Celebrate Shelton, Center Stage team for Open House Day events Saturday

SHELTON - Celebrate Shelton and Center Stage Theatre are teaming up to celebrate Connecticut Open House Day and Kids Hour!

Join us for theater-based workshops as well as a performance by the Center Stage Community Kids and a guest performance on Saturday, June 13. Drop-in workshops will take place from 10-11 a.m. with entertainment beginning at 11:15.

All events will take place at Center Stage Theatre, 54 Grove St.

Celebrate Shelton to hold tree lighting Friday at Veterans Memorial Park

 

Center Stage in Shelton to present 'All Shook Up' featuring kids in Grades 3-5

SHELTON - Tickets for All Shook Up - a 30-minute musical featuring young performers in grades 3-5, are now on sale!

Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, it’s 1955 and into a square little town rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets.

Featuring mega hits from the beloved Elvis® catalogue this musical fantasy will have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”

Performances include:

November 1 at 7 p.m.

November 2 at 2 and 5 p.m.

Center Stage Theatre is at 54 Grove St.

Get your tickets today at https://ci.ovationtix.com/29405!

Center Stage Theatre in Shelton to hold reading of comedy Saturday

SHELTON - This weekend marks the world premiere of a brand-new play – Smiling: a sad, weird, neurotic comedy - at Center Stage Theatre. 

From playwright Ben Souza (2x winner of the Ernie DiMattia Emerging Young Artist Award for playwriting) and Shelton High School senior, Smiling follows Barry Adler, a struggling comedian - trapped in his own thoughts, navigating his life and relationships in New York City. 

The play is a relevant examination of humanity and relationships, questioning where we find true happiness in life.

This performance will be a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11. 

The theater is at 54 Grove St.

For general admission tickets ($10), please visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/29405/production/1225918...

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Center Stage Theatre in Shelton to present 'Nuncrackers' Christmas musical

SHELTON - Center Stage Theatre will present eight performances of  “Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical” Dec. 6-15. 

The Nunsense Christmas Musical "Nuncrackers" is presented as the first TV special taped in the Cable Access Studio built by Reverend Mother in the convent basement. 

It stars the nuns you love, plus Father Virgil and four of Mount Saint Helen’s most talented students. 

Featuring all new songs, including “Twelve Days Prior to Christmas,” “Santa Ain’t Comin’ to Our House,” “We Three Kings of Orient Are Us” and “It’s Better to Give than to Receive,” this show is filled with wacky Nunsense humor, some of your favorite carols, and a “Secret Santa” sequence featuring audience participation. 

Certain to tickle your funny bone and likely to tug at your heartstrings, "Nuncrackers" is the perfect way to make your holiday season merry and bright!

View the full schedule and purchase tickets at centerstageshelton.org. The theater is at 54 Grove St.

For more information, visit centerstageshelton.org, or the theatre’s Facebook or Instagram (@centerstageshelton) channels.

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Center Stage Theatre in Shelton to present 'Oklahoma!'

SHELTON - Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. 

Center Stage Theatre will present 11 performances of the classic musical 'Oklahoma!' from Feb.16-25. The theater is located at 54 Grove St.

Tickets range from $18-$50. View the full schedule and purchase tickets at centerstageshelton.org.

In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination, and the promise of a new land.

This beloved classic was revived on Broadway several years ago with a contemporary, updated rendition of the classic story. 

This production will be similarly reimagined, including a modified seating chart which includes both regular theater seating and VIP Picnic Table Seats putting you in the middle of the action with a Box Social picnic treat served by the cast during intermission.

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Center Stage in Shelton to present 'Carols & Cocktails' performances

 

SHELTON - Center Stage Theatre will present “A Center Stage Christmas: Carols & Cocktails” Dec. 15-17. Performances are at 7:30 p.m.

Get into the holiday spirit with some of your favorite Center Stage performers performing carols new and old accompanied by a live, three-piece band. 

Cabaret style seating; bring your own refreshments and holiday cheer! Purchase tickets at centerstageshelton.org.

Center Stage Theatre is an inclusive and intergenerational community-based theatre providing high quality and affordable performances, educational programming and volunteer opportunities. 

The theatre produces five full-scale productions a year including its annual Youth CONNection summer musical, as well as year-round theatre education for adults and students grades K-12. 

Founded in 2005 by Gary and Francesca Scarpa, Center Stage is a 501(c)3 non-profit theatre attracting actors and audiences from throughout Fairfield and New Haven counties, and was named “Best Community Theater” by Connecticut Magazine’s “Best of CT 2022” round-up. 

For more information, visit centerstageshelton.org, or the theatre’s Facebook (@centerstageshelton) or Instagram (@centerstageshelton) channels.

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Performance at Center Stage Theatre in Shelton to benefit Valley Goes Pink

 

Center Stage Theatre in Shelton ready to perform Bingo Jamboree musical

SHELTON - Tickets are now on-sale for BINGO: JAMBOREE July 9-10 at Center Stage Theatre, 54 Grove St.

This brand new-musical has NEVER been seen before - get a firsthand look at the makings of a new musical with this script-in-hand special event that we promise to be full of laughs, music, and plenty of raunch.

Please note - this is an 18+ performance!

Don't miss out on this fun event!

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Center Stage Theatre in Shelton to hold summer camp for kids

SHELTON - Center Stage Theatre in Shelton is offering a variety of in-person summer camp options for grades K-12! Options remaining this summer include:

“Broadway’s Best with Industry Professionals” for grades 7-12, running July 19-23. 

This new intensive program features industry professionals leading master classes on signing, acting and dancing, working with students to put together a showcase performance, which will be performed on July 23 and at one performance of Center Stage’s “The Wedding Singer” production.

For additional information, including COVID safety guidelines, and to register, visit www.csecshelton.org/summerprograms.

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Center Stage Theatre in Shelton announces 2021 season

Center Stage Theatre presents its updated 2021 season line-up:


*For those who purchased subscriptions for the original season that was set to start in July 2020, they will still apply to this season*


TO PURCHASE A SUBSCRIPTION TODAY - CLICK HERE

Godspell

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

Directed by Justin Zenchuk and John Corraro

June 11 - June 27

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Godspell was the first major musical theatre offering from three-time Grammy and Academy Award winner, Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Children of Eden); and it took the world by storm. A small group of people help Jesus Christ tell different parables by using a wide variety of games, storytelling techniques and a hefty dose of comic timing. An eclectic blend of songs, ranging in style from pop to vaudeville, is employed as the story of Jesus' life dances across the stage. Dissolving hauntingly into the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, Jesus' messages of kindness, tolerance and love come vibrantly to life. Boasting a score with chart-topping songs, a book by a visionary playwright (John-Michael Tebelak) and a feature film, Godspell is a sensation that continues to touch audiences.



Wedding Singer

Featuring the Youth CONNection

Book by Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy; Music by Matthew Sklar; Lyrics by Chad Beguelin

Directed by Justin Zenchuk

Choreographed by Robert Merante

July 23 - August 1


The Wedding Singer takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room. Based on the hit Adam Sandler movie, The Wedding Singer's sparkling new score does for the '80s what Hairspray did for the '60s. It's 1985, and rock star wannabe, Robbie Hart, is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He's the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and, unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever.

Nunsense A-Men!

By Dan Goggin

Directed and Choreographed by Katie Sedlock

September 3 - September 19

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The show is a fundraiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Nunsense A-Men! is the original Nunsense show with all of the characters being portrayed by male musical comedy performers. Think of it as “Mrs. Doubtfire enters the Convent.” Done totally seriously, this show is, to quote a critic, "no drag". A whole new layer of comedy surfaces with lines like “The guys in the old neighborhood still can’t believe I became a nun!” To quote the New York Times: “A change of habit, boy oh, boy!”



Boeing Boeing

By Marc Camoletti

Directed by Scott Brill

October 8 - October 24

​A hit comedy similar in vein to Shakespeare’s comedies of merry misadventures and mistaken identities, Boeing Boeing tells the exploits of French bachelor Bernard and his lovely female flight attendants. Three flight attendants, to be exact, from three different countries: and they all believe they’re engaged to Bernard! In the past, Bernard has been able to juggle these women due to his detailed timetable of his fiancés’ flight schedules. When the situation changes and all of the women end up at his apartment on the same day, Bernard (with help from his bewildered friend Robert) struggles to keep them from learning the truth. Will the lying lothario be able to keep up this charade, or will a disaster occur? As they say: all’s well that ends well!



Irving Berlin's White Christmas

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin

Book by David Ives and Paul Blake

Directed and Choreographed by Al Recchia

December 3 - December 19

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Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil's former army commander. 

With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting musical sure to put you in the holiday spirit!

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Center Stage Theatre Education Center in Shelton slates auditions for Grades 4-8

 

Center Stage Theatre in Shelton slates Drive-In Bingo

 

Center Stage Theatre is located in the former Lafayette School at 54 Grove St., Shelton.

Center Stage Theatre in Shelton to hold auditions for romantic comedy this week

 

Center Stage in Shelton to host live stream cabaret featuring Broadway music

Center Stage Theatre in Shelton to host Comedy Club on outdoor stage

The Jolly Beggars to perform in cabaret at Center Stage in Shelton

Center Stage in Shelton adds 2 performances of 'Mamma Mia!'

Center Stage Theatre in Shelton schedules auditions

Theatre in Shelton to present 'A Center Stage Christmas'

SHELTON - In a diner on Christmas Eve, a group of strangers gets stranded in a snowstorm. Throughout the evening, they overcome their disappointments and come to understand the true meaning of Christmas.

Come experience A Center Stage Christmas, a feel good show that will spark your holiday spirit.
It's a nostalgic celebration of the holiday season filled with songs and skits that warm the heart.

The performance schedule is: 8 p.m. Dec. 6; 8 p.m. Dec. 7; 2 p.m. Dec. 8; 8 p.m. Dec. 13; 8 p.m. Dec. 14; 2 p.m. Dec. 15; 7 p.m. Dec. 19; 8 p.m. Dec. 20; 8 p.m. Dec. 21; 2 p.m. Dec. 22.

In the spirit of giving, Center Stage Theatre is a drop-off location for “TEAM, INC: Toys 4 Kids Annual Toy Drive.”
Center Stage Theatre is at 54 Grove St.