Community Players

[action link="https://communityplayers.org/staff" link_text="Apply Now"]Join a staff for next season! We Need You![/action] [one_third] by Marc Camoletti Translated by Beverly Cross Revised by Francis Evans Auditions: July 25 & 26, 2016 Preview: September 1, 2016 Performances: September 2-4 & 9-11, 2016 [/one_third][one_third] Music and Lyrics by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez Book by Jeff Whitty Auditions: September 12-14, 2016 Preview: November 3, 2016 Performances: November 4-6, 11-13 & 18-20, 2016 [/one_third][one_third_last] by Tennessee Williams Auditions: November 14 & 15, 2016 Preview: January 13, 2017 Performances: January 13-15 & 20-22, 2017[/one_third_last] [one_third] Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Arthur Laurents Auditions: January 23-25, 2017 Preview: March 9, 2017 Performances: March 10-12, 17-19 & 24-26, 2017 [/one_third][one_third] by Patrick Barlow Auditions: March 27 & 28, 2017 Preview: May 4, 2017 Performances: May 5-7 & 12-14, 2017 [/one_third][one_third_last] Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater Book by Doug Wright Auditions: May 15-17, 2017 Preview: July 6, 2017 Performances: July 7-9, 13-16 & 20-23, 2017 [/one_third_last]

Congratulations to the cast and thank you to everyone who came out to audition. Seymour - Chris Terven Audrey - Aimee Kerber Mushnick - Scott Myers Orin - Alex Knightwright Crystal - Marita Landreth Ronnette - Barbara Bouboutsis Chiffon - Fania Bourn Plant voice - George Jackson III Plant puppeteer - Joe McCauley Ensemble - Wendi Ayers Ensemble - Darlene LLoyd Ensemble - Meghan McGuire Ensemble - Bruce Parrish Ensemble - Janel Scott Ensemble - Erica Sommers Ensemble - Liam Wheeler

Players Kicks Off 2016 with Arthur Miller’s The Crucible by Bob McLaughlin and John Lieder Capping off the 2015 celebration of Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday, Community Players is presenting his 1953 drama of the Salem witch trials, The Crucible. Miller made use of the 1692 witch hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts—in which seemingly possessed young girls accused various adults of being the cause of their torments—as an allegory for the 1950s communist witch hunts. Miller himself was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about his political past, and he was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to name others he knew to have attended Communist Party meetings. In this he contrasted himself with his friend and director of Death of a Salesman Elia Kazan, who had named names, effectively ending the careers of actors Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, as well as playwright Clifford Odets, while preserving his own.

Players Kicks Off 2016 with Arthur Miller’s The Crucible by Bob McLaughlin and John Lieder Capping off the 2015 celebration of Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday, Community Players is presenting his 1953 drama of the Salem witch trials, The Crucible. Miller made use of the 1692 witch hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts—in which seemingly possessed young girls accused various adults of being the cause of their torments—as an allegory for the 1950s communist witch hunts. Miller himself was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about his political past, and he was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to name others he knew to have attended Communist Party meetings. In this he contrasted himself with his friend and director of Death of a Salesman Elia Kazan, who had named names, effectively ending the careers of actors Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, as well as playwright Clifford Odets, while preserving his own.