Tag: Community Circle Players

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,…

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,…

Behind the Scenes With Community Circle Players

SaddleBrooke TWO Executive Director Damon Williams accepting a check from CCP’s CFO Tim Morsani and CCP co-founders Shawne Cryderman and Susan Sterling.

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,…

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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…

CCP’s “An Evening of One Acts!” Features Five Directors

David Fuller and Carol Merlini are busy preparing for their new role as director. Each will direct one of the eight one-act plays in CCP's fall production “An Evening of One Acts.” (David's photographer: Susan Fuller; Carol's photographer: Richard Merlini)

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…

Susan Sterling to Direct Two One-Acts this Fall

Wondering what Susan is doing in the photo? Susan prefers to design the actors’ blocking (movement on stage) before rehearsals begin. Starting with a diagram of the stage with the set pieces, she moves the “dominoes” with the characters' names around the diagram, and then makes notes for each actor. (Photo by Terry Sterling)

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…

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.…

“The Outsider” is Coming to SaddleBrooke Ranch on March 18

Tim Morsani The Community Circle Players is bringing its latest dinner-theater production, The Outsider, to SaddleBrooke Ranch for a one-night performance on Wednesday, March 18. The political satire by Paul Slade Smith, presented by arrangement with Playscripts, Inc., deals with the trials and tribulations of an unknown career government official reluctantly thrust into the political…