Straw Hat Players
The 61st Season of Straw Hat Players Summer Theatre
The Straw Hat Players is an intense six-week experience consisting of approximately 50 actors, technicians and staff members who work seven days a week, 10 hours a day to present five professional quality productions. Company members are offered a chance to develop talents in acting, dance, scenery construction, costumes, make-up, sound and lighting design that will prepare them to go on to exciting careers in the professional entertainment world.
Swing!
It shattered ethnic and cultural barriers, generating specialty styles such as Jive, Swing, Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, and Hip-Hop Swing. Swing! celebrates this remarkable diversity to the beat of the most exhilarating songs of the period. But as this enthralling song-and-dance show makes abundantly clear, swing was never a time or place -- it has always been a state of mind! Including hits such as “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “I’ll Be Seeing You,” and “Stompin’ at the Savoy,” this all singing and dancing revue is bound to leave you smiling!
June 4 - 6
Gaede Stage | PG
Fiddler on the Roof
This classic story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism in the world around him. Fiddler on the Roof’s universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality, and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness.
June 11 - 15
Gaede Stage | PG-13