Trust Your Gut Productions to Present Winter Season of New Stage Works at in Downtown Gloversville and Beyond

Professional Gloversville-based production company, Trust Your Gut Productions, is presenting a winter season of new works including murder mysteries, cabarets, and new musicals at Downtown Gloversville’s Shoeleather Express “ED Center” (31 Spring Street, Gloversville) and beyond.

From January through March, TYGP will be headquartered at Shoeleather Express’ ED Center (31 Spring Street, Gloversville).  Elaine Mikenas and Dennis Viscanti, professional square-dance callers and owners of the building, generously offered their space to the production company during their off-site program in Florida in an effort to keep the building alive during the winter months.  Their renovated building, a former church, features a beautiful dance hall/performance space, spacious lobby, and warm common room as well as artist dorms for overnighters.  TYGP and SE are very excited to test the space out in new ways and expand both organizations’ clientèle.

This winter, TYGP will use the Shoeleather Express’ ED Center to present six original works.

January

January will see two murder mysteries come to life a revival of The Carbonara Wedding Murder (TYGP’s hit Italian-American wedding comedy) with reconceived staging for this former-church venue, and the World-Premiere of Finals, Girls!, a 1980’s girls’ sleep-over murder mystery that will make use of “The Big Comfy Couch”, which, after a 14 year run on children’s television, has found a permanent home at Shoeleather Express.  Finals, Girls! will also feature a rotating cast of local celebrities in the role of “Grandpa” in an effort to unite the community through laughter, theatre, and mystery.

February

February will bring two original cabarets to the community; a revised, Vegas-style Valentine’s cabaret, Love All-Ways, which features popular love songs from all eras, replete with TYGP’s unique brand of complex vocal harmonies.  Love… will also be presented as a fundraiser at the Johnstown Moose Lodge and for Valentine’s date night at the Kingsboro Golf Club.  Closing out February, TYGP is launching Songs By Us, a cabaret/showcase of original songs from original works by members of TYGP.  The setlist will include original songs by Michael Maricondi, Alyssa Rizzo, Ryan Spilken, Frank “deVer” Pullen, Sonny Duross, Raphael Cohen, Lillian Nevins, and more, with live band.

March

March will bring two brand new, original musicals to the stage:  The Ledge, a new musical by Raphael Cohen, which tells the stories of Roy and Aurora, two young adults who must deal with the demons of their pasts to move on.  Featuring a rich, studied score and book that moves effortlessly from side-splitting comedy to heartfelt drama and pathos, The Ledge will be presented in a script-in-hand workshop production.  The demo cast recording featuring several songs from the score is also available on TYGP’S YouTube and SoundCloud channels.  Closing out their winter season, TYGP is presenting a revised “version 2.0 workshop” of Picture of David, which was first produced by TYGP at The Glove Theatre in 2023. This new-and-improved version of …David includes revised book and lyrics by Alyssa Rizzo and Michael Maricondi with an expanded score by Rizzo.  TYGP hopes that these two musicals will find long lives in the capital region and beyond through their careful development and support.

March will also see enrollment open for TYGP’S 6th annual Summer Academy, a FREE four week-long conservatory-style arts day camp which offers students (lovingly referred to as “Rising Stars”) professional-level training in acting, singing, dancing, playwriting, music composition, technical theatre, stage management, costume and set design, audition preparedness, and more as they endeavor to create, produce, and perform their own, original adaptation of a piece of world literature.  2026’s Academy iteration will see the Rising Stars adapt The Velveteen Rabbit, for presentation in Gloversville’s Trail Station Park.  The on-going program is a collaboration between TYGP, the Gloversville Recreation Commission, and the Gloversville Public Library.

2025 season featured sold-out performances

TYGP’s 2025 season featured sold-out performances of four original comedic murder mysteries (Pageant Peril, The Carbonara Wedding Murder, Murder at the Biergarten, and Murder Under the Mistletoe), original cabarets (Radio Rewind and Stardust: Celebrating the Great American Songbook), as well as youth-centric programing including their 6th annual Summer Academy (All That Glitters) and their third Prevention in Act-ion, a collaboration with the Glove City Youth Coalition.  “We are so proud of our collective achievements this past year,” said Co-Founder and Creative Director, Michael Maricondi, “to go from such uncertainty of our future at the beginning of 2025 to being welcomed with open arms by the community, making true and lasting partnerships with so many arts, cultural, and community organizations, to being invited to have a home for the winter (a pipe dream for many theatre companies)—we are truly ‘booked and blessed’!”  Maricondi and the entire TYGP Family invite you all to become “A Part of the Art” this winter—and beyond!

For more information on Trust Your Gut Productions, visit www.trustyourgutproductions.org.  For more in-depth show information and to purchase tickets, visit https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/ffS2XgQ/tygpboxoffice.