Tag: CCP

CCP Dinner Theatre’s New Faces

Andrea Molberg Look at these numbers for Community Circle Players (CCP): 34 auditioned for the 25 speaking and non-speaking roles in the eight plays that comprise An Evening Of One Acts. This remarkable production has five directors and a tech crew of six. Half of the cast is new to CCP! Eagerly joining the troupe is…

Auditions! Rehearsals! Performances!

Andrea Molberg Wonderful activities are returning to SaddleBrooke, including six November nights of live theatre by SaddleBrooke’s Community Circle Players (CCP). It’s official! Finally, SaddleBrooke TWO has been able to give CCP the go ahead for its long-awaited, Covid-postponed production An Evening of One Acts. CCP co-founder, Shawne Cryderman, said, “I can’t tell you how…

Community Circle Players Have Not Been Idle!

An Evening of One Acts directors, Carol Merlini and David Fuller, dancing up a storm in the mini stage area created by the wing curtains. (Photo by Steve Weis)

Andrea Molberg Spring brings new beginnings and fresh looks. In the MountainView ballroom and performance space, SaddleBrooke’s live theatre group Community Circle Players (CCP) has been getting ready for when audiences can return. Significant MountainView Country Club improvements have been finished. As co-founder Susan Sterling remarked, “The upgrades are done and even paid for!” CCP’s…

Community Circle Players: Working Behind the Scenes

The newly painted MVCC stage will spotlight performers. (Photo by Shawne Cryderman)

Andrea Molberg While nothing has been happening on stage in MountainView because of the virus, a lot has been going on behind the scenes. SaddleBrooke’s theatrical group Community Circle Players (CCP), who are committed to both producing quality entertainment and giving back to the community, recently made significant upgrades to the performance space. MVCC Ballroom…

CCP stage play vs. dinner theatre – which is more desirable?

  Shawne Cryderman Community Circle Players (CCP) was founded in SaddleBrooke after ten successful years of stage play productions by Susan and Steve Shear’s PrimeTime Players. CCP’s co-founders Susan Sterling and Shawne Cryderman stepped out on the proverbial theatrical limb in 2017 and tested the waters of the SaddleBrooke audience by staging a dinner theatre.…

CCP preparing for 2019 season

Andrea Molberg During the hot summer months, Community Circle Players are still busy. Those of you who enjoyed this year’s performances of The Mafioso Murders and last year’s Eat, Drink, and Be Deadly! are probably wondering, “what’s next?” Some decisions for the upcoming 2018-2019 season have been made. Shawne Cryderman and Susan Sterling, co-founders of the live…

Curtains! CCP is giving back to the community

New MVCC Ballroom curtains!

Lighting is a big part of any theater production or presentation. Hallway lighting, as well as daylight and outside lighting in the evening, can play havoc with a live theater performance and can almost ruin a speaker’s presentation if the audience cannot see images on the screen. At MVCC there was a lighting issue. For…

CCP’s first production a smashing success

Pinky did it! Who would have thought that sweet Pinky Zinfandel, as played by Community Circle Players’ Connie Ward, was a murderess?! So many others had reasons to kill Pierre Pinot Noir! But about a third of audience members at February’s performances of Eat, Drink and Be Deadly! handed in accusation slips fingering Pinky. Wine prizes were awarded to the cleverest sleuths who also guessed her motive; photo by Steve Weiss.

Karen Schickedanz The reviews are in and it’s a “thumbs up” for Eat, Drink and Be Deadly!, the first production of SaddleBrooke’s new theater company, Community Circle Players. The dinner mystery play was presented in February and ticket demand was so strong that a third night of performances was added at both HOA 1 and…

CCP’s Mystery Dinner Theater: Food and Entertainment

Co-Producers Shawne Cryderman and Susan Sterling

Andrea Molberg Be a part of SaddleBrooke’s new theater group’s first play Eat, Drink, and Be Deadly! Community Circle Players, the successor to PrimeTime Players, will feed, entertain and even get the audience involved in their production this February. The four performances of the dinner theater mystery are Sunday and Monday nights, February 19 and 20,…