Tag: Community Circle Players

Dinner theatre performances this fall

Andrea Molberg This November SaddleBrooke’s theatre troupe will be offering dinner theatre with a twist. Having consistently sold out their spring dinner-theatre-in-the-round performances and entertained close to a 1,000 each season, Community Circle Players will offer a stage-production-with-dinner this fall, as well as another show in the spring. CCP’s founders Shawne Cryderman and Susan Sterling…

Dont Drink the Water

Anne Hammond Tickets for Community Players production of Don’t Drink the Water by Woody Allen presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. are selling fast! The play is set somewhere behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s, but will be updated for our 2019 audience. An ordinary American family goes on vacation to Europe…

CCP has chosen the cast for March performances

Andrea Molberg Community Circle Players (CCP) just selected the cast for its March dinner theatre production, Don’t Drink the Water, by Woody Allen, presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. CCP held auditions January 7 and 8 under the leadership of director Shawne Cryderman and assistant director Judi Brauns. Both Shawne and Judi were…

Walls of Wonder providing sets for Community Circle Players

Andrea Molberg Eve and Stan Fly of Walls of Wonder will again kindly provide paintings to create the sets for Community Circle Players’ March dinner theatre production. What a wonderful contribution to the show Don’t Drink the Water, by Woody Allen presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. SaddleBrooke residents Eve and Stan Fly…

Community Circle Players’ excitement

Andrea Molberg We can be thankful that dinner theatre is returning to SaddleBrooke with Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Excitement is already building. Those who enjoyed the 2018 sold out performances of The Mafioso Murders and 2017’s Eat, Drink, and Be Deadly! have been wondering what the live…

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…

Seasoned performers loved the experience and format

Andrea Molberg Community Circle Players sold out all its shows of The Mafioso Murders held at SaddleBrooke One’s Vistas and SaddleBrooke TWO’s MV Ballroom in April 2018. CCP was built on Susan and Steve Shear’s PrimeTime Players foundation and brought dinner theatre to our community. Some residents are already thinking about becoming a part of…

CCP’s second production A Smashing Success

Andrea Molberg Did you guess who murdered the godfather and his daughter at CCP’s dinner theatre April 2018 show The Mafioso Murders? This second production of SaddleBrooke’s new theatre company Community Circle Players was a huge hit and lots of fun. Congrats to director Susan Sterling, assistant director Carol Merlini and producer Shawne Cryderman, plus…

Over 1000 attended CCP’s The Mafioso Murders!

  Andrea Molberg Under the direction of Susan Sterling, Community Circle Players (CCP) brought seven performances of The Mafioso Murders to sold out crowds in SaddleBrooke One’s Vistas and SaddleBrooke TWO’s Ballroom. More than 1,000 people attended the hilarious dinner theatre mystery, watched the Godfather and his daughter Tootsie get bumped off, and tried to guess…