OCVTS GPAA Winter 2025 Showcases

Thursday, December 18, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Grunin Center - Main Stage
1 College Drive, Toms River, NJ 08754

Vocal Showcase

An Evening of Operetta…and Then Some: The Upperclassmen Winter Vocal Showcase

The Junior and Senior vocalists present An Evening of Operetta…and Then Some! The Vocal Chorale and Ensemble, under the direction Mrs. Kenny, kicks off the festivities with a Holiday prelude consisting of traditional holiday choral pieces, as well some new favorites.

For the first act, the vocalists will be performing selections from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore. The opera is a parody of the stock melodrama: the villain who carries off the maiden; the priggishly good-mannered poor-but-virtuous-heroine; the hero in disguise, and his faithful old retainer who dreams of their former glory days; the snake in the grass who claims to be following his heart; the wild, mad girl; the swagger of fire-eating patriotism; ghosts coming to life to enforce a curse; and so forth. But as one critic noted, Gilbert turns the moral absolutes of melodrama upside down: Good becomes bad, bad becomes good, and heroes take the easy way out.

For the second act, the vocalists will be performing holiday and musical theater favorites.