General Ticket Costs:
$14 Adult/$12 Sr & Student
Musicals:
$18 Adult/$16 Sr & Student
For Tickets/Information Call:
(813) 265-4000
Carrollwood Players, Inc. was founded in 1981 at the Carrollwood Recreation Center. The initial production, "Plaza Suite", was performed at Carrollwood Elementary School, "Godspell" was done in the auditorium of the Methodist Church, and "Veronica's Room" was staged in a small golf clubhouse.
The group relocated to the Drew Park Civic Club, renamed The Manhattan Theater, at the intersection of Ohio Street and Manhattan Avenue in December of 1982. During the next five years, the players presented, among others, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off", "That Championship Season", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "The Bad Seed", "Ten Nights in a Barroom", and "18 Nervous Gumshoes". The building no longer exists.
In May 1987, Carrollwood Players moved to the Village Shopping Center on North Dale Mabry and then, in 1993, to their present location in Plantation Plaza at 4333-5 Gunn Highway. The Players currently present nine plays each season, including comedy, farce, mystery and musicals. All auditions are completely open to the public and generally consist of cold readings from the script.
The CARROLLWOOD PLAYERS THEATRE by YOUNG PEOPLE (CPT), the youth group initiated and sponsored by the Players, presents several additional productions.
(The Carrollwood Players, Inc. is a not-for-profit Florida corporation organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Any gifts are Tax Deductible under this section.)
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HARRY FRAIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP 2008
SCHOLARSHIP TERMS
In August of each year, Carrollwood Players, Inc. will grant a scholarship to a qualified student.
At the Board's discretion, more than one scholarship may be awarded. The amount will be determined by fund availability and Board discretion.
QUALIFICATIONS:
In order to be considered, scholarship applicant will:
1) Submit the required application form by the May 31st deadline each year. Applications will be available on or before April 1st.
2) Is pursuing a college degree (Associate, Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate) with a major or minor in a theater-related field of study.
3) Provides proof of acceptance/enrollment.
4) Has supported Carrollwood Players, Inc. by acting or being involved in the production aspect of at least three (3) prior Carrollwood Players productions within the prior five (5) year period.
5) Submits a 250 word essay explaining why applicant is deserving of consideration.
6) Maintains a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or equivalent and provides grades from previous semester.
If you wish to be considered for this scholarship, please go to www.carrollwoodplayers.org, print and complete the application and send to:
Carrollwood Players
Scholarship Application
P.O. Box 270116
Tampa, FL 33688
Kristy Magee was our 2007 Harry Frain Memorial Scholarship winner this AUG. She is now attending AMDA in NY. We wish her all the best!
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Congratulations to the 2007 Nancy Awards favorites!
Favorite Production: CABARET
Favorite Director: Seth Travaglino for CABARET
Favorite Stage Manager: Frank Stinehour for CABARET
Favorite Lead Actress: Wendy Starkand for CABARET
Favorite Lead Actor: Ryan Bintz for CABARET
Favorite Supporting Actress: Ann Lehman for CABARET
Favorite Supporting Actor: Charlie Belcher for FRANKENSTEIN
Favorite Fratured Actress: Sari Famiglietti for CARABET
Favorite Featured Actor: Graham Morris for FRANENSTEIN
Favorite Technical Achievement: FRANENSTEIN
Special Recognition Award: Dee Ford and Jim Brennan
Unsung Hero Award: Nancy Stearns
Favorite One-Act Play: 1st Place: Last Rites by Joanna Piucci, director: Phillip Ruvelas 2nd Place: Miss Lillian's Supper by Carol Cohen, director: Kim Truong
3rd Place: The Actress by Jim Gordon, director: Mary Kay Cyrus
Check out the pictures in the 2006-2007 album
Heroes
PLAZA SUITE written by Neil Simon
THE MOUSETRAP written by Agatha Christie
The Graduate written by Terry Johnson
A DICKENS CHRISTMAS CAROL written by Mark Landon Smith
Sylvia written by A. R. Gurney
Key For Two written by John Chapman & Dave Freeman
The Octette Bridge Club by P.J. Barry
BAT BOY: The Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, Brian Flemming, and Keythe Farley
I'll Be back Before Midnight written by Peter Colley
About me: Our good friend, Harry Jennings, passed away suddenly JUN 14, 2008. You will be missed...
OUR 2008 - 2009 SEASON IS ANNOUNCED!
Move down for the exciting news!
The Carrollwood Players 2007-2008 Board of directors. Standing: Miguel Rodriguez, Keith Postle, Treasurer,
Mike Holden, James Cass, & Jim Whicker. Seated: Carlyn Postle, Rae Schwartz, Secretary, Toni Germinario,Vice President, MaryAnn Bardi, President. Not Shown: Owen Robertson
HEY FORMER CAST & PRODUCTION CREW MEMBERS... Do you have pictures from previous shows? Send them to:
CWP Theatre@aol.com.
As much information that you can include would be appreciated.
For Carrollwood Players Season Subscription & Membership information:
http://www.carrollwoodplayers.org
Our 2007 - 2008 Season!
Jean McCormack: Falicia Young,
Sam Nash: Tony Panaccio,
Karen Nash: Judith Sachs,
Bellhop: Michael Polk
Jesse Kiplinger: Robert Tilley,
Muriel Tate: Gina Marie Davies,
Waiter: Kevin Kobasko
Roy Hubley: Lenny Germinario,
Norma Hubley: MaryAnn Bardi,
Borden Eisler: Donlee Hart,
Mimsey Hubley: Falicia Young
PLAZA SUITE The hilarious Neil Simon Comedy JUN 27 - JUL 20, 2008. (no performance on JUL 4th) Directed by Jim Whicker
Neil Simon's classic comedy, PLAZA SUITE, is a collection of three comic episodes set in Suite 719 of New York City's famed Plaza Hotel. The acts are tied together with the common threads of relationships. "Plaza Suite is a three-course feast of delectable comic theatre."
First we see Karen and Sam Nash nostalgically returning to the same hotel suite where they'd spent their honeymoon 24 years earlier. Karen tries to get her inattentive husband's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. Times have changed however, Karen believes that suite 719 is where they honeymooned; husband Sam says it was one floor up. They even disagree on the date of their anniversary and the length of their marriage. As the act unfolds, a series of mishaps ensues and things don't go as per Karen's plans.
The second act gives a straightforward but hilarious look at what can happen when two old high school sweethearts meet. Jesse Kiplinger has become a pompous Hollywood producer who after three failed marriages is attempting to seduce his naive high school girlfriend who over the years has idolized him from afar. But Muriel Tate is now more than he bargained for. She is now married with three children!
The final act is all about family conflict. It's Mimsey's wedding day, but she has locked herself (gown and all) in the bathroom of the suite, refusing to come out for the ceremony. Her formally dressed parents, Norma and Roy Hubley, attempt to deal with the situation, and as they argue it becomes clear -- the daughter has barricaded herself because she fears becoming just like her parents.
The trio of comic stories bear Simon's trademark humor, sophistication, and wry insight into the complex nature of human relationships.
Bellhop: Michael Polk
Karen Nash: Judith Sachs
Sam Nash: Tony Panaccio
Waiter: Kevin Kobasko
Jean McCormack: Falicia Young
Jesse Kiplinger: Robert Tilley
Muriel Tate: Gina Marie Davies
Norma Hubley: MaryAnn Bardi
Roy Hubley: Lenny Germinario
Borden Eisler: Donlee Hart
Mimsey Hubley: Falicia Young
All performances are held at the Carrollwood Players Playhouse
4335 Gunn Highway, (Plantation Plaza, between Linebaugh and Casey)
Tampa, FL.
Please call the Theater at 813-265-4000 if you have any questions.
In addition, backstage and front of house personnel are ALWAYS welcome, from ticket takers to set painters to stage crew, costume, prop, and lighting people.
You may come to auditions or leave a message on the theater phone with your name, contact phone number, and interest.
Bring a resume and head shot (if you have them)
Auditionees must supply a list of known scheduling conflicts
Auditions are open to the community and volunteers are
welcome in all areas of theater production.
Performance dates: AUG 1 - 3, 2008
THE 11th ANNUAL ONE ACT WEEKEND
Eight completely new plays are scheduled, four of them by local playwrights presenting drama, pathos, comedy, young love, mysticism, and witty contemporary dialogue.
Support local community theater and enjoy an evening of unique entertainment, introducing the efforts of some new directors, and displaying many fresh faces on stage.
Cast a vote for your favorite play and the chosen author will receive a financial award!
The 2nd Annual Broadway Revue
Performance dates: AUG 8-10, 15-17, 22-23.
Director: Owen Robertson
Music Director: Randall Watts
Assistant Director: Mike Walker
Stage Manager: Beth Tepe
Producer: Mary Ann Bardi
The cast is as follows:
Male Singers: Tim Carver, Jim Whicker, Eric Misener, Mike Holden, with: Miguel Rodriguez, & Jay Gibson
Female Singers: Penni Willen, Ann Lehman, Kellmeny Jeffcoat, Megan Hoxie, Emma Andrade, Kathleen Corpuz, Susan Gibson, Tiger Von Pagel, Jalyn Ide, Aimee Nadow, Amy Ragg, Karen Bray.
OUR 2008 - 2009 SEASON IS ANNOUNCED!
SEP 5 thru 27, 2008
THE MOUSETRAP by Agatha Christie. The story is about a young couple, Mollie and Giles Ralston, who have started up a new hotel in the converted Monkswell Manor. They are snowed in together with four guests and an additional traveller, who ran his car into a snowdrift. Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives on skis to inform the group that he believes a murderer is on his way to the hotel, following the death of Miss Maureen Lyon in London.
When one of the guests – Mrs Boyle – is killed, they realize that the murderer is already there. Although the suspicion falls first on Christopher Wren, an erratic young man who fits the description of the supposed murderer, it quickly transpires that the killer could be any one of the guests, or even the hosts themselves.
Director: Frank Stinehour
Producer: James Cass
Stage Manager: Kathryn Tilley
Mollie Ralston: Fontaine Schroyer
Giles Ralston: Rob Tilley
Christopher Wren: Jared Porter
Mrs Boyle: Trish Farber
Major Metcalf: Tony Panaccio
Miss Casewell: Scarlett Powers
Mr Paravicini: Barry Silber
Sergeant Trotter:Ian Smith
OCT 10 thru NOV 1, 2008
The Graduate by Terry Johnson. It's 1960s California and The Graduate, Benjamin is a bit confused about where to go next in life and bemused about his love life. If you can quite call it that. Benjamin is having an affair with Mrs Robinson, who treats him more or less as she would the pool boy, but is in love with her daughter, Elaine, who is about to be married -- not to Benjamin. *ADULT CONTENT
Director: Kathy Buck
Producer: Frank Weiss
Stage Manager: Amanda Buck
Auditions for The Graduate: AUG 24 & 25, 2008
AND A WORLD TO CARRY ON* is conceived, written and directed by Barry Silber, co-written with Carole Coppinger. Synopsis: AND A WORLD TO CARRY ON is about Laura Nyro, a highly unrecognized singer/songwriter who wrote numerous hit songs for other artists such as: The Fifth Dimension, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Three Dog Night, and Barbra Streisand. She had a cult following in the late '60's/early '70's. We guarantee you will leave the theater saying, "I didn't know she wrote that!". (*not part of the regular season)
*This show is not part of the CWP regular season.
This show is a benefit and all proceeds will go to Carrollwood Players.
Performance dates: have been change to November 7th at 8pm, November 8th at 8pm, and November 9th at 3pm.
$10 minimum donation is requested to see this great show!
Auditions for AND A WORLD TO CARRY ON: SEP 22 & 23, 2008
Cast- Woman 20's-40's must be able to sing well. Piano playing not totally required but highly recommended
4 men-ages 20's-40's must be able to sing/harmonize.
A DICKENS CHRISTMAS CAROL by Mark Landon Smith. The Styckes Upon Thump Repertory Company embarks on their fifteenth annual tour of the Dickens classic. When the company's diva feigns illness, certain the production will be canceled, this merry troupe of over the hill and upstart actors carry on without her. Roles are shuffled and the sweet understudy suddenly finds herself on stage knowing only one line of dialogue. She has written her part in and on almost everything, including the Christmas pudding! Midway through the doomed performance, the diva rushes in to reclaim her role. Total mayhem ensues as the company scrambles to keep the show going while everything goes hilariously wrong.
NOV 28 thru DEC 20, 2008
Director: Owen Robertson
Producer: Amy Ragg
Stage Manager: Beth Tepe
Auditions for A DICKENS CHRISTMAS CAROL: SEP 14 & 15, 2008
JAN 9 thru 31, 2009
Sylvia, written by A. R. Gurney (whose other hits include Dining Room and Labor Day) was first performed off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club. After a couple of very successful months, it moved on Broadway to the John Houseman Theatre. Sara Jessica Parker originated the role of Sylvia.
Sylvia is a story of empty nesters. The children are in college, the suburban home has been sold and the couple has moved to New York City. Kate is the wife whose career as an inner-city English teacher is taking off; the long-married couple are touching base with old city friends and spending weekends visiting country friends. The only glitch is husband Greg's career. He's losing interest and losing his edge as a stockbroker. Disgruntled and restless, Greg is easy pickings.
Call it a mid-life crisis, call it the eternal triangle, but pretty soon Sylvia enters the picture and the zany action begins. However, in this play, instead of a young long-legged buxom blonde adventuress, this homewrecker has four legs, a tall, shaggy fur and big soulful brown eyes. A cross between a lab and a poodle, this "other woman" moves in and begins to move Kate out.
"Give a dog a woman's name and you'll begin to think of it as a woman," writes Gurney, and Greg does. Sylvia intrudes between husband and wife very effectively, sleeping in their bed, making weekend visits with them and helping to celebrate an anniversary. Greg even takes Sylvia out to lunch: he's found a restaurant to cater to her.
The idea of a dog becoming the third party in a marriage dispute provides the funniest moments in the play.
Director: Dee Ford
Producer: Michael Holden
Stage Manager: Ruth Levy
Auditions for Sylvia: NOV 2 & 3, 2008
FEB 13 thru MAR 7, 2009
Key For Two by John Chapman & Dave Freeman is a comedy and is somewhat unique, in that in this farce, the women have the upper hand! In this play, it is the woman who juggles two men. They pay her bills and keep her in fine style, but, of course, neither one knows of the others existence and in order to keep them apart, she has invented a 'mother' who visits her on occasion.
'Mother' is so strait laced and puritanical, that when she visiting, one or the other gentleman friend cannot possibly come round. In keeping with the genre, naturally an old friend turns up, out of the blue, and throws a spanner in the works. The indescribable confusion that follows, builds to rich complexity of mistaken identity, splendidly farcical situations and a climax which has been described as comic wizardry!
Director: Miguel Rodriguez
Producer: Toni Germinario
Stage Manager: TBA
Auditions for Key For Two: DEC 14 & 15, 2008
MAR 20 thru APR 11, 2009
The Octette Bridge Club by P.J. Barry. Once described as a "sentimental group portrait" and "as nostalgic as a Saturday Evening Post cover," The Octette Bridge Club is a delightful and funny look back at American life in a bygone era. Set in Rhode Island from 1934 to 1944, it focuses on the domestic intrigues of the Donavans, eight very different Irish-Catholic sisters who meet every other Friday night for bridge, home-baked pie, and gossip. P. J. Barry's autobiographical comedy is also a moving glimpse at the bright and dark aspects of family relationships, especially those things that hold us together and those that push us apart.
Director: Mary Kay Cyrus
Producer: MaryAnn Bardi
Stage Manager: Mike Holden
Auditions for Octette Bridge Club: January 12 & 13, 2009
APR 24 thru MAY 16, 2009
BAT BOY: The Musical by Keythe Farley, Brian Fleming, & Laurence O'Keefe. Based on a story in The Weekly World News, BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia. For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, where he is eventually accepted as a member of the family and taught to act like a "normal" boy by the veterinarian's wife, Meredith, and teenage daughter, Shelley. Bat Boy is happy with his new life, but when he naively tries to fit in with the narrow-minded people of Hope Falls, they turn on him, prodded by the machinations of Dr. Parker, who secretly despises Bat Boy. Shelley and Bat Boy, who have fallen in love, run away together from the ignorant townsfolk and have a blissful coupling in the woods, but their happiness is shattered when Meredith arrives and reveals a secret. Soon the entire town arrives and hears the shocking story of Bat Boy's unholy origin.
Director: Seth Travaglino
Producer: James Cass
Stage Manager: Frank Stinehour
MAY 29 THRU JUN 20, 2009
I'll Be back Before Midnight by Peter Colley. Jan has recently had a nervous breakdown, and her husband Greg, an archeologist, has rented an old farmhouse in the country where she can recover. The old farmhouse is also near an archeological dig where he can continue his studies. When George, the hilarious farmer they rent the house from, tells stories about a terrible murder that once took place in the farmhouse and the ghost that reputedly stalks the night, Jan's imagination gets fired up. The situation gets even worse when Laura, Greg's beautiful but manipulative sister arrives. Soon Jan finds herself tormented by strange sounds in the night, and visions of the vengeful ghost. Is she having another breakdown? Is someone trying to drive her mad? When she tries to defend herself from this apparition, events take an unexpected turn in a night of unimaginable suspense.
I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT! has been produced in 25 countries, 48 of the 50 states in the U.S. and every province in Canada. It has broken numerous box office records including the 2005 record-breaking UK National Tour. It was made into a Hollywood feature film starring Heather Locklear, Ned Beatty, Robert Carradine, and Susannah York.
Director: Owen Robertson
Producer: Tiger Von Pagel
Stage Manager: TBA
JUL 10 thru AUG 1, 2009
SORDID LIVES by Del Shores is a story about a Gay actor who is having a session with his 27th therapist who relays that his grandmother has died and he refuses to go to the funeral. Poor Grandma Peggy… dead after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a seedy motel in Winters, Texas. Which is a blessing, because if she could see what’s going on at her funeral, it would kill her. Her sister’s quitting smoking, her daughters are feuding over her mink stole, her neighbor’s on a crime spree, her son’s dressed up like Tammy Wynette, and her grandson’s coming out of the closet with a vengeance. Big hair, big hearts, and big laughs abound in this Southern-fried black comedy about white trash from the writer, producer of the hit TV series QUEER AS FOLK.
Director: Mike Holden
Producer: Ann Lehman
Stage Manager: TBA
Some rehearsal and performance photos were taken by James Cass of Picture This of Palma Ciea. www.pthis.com and by Frank Weiss
Who I'd like to meet: DATES:
Auditions for The Graduate: AUG 24 & 25, 2008
Auditions for AND A WORLD TO CARRY ON: SEP 22 & 23, 2008
Cast- Woman 20's-40's must be able to sing well. Piano playing not totally required but highly recommended
4 men-ages 20's-40's must be able to sing/harmonize.
(*not part of the regular season)
Auditions for A DICKENS CHRISTMAS CAROL: SEP 14 & 15, 2008
Auditions for Sylvia: NOV 2 & 3, 2008
Auditions for Key For Two: DEC 14 & 15, 2008
Auditions for The Octette Bridge Club: January 12 & 13, 2009
Auditions for BAT BOY: The Musical: TBA
Auditions for I'll Be back Before Midnight: TBA
Auditions for Sordid Lives: TBA
short videos from other productions of BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Tonight's preview of Noel Coward's classic comedy Private Lives at the Shimberg Theater at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center is sold out. So, too, are Friday's and Saturday's performances. Tickets remain for Sunday's 4:00 pm matinee and the remaining eight shows.
Private Lives runs from July 10th through July 27th with Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances at 8:00 pm, and Sunday matinees at 4:00 pm. Tickets can be reserved by following this link: http://tickets. tbpac. org/calendar. asp
Private Lives is considered a prime example of the sophisticated comedies of Noel Coward, one of the most-prominent dramatists of his era. An overwhelming critical and commercial success when it was first produced in 1930, Private Lives remains a standard of repertory and non-professional theatre companies everywhere and has entertained audiences for well over half a century.
The action of the play concerns a divorced couple, Elyot and Amanda, who meet on then-respective honeymoons to second spouses. They realize that they are still in love with each other and should never have divorced; they abandon their new spouses and run off together, though they are soon caught up in the same violent arguments that originally plagued their stormy marriage. This simple, somewhat contrived situation provides all the structure Coward requires to display his eccentric wit and deft comedic stagecraft, which are considered the main strengths of the play. The protagonists lampoon the hypocrisies and pretensions of modern manners and social conventions and seek true love regardless of the cost to their reputations. Once they free themselves from the 'outside world,' however, their inner passions and jealousies (their 'private lives') consume them, leaving them trapped in an inescapable cycle of love and hate.
