Season 54 will have our traditional 8 productions featuring musicals, comedies, youth opportunities, evocative plays and our emerging playwright winner. Some titles will celebrate the past successes of GCT and others will encourage us to gaze into the future at what is possible in our one of a kind space.
The season begins with our traditional youth acted production. This epic musical can not be revealed until audition announcement in April but education director Christina Hernandez assures us that her “secret show” will amaze audiences. This very current and exciting title will also be our first full production Season show to perform entirely on a different stage. This cast will spread their wings and fly to the welcoming KROC Center stage allowing for even more grand sets and larger cast and audiences. The Education department has developed a great relationship with The KROC Center and it’s manager Evan Park over our last 2 years of BOOKS on STAGE spring presentations like this April’s “Too Many Detectives at the Murder Mansion”.
“Secret Musical Epic” Directed by Christina Hernandez with Music Director Adam Jeffrey July 24th – August 3rd, 2025.
Season 54 continues with an all-time favorite musical beloved by GCT patrons in the past. The Little Sisters of Hoboken began as a greeting card series and quickly became one of the most prolific community theatre shows and the 2nd longest running off Broadway production of all time with well over 3000 performances. This habit-forming show has gained such popularity since it’s inception in 1985 that has spawned 6 sequels, 2 television adaptations and is translated into 26 languages around the world! GCT has even produced successful runs of the show in 1993 and 2019 along with 2 of it’s sequels over the years. This riotous show set during a fundraiser to raise money in order to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God).
NUNSENSE the Musical by Dan Goggin Directed by Elizabeth Perkins with Music Director Eileen Kuo September 12th – 28th, 2025.
After that barrel of endearing laughs, Season 54 sets the mood for Halloween with a legendary tale from the mind of Mary Shelley known as the mother of the horror genre. Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment can’t shake free the dark secret that terrifies him as his monster sets lose on the population. Terror abounds in one of the most classic monster tales of our times bringing true thrills, suspense to the GCT stage
FRANKENSTEIN Director TBA October 24th – November 2nd, 2025
The holiday season will delight families of all ages with ANNIE JR. back by popular demand! A new creative team and cast will bring America’s favorite little orphan back to the stage after a sold out run in 2024. The sun will come out December 5th – 21st, 2025 with regular showtimes plus the return of our successful weekday matinees perfect for field trips. The directing team will be announced soon and GCT can’t wait to take you back to NYC with all your favorite songs and characters!
In 2026 we continue a newer tradition of featuring an Emerging Local Playwright with a script produced for the first time on the GCT stage, hand selected by our play-finding committee among multiple entries. Previous winners include the sold out run of Everyone & Their Mother by Emily Draffen & last season’s riveting Patterns by Michael Hoffman.
The winner of Season 54’s Teresa Jordan Emerging Local Playwright Competition is set in the 1980s. Two brothers come to blows over the sale of their family home. In the 1940s, their mother leaves everything she knew in Puerto Rico to begin a life built on love with their father, a well-meaning but oblivious white soldier from Florida. The House examines the Latinx identity—how it has been constructed and depicted in the United States and how it may be truly felt by the individuals who claim it as part of their being. Ultimately, it is a lesson in where we come from and how it may define us, if we only let it.
Savannah S. Miller’s THE HOUSE Director TBA January 29th – February 1st, 2026.
Congratulations Savannah and thank you Teresa for your tireless support of this theatre!
Season 54 continues by revisiting another cherished show produced on our stage in 2010. Prepare ye for a musical by Stephen Schwartz, so timeless and adored that both its original Broadway run in 1971 and the 2011 revival received multiple Tony nominations including winning for best original score. Godspell revisits the idea of Jesus as a revolutionary figure. One who challenged authority and preached a new, radical message to the world: “love your enemies and pray for your persecutors. What better way to address the divide amongst the population than with a musical about love, community, and connection Featuring a bevy of hit songs like “Day by Day”, “All For the Best” and “Turn Back Oh Man”; this irresistible musical goes beyond the gospel and will leave you feeling uplifted and joyful.
GODSPELL Directed by Jaclyn Suffel with Music Director Nathan McHenry February 27th – March 15th, 2026.
Next, a true classic from the mind of William Shakespeare with a new twist. Julius Ceasar is one of the most recognizable historic figures and stories of ancient Rome. Performed in countless film and stage adaptations by an endless list of legendary actors, the bard’s discourse on power, loyalty and tragic idealism found a new perspective in the 2019 in London with an entirely female cast. “In the original text Shakespeare gives Ceasar the line, “I have a man’s mind but a woman’s might.” This powerful dramatization of the catastrophic consequences of a political leader’s extension of power beyond constitutional confines carries deeper impact through an all-female lens.
JULIUS CEASAR female cast Directed by Meghan Lisi Lewis April 24th – May 3rd, 2026.
Season 54 will extend into June with another beloved award-winning title about family and love in all forms. This musical by William Finn chronicles a Jewish family in the late 70’s and early 80s exploring themes of gender roles, divorce, parenting, gay life and chosen family. The original Broadway production won Tony awards for Best Book and Best Original Score and in 2016 won for Best Revival and was nominated for many more. Falsettos is the tale of a neurotic New Yorker named Marvin, who leaves his wife Trina and young son Jason to live with his lover, Whizzer. In time, Trina marries his psychiatrist, Whizzer leaves him, and Marvin ends up alone. Two years later, Marvin and Whizzer reunite on the eve of Jason’s bar mitzvah, just as AIDS is beginning its insidious spread. With the help of their neighbors, Charlotte and Cordelia, Marvin and his entire family learn to grow up and face their future with love and dignity.
FALSETTOS Director Jordan Nichols with Music Director Gary Beard June 5th – 21st, 2026.
