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Sign up for news about upcoming shows, auditions, or volunteer opportunities! From: "Wake Me When I'm Dead" - Winter 2010 HARTFORD PLAYERS - Hartford Players, Ltd. strives to bring quality live community theater to the Hartford area community. We are a non-profit 501c(3) organization that fosters community art enjoyment and involvement through the volunteer efforts of the talented people of the Hartford Wisconsin area. 7-2011 - Hello Dolly! 2/3-2011 - You Can't Take it With You! 7-2010 - Grease! 2 & -3-2010 -Wake Me When I'm Dead 7-2009 -The Wizard of Oz 2-2009 -It Runs in the Family 12-2008 - Holidayzed! 7-2007 - Nunsense
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The Hartford Players were founded in 1988 by local lawyers - Jim Mohr and Jerry Becker. They were both very active in Community Theater and wanted to create a group that would offer opportunities for theater people to participate in the Hartford area. They developed a set of bylaws, put up the initial money for a show, gathered a group of interested people and the group was formed. The first production was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in the summer of 1988. Proceeds from this show were used to begin a scholarship program for students pursuing an education in the arts, while the remainder was used to fund future shows. In the Hartford Union High School’s 300 seat, Drama/Lecture Hall the Hartford Players mounted productions twice per year…a straight play in February/March and a musical in June/July…for the next 12 years. Once the Schauer Arts and Activities Center was completed in 2001, the group moved its productions to the Ruth Knoll Theater and became a resident tenant at the Schauer Center. The group has continued to put on two productions each year and has added a benefit production for the Schauer Center during the Christmas holidays every other year. A sample of shows presented by the Players over the past 18 years includes: Nunsense, Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma, Music Man, Anything Goes, Brigadoon, Hello Dolly, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Ten Little Indians, The Nerd, Godspell, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The King & I, South Pacific, Arsenic & Old Lace, and Cinderella. Christmas Benefit shows: Holidayzed, Gift of the Magi, Best Christmas Pageant Ever and now A Wonderful Life. The Hartford Players group remains dedicated to furthering young people’s education, particularly in the arts. Their volunteer productions help fund a scholarship program that annually awards scholarships to at least two students pursuing some type of higher education in the arts. The Players have awarded as many as four scholarships in a single year. Anyone wishing to add to learn more about the scholarship program should contact the Hartford Players. "Thank you again and again for your financial support over the last four years, but also for the emotional support you have given me since my very first Hartford Players Show ..."
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