-after Irish-American with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman,
group in Celtic music. Now celebrating their Late Night with Conan O’Brien and more. She’s had
30th anniversary, hear firsthand why
The Washington Post dubbed them her own specials on HBO and Comedy Central.
a “thoroughly engaging performance Madigan also has won the American Comedy
brimming with spirit and soul.”
Award for “Best Female Comedian”
TICKETS // $36 $33 $27 and the Phyllis Diller Award for
“Best Female Comedian.”
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON
TICKETS // $47 $39 $34

“The funniest comic
in America, bar none.”

Lewis Black, Comedian

National Theatre Live is a groundbreaking project to ALL SHOWS MONDAY 7:00PM
broadcast the best of British theatre recorded live
from the London stage to cinemas around the world. TICKETS // $23 Adults $21 Seniors $12 Students

Les Pêcheurs Man & Superman
de Perles
Starring Ralph Fiennes
2016 2015
JANUARY 16 JUNE 1
1:00PM
The Audience
Turandot
2015
2016 JULY 13
JANUARY 30
1:00PM Everyman

Manon Lescaut 2015
AUGUST 3
2016
MARCH 5 Beaux Stratagem
1:00PM
2015
Madama Butterfly OCTOBER 26

2016 Hamlet
APRIL 2
1:00PM Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
2015
NOVEMBER 9

Visit gettysburgmajestic.org for new shows
added during the season.

TICKETS // $25 Adults $21 Seniors $17 Students

Il Trovatore Tannhäuser Roberto
Devereux
2015 2015
OCTOBER 3 OCTOBER 31 2016
1:00PM 12:00 NOON APRIL 16
1:00PM
Otello Lulu
Elektra
2015 2015
OCTOBER 17 NOVEMBER 21 2016
1:00PM 12:30PM APRIL 30
1:00PM

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Gettysburg College’s

Sunderman ConservatoryofMusic

Wind Symphony and Wind Symphony Concert Jazz Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble
Symphony Orchestra Concert Dispatch Concert Concert
2015
2015 DECEMBER 4 2016 2016
OCTOBER 2 8:00PM APRIL 9 APRIL 17
8:00PM 8:00PM 3:00PM
Sunderman Conservatory
Jazz Ensemble Concert of Music 10th Anniversary Symphony Band Concert Opera Performance
Gala Weekend
2015 2016 2016
OCTOBER 2 2016 APRIL 10 APRIL 22
8:00PM FEBRUARY 27 3:00PM 7:00PM
8:00PM
Symphony Orchestra Concert Symphony Orchestra Concert Wind Symphony Student
Wind Symphony Concert Conductor Concert
2015 2016
NOVEMBER 21 2016 APRIL 15 2016
8:00PM APRIL 8 8:00PM APRIL 25
8:00PM 5:00PM

TICKETS // $5 Adults
FREE for children 18 and under
FREE with a Gettysburg College ID

CELEBRATING 90 YEARS // 2015/2016 SEASON

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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901925 2015

25 Carlisle Street // Gettysburg PA 17325

2015 / 2016 SEASON