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ABOUT GREATER LAKES AREA PERFORMING ARTS (GLAPA) AND PEQUOT LAKES COMMUNITY THEATER (PLCT)The Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts (GLAPA) is a group dedicated to enriching local culture through performing arts. Since our inception, we have established a reputation of providing well-received, quality performances.
With performances set for each season, we find talent, and raise funds to underwrite programs. The GLAPA board is comprised of multi-community-based, volunteer members.
All of our performances are held in the Pequot Lakes High School Theater and tickets can be purchased by calling 218/568-9200.
We thank our sponsors for supporting the arts in our communities.- Central Lakes College Theater
- Echo/Journal
- Nisswa Tax Service
- Lakes Printing
- Breezy Point Resort
GLAPA mission statement:Provide high quality, affordable arts programming for the greater Brainerd lakes area. For tickets or more information call 218-568-9200
History
In 1983 a group of interested community members and community education personnel met to form the Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts . This group has been providing entertainment for the Lakes Area ever since. Greater Lakes Performing Arts (GLAPA) is responsible for setting a season of performances, soliciting season ticket sales, and raising funds to underwrite programs if necessary. GLAPA has an active membership of 120 plus season ticket holders who enjoy a theatre and arts season of visiting performers, touring theatre shows, and guest artists as well as the Pequot Lakes Community Theater programs.
Pequot Lakes Community Theater was established in 1984. It began with a variety type show called BITS OF BROADWAY which generated the seed money to produce subsequent shows. It has been active each year since, recently presenting two productions yearly which are part of the GLAPA theatre season . The fall show has traditionally been a musical and the spring show a non-musical production.
The past productions include: PLCT Production ListGLAPA Board
Current GLAPA Board Members:
- Kate Davis-parent liaison and media relations
- Ben Gordon-board member
- Heather Pearson-production development advisor
- Nancy Ryan-technical director
- Joell Tvedt-community education director
- Stephanie White-chair and marketing/public relations advisor
Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts (GLAPA) Board Structure
GLAPA meetings are held once a month. An agenda is organized by the GLAPA chairperson and the community education director. Agendas and minutes of the previous board minutes are emailed to members of the board. Members of the GLAPA Board include the director of community education, community theater board chairperson and interested members of the community. There is an acting chairperson.GLAPA Board Responsibilities1. Setting the performance season
2. Season Ticket Sales
3. Managing season performances
4. Fund Raising
5. Overseeing Community Theater Production BoardVisit our Facebook page: Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts -
Auditions for the next production by Pequot Lakes Community Theatre, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar winning comedy You Can’t Take it With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, August 10th and 11th, between 6 and 9 PM, in the Pequot Lakes High School Theater.
Auditions will consist of readings from the script. The script is available online at you can’t take it with you script.
All roles are available.
The director is Michael Sander. Any questions can be addressed to him at sandwood@uslink.net.
The play, set in 1936, concerns the Sycamore family, a large and loving group of eccentrics who follow their own impulses and march to very different drummers. These are the characters, in order of appearance:
Penny Sycamore: A supportive mother who keeps changing career paths according to the whims of chance. Possible age range (PAR): 40-60.
Essie: Penny’s daughter, so determined to be a dancer that she literally dances through life. PAR: 15-25.
Rheba: The family cook, kind of sassy but practically a family member. PAR: open.
Paul Sycamore: Penny’s husband, not visibly employed, spends all his time in the basement creating fireworks. PAT: 40-60.
Mr. De Pinna: Came to the house 15 years before to deliver ice and never left. Works with Paul. PAR: 50- 70,
Ed Carmichael: Essie’s husband. Writes poetry, plays the xylophone. PAR: 20-30.
Donald: Rheba’s boyfriend, hustles to help out, practically a family member. PAR: open.
Martin Vanderhof: Grandpa, Penny’s father, stopped working 35 years ago, has a unique philosophy of life. PAR: 60-80.
Alice Sycamore: The one “conventional” family member, loves all the others and is in love with her boss’s son. PAR: 20-35.
Mr. Henderson: FBI agent, very little patience. PAR: open.
Tony Kirby: The abovementioned boss’s son, equally in love with Alice. PAR: 25-40.
Bolus Kolenkhov: Essie’s ballet teacher, a bombastic Russian. PAR: 40-60.
Gay Wellington: An inebriated actress brought home by Penny to read a script. Age: open.
Mr. Kirby: Tony’s father, stuffy, uptight, with a few secrets of his own. PAR: 50-70.
Mrs. Kirby: Tony’s mother, well aware of her importance in society. PAR: 50-70.
Two men or women: Federal agents. PAR: open.
Olga: Russian Grand Duchess in exile, fallen on hard times but dealing with it gracefully. PAR: 40 and up.
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Newsies! Summer of 2022
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Summer 2021
Jane Eyre Winter 2020
She Loves Me Fall 2016
A Year with Frog and Toad Summer 2016
Disney's Beauty and the Beast Fall 2015
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Summer 2015
The Game's Afoot Winter 2015
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Winter 2013
Guys and Dolls Fall 2012
The 1940's Radio Hour Fall 2011
Alone Together Winter 2007
The Boyfriend Fall 2005
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2022-2023 Season
You Can't Take It With You
Fall 2022
7:30 p.m. on October 7, 8, 14 and 15
2 p.m. on October 9 and 16
Auditions: August 10 and 11, 6-9 p.m.
Alice is one of the Vanderhof family, a collection of erratic (yet lovable) incompetents. Tony comes from a dignified banking family. Hilarity ensues as the two families meet in a disastrous dinner party fiasco!
The Great Gatsby
Winter 2023
7 p.m. on February 17, 18, 24, and 25
2 p.m on February 19 and 26
The breathtaking glamour of the Jazz Age comes to the stage in Simon Levy's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel. Set in New York, it tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
SHREK, the Musical!
Summer 2023
6:30 p.m. on July 14 and 21
2 p.m. on July 15, 16, 22, and 23
"Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek..." And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue.
GLAPA / PLCT 2021-2022 SEASON
RECOMMENDED READING FOR GIRLS
Amy Saunders already has a lot on her mind when she arrives at her childhood home. Reeling from a recent layoff and a broken heart, she is staying to help her mother through a round of chemo. So when Anne of Green Gables inexplicably shows up, it may well be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Somehow, all the heroines from Amy’s favorite childhood novels have appeared in her house. To make it even more perplexing, her sister Jackie can see them too. Will the three Saunders women be able to become the heroines of their own stories?Performances:
F | Feb 11 | 7:30 PMSa | Feb 12 | 7:30 PM
Su | Feb 13 | 2:00 PM
HEARTLAND SYMPHONY
Heartland Symphony Orchestra is a 50-piece volunteer, nonprofit, community orchastra located in central Minnesota. Made up of muscians from amateurs to professionals, the group performs concerts each season around the Brainerd Lakes Area.Performances:
F | Ap 1| 7:30 PM
LEGACY CHORALE
Founded in 2002 in the Brainerd Lakes Area, The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota is a multi-community choir promoting creativity and imagination in the communities it serves by delivering beauty and joy through choral music. We hope you will come to our next performance, and we invite you to audition to sing with us.Performances:
F | Ap 29 | 7:30 PM
NEWSIES
Based on the 1992 Disney film, Newsies is the tale of newsboy Jack Kelly, who dreams of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies his army of newsies to strike.Performances:
Th | July 14 | 6:30 PMF | July 15 | 6:30 PM
Sa | July 16 | 2:00 PM
Su | July 17 | 2:00 PM
F | July 22 | 6:30PM
Sa | July 23 | 2:00 PM
Su | July 24 | 2:00 PM
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Individual show prices:
Adults $14 / Seniors (60+) $12 / Youth (18U) $10
Ticket Policies
1. Season ticket holders have reserved seating specific for each show.
2. Tickets may be purchased in advance: Payment is required at time of reservation
- At the Community Education Office: 30805 Olson Street, Pequot Lakes (enter door 4 of the High School)
- Call the Community Education office 218-568-9200
- Online: GLAPA Online Ticket Sales (you will be able to view the seating chart and reserve your seat(s)).
3. Tickets are also available at the door the night of the performance starting 1 (one) hour prior to performance start time.
4. Door to ticket counter opens 1 (one) hour prior to show, doors to theater open ½ hour before performances.
5. There is a “no refund” policy on purchased tickets.
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GET INVOLVED .....
There are so many ways to be involved in the Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts! We want you!
We are always looking for volunteers, whether they serve on the GLAPA or theatre board with monthly meetings or want to work in some other way. Listed below are a few ways to volunteer.
- Ticket sales
- Usher
- Hosting the performers on their performance dates
- Painting
- Acting
- Sewing
- Collecting props for a production
- Technical Assisting and Directing
- Mailings
- Sponsorship Sales
- Grant Writing
- Program Planning
- Directors
- Vocal Directors
- Musicians
- Poster Delivery
- Hair Styling
- Costuming
Chances are we have a job for you and you would be giving back to the arts by volunteering. Call 218/568-9200 or email: glapa@isd186.org
