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Gateway is Proud to Present our 50th Season
of Quality Live Theatre Productions

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Get Your Tickets to "A Candle in the Window"

Gateway Players Theatre in Southbridge, MA presents “A Candle in the Window”, the final production of our 50th Anniversary Season. This play is written by L. Don Swartz. Performance dates are December 5, 6 & 7. 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 Eric Hart, Produced by Lynn Boucher.  Presented by permission through special arrangement with Eldridge Plays and Musicals.

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 are available at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/gateway-players/a-candle-in-the-window

The cast includes Billy Bolster, John Golden, Peter Cooper, Pat Haddock, Linda Bouthillier. Dawn Sedlier,  Tito Aviles, Chamira Santiago, Peter Amarel,  Ducati Sedlier,Reilly Ireland,  Lily Ruggiere, T.J. Lee, Kirstin Smaltz, Elise Servant and Norah Stern.

Synopsis:
A small group of weary travelers discover the power of the season while trapped in a lonely train station on Christmas Eve. As a blizzard rages outside, the troubled people are forced to turn to each other for companionship. Trying to make them more comfortable is the old stationmaster, Charlie. When the clock strikes midnight, there is a knock on the station door and seven youngsters appear. They’ve seen the station lights from the nearby church where, in secret, they’ve been practicing the story of the nativity which they plan to present at regular service. They offer to perform their play for the travelers and afterward, speak to the travelers individually, giving advice which is seemingly wise beyond their years. The next morning, as a new, younger stationmaster lights a Christmas candle, we realize the mysterious stop in the travelers’ journey was more than accidental and has given them a renewed spirit and resolve.

Gateway Players Theatre 2025 season!!!

EXCITING NEWS!! 2025 marks Gateway Players Theatre 50 th Anniversary. Since 1975, we have performed over 250 shows. For our 50th Anniversary season, we have chosen five shows that we had already performed over the past 50 years for our 2025 Season. In addition to this year’s performances, we will also be holding several special events to commemorate our anniversary. More news about those in the near future!

"Plaza Suite" February 21. 22. 28 and March 1 and 2

Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at The Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as Mother yells, “I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!” Written by Neil Simon. Directed by Mike Dupuis. Adult Cast.

"On Golden Pond" May 2, 3, 4, 9 and 10.

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 fiance, 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. Written by Ernest Thompson. Directed by Patrick Bracken. Adult Cast with one Teen role.

"Fiddler on the Roof" August 1, 2 and 3.

Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, Fiddler on the Roof’s universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness. Written by Joseph Stein. Music by Jerry Bock. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Directed by Patricia Haddock. Adult and Teen cast.

"The Clumsy Custard Horror Show" October 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12.

The audience will get into the act (as they do in The Rocky Horror Picture Show) in this hilarious comedy. King Dumb is ready for his daughter to select a husband and all the Knights of the Realm are anxious to claim her hand. But the sweet Princess Prince has fallen for a gentle yet courageous lad she assumes to be a pauper. Not so! Little does she know that this scruffy stranger is Swashbuck Valpariso, bearer of the magic sword and Master of Fast Feet. With audience participation throughout, the play will leave you breathless with anticipation, reckless with abandon and proud to be a Zobian. Written by William Gleason. Directed by Mikey Dearn. Adult and Youth cast.

"A Candle in the Window". December 5, 6 and 7.

A small group of weary travelers discover the power of the season while trapped in a lonely train station on Christmas Eve. As a blizzard rages outside, the troubled people are forced to turn to each other for companionship. Trying to make them more comfortable is the old stationmaster, Charlie. When the clock strikes midnight, there is a knock on the station door and seven youngsters appear. They’ve seen the station lights from the nearby church where, in secret, they’ve been practicing the story of the nativity which they plan to present at regular service. They offer to perform their play for the travelers and afterward, speak to the travelers individually, giving advice which is seemingly wise beyond their years. The next morning, as a new, younger stationmaster lights a Christmas candle, we realize the mysterious stop in the travelers’ journey was more than accidental and has given them a renewed spirit and resolve. Written by L. Don Swartz. Directed by Eric Hart. Adult and Youth cast.

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