PAST PRODUCTIONS
2017
January 27th - February 4th, 2017
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
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Introducing Galaxy Theater Company's Premier Production, Tennessee Williams' American Treasure, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF! Brimming with intensity and wit, the play follows the powerful Southern family of the aging Big Daddy and his wife, Big Mama. As their son Brick and his beautiful but sexually frustrated wife Maggie the Cat scramble to secure their part of Big Daddy's estate, troubled relationships come to a stormy climax and a shockwave of secrets are revealed.
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Directed by Joshua Dlouhy and produced by John Wognum and Peter Wognum, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF features the acting talents of Brittany Rodda, Micah Fortenberry, Ken Evans, Wina Shelley, Chrissy Morales, Michael H. Kocher, John Enright, Mark Fechner, Sydney Hall, Gena Colón, Izabella Burnson, Cynthia Hines and Debra Lynn Clark.
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Assistant Director: Floyd A. May
Technical Lighting & Sound Director: Dale Hawes
Co-Stage Managers: Margaret Pesquera & Brian Baumann
Assistant Stage Manager: Sean Rauba
Costume Designer/Prop. Master/Set Decorator: Floyd A. May
Master Carpenters: John Wognum & Peter Wognum
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
Meet the Sycamores - a madcap clan that sets the bar for eccentricity. When Alice brings her high society fiancé home to meet the parents, fireworks (figuratively and literally) nearly bring the house down. Despite their zany antics and unconventional ways, this tight-knit family offers hope that love and laughter lead to happiness, even in the hardest of times. One of the most popular and successful comedies in American theatre, this Pulitzer Prize-winning, Depression era classic has a timeless appeal.
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Directed by Floyd A. May and produced by John Wognum and Peter Wognum, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU features the acting talents of Carla Alcorn, Grace Beyerl, Cordelia Callaway, Stephen Donart, Ken Evans, Darius Fatemi, Nicholas R. Filipiak, Dustin John, Michael H. Kocher, Rhys Read, Brittany Rodda, Mary Ellen Sanchez, Joshua Seeger, Wina Shelley, Nancy Sosnowski, Jim Stadt, Booker Vance, Larry Wenderski and John Wognum.
Assistant Director/Sound Designer: Joshua Dlouhy
Lighting Designer & Technical Director: Dale Hawes
Stage Manager: Sean Rauba
Set Designer & Decorator/Costume Design: Floyd A. May
Properties Mistress: Carla Alcorn
Master Carpenters: John Wognum & Peter Wognum
2018
January 26th - February 3rd, 2018
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
DIAL M FOR MURDER follows the wealthy Margot Wendice, who has convinced her professional tennis player husband, Tony, to give up playing to spend more time with her. He now sells sports equipment, and, to Margot, their life together is a happy one. However, he has discovered that while he was on a tennis tour in the United States several years ago, Margot had an affair with an American murder mystery writer named Max Halliday. Because he wants revenge, as well as her money, Tony meticulously plans Margot’s murder. DIAL M FOR MURDER was turned into a 1954 film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings. The screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were both written by English playwright Frederick Knott.
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Directed by Rocco Ayala and produced by John Wognum and Joshua Dlouhy, DIAL M FOR MURDER features the acting talents of Jennifer Schreiner, Matthew F. Walsh, Steve Bryant, Samuel Colt, Dawn Gmitro, John Enright, and Lawrence Lucas.
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Joanna Ziarko
Lighting Design: Dale Hawes
Sound Design: Chris Cummings
Set Designer: John Wognum & Dale Hawes
Costume Designer: Rocco Ayala
Master Carpenter: John Wognum
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
HARVEY is a gentle, imaginative, whimsical play, originally starring James Stewart on Broadway in 1944. Elwood is an affable, unpretentious man who greets everyone he meets with a smile. Elwood seems mostly normal, except that he claims his best friend is a 6 foot 1½ inch tall white rabbit named Harvey. His friendship with Harvey is complicated by the fact that no one except Elwood can see or hear his unusual companion. Elwood’s family and friends begin to doubt whether he is “all there,” and decide that the best thing to do would be to commit him to the local mental institution. Assumptions are made, which cause mistakes and mishaps, and everyone is caught up in the whirlwind, through which Elwood seems to walk calmly; the eye of this classically comedic storm.
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Directed by Carla O. Alcorn and produced by John Wognum and Joshua Dlouhy, HARVEY features the acting talents of Charlie Wimmer, Wina Shelley, Gary Murphy, Michelle Lewis, Matthew F. Walsh, Odette Moore, Nancy Sosnowski, John Enright, Larry Lucas, and Larry Wenderski.
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Maelee M. Richardson
Lighting Design: Dale Hawes
Set & Sound Design: Joshua Dlouhy
Costume Designer: Carlie Casas
Properties Mistress: Joanna Ziarko
Set Decorator: Floyd A. May
Master Carpenter: John Wognum
SUMMER BASH
August 18th, 2018
Saturday from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The SUMMER BASH celebrated Galaxy’s successful second season and their new move to La Grange. It was also an opportunity to meet new people, see the new space, and help Galaxy raise some money for future shows.
There was karaoke and dancing from our fantastic DJ, Jason Baumann, and close-up magic with the wonderfully talented Kevin Kelly! There were also some games and prizes, a catered dinner from Barraco’s, and fabulous basket raffles!
The basket raffles included wonderful prizes from fabulous donors, including The Goodman Theatre, Wheel of Fortune, Paramount Theatre, Chicago White Sox, La Grange Theatre, Lock Chicago Escape Rooms, and Lynfred Winery, just to name a few!
2019
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
An 18-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. Now, twelve jurors are in the jury room to consider his fate. Each juror reveals his or her character during the deliberations. The jury has just heard the trial of a young delinquent accused of murdering his father. The judge has given the final instructions and sent them to the jury room to decide the defendant’s fate, stressing that the verdict of guilt or innocence must be unanimous either way. If they find the boy guilty, the sentence will be the electric chair. Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and suddenly they become twelve angry jurors.
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Directed by Carla O. Alcorn, TWELVE ANGRY JURORS features the acting talents of Maelee Richardson, Mike Bromberg, Odette Moore, Matthew F. Walsh, Gary Murphy, Raymond Hutchison, Anthony Pape, Larry Wenderski, Dawn Gmitro, Rex Nyquist, Luke Simone, Mary Ellen Sanchez, and Kevin K.C. Driscoll.
Assistant Director: Caitlin Saucedo
Stage Manager: Maelee M. Richardson
Lighting Design: Dale Hawes
Properties Manager: Joshua Dlouhy
Set Construction: John Wognum
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
Neil Simon’s classic comedy about mismatched roommates, THE ODD COUPLE, arguably his finest and funniest play, centers around two very different roommates... The uptight, neurotic neat freak, Felix Ungar, and his slovenly friend, Oscar Madison. Felix arrives at the weekly poker party depressed and out of sorts after being thrown out by his wife. Fearing Felix will try something desperate, Oscar, himself in the process of being divorced by his wife, invites Felix to move in with him. Within a few days, this mismatched pair is on the verge of mutual murder; Felix is frustrated by Oscar’s slovenliness, while Oscar is driven insane by Felix’s obsession with cleanliness. The original 1965 production received four Tony Awards, including Best Playwright for Mr. Simon. It's a can’t miss delight!
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Directed by Gina Lutvi, THE ODD COUPLE features the acting talents of Gary Charles Metz, Brian Walsh, Alex Lenkiewicz, Rhys Read, Larry Symanski, Peter Gately, Sierra Hawk Hilt, and Joanna Ziarko.
Assistant Director: Austin Lutvi
Stage Manager: Odette Moore
Lighting Design & Technical Director: Dale Hawes
Prop Design/Set Decoration: Jean Friend
Costume Design: Carmel DeStefano
Sound Design: Maelee Richardson
Producer: John Wognum
2020
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
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Come on down to Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Set in the time of really big hair, six women, true "steel magnolias" (southern belles who are flowery on the outside, but tough as steel on the inside) gather in Truvy's beauty shop for gossip, friendship, and support. Alternately hilarious and touching, STEEL MAGNOLIAS moves from the excitement of Shelby’s wedding, to sadness, as friends mourn her loss. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the women, but also draws on the underlying strength, and love, which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. "The funniest show to make you cry."
Directed by Caitlin Saucedo, STEEL MAGNOLIAS features the acting talents of Karyn Louise Doerfler, Nancy Brown, Jenny Cron Hogan, Odette Moore, Linda L. Timpa, and Carolyn Thompson Larsen.
Assistant Director: Andrew Brown
Stage Manager: Brian Baumann
Assistant Stage Manager: Jennifer Burnson
Lighting Design & Technical Director: Mike Kardas, Jr.
Prop Design/Set Decoration: Carla O. Alcorn
Costume Design: Wendy Richards
Sound Design: Andrew Brown
Producer: John Wognum
2022
April 1st - 9th, 2022
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
Galaxy Theater Company welcomes audiences back to the theatre with their festival of comedic one-act plays about the many facets of love!
SHAPES AND STANZAS
By Ken Preuss Directed by Joshua Dlouhy
Friends, Ronnie and Suzie, meet three times across sixty years, exploring poetry, geometry, friendship, romance, and other complicated things.
Featuring: Kristel Flynn and Matthew F. Walsh
IN THE CARDS
By Ward Kay Directed by Caitlin Saucedo
The top writing team at a greeting card company are quick-witted with rhymes and punchlines, but can they overcome being split up and transferred to e-cards? Will love help find a way to keep everyone laughing?
Featuring: Brian Baumann, Nancy Alvarez, Andrew Brown, Charlie Wimmer, and Kimberly Brumirski
A LOVELY DAY FOR A BOATING TRIP
By Lindsey Brown Directed by Carla O. Alcorn
The open water, a small rowboat, and a marriage on the brink. Just how far would you trust your spouse? Graham and Gloria both have their own ideas as to how to resolve their dilemma, and a summer afternoon on the ocean is where they each plan to carry them out.
Featuring: Jenny Hogan and Lewis R. Jones
FISH HAVE FEELINGS TOO
By Rosemary FrisinoToohey Directed by Maelee Fernandez
A rainy night in London, fender bender squabbles, and some aquarium-shaking news. A floppy tale of love and fish.
Featuring: Wina Shelley, Dawn Gmitro, Larry Wenderski, John Poole, Karishma Chouhan, and Sam Campos
Stage Manager: Odette Moore
Lighting Design/Technical Director: William Gmitro
Sound Design: Joshua Dlouhy
Lighting Assistant: Wayne Wendell
Set Design: John Wognum
Producer John Wognum
November 4th-13th, 2022
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM
Galaxy Theater Company proudly presents the first show of their 2022-2023 Season, the romantic comedy, O’BRIEN & O’BRIAN, written by local playwright John Enright.
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Darlene O'Brien is a young lawyer who has a few cases to her credit. To save some money, she's decided to share office space with her study partner, and one-time-fling, Alan O'Brian. Alan is settling in when Sam walks in with a pond problem at his vacation home. With the EPA on his back, he needs a good lawyer. It just so happens that Darlene has a contact, a professor with whom she had a relationship that had a rather abrupt ending. Brenda, the EPA lawyer, is looking for answers that have nothing to do with protecting the environment. Sam still has a mysterious pond and, not to mention, an on-again off-again Irish ex-wife named Maeve who is looking to file a counter suit for damages, as she is the permanent resident of the vacation home... and what's up with that pond? Why is it a problem? Well, it used to be a stream... it was all a stream!
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Directed by Nancy Alvarez starring Maelee M. Fernandez, Matthew F. Walsh, John Poole, Kimberly Brumirski, Dawn Gmitro
and Jennifer Burnson
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Assistant Director: Andrew Brown
Stage Manager: Brian Baumann
Lighting Design: Kathryn Manser
Set Design: John Wognum
2023
March 3rd-12th 2023
Galaxy Theater Company proudly presented their second show of their 2022-2023 Season, the classic murder mystery, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, penned with cruelty by master of the craft Agatha Christie, at the First Congregational Church of La Grange, located at 100 6th Avenue in La Grange!
In 1939, as Europe fears it may be drawn into war yet again, ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near England’s Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their hosts mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party is suddenly killed, the tension escalates as the survivors realize the murderer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again... and again...
The original book was described by The New York Times as “...utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.”
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Directed by Ryne Hanz starring Joseph Adlesick, Sara Bendel, Matthew Watsh, Nancy Alvarez, Mark Brewer, Rhys Read, Austin Lutvi,Craig Fisher, Konrad Galica, Lisa Medearis and Andrew Brown.
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Assistant Director and Stage Manager: Andrew Brown
Lighting Design: Ryne Hanz
Set Design: John Wognum
Sound Design: Brian Baumann
Lighting: Kate Manser
Producer: Caitlin Saucedo
May 12th-21st 2023
Galaxy Theater Company proudly presented their final show of their 2022-2023 Season, the hysterically funny LEND ME A TENOR!
The action is set in 1934 as Henry Saunders, the General Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is ready to welcome world-famous singer Tito Merelli to sing the starring role in Pagliacci. Alas, Tito arrives late, his tempestuous wife Maria has a fit of jealousy, and it remains to be seen whether Saunders’ mousy but determined assistant Max can save the day.
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Directed by Melanie Jones starring Jodie Brugler, Andrew Kleopfer, Odette Moore, Brandon Perez, Nicole Petrauskas, Wina Shelley, Matthew Walsh and Larry Wenderski.
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Assistant Director: Nancy Alvarez
Stage Manger: Andrew Brown
Lighting Design: Ryne Hanz
Set Design: John Wognum
Sound : Carla Alcorn
Lighting: Kate Manser
Assistnat Stage Managers: Ashley Hanz and Julie Thomas
Producer: Caitlin Saucedo
November 3-12,2023
Mortimer always knew that his family had a bit of a mad gene -- his brother believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt but his world is turned upside down when he realizes that his dear aunts have been poisoning lonely old men for years! When Mortimer’s maniacal brother, Jonathan. returns on the night that the aunts were planning to bury the newest victim, Mortimer must rally to help his aunts and protect his fiancé -- all while trying to keep his own sanity. as well.
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Directed by Nancy Alvarez and Andrew Brown
Starring Nancy Alvarez, Brian Baumann, Jennifer Burnson, Libby Correll, Ryne Hanz, Jenny Hogan, James Knapp, Chris Moreno, Dean Papadopoulos, Vincent Prisco, Mary Ellen Sanchez, Matthew Walsh, Larry Wenderski and John Wognum.
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Stage Manger: Ashley Hanz
Lighting Design: Ryne Hanz
Set Design: Richard Burnson
Lighting: Kate Manser
Producers: Caitlin Saucedo and John Wognum
Make up- Wina Shelley