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Cirque de Paris and Carnival at MAD, May 16-24

Cirque de Paris and Carnival at MAD, May 16-24

MAD presents the 2025 Spring Show:
Cirque De Paris, a Musical Dream, and Carnival
Music and Lyrics by Bob Marrill
Book by Michael Stewart
Based on Material by Helen Deutsch

Director: Richard Richardson
Music Director: Chris Wells
Producer: Linda Pattison

May 16, 17, 23 & 24, 2025, at the Goddard Recreation Center
Doors open at 7:15pm, show begins at 7:30pm
If you need a badge prior to entering the Center, please arrive at the badging office by 6:45pm

Location: Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

Featuring a tribute to Paris by our Moulin Rouge Cabaret, followed by scenes and songs from the musical “Carnival” by our Cirque de Paris players.

Audience members without NASA employee badges will need to purchase their tickets by Wednesday (5/14 for weekend 1 and 5/21 for weekend 2) to get special event badges (to be picked up at the NASA badging office prior to coming on Center for the show)

For tickets click here.

MAD Holiday Chorus Concert, Dec 18

MAD Holiday Chorus Concert, Dec 18

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club presents:
2023 Holiday Chorus Concert

Monday, December 18, 2023 at 11:30am

Location: Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

MAD presents a Holiday Concert on Monday, December 18 at 11:30 a.m. in the GSFC Visitor Center. Admission is $3 payable at the door with free cookies! Our director is Chris Wells and our accompanist is Susan Breon. Come to support our twenty-four chorus members and soloists and hear beautiful music to get you in the holiday mood! No badge is required for Visitor Center entry so we expect a large turnout of MAD members and guests. Turn into the new GSFC main gate on Icesat Road then take the first left and go straight to the Visitor Center on your right. Call Producer Kathy Nieman 301-805-4286 for further information.

Tickets: $3 at the door. Click here.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at MAD, Oct 26-Nov 11

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at MAD, Oct 26-Nov 11

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club (MAD Productions) presents:
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton
Director – Katrina Jackson
​Producer – Christine Smit
​Music Director – Chris Wells

Performances October 26 to November 11, 2018
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm

On Thursday, November 1 the show starts at 6pm and requires a NASA badge or badged escort.

Location: Barney & Bea (GEWA) Recreation Center, Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

Ticket prices
Kids (12 and under, any night): $18
Reduced adult price (October 26, 27, 28 / November 1, 8): $22
Full adult price (November 2, 3, 4 / 9, 10, 11): $24
There is an additional $1 processing fee for each ticket.

For tickets click here.

Auditions for Beauty and the Beast at MAD, Jul 16-17

Auditions for Beauty and the Beast at MAD, Jul 16-17

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club (MAD Productions) announces auditions for
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Director – Katrina Jackson
​Producer – Christine Smit
​Music Director – Chris Wells

Auditions will be July 16 & 17, 2018

Click here for audition announcement. MAD is a club and there are restrictions on auditions by non-members. You must read the audition announcement.

The audition location is announced here.

Performances will be October 26 to November 11, 2018

Performance location: Barney & Bea (GEWA) Recreation Center, Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Greenbelt Arts Center, May 18-Jun 9

Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Greenbelt Arts Center, May 18-Jun 9

Return to the Forbidden Planet
Directed by Jeff Lesniak
Music directed by Chris Wells
Choreography by Rikki Howie Lacewell

May 18 – June 9, 2018

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Shakespeare’s forgotten rock and roll masterpiece! Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D’Illyria where a sci-fi version of The Tempest set to rock and roll golden oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by the sinister scientist Dr Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a faithful robot on roller skates, and an uncontrollable monster, the product of Prospero’s Id, whose tentacles penetrate the spacecraft. Book by Bob Carlton, directed by Jeffery Lesniak, choreographed by Rikki Howie Lacewell.

Ticket prices: $25 General Admission, $22 Students/Seniors/Military, $14 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy tickets here.