“The Show Goes On!: 80 Seasons and Counting at Jennerstown’s Mountain Playhouse” is a 15-minute historical documentary film with more than 100 still and moving images and several interviews was produced by student researchers and producers from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
The film project arose from Dr. Paul Douglas Newman’s fall 2018 class “Historical Documentary Film and Filmmaking.” Students Norm Ballard, Ryan Olsavsky, Cole Seaman, Jonathan Van Dermark and Hastings Wagamon used the materials digitized by the team of students who researched and wrote a book about the Mountain Playhouse (Eighty Years at the Mountain Playhouse: Summer Stock Lives! – a 100-page book illustrated with 160 images) to research, write, storyboard, and edit their documentary.
Enjoy!