GCHS Presents The Diary of Anne Frank

Gabe Mollica, who plays Anne's father Otto; Caitlin Crowley, who plays Miep Gies, an office worker who helped maintain the group's hiding place; and Nolan Wilder, who plays Mr. Kraler, an associate of Mr. Frank and another of the family's protectors.

On November 9th and November 10th, Garden City High School will present The Diary of Anne Frank - a play based on the diary kept by Anne who, along with her family, was hidden from Nazi soldiers in a small factory annex in Den-mark during World War II. The Franks, a Jewish family, were in hiding to prevent the German soldiers from relocating them to a concentration camp. This dramatization by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett focuses on the daily struggle of this girl and her family and how they were affected by the tension surrounding them.

The Garden City High School cast has been preparing for their challenging roles since early September. The students involved in the production have been researching their characters so the can understand how the Franks and the other brave people portrayed in the play survived as long as they did in the annex.

Anna Morreale, who plays Anne Frank, the teenager who kept a diary while she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years in several rooms above a warehouse in Amsterdam during World War II.

Tickets for The Diary of Anne Frank are $10 for general admission and $8 for students. To purchase tickets or for information on group rates, please call (516) 478-2531. Curtain time is 8 p.m. in the Inez Spiers Auditorium.