Susan Sterling It is no mystery that our SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch audiences love a good whodunit. Community Circle Players Director Susan Sterling awoke from her nap and did it! A play has been chosen. Mark your calendars for the last week in March when CCP will present “The House of Agatha Mysterie.” Ms. Mysterie, the…
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October 2023, Generals
Spring Director Sleeping on the Job?
Al Weigel What in the world is Susan Sterling, co-founder of Community Circle Players (CCP), doing in this photo? The answer—simply resting! We are excited to announce that Susan will be the director for our March 2024 production. While a specific play hasn’t been selected, Susan, along with others on the CCP Executive Committee, is focused…
Generals, September 2023
A Red Hot Summer Beckons a Cool Spring Play
Jim Ward Whew, it’s been a rough summer … blistering heat, mean monsoons, threatening thunderstorms, wicked wildfires, alarming air quality, a meandering mountain lion, and insufferable inflation. However, there is one thing that we can celebrate. Your Community Circle Players (CCP) executive committee has been meeting in a clandestine underground bunker planning another entertaining and…
Generals, August 2023
CCP Announces Dates for Spring 2024 Dinner Theatre
Susan Sterling Community Circle Players (CCP) has set the dates for a spring 2024 production. Mark your calendars now for entertaining dinner theatre performances during the last week in March. CCP principals have been reading and researching various scripts to tantalize our audience. Could it be a murder mystery in the vein of the well-received…
Generals, February 2023
Cast Chosen for the Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre!
Andrea Molberg Who’s in the “Who Done It?” which playwright Joh Mann describes as “full of murder, mystery, and mayhem”? Auditions for the Community Circle Players (CCP) March murder mystery/dinner theatre production of Spook Light Legacy were held early January. Director Shawne Cryderman, Assistant Director Al Weigel, and Producer Connie Ward delightedly report that they have…
Generals, August 2022
Community Circle Players Is Busy Behind the Scenes!
Susan Sterling Drum roll please … announcing a CCP production in spring 2023! Shawne Cryderman, co-founder of CCP, will direct the spring 2023 production. Her team is ready to go to work on another entertaining venture. Connie Ward will be Shawne’s “right hand gal” as producer and Al Weigel has enthusiastically agreed to be Shawne’s…
Features, July 2022
Lighting It Up for Community Circle Players: Meet Alex Infald
Ron Andrea Alex has been a “fixture” for theater in SaddleBrooke for the past 17 years. He and his wife, Donna, moved here from the Bay Area of California in 2005, where he worked as an independent marketing consultant. No stranger to theater, Alex started working backstage in professional theaters in New Jersey and New…
Features, June 2022
Community Circle Players: Creating a Professional Soundstage
Ron Andrea If you’ve ever attended a concert or theater performance and you couldn’t hear or understand what the performers were saying, you can appreciate the importance of quality sound. Creating a professional soundstage in which every voice is clearly understood is no simple matter—especially for senior audiences. It not only requires professional technology, but…
Front Page, May 2022
Dinner Theatre at the Ranch
Andrea Molberg Wasn’t that a great dinner plus theatre show! The Community Circle Players (CCP) production of the comedy “The Curious Savage,” written by award-winning playwright John Patrick of “Three Coins in a Fountain” and “High Society” fame, delighted SaddleBrooke Ranch audiences this March. Hope you had a chance to be there to see the…
Clubs & Classes, March 2022
The Curious Savage: A Dinner Theater Treat
Andrea Molberg It’s time to get your tickets for dinner plus live theater on the SaddleBrooke Ranch stage! Community Circle Players’ (CCP) performances of the comedy The Curious Savage are Tuesday and Wednesday, March 22 and 23, and SaddleBrooke Ranch is in for a treat. Login to your member account at saddlebrookeranchhoa.org, then go to the recreation…