Young Millie has just moved to a New York full of intrigue and jazz – a time when women were entering the work force and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever. Filled with frisky flappers, dashing men and a villainess audiences will love to hate, Millie is an evening of madcap merriment .
Summoned to a convent, a court-appointed psychiatrist is charged with assessing the sanity of a young novitiate accused of murdering her newborn. Who killed the infant and who fathered the tiny victim? This award winning drama examines the meaning of faith & the power of love.
Explore the 1960s where loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program. Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can Tracy manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love without mussing her hair?
Rent is a rock opera that tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical, a Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. The success of the show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions, and in 2005, it was also adapted into a motion picture.
Explore the humorous side to family life in 1930s small town America. Young Ralphie Parker desperately dreams of only one thing for Christmas – a genuine Red Ryder BB gun! Can Ralphie achieve his dream or will his mother’s protests of “You’ll shoot your eye out!” prevail? You’ll want to bring the whole family to this stage adaption of the beloved film.
Immerse yourselves in the bustling world of turn of the century city life with Esther, an unmarried African-American lingerie seamstress. While working, she hears the secrets of high society from the socialites and gets the lowdown on life from a piano-playing prostitute. Using threads of gender, racial, class and religious issues, this award winning play results in a rich drama, embroidered with romance. This production is suitable for older teens and up.
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Box office hours for the Gainesville Community Playhouse are Wednesday through Friday, 12 pm – 6 pm and Saturday 10 am – 6pm. The box office opens two weeks before the run of each show until the conclusion of the run.
The box office will reopen for day-of-show sales one hour before curtain, at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 1 p.m. for Sunday matinees.
Tickets to all regular performances are $16. Tickets for students (with ID) and children are $10 available beginning at 7 p.m. for evening shows and 1 p.m. for matinees.
Tickets to our preview shows are $5. These are general admission tickets and can only be purchased at the door the evening of the preview performance only starting at 7 p.m.
Senior Ticket Prices: Patrons age 60 and up can purchase a discounted ticket for $10 for the first Sunday matinee of each GCP production.
Tickets may be purchased over the phone in advance with a valid credit or debit card. The GCP accepts Visa, Master Card, American Express and Discover. Our will call window is open one hour before each performance.
Group rates are available. Please contact our box office at (352) 376-4949.
Online Ticket sales will be available in Fall 2011.