Northport, Maine - Ruth Gelsinger, Artistic Director, and the Board of Directors of the Northport Music Theater are pleased to announce the theater’s acceptance as a public charity under section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS code. The summer musical theater was founded by John and Ruth Gelsinger in 2007 and features contemporary American musical theater and a day camps program that teaches kids musical theater at all grade levels.
The theater is located in Northport on Route 1 and seats 128 people and was an industrial machinery repair shop in the 1960’s and 70’s and later was used as a furniture repair shop. The stage is a modified thrust design and the 1940’s vintage and refurbished seats were originally from a theater in Amherst, Mass.
The first production, The Musical of Musicals! (The Musicals), was presented in June of 2007. Other shows since then include Six Women with Brain Death or Expiring Minds Want to Know, Fame Takes A Holiday, Golf!The Musical, Closer Than Ever, Five Course Love, The Big Bang, The Bikinis, Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class, and Funny Girl. Camp shows presented since 2008 by students include Jungle Book, 101 Dalmations, Attack of the Killer Grasshoppers, Mulan Junior, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Rent, Into the Woods, and Fairy Tale Dreams, among others.
The Board of Directors comprises seven members; Annie Watson, President of the Board , a resident of Lincolnville, John and Ruth Gelsinger from Northport, Blair and Beanie Einstein from Bayside, Nancy Hauswald of Belfast and Richard Tourigny, of Stockton Springs.
To learn more about Northport Music Theater’s programs and to make a donation on the support page, please visit the theater’s website, northportmusictheater.com.
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