The Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players

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.

Board of directors

Officers
  • President: Ellen Shelby
  • Vice President: Mindy Wilborn
  • Treasurer/Secretary: Andrew Guzman
  • Past President: Mik Brown

Board Members
  • Michelle Holcomb
  • Amber Winnett
  • Micheal Lain
  • Angela Burkey
  • Jason Calahan
  • Alisa Carter

Past productions

"2020"

  • Come Blow Your Horn
  • Bright Star

"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

"2018"

  • Rumor's
  • All Shook Up
  • The Foreigner
  • The Homecoming

"2017"

  • Agatha Christie's-And Then There Were None
  • Oklahoma
  • Arsenic And Old Lace
  • The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

"2016"

  • Greater Tuna
  • Into The Woods
  • Steel Magnolias
  • It's A Wonderful Life

"2015"

  • Lés Miserable
  • The Odd Couple
  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

"2014"

  • The Fantasticks
  • Titanic: The Musical
  • Pump Boys and Dinettes
  • T'was the Night before Christmas

"2013"

  • Over the River and through the Woods
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • The Wedding from Hell
  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

"2012"

  • The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
  • State Fair
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • Babes in Toyland

"2011"

  • Godspell
  • Father of the Bride
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

"2010"

  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Dracula
  • It's a Wonderful Life

"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 Witcha and the Wardrobe
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner

2007

  • Man of La Mancha
  • A Christmas Story
  • Sunshine Boys
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

2006

  • The Diviners
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Music Man
  • The Foreigner

2005

  • The Miracle Worker
  • The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • South Pacific

2004

  • Little Women
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
  • The Sound of Music

2003

  • Steel Magnolias
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Sylvia
  • Cinderella

2002

  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Moon Over Buffalo
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Bus Stop

2001

  • Oliver
  • The Odd Couple (Female Version)
  • A Christmas Story
  • Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

2000

  • Guys and Dolls
  • Frosty the Snowman
  • The Rainmaker

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

1997

  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
  • Wait Until Dark

1996

  • Paint Your Wagon
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Driving Miss Daisy

1995

  • Li'l Abner
  • The Oldest Living Graduate (production canceled)
  • The Odd Couple

1994

  • Nunsense
  • Blithe Spirit
  • The Nerd

1993

  • Camelot
  • You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
  • 1776

1992

  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Rumors
  • Bexar

1991

  • The Foreigner
  • Oliver!
  • Steel Magnolias
  • Lend Me A Tenor

1990

  • My Fair Lady
  • The Sound of Music
  • The Fourposter
  • The Clock Shop

1989

  • On Borrowed Time
  • Annie
  • Harvey

1988

  • Cinderella
  • House of Blue Leaves
  • Carnival
  • Arsenic and Old Lace

1987

  • The Odd Couple (female version)
  • The Music Man
  • You Can't Take It With You

1986

  • Carnegie Players 10th Anniversary Gala
  • The King and I
  • Murder for the Asking
  • Alice in Wonderland

1985

  • Deathtrap
  • Annie Get Your Gun
  • Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander

1984

  • Plaza Suite
  • South Pacific
  • The Diviners
  • My Three Angels

1983

  • The Rainmaker
  • Oklahoma
  • Bus Stop
  • The Homecoming

1982

  • Barefoot in the Park
  • The Nutcracker
  • Inherent Legacy

1981

  • The Sound of Music
  • A Christmas Carol

1980

  • Come Blow Your Horn
  • The Little Angel Who Was Always Late
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