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
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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!
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by Arthur Miller
Auditions: July 17 & 18, 2017
Preview: August 31, 2017
Performances: September
1-3 & 8-10, 2017
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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
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by Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield
Auditions: November 13 & 14, 2017
Preview: January 11, 2018
Performances: January
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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
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by Tracy Letts
Auditions: March 19 & 20, 2018
Preview: May 3, 2018
Performances: May
4-6 & 11-13, 2018
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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
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All My Sons
A gripping timeless classic by a master playwright.
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