O-G alum returns to direct dinner theater
OTTAWA — A preferred Ottawa-Glandorf custom is returning after a two-yr hiatus, directed by an O-G alum who done in the popular meal theater productions 20 years back.
For a few times this weekend, O-G choir college students will sing, dance and provide supper through the high school’s once-a-year supper theater manufacturing.
The preferred O-G custom was founded two a long time ago by previous choir director Ted Ellerbrock, who retired in 2019, to increase dollars for the new music section.
Rachel Gibson was 1 of the very first students to conduct in the supper theater productions, which started a single year prior to she started her freshman year.
She’s now directing the output 27 decades afterwards, owning lately started out functioning as the large school’s choir director right after 10 yrs of teaching in Ohio, Ga and the Chicago space.
“It’s appear total circle,” claimed Gibson, who graduated from O-G in 1999.
The productions have grown sizeable due to the fact Gibson was in substantial university. The application was continue to in its infancy, held in the school’s multi-reason space for a lesser audience.
Currently, Gibson’s students will accomplish a assortment of traditional and fashionable hits in the O-G gymnasium, joined by eight graders from Ottawa and Glandorf Elementary educational facilities.
The proceeds profit the O-G choir boosters, which purchases all the things from new risers and robes to paying out registration charges for college students who want to enter ensemble contests.
This year’s topic is Hometown Favorites, a tribute to the previous.
But the creation is also a tribute to currently being collectively once again, as a lot of of the students performing this weekend ended up not able to take part in a ordinary dinner theater for the previous two a long time simply because of the pandemic.
“It’s nice to carry that back and enable the kids have all those ordeals that I experienced too,” Gibson explained.
Choir director Rachel Gibson potential customers college students by way of an in-school rehearsal on Thursday.
Ottawa-Glandorf choir students are making ready for their to start with important supper theater creation in two years. The preferred software, which was halted in 2020 and scaled back again in 2021 because of to the pandemic, will debut Friday night.
Ottawa-Glandorf alum Rachel Gibson is returning to her roots as the school’s new choir director. Gibson will direct the O-G meal theater output this weekend, 23 several years just after she executed in the concert as a scholar.