Help us Choose Our Future Seasons!
City Park Players is Central Louisiana’s community theatre. Because we are your community theatre, we want to hear from you! Please let us know what shows you might like to see CPP produce in the future by filling out the survey below:
Betting on Bloodshed
By Will Murdock
CAST NEEDED: 6W, 6M, Flexible Casting
INTERACTIVE with audience
Murder mystery comedy – The new manager of the Flying Flamingo Hotel and Casino is cleaning house and getting rid of all the usual suspects. And one of them might just want him dead. Is it one of the show girls? The dealer? The nun? The magician? His mom? It’s up to you to find out. Perfect for a dinner theater or on a traditional proscenium, this script includes instructions to help your audience vote on who they think the killer is. There are four distinct endings with four different killers! You can perform them all or choose your favorite.
The show was imagined as an immersive Murder Mystery performance that places the audience in the middle of the Flying Flamingo Lounge and Casino as the story unfolds around them.
The Cemetery Club
By Ivan Menchell
CAST NEEDED: 4W, 1M
Dramatic Comedy – Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life; Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun; and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife’s grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt-stricken when this nearly breaks Ida’s heart.
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
By Simon Stephens, Mark Haddon
CAST NEEDED: 5W, 5M (doubling)
Total Cast: 10, Flexible Set
Drama – 15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. Now it is 7 minutes after midnight, and Christopher stands beside his neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and he carefully records each fact of the crime. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award® for Best Play.
Four Old Broads on the High Seas
By Leslie Kimbell
CAST NEEDED: 5W, 6M + drag role
Comedy / Mystery – Those crazy broads are back! This time, they are on their Sassy Seniors Cruise. Their trip is full of fun and hijinks, but there might even be murder on the horizon…
Get ready to set sail with your favorite Old Broads. Yes… they’re back again and ready for a Sassy Senior’s cruise to the Bahamas. Beatrice is determined to have her pick of ALL the eligible men on the ship… but Maude, fresh from her win at The Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Pageant, plans on being her biggest competition. Wedding bells are ringing for Sam and Imogene… maybe. And Eaddy… well… she just wants to know what all the fuss is about up on the topless sun deck. Throw in a murder mystery, a fabulous drag queen and a crazy costume party, and you’re in for a laugh-a-minute, side-splitting laugh-out-loud night of fun!
Heaven Help Me
By Joe Simonelli
CAST NEEDED: 2W, 4M
Comedy / Fantasy – The three Holloway brothers have a real problem. Their string of casual restaurants is failing – the black sheep, youngest brother Rollie owes money to every bookie in town, and they need to sell the family beach house to recapitalize the business. The only problem is that their deceased fourth brother Fred is haunting the place and won’t vacate!
“Simonelli really knows his characters and he writes in a way which really gets to people. The play is very amusing, but it is also very touching.” – Asbury Park Press
“A touching comedy/fantasy that displays both wit and charm. Go see it now!” – Joe Franklin, Bloomberg Radio
Jeeves Takes a Bow
Adapted by Margaret Raether
CAST NEEDED: 2W, 4M
Comedy – What ho! Bertie Wooster inflicts his charming ineptitude on America when he adventures across the pond armed only with his handsome fortune, talent for trouble, and his remarkable manservant Jeeves. But when a childhood friend gets Bertie mixed up with a vengeful thug named “Knuckles” McCann, he ends up mistakenly engaged to the meddling Vivienne Duckworth. Even the illustrious Jeeves may not be up to the task…
Making God Laugh
By Sean Grennan
CAST NEEDED: 2W, 3M (5-20 actors possible: 2-8 W, 3-12 M)
Comedy/Drama – Making God Laugh follows one typical American family over the course of thirty years’ worth of holidays. Starting in 1980, Ruthie and Bill’s grown children — a priest, an aspiring actress, and a former football star — all return home, where we learn of their plans and dreams as they embark on their adult lives. The empty-nester parents contend with their own changes, too, as old family rituals are trotted out and ancient tensions flare up. As time passes, the family discovers that, despite what we may have in mind, we often arrive at unexpected destinations. Mild adult language.
No Body Like Jimmy
By Burton Bumgarner
CAST NEEDED: 4W, 4M, 3 either, 11 total cast
Comedy, Farce – On the evening of Ralph and Eloise Vanlandingham’s political fundraising dinner, Ralph’s best friend from college shows up with a problem. Harold has a dead body in the back of his van and he needs a place to stash Jimmy. Harold’s timing couldn’t be more awful as the Vanlandinghams are expecting a house full of major campaign donors in about four, three, two…
Playing Doctor
By Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore
CAST NEEDED: 3W, 5M
Comedy – Rob Brewster’s parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don’t know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob’s day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit.
“Moliere, move over! Wonderful… wacky comedy.” – Asbury Park Press
