Gateway Players Theatre, Inc. is an all-volunteer community theater providing quality live theatre performances and workshops to Southbridge, Sturbridge, and Charlton, Massachusetts and surrounding areas.
Gateway Players Theatre in Southbridge, MA presents “On Golden Pond”, written by Ernest Thompson. This is the second show of our 50th Anniversary Season. Performance dates are May 2, 3, 9 & 10 at 7:30pm and May 4 at 2:00pm. The performances are held at Fellowship Hall of Elm Street Congregational Church, 61 Elm Street in Southbridge, MA. Entrance is on Park Street (around the corner). Directed by Patrick Bracken, Produced by Lou-Ellen Corkum. Presented by permission through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for seniors and youth under 18. Tickets may be reserved by calling Gateway at 508-764-4531. Online credit card ticket sales will be available in the near future.
The cast includes Richard Clark (Norman Thayer, Jr.), Lynn Boucher (Ethel Thayer), Elizabeth Jacoby (Chelsea Thayer Wayne), Greg Glanville (Bill Ray), TJ Lee (Billy), John Golden (Charlie Martin), and Linda Bouthillier (Operator).
Synopsis: This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
Most performances are held at Elm Street Congregational Church. 61 Elm Street in Southbridge.
Audience members may park in three locations.
1. On street parking is available on Elm Street.
2. The parking deck behind the Southbridge Town Hall. 41 Elm Street.
3. The parking lot located at 38 Strand Place. Next to the Fire Station.
Gateway Players Theatre, Inc. is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the support and encouragement of the arts and the development of talent and creativity, endeavoring to offer the community a program of diversified theatrical fare while providing its members, both adult and youth, with opportunities for participation and training in the theatre arts.
