Podcast
Places Please Podcast:
The "Hold Please" mini-series
We recently launched a CP podcast called "Places Please." The episodes are designed to be like little pre-show talks perfect for listening to on your way to the theatre right before seeing the show, or anytime you want to be just a touch more “in the know.”
While the ongoing health crisis has put a temporary hold on productions, it does give us an opportunity to put our podcast to an unanticipated use.
Over the next several weeks we will be interviewing various people who have participated at CP over the years. Some of them will be locals, but we're also reaching out to former castmates from all over the country. We'll catch up with them and learn the impact CP made on them while they were here.
Subscribe to "Places Please" on your favorite podcast service. We'll also post links to each episode here.
Episode 10:
In our "Hold Please" series finale we visit with Jeff Porter who on July 11 will be doing a charity run to support Community Players. Jeff talks about what inspired him to start this fundraiser, his history with the theatre, and how important the organization is for the community. We also discuss the end of the "Hold Please" mini-series and what's next at CP.
Contribute to Jeff's 50K charity run at: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/jeffsrunforthetheatre/jeffporter12
Contribute to Jeff's 50K charity run at: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/jeffsrunforthetheatre/jeffporter12
Episode 9:
June is wedding season and this week we have a double wedding! Well not really. But we do talk with two couples who can trace their relationships to being involved at Community Players. First we talk with staff members Tyler and Elena Rinne who are celebrating their anniversary this week. Then we talk with Noah Snurr and Ariason James who were actually supposed to be getting married AT the theatre this weekend!
Episode 8:
This week we tackle our most epic interview yet. We have six guests all at once as the Frahm family talks about some of their involvement with CP over the years, how the arts are an essential part of their lives, and what the theatre has meant to them as a family.
Episode 7:
After taking a week off we are back with a new episode. This week we chat with Megan Decker whose experiences at CP helped inspire her career as a performer and educator.
We are temporarily back with a regular episode! We preview the special pay-per-view event DINOSAUR VACATION. This "dramatic" reading is written and performed by CP Associate Artistic Director Tyler Rinne. The show goes live on Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. Buy your digital ticket today
Episode 6: This week we escape to a tropical paradise, at least our ears do, as we visit with Phill Russell. Phill joins us all the way from Hilo, Hawaii to talk about how much CP meant to him growing up in Beatrice, and how he's continued to stay active in the arts.
Episode 5: This week's guest is no stranger to being in front of a microphone. Dick Terhune was a founding member of Community Players, but has gone on to perform on stage in many places and a wide variety of roles. He is also a very accomplished voice over artist, whose work we have no doubt you’ve heard. We talk about theatre, voice over work, and the Transformers.
Episode 4:
This week we talk with past Artistic Director Marya Lucca-Thyberg, we find out some of her fondest memories of working at CP, what she is up to now, and happens when you put two CP artistic directors on a podcast and tell them to chat.
Episode 3: This week's "Hold Please" mini-series episode features a conversation with Curtis Reynolds. Curtis literally grew up in the theatre, and is an example of making a career in the arts after being inspired as a youth. He talks about where his life has taken him since CP, and remembers some of his experiences here as well.
Episode 2:
This week we visit with mother and daughter, Jan and Elizabeth Claassen. We talk about their family's history with the theatre and find out some "fun" backstage mishaps.
Episode 1:
In our first episode we sit down with Terry Terhune, who was the first president of the theatre's board of directors. He shares how the theatre got started in the 1970s and his excitement for our future.
