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 (1859–1924)
“A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.”
—Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980)
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)