Event

Dad's Dance

ATTENTION The 2pm matinee for Sunday 3/27 is SOLD OUT.

PLEASE NOTE! Due to the Coronavirus and its variants, the original performance date for the show have been postponed. New dates are now March 18, 19, 25, 26 and 27. Any tickets already purchased will be changed to the corresponding new performance dates (example: 1st Friday of old dates to first Friday of new dates). If you have any questions, please call.

Brendan Carter is a doting Dad who has watched his daughter Emma nurture her passion for dance from a very young age to the very edge of adulthood. In her Senior Year, he decides to take a major leap and join the choreographed Dads Dance; an annual event that is always the highlight of the big end-of-year recital. Its there that Brendan falls into the good graces - or clutches - of a ragtag group of fellow parents who put all sense of dignity aside to put on a show for the audience and a smile on their childrens faces - no matter the toll to their two left feet and equally fragile pride. And in the lead-up to the big event, Brendan begins to learn a lot about the healing power of community.

'Dads Dance' is a contemporary comedy-drama about the indelible bonds that sometimes form between strangers on this grand and surprising stage of life - one where comedy and poignancy carry equal weight - and where Brendan begins to understand that true wealth is measured not in the treasures we keep but the memories we make.

Gateway Players Theatre of Southbridge presents "Dads Dance, by local playwright Ed Humphries. This comedy will be directed by Eric Hart,and produced by Ed Humphries. The cast includes Mikey Dearn, Therasa Simpson, Patrick Bracken, Stephen Jean, Mary Darling, Prreeti Tiwari, Lynn Boucher, and Ed Humphries. Stage Manager is Diane Servant, Choreographer is Valerie Langlais, and Technical Director is David Corkum.