musical
October 23, 2025
GC’s ‘growing actors’ on Cabaret
At Goshen Theater from Oct. 18-26, the featured show will take you back in time to 1930s Germany, where the Cabaret musical takes place. Leif Billings ’25, and Brenton Abram-Copenhaver, Goshen College’s technical director, were casted of the cast of the Cabaret production at Goshen Theater. Cabaret showcases the story of an American writer, Cliff Bradshaw, who traveled to Berlin, Germany to work on his novel. Throughout the musical, themes of the rise of Nazis, escapism and love are portrayed. The message of the show leaves the audience thinking about the world today. Billings said, “It’s a heavy show. There...
March 27, 2025
RENT is due
The spring musical, “RENT,” made its debut last weekend with a breathtaking performance given by the cast and crew at the John S. Umble Center. The pop-rock musical by Jonathan Larson handles heavy topics including poverty, death and loss, complicated relationships and particularly, the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ‘90s. The story follows a group of friends, several of whom are living in an apartment in Manhattan’s East Village where the power has gone out, leaving them with no heat in the middle of winter. Characters are portrayed as they navigate their relationships and struggle in poor living conditions,...
October 4, 2024
‘An Untitled Project’
On Oct. 4 at 8 p.m., Victor Vegas and Fatima Zahara’s musical, “An Untitled Project,” debuts in the Umble Center. The idea was born when Zahara was sketching in her notebook instead of doing music theory. “I was totally messing around two years ago in Dr. Hill’s music theory class drawing my musical instead of doing my homework,” Zahara said. “I’ve kinda always wanted to write a musical, she said. “When I was in high school I was doing musicals. I was like man, I’d like, love to write one of these.” Zahara, a senior music and theatre double major,...
March 30, 2023
Backstage at ‘Into the Woods’
Before the orchestra pulls out their sheet music and the actors start putting on their makeup, a very different kind of pre-show routine is taking place behind the curtain at Umble Center: the stage crew presets props and costumes, tests lighting and sound and otherwise prepares for a run of “Into the Woods.” Sarah Bailey, a junior theater major and stage manager for “Into the Woods,” said her job “is really to make sure the ship is running smoothly.” Specifically, Bailey takes notes on blocking, organizes schedules, oversees the other crew members and calls cues from the booth during the...
March 23, 2023
Preview: A look at ‘Into the Woods’
This weekend, Goshen College’s theater program will open the spring mainstage musical: Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” The last time the show was done at GC was in 2003. The show reconsiders who really deserves the title of hero or villain in a fairy tale while involving storylines from “Cinderella,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Rapunzel.” Director Amy Budd described it as being primarily a story about “the importance of caring for your neighbors.” The actors began rehearsals in January to prepare for opening night. Fatima Rhana, a sophomore music and theater double major playing the...