The Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players Explained
The Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players, named for Andrew Carnegie, is a non-profit thespian group that has been bringing live theatre to Cleburne, Texas and the surrounding areas since 1980.
Starting with the first season, which included two shows, and continuing to the present with four shows performed annually, the Carnegie Players encourage participation both on the stage and off by anyone in the Johnson County area.
The theatre has produced many talented actors and actresses in its time, and is still continuing to remain a great theatre force in Cleburne, Texas.
History
In 1978, the City of Cleburne moved their storage-house from the top floor theatre of the Carnegie Library building, which had been built by a grant to the city from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation in 1904.
This move opened the door for renovation of the theatre and the founding of a theatre troupe for the city. Thus, The Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players was founded. The renovation project involved many local citizens along with the city and took two years to completion.
Since 1980, all Fall, Winter, and Spring productions have been performed on The Layland Museum Theatre stage (located at 201 N. Caddo), whereas the summer musicals have been performed at Cleburne High School.
Beginning in the summer of 2010, the Carnegie Players moved into the Community Performing Arts Center located in the newly remodeled Cleburne Conference Center. The Carnegie Players' last production in the old Carnegie Theater was the musical 1776 in March 2010, while the first show in the new theatre was The Wizard of Oz in June 2010.
Past productions
2020's| 2022 | | 12 Angry Jurors | | Cheaper by the Dozen | | And Then There Were None | |
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| 2021 | | Christmas Belles | | Dearly Beloved | | Farce of Habit | | Farce of Nature | |
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| 2020 | | Come Blow Your Horn | | Bright Star | |
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2010's| 2019 | | All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | | Mamma Mia | | A Piece of My Heart | | Over the River and Through the Woods | |
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| 2018 | | Rumor's | | All Shook Up | | The Foreigner | | The Homecoming | |
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| 2017 | | Agatha Christie's-And Then There Were None | | Oklahoma | | Arsenic And Old Lace | | The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe | |
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| 2016 | | Greater Tuna | | Into The Woods | | Steel Magnolias | | It's A Wonderful Life | |
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| 2015 | | Lés Miserable | | The Odd Couple | | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | |
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| 2014 | | The Fantasticks | | Titanic: The Musical | | Pump Boys and Dinettes | | T'was the Night before Christmas | |
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| 2013 | | Over the River and through the Woods | | Fiddler on the Roof | | The Wedding from Hell | | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | |
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| 2012 | | The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 | | State Fair | | Anne of Green Gables | | Babes in Toyland | |
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| 2011 | | Godspell | | Father of the Bride | | Miracle on 34th Street | | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
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| 2010 | | The Wizard of Oz | | Romeo and Juliet | | Dracula | | It's a Wonderful Life | |
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| 2009 |
| Disney's Beauty and the Beast |
| A Midsummer Nights Dream |
| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever |
| 1776 | |
| 2008 | | Oliver | | Agatha Christi's The Mousetrap | | CS Lewis' The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe | | The Man Who Came to Dinner | |
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| 2007 | | Man of La Mancha | | A Christmas Story | | Sunshine Boys | | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | |
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| 2006 | | The Diviners | | It's a Wonderful Life | | The Music Man | | The Foreigner | |
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| 2005 | | The Miracle Worker | | The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever | | Arsenic and Old Lace | | South Pacific | |
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| 2004 | | Little Women | | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | | All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | | The Sound of Music | |
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| 2003 | | Steel Magnolias | | Miracle on 34th Street | | Sylvia | | Cinderella | |
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| 2002 | | Fiddler on the Roof | | Moon Over Buffalo | | A Christmas Carol | | Bus Stop | |
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| 2001 | | Oliver | | The Odd Couple (Female Version) | | A Christmas Story | | Cat On a Hot Tin Roof | |
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| 2000 | | Guys and Dolls | | Frosty the Snowman | | The Rainmaker | |
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| 1999 |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| It's A Wonderful Life |
| Nunsense II: the Second Coming | |
| 1998 | | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | | Cheaper By The Dozen | | To Gillian, On Her 37th Birthday | |
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| 1997 | | The Wizard of Oz | | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | | Wait Until Dark | |
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| 1996 | | Paint Your Wagon | | The Glass Menagerie | | Driving Miss Daisy | |
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| 1995 | | Li'l Abner | | The Oldest Living Graduate (production canceled) | | The Odd Couple | |
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| 1994 | | Nunsense | | Blithe Spirit | | The Nerd | |
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| 1993 | | Camelot | | You're A Good Man Charlie Brown | | 1776 | |
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| 1992 | | Fiddler on the Roof | | Rumors | | Bexar | |
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| 1991 | | The Foreigner | | Oliver! | | Steel Magnolias | | Lend Me A Tenor | |
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| 1990 | | My Fair Lady | | The Sound of Music | | The Fourposter | | The Clock Shop | |
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| 1989 |
| On Borrowed Time |
| Annie |
| Harvey | |
| 1988 | | Cinderella | | House of Blue Leaves | | Carnival | | Arsenic and Old Lace | |
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| 1987 | | The Odd Couple (female version) | | The Music Man | | You Can't Take It With You | |
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| 1986 | | Carnegie Players 10th Anniversary Gala | | The King and I | | Murder for the Asking | | Alice in Wonderland | |
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| 1985 | | Deathtrap | | Annie Get Your Gun | | Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander | |
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| 1984 | | Plaza Suite | | South Pacific | | The Diviners | | My Three Angels | |
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| 1983 | | The Rainmaker | | Oklahoma | | Bus Stop | | The Homecoming | |
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| 1982 | | Barefoot in the Park | | The Nutcracker | | Inherent Legacy | |
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| 1981 | | The Sound of Music | | A Christmas Carol | |
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| 1980 | | Come Blow Your Horn | | The Little Angel Who Was Always Late | |
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