Carmel Community Players (CCP) is proud to announce their 2022-23 season. Community theater is alive and well in Hamilton County, so get your tickets before they are gone!
To purchase a season ticket, or tickets for individual shows listed below, go to carmelplayers.org/2022-2023-season.
The season ticket provides one admission to each of Carmel Community Players 2022-2023 productions. This year’s season includes two musicals, Tick, Tick… BOOM! and Godspell (CCP’s Rising Star production with all actors 18 and under), a musical revue, Jerry’s Girls, along with the plays The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, True West, and Murder on the Orient Express.
Jerry’s Girls
Jerry’s Girls is a musical revue based on the songs of composer/lyricist Jerry Herman. This event, hosted at PrimeLife Enrichment, is a fundraiser for CCP’s campaign to establish a new playhouse in Carmel. All tickets are $50. All seats general admission.
Tick, Tick … Boom!
Before Rent, there was Tick, Tick… Boom! This autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer of Rent, is the story of a composer and the sacrifices he made to achieve his big break in theatre. Containing 14 songs, 10 characters, three actors and a band, Tick, Tick… Boom! takes you on the playwright/composer’s journey that led to a Broadway blockbuster.
His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city, his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue, yet Jon is still waiting on tables and trying to write the great American musical. Set in 1990, this compelling story of personal discovery is presented as a rock musical filled with instantly appealing melodies and a unique blend of musical theatre styles
Uh-oh, Here Comes Christmas
This charming show takes a funny, heartwarming and often poignant look at the struggle to find the spirit of the holidays amid the avalanche of commercialism, stress and chaos that crashes down every December.
The many delightful stories include a small immigrant child who comes trick-or-treating in a cheap Santa mask a few days before Christmas, inadvertently delivering the true meaning of the season to a grown-up with a serious case of “Scroogitis;” hilarious musings about a love/hate relationship with the vibrant poinsettia that arrives in most homes every December and hangs on and on and on, long after the holidays have ended; and a beautiful, deeply moving tribute to the winter solstice, celebrating nature’s precious annual gift of rebirth.
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher”) assemble for a backer’s audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy “angel.” The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people – all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem that follows when the infamous “slasher” makes his reappearance and strikes again.
True West
True West concerns the struggle for power between two brothers – Lee, a drifter and petty thief, and Austin, a successful screenwriter – while they collaborate on a screenplay in their mother’s southern California home.
This savage and blackly humorous version of the Cain and Abel story also satirizes the modern West’s exploitation of the romanticized cowboys-and-Indians West of American mythology.
Godspell – A CCP Rising Star Production
Based on the Gospel according to Matthew, Godspell is the first musical theatre offering from composer Stephen Schwartz, who went on to write such well-known hits as Wicked, Pippin, and Children of Eden. The show features a comedic troupe of eccentric players who team up with Jesus to teach his lessons in a new age through parables, games, and tomfoolery.
Godspell also features the international hit “Day by Day,” as well as an eclectic blend of songs ranging from pop to vaudeville, as Jesus’ life is played out onstage. Even after the haunting crucifixion, Jesus’ message of kindness, tolerance and love lives on vibrantly.
Ken Ludwig’s Murder on the Orient Express
The exotic Orient Express is about to go off the rails.
With a train full of remarkable suspects and an alibi for each one, it’s the perfect mystery for detective Hercule Poirot. When the Agatha Christie estate approached Ken Ludwig to adapt Dame Agatha’s most enduring novel and put it on stage, he agreed with alacrity – just as quickly as it takes Hercule Poirot to solve the most thrilling case of his entire career.
So wax your mustache and hold onto your passport for what has now become the most highly produced comedy-mystery in the world.