Community Players

Under the guidance of their beloved mother, the four young March sisters—tempestuous Jo, motherly Meg, shy Beth, and spoiled baby Amy—struggle to keep their family going while Father’s away in the Civil War. In this beautifully dramatized adaptation of the classic novel, even as privation, illness, and sibling rivalry cast their shadows, each girl strives to find her true self.

It’s 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Heart, who still lives in his grandmother’s basement, is New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party until his fiance, Linda, leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie is so distraught that he makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. When he meets Julia, an admiring young waitress, Robbie falls madly in love. The only trouble is that Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. With a score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980s, The Wedding Singer takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just have been the coolest guy in the room.

“A Few Good Men” tells about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover-up of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.

First of all I’d like to thank each and every one of you for coming to our production of Mamma Mia!, this has been a labor love several years in the making. Mamma Mia! tells the story of Sophie, a young woman on the verge of getting married to her fiancé Sky, on the path to discover who her father is. Her mother Donna, a once vibrant member of a disco girl group called The Dynamo’s, never married and has never told Sophie who her father is. With the help of her former band members, Tanya and Rosie, Donna does her best to keep the truth from Sophie as Sophie does her best to discover herself by filling in the biggest blank of her life, Who is her father? Through the use of popular music from ABBA, Mamma Mia! really walks us through this discovery of self and what family can mean for many different people.

There is a lyric you’ll hear that states, “Without a song or a dance who are we? So I say thank you for the music, for giving it to me.” Music has the ability to change us. It can light up your day, help you move through emotion and be a representation of a moment. A single moment in time that you come back to every time you hear that same sound. The power that exists in a melody is healing. Ask yourself “Who am I? What brings me joy?” For me, music is the answer. Melody is the answer. In it I find self, family, community, past, present and future. This show is a love note to all that feel the same. To all the dreamers and believers that know a melody can change things. To all the educators and mentors that have put the music in us. To the family and friends that encourage and vary the melody. To the observers that appreciate it and continue to support it, thank you. Without you what are we? Enjoy.