ABOUT GBC
Welcome to Great Basin College!
Great Basin College values you! Valuing what we have in common and our differences means we will foster a college climate of mutual trust, tolerance, informed discourse and always seek to promote GBC as a "safe space" to explore new ideas and perspectives with opportunities for you to grow, learn and be successful in a friendly, supportive campus environment. GBC enriches people's lives by providing student-centered, post-secondary education to rural Nevada. GBC students enjoy outstanding academic programs, smaller class sizes, and excellent faculty who really care about our students. We are GBC!
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For High School Students
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GBC ONLINE
Great Basin College is "The Gold Standard in the Silver State" when it comes to long-distance education and online education delivery. GBC offers hundreds of classes and a diverse array of certificate and degree programs fully online and fully affordable!
COMMUNITY
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
INFORMATION
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
John Patrick Rice Ph.D. Director of Theatre Great Basin College Phone: 775.327.2249 john.rice@gbcnv.edu
Great Basin College Theatre
Anything Goes! at GBC
Great Basin College Theatre will present the classic Broadway hit Anything Goes!, March 15-18. Performances will begin at 7:30 PM Tuesday through Friday, with a 2:00 PM Saturday matinee. There will be no evening performance on Saturday.
Anything Goes!, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, takes place aboard an ocean liner bound from London to New York. It is a mad-cap caper story of the stow-away Billy Crocker who is in love with the heiress Hope Harcourt. Add in the nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and America’s 13th Most Wanted Criminal, Moonface Martin, and the whole thing becomes the perfect recipe for an evening of classic Broadway music and comedy.
Audiences will enjoy performances by some of their favorite GBC and Elko actors. New-comer Amy Jacques-Jones takes a star turn as Reno Sweeney and an Elko favorite, Brent Goulding will bring Billy Crocker to life. Ethan Hawkley plays Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, and Kristin Gaul plays the heiress, Hope Harcourt.
C.J. Anderson, Halley Bonafide, Laura Cdebaca, Joe Depalma, Clare Dishong, Richard Fericks, Tye Fonger, Sailor Hawes, Katie Hayford, Marianne McKown, Meghan Micheli, Treena Parker, Izaak Plunkett, Shauna Plunkett, Triston Price, Dominic Santos and Jack Tabor round out the cast.
The show will feature a full, live orchestra conducted by Walt Lovell.
The production is directed by John Patrick Rice, vocal music direction by Gail Mierins, and choreography by Laura Cdebaca.
Admission is $20, $15 for students and senior citizens. Advance tickets sales begin on February 27 and are available in the GBC Business Office in Berg Hall.
For further information email Rice at john.rice@gbcnv.edu.
Who We Are and What We Do!
The Great Basin College Theater has been transforming the American Theatre Experience since 1996. As part of the Great Basin College Arts and Letters Department, students and faculty join together for enlightened experiences of fine arts, humanities, English, foreign language and communication. The programs are critical components of every academic and training degree program offered by the college.
GBC Theatre offers courses in acting, oral interpretation, stage voice, movement for the stage, theatre technology, dramatic analysis and more. Special Topic courses are added to the schedule regularly, generally taking advantage of the specific skills GBC Theatre’s many guest artists and instructors can provide. In the past, courses in playwrighting, armature, effects makeup, Suzuki Movement Training, stage combat and comedy improv have been offered.
As the mission of Great Basin College has expanded, so has its reach. The college service area now includes more than half of Nevada’s seventeen counties, covers 80% of Nevada’s geographical area, and serves five percent of the state’s total population. It’s a big state, and Great Basin College intends to educate it. Using state of the art distance learning technologies, students in even the furthest reaches of Nevada will have equitable access to the opportunities higher education has been providing to their urban counterparts for decades. It requires fierce commitment from the college and creates a tremendous opportunity for the entire state of Nevada.
GBC theatre now offers almost all of its courses using distance-learning technologies. By combining traditional theatre teaching techniques with advanced technologies, students are accessing a learning experience with seasoned theatre professionals that heretofore had not even been conceived. And, what’s more, they are being prepared for the theatre of today. Added to other fine arts and humanities courses already offered with distance technologies, and it is easy understand why Great Basin College is recognized as one of the most efficient and innovative colleges in the state.
For More Information Contact
John Patrick Rice Ph.D.
Director of Theatre
Great Basin College
Phone: 775.327.2249
john.rice@gbcnv.edu
Why Great Basin College
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
