Andrea Molberg In November, SaddleBrooke’s theatrical group Community Circle Players (CCP) will once again bring us six nights of live dinner theatre. The call for cast and crew members is official. CCP co-founder Susan Sterling and four other CCP directors—Carol Merlini, David Fuller, Tim Morsani (coordinating director), and Connie Ward—are eagerly looking for SaddleBrooke and…
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Generals, June 2021
CCP Getting Ready! Lights, Staging, and Costumes
Andrea Molberg SaddleBrooke’s theatre group, Community Circle Players (CCP), is eagerly getting ready to bring back live theatre performances. Not only has CCP been dressing up the MountainView stage with new paint, curtains, and lighting, CCP directors and crew tried dressing up themselves with new items in CCP’s costume collection. Thanks go to Sheila Muehling,…
Sports, May 2021
Community Circle Players Have Not Been Idle!
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 successful,…
Features, April 2021
Behind the Scenes With Community Circle Players
Andrea Molberg Looking ahead for fun in the future! In preparation for future events at MountainView when the pandemic is behind us, more work continues to be happening behind the scenes in the ballroom. SaddleBrooke’s theatrical group Community Circle Players (CCP), which is committed to producing quality entertainment and to giving back to the community,…
Generals, October 2020
Community Circle Players
An Evening of One Acts Is Not Canceled! Shawne Cryderman, Producer Community Circle Players’ fall show is postponed, not canceled. All the tasks that have been completed can just be delayed like the show, right? I mean, all the “behind the scenes” organizing and orchestrating for the production will be used this spring. Every little…
Generals, September 2020
Theatre News from Community Circle Players in SaddleBrooke
Shawne Cryderman As Shakespeare’s Falstaff observed—discretion is the better part of valor—and so he lived to fight another day That is not an exact quote, but it sums up Community Circle Players’ (CCP) decision to abandon, for now, its plans to present a show this November. Not cancel, but just postpone. Live theatre should be…
Generals, July 2020
CCP’s “An Evening of One Acts!” Features Five Directors
And Two More Make…the Five Directors for CCP’s Fall Production “An Evening of One Acts!” Andrea Molberg Meet the other directors for this fall’s Community Circle Players’ (CCP) dinner theatre production. SaddleBrooke audiences have enjoyed David Fuller on stage in CCP’s dinner theatre performances, and this fall he will be in the director’s chair for…
Generals, July 2020
Susan Sterling to Direct Two One-Acts this Fall
Ande Molberg Start planning ahead for dinner theatre this fall! Community Circle Players’ (CCP) fun production “An Evening of One Acts” (plus dinner) will be held from November 13 through 19 at the MountainView Ballroom. Watch for more information in August and September about the menu and ticket sales. What’s the backstory? Last April, CCP co-founder…
Generals, June 2020
Community Circle Players: The Veteran and the New Kid on the Block
Ande Molberg Start planning ahead for this fall! Community Circle Players’ (CCP) An Evening of One Acts will be produced November 13 through 19, and directed by five different capable community theatre enthusiasts. Because one act plays appeal to a wide audience, they are fun to present. If you don’t care for one or two of them,…
Generals, March 2020
Tickets for CCP Play, Going, Going, Gone?
Karen Schickedanz If past ticket sales for Community Circle Players’ dinner theatre shows are any indication, they probably are going fast for the one-night, March 18, performance of The Outsider at SaddleBrooke Ranch. This is the first time CCP has performed at the Ranch, although it has had sold-out performances for its dinner shows at SaddleBrooke since 2017.…