Community Players

On behalf of the Play Reading Committee and the Board of Governors at Community Players, we'd like to congratulate you and thank you for your willingness to make our 2018-2019 season a great one! Below is the list of directors and producers for our 96th Season: Peter and the Star Catcher Director: Brian Artman Producer: John Lieder (Performances: September 7-9 & 14-16, 2018) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Director: Cristen Monson Producer: TBA (Performances: November 2-4, 9-11 & 16-18, 2018) Little Women Director: Marcia Weiss Co-Producers: Chris Terven, Billy Blue (Performances: January 11-13 & 18-20, 2019) The Wedding Singer Director: Brett Cottone Producer: Bridgette Richard (Performances: March 8-10, 15-17 & 22-24, 2019) A Few Good Men Director: Jeff Ready Producer: Darlene Lloyd (Performances: May 3-5 & 10-12, 2019) The Addams Family Director: Samantha Smith  Producer: Erica O’Neil (Performances: July 12-14, 18-21 & 25-28, 2019)

Thanks to everyone who auditioned for our second play of the 94th season, The 39 Steps! Richard Hannay - Jeff Ready Annabelle/Margaret/Pamela - Maggie O'Brien Clown - Brian Artman Clown - Alex Knightwright Announcer/Radio man - Bruce Parrish

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.

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.