Theatre
The Theatre Department at PCHS is a young but growing program that has become known for its high-caliber productions. Some of the recent productions at PCHS include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan the Musical, The Monkey's Paw, Pochahontas, Aladdin Jr., and Crazy For You. Since 2008 the Theatre Department has been headed by Jeremy Gossett, a Broadway Scenic and Lighting Designer, and also a Pell City native. Under Mr. Gossett, the theatre program has grown from approximately 20 students to over 200 involved in classes and production work. Kimberly Myers, who has choreographed many of the recent productions has also been instrumental in making Pell City High School one of the leading performing arts oriented schools in the southeast.
Pell City High School has recently recomissioned their charter with the International Thespian Society as ITS troupe #2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1858–1924)
“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”
—Enid Bagnold (1889–1981)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)