Tag: Community Circle Players

A clue to SaddleBrooke’s Mystery Theatre (CCP) success

Susan Sterling, Shawne Cryderman, Tim Morsani

Andrea Molberg Today I interviewed Tim Morsani about live theater in SaddleBrooke. Tim is the new treasurer of Community Circle Players (CCP) and a life-long thespian. Ande: Live Theater continues to be very successful in SaddleBrooke – Why do you think that is? Tim: “There are several reasons – All modesty aside, the quality is…

What is CCP planning? Next production remains a mystery

Cast of Eat, Drink and Be Deadly!

Andrea Molberg With the fantastic success of their first SaddleBrooke dinner mystery production Eat, Drink and Be Deadly! behind them, the founders of Community Circle Players, Shawne Cryderman and Susan Sterling, are planning another SaddleBrooke theatre experience for next April. Both HOA1 and HOA2 are eager to have a CCP dinner production back. Susan will direct…

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 next play is a mystery

Susan Sterling and Shawne Cryderman look at scripts.

Andrea Molberg The first dinner mystery production of SaddleBrooke’s new theatre company, Community Circle Players, was a huge success so now the mystery is what’s next? Strong ticket demand for the Eat Drink and Be Deadly! February 2017 performances required the originally planned four-night run to be extended. A performance was added at both HOA 1…

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 “Walls of Wonder” raffle winners announced

Raffle winners Michael Caryl and Claire Cordon

Andrea Molberg Community Circle Players, SaddleBrooke’s new community theater group, raffled off the beautiful mural flats providing scenery for their delightful mystery dinner theater production Eat, Drink and Be Deadly! Husband and wife team Claire Cordon and Michael Caryl were the lucky winners of one of the seven feet high by four feet wide murals and…

Win a “Wall of Wonder”

Karen Schickedanz If you’ve ever admired one of Eve Fly’s Walls of Wonder, you have a chance to win one in connection with Community Circle Players’ February production of Eat, Drink and Be Deadly! SaddleBrooke residents Eve and Stan Fly have been transforming ordinary walls into works of art throughout metro Tucson for 12 years.…

Come solve the Eat, Drink and Be Deadly! dinner mystery

Andrea Molberg Gather with friends at SaddleBrooke’s dinner theatre and solve the delightfully funny mystery. Was there a suicide, accident or murder? SaddleBrooke’s new acting group Community Circle Players (CCP) is presenting the dinner theatre whodunit Eat, Drink and Be Deadly! on February 19 and 20 in MountainView Ballroom and on February 26 and 27 in…

Whodunit? Come find out at Eat, Drink and Be Deadly!

Karen Schickedanz Become a SaddleBrooke sleuth and help solve a delightful and hilariously funny mystery by attending a performance of Eat, Drink and Be Deadly! The whodunit will be presented in a dinner theater format on February 19 and 20 at HOA 2 and February 26 and 27 at HOA 1 by SaddleBrooke’s new acting group,…