Crow-Luther Players Enter a New Era
It's official! One of the main goals the Crow-Luther Cultural Events Center board wanted to reach when we started in 2006 was to form a theater performance group and host dramatic productions on our stage in a brand new auditorium. In fact, our original plans includes a retracting big screen that can roll up when not being used to immediately create 160 extra square feet on the stage. In addition, the back garage space has been pegged in our architectural plans to be a Green Room space with dressing rooms, audition rooms, and rooms for prop and costume storage. Well those things haven't happened just yet....but we'll get there.
I know we'll get there because we now have a catalyst to force change. I refer back to the main thing we wanted ... a community theater group that would be run professionally and bring excellence in cultural events to our rural, isolated area. The Crow-Luther Players has been formed and we have found a guy that knows what he's doing and has a passion for theater. He's a local gem named Phil Splitter and he has a large group of people around him who love theater too and are just as passionate!
I'm just the idea lady who asked one day at a ballgame, "Hey Phil could you direct a Christmas play for us at the theater?" Phil is interested but asks me questions I have no idea how to answer. Questions like, "Do we have a script?" "Do we have any people who will act or work in the production in other ways?" "Can I schedule an audition call?" Being the optimist that I am...my answer was of course, "Ummm...yes...yes...and yes!" Yikes!
But it turns out we did find a script..."The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!".....and we do have people who can act and are willing to work on a play production! Amazing...in a small town where there has not been much on the cultural side of life for, well, "forever." But, knowing the people I'm dealing with in our less-than-cultured town, when it came down to advertising for the "audition call" I called it an "organizational meeting" instead. This lessened the intense fear of never having had gotten up in front of people to "show 'em what ya got!" Turns out I know my people as there were some panicked faces in the theater on Sunday when we all met to "organize." Some asked Phil, "Do I have to audition?" and luckily we have a real professional at the helm because he made it fun and way less nerve-racking than I ...and they.... thought it would be.
And now, low and behold, we have a cast of 27 actors, 15 stage and productions people, and even a handful of baby angels that didn't audition but, hey, they are cute and we figure we'll start them young to build our future performers. We even have a little five year old girl who went through the auditions and so-captured Phil's heart that he has written in a special part just for her!
See what happens when we put ourselves out there? My motto is usually, "jump in and hope you can swim!" I learned how to swim early and so far I have been able to avoid the sharks and drowning....well, the drowning part may get me sooner or later.
---Swimming with my head just above water ... it's about at my chin!
I know we'll get there because we now have a catalyst to force change. I refer back to the main thing we wanted ... a community theater group that would be run professionally and bring excellence in cultural events to our rural, isolated area. The Crow-Luther Players has been formed and we have found a guy that knows what he's doing and has a passion for theater. He's a local gem named Phil Splitter and he has a large group of people around him who love theater too and are just as passionate!
I'm just the idea lady who asked one day at a ballgame, "Hey Phil could you direct a Christmas play for us at the theater?" Phil is interested but asks me questions I have no idea how to answer. Questions like, "Do we have a script?" "Do we have any people who will act or work in the production in other ways?" "Can I schedule an audition call?" Being the optimist that I am...my answer was of course, "Ummm...yes...yes...and yes!" Yikes!
But it turns out we did find a script..."The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!".....and we do have people who can act and are willing to work on a play production! Amazing...in a small town where there has not been much on the cultural side of life for, well, "forever." But, knowing the people I'm dealing with in our less-than-cultured town, when it came down to advertising for the "audition call" I called it an "organizational meeting" instead. This lessened the intense fear of never having had gotten up in front of people to "show 'em what ya got!" Turns out I know my people as there were some panicked faces in the theater on Sunday when we all met to "organize." Some asked Phil, "Do I have to audition?" and luckily we have a real professional at the helm because he made it fun and way less nerve-racking than I ...and they.... thought it would be.
And now, low and behold, we have a cast of 27 actors, 15 stage and productions people, and even a handful of baby angels that didn't audition but, hey, they are cute and we figure we'll start them young to build our future performers. We even have a little five year old girl who went through the auditions and so-captured Phil's heart that he has written in a special part just for her!
See what happens when we put ourselves out there? My motto is usually, "jump in and hope you can swim!" I learned how to swim early and so far I have been able to avoid the sharks and drowning....well, the drowning part may get me sooner or later.
---Swimming with my head just above water ... it's about at my chin!
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