Announcing CPT Summer Camp 2017

Auditions: May 21, 2017 @ 4:00pm Performances: June 24 & 25, 2017 @ 2:00pm & 5:00pm Join us for our second production under our new Community Players Summer Camp banner, featuring performers entering 5th to 8th grade. Auditions will be held on Sunday, May 21 beginning at 4pm at Community Players Theatre, 201 Robinhood Lane in Bloomington. There is no sign up for audition times. Camp will run Tuesdays and Thursdays June 1st-22nd AND Friday June 23 from 1:00-5:00pm. Students planning to audition must be entering grades 5-8 during the 2017-2018 school year.  Those auditioning will be expected to sing 18-24 bars of a song of their choice. You are required to bring a copy of your music for the accompanist.
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Preview: West Side Story

Players Leap into West Side Story by Bob McLaughlin and John Lieder Community Players’ first musical of 2017 is the legendary West Side Story. The musical adapts Romeo and Juliet into a contemporary setting where white and Puerto Rican street gangs—the Jets and the Sharks—feud, and Tony and Maria try to transcend the bloodshed with their love story. Director/choreographer Jerome Robbins, composer Leonard Bernstein, and playwright Arthur Laurents first had the idea of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet in the late 1940s. Originally, they had planned for lovers to be a Jewish boy and a Catholic girl, but the more they worked on it, the more it seemed like a warmed-over Abie’s Irish Rose, so the project was abandoned. Flash forward a few years to a Hollywood hotel swimming pool where Bernstein and Laurents, sunning themselves, read a story about New York street gangs.
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Join a show staff for the 2017-2018 season! Due March 31st

[action link="https://docs.google.com/a/communityplayers.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfohn10XWEnykMGo3AtQJemLP8DTumuc-P0FKiNsthGtrdVMw/viewform?c=0&w=1" link_text="Apply"]2017-2018 Staff Application - Due March 31st[/action]   As Community Players prepares to begin our 95th season, we take great pleasure in extending an invitation to you to become a part of this continuing tradition. We will shortly begin assembling production staffs for the 2017-2018 season and hope that you will consider applying for one of these positions. The shows of the 95th season include: All My Sons - Play - Performances: September 1-3 & 8-10, 2017 Sister Act - Musical - Performances: November 3-5, 10-12 & 17-19, 2017 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - Play - Performances: January 12-14 & 19-21, 2018 Into The Woods - Musical - Performances: March 9-11, 16-18 & 23-25, 2018 August: Osage County - Play - Performances: May 4-6 & 11-13, 2018 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Musical - Performances: July 6-8, 12-15 & 19-22, 2018 Staff Positions for these shows include: Producer Director Assistant Director Music Director* Choreographer* Set Design Set Construction Lights Sound Costumes Props Stage Manager Set Crew House Manager * denotes a position only needed for Musicals Click HERE to apply for a staff position in a show of our upcoming season.
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Announcing our 2017-2018 Season!

[one_third] by Arthur Miller Auditions: July 17 & 18, 2017 Preview: August 31, 2017 Performances: September 1-3 & 8-10, 2017 [/one_third][one_third] Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Glenn Slate Book by Bill & Cheri Steinkellner with additional material by Douglas Carter Beane Auditions: September 11-13, 2017 Preview: November 2, 2017 Performances: November 3-5, 10-12 & 17-19, 2017 [/one_third][one_third_last] by Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield Auditions: November 13 & 14, 2017 Preview: January 11, 2018 Performances: January 12-14 & 19-21, 2018[/one_third_last] [one_third] Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine Auditions: January 22-24, 2018 Preview: March 8, 2018 Performances: March 9-11, 16-18 & 23-25, 2018 [/one_third][one_third] by Tracy Letts Auditions: March 19 & 20, 2018 Preview: May 3, 2018 Performances: May 4-6 & 11-13, 2018 [/one_third][one_third_last] Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Tim Rice Auditions: May 14-16, 2018 Preview: July 5, 2018 Performances: July 6-8, 12-15 & 20-22, 2018 [/one_third_last] All My Sons A gripping timeless classic by a master playwright.
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