Community Players

As children, we are often asked what we want to be when we grow up. Our youth and reckless abandon lead us to dream of a princess or an astronaut. As we grow up our dreams become more focused on the world, we want to create for ourselves and others. When I was young, I remember watching Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and thinking “I want to do that!”. At that point in time, I did not know what “that” was. As you might have guessed, "that" was theatre, and performing, and singing, and dancing, and bringing a story to life. When I was asked "what do you want to be when you grow up?", my answer never changed.

When I was given the task of bringing Jesus Christ Superstar to the stage I knew it needed to be something people would not forget. While my answer never changed, the world we are living in certainly has. The concept came from the world of the last few years. Taking the 70's rock music of the show and focusing on political movements at the same time such as the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ+, Women's Rights, and even Watergate it shows that we are not living so far from that time in the world we are going through today. For this production, we are going past today and what we know, to a time in the not-so-distant future, dystopian and post-apocalyptic. If you leave with a new perspective on theatre, yourself, or the world, then I have done my job.