Month: August 2023

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Fundraising Dinner –September 15, 2023

Dream with Us!

What might our Stage look like at the Wieting after renovation?

The Catskill Community Players and The Wieting Theatre Board Invite YOU to a…

Fabulous Fundraising Dinner Celebration!

The Catskill Community Players and The Wieting Theatre invite YOU…

To a Fabulous Fundraising Dinner Celebration…

At the Historic Wieting Theatre SECRET Ballroom

LIVE MUSIC! BUFFET DINNER! A WONDERFUL CAUSE AND A GREAT TIME FOR ALL!!

NO ADMISSION FEE!

WHERE: the Historic Wieting Theatre’s SECRET Banquet Room, 168 Main St., Worcester, NY

LIVE MUSIC! BUFFET DINNER! A WONDERFUL CAUSE AND A GREAT TIME FOR ALL!!

On Friday September 15, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. and on through the evening, come join us at the historic Wieting Theatre at 168 Main Street in Worcester New York, to have fun, to eat delicious food, and to enjoy the great live music of TP and The Hunt Club. Admire the beautiful theatre and learn about the ongoing efforts to restore it to performance glory, and support that effort with a donation that will go to both the Wieting Theater and to the Catskill Community Players– the wonderful local theater group that has been entertaining us for forty five years with lively, high quality plays and performances right here in Otsego and Delaware Counties, often live on stage right at the Wieting Theater!

There is NO ADMISSION PRICE! Just come and have a good time. Bring your families, bring your friends. You’ll be invited to make a donation right there at the theater, which will be split between these two great community organizations to help them continue to bring excellent live theater and worthwhile community activities for the whole area to enjoy for years to come. No donation is too small! and no donation is too large! There will be a silent auction too, all the proceeds of which will go to the same good cause, so you might find a wonderful souvenir of the evening to bid on and take home with you! Please register at this EventBrite link to help us with the planning. It’ll be so much fun to have you with us.

LIVE MUSIC will be provided for your listening and dancing pleasure! We’re delighted to have performing live at the theater the fabulous local combo TP and The Hunt Club. TP & The Hunt Club brings pianist Rob Hunt to the jazz trio Triple Play. Featuring Joe Siracusa on guitar, Joe Tokarowski on drums and bassist Angus Mackie, The quartet plays their take on the Great American Song Book with a blend of Latin, swing and pop standards, sure to make your evening charmed and memorable.

This is your chance to see the fabulous little gem of a theater that’s been a fixture of downtown Worcester since the days of vaudeville; to meet many of the wonderful actors who have performed on the Wieting stage; to listen as the theater restoration project is described and to enjoy the friendly conversation, great live music and delicious food. Stroll through this historic building! It’s just a twenty minute drive on I-88 from downtown Oneonta! Be there or be square!!

BUFFET DINNER. . .

Bring your appetite! Members of the Catskill Community Players and the Wieting Theatre Board are going to prepare and bring delicious potluck dishes, and we’re also lucky to be having the wonderful support of a longtime local booster of the Wieting Theatre — Jack’s Pub and Restaurant — who will be providing a real spread of hearty casseroles and yummy lasagnas. Thanks, Jack’s!!

RSVP at the EventBrite Event Page!

If you’d like to attend the event please register at the Ticket Link so we count you in for planning purposes.There will also be an opportunity to donate at the event, so bring your checkbook!

Want to donate but can’t be there at the event? You may donate directly here through our donation button! or send a check to the CCP address listed below.

You can also donate by mail at the following address:

Catskill Community Players

Rebecca Maeder Chien, Treasurer

PO Box 308

Delhi, NY 13753

Your donations will ensure the Wieting Theatre and the Catskill Community Players continued commitment to high quality community theater and events!

the historic Wieting Theatre

Learn More about the Historic Wieting Theatre here. . .

The Cast of “Office Hours”, a comedy by Norm Foster, May 21, 2023.

Catskill Community Players productions are made possible with public funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Earlville Opera House.

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Auditions — THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY

Open Auditions For November 3, 4, 5 Comedy!

The Catskill Community Players announce
auditions for
“The Savannah Sipping Society”
a Comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten

Directed by Lissa Sidoli

The Catskill Community Players announce auditions for their Fall Comedy, “The Savannah Sipping Society”, a comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, and directed by Lissa Sidoli. Roles are available for four women, ages 50-70, at all levels of acting experience.

Auditions will be held at the First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St. (use Church Street entrance) on Sunday, August 13, @ 3:00PM, and Tuesday August 15, @ 6:30PM. Those who wish to audition should bring a schedule of conflicts from August 21 through November 5 for rehearsal planning purposes. Those auditioning will be asked to read pages from the script, which will be provided. If you would like to preview a script, contact the director, Lissa Sidoli, at sidoli19@yahoo.com. The play will be presented on November 3rd and 4th at 7:30 p.m., and November 5th at 2:00 p.m., with a possible additional matinée on November 4th at 2:00 p.m., at the historic Wieting Theatre in Worcester, NY.

Play Description:
In this delightful Jones, Hope, & Wooten comedy, 4 unique women all needing to escape day-to-day routine are brought together by Fate at a yoga class and an impromptu happy hour. Each is confronting her own individual, unexpected, and unsettling life event leaving each lost and uncertain. Over the course of six months, filled with laughter, hilarious misadventures, and occasional liquid refreshment, these middle-aged women successfully bond and find the confidence to restart their lives.

Character Descriptions:

Randa: -perfectionist/workaholic struggles to cope with surprise career derailment

Dot: -must restart new life from scratch after beloved husband’s death and at a loss as to how to begin

Marlafaye: -earthy, boisterous; leaves Texas after cheating husband leaves her for his 23 year old dental hygienist to start over in Savannah, but how?

Jinx: -spunky ball of fire offers services as a much needed life coach full of ambition but little experience.

For more info on The Catskill Community Players, a 48 year old company, go to www.catskillplayers.org, AND find Catskill Community Players on Facebook.

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CCP events are made possible with public funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Earlville Opera House.

CCP is a recipient of a Community Events Grant administered by the Otsego County Government.

If you can volunteer to help us in any way on the production we need you! (Stage Managing, Costuming, Lighting, Ushering, Sets, Painting, Props, etc.) please reply to this email or call/text Diana Friedell if you would like to participate. dianafriedell@gmail.com; Phone: ‭(607) 433-2089‬.

AUDITIONS:

WHEN:
Sunday, August 13th
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
AND
Tuesday, August 15th
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

WHERE:
First United Methodist Church
Fellowship Room
(Located on the corner of Chestnut and Church Streets. Enter through the Church Street door on the left side of the building.)

or by Special Arrangement w/Director Lissa Sidoli

BRING: Your Calendar so you can note your conflicts- any times you are NOT available to rehearse for rehearsal planning purposes. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Performance Dates:
Friday, November 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm
(possibly) Saturday, November 5, 2023 at 2 pm
Saturday, November 5, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 2 pm

All performances are at the Wieting Theater in Worcester, NY. Rehearsals will be both in Oneonta and in Worcester.