Summerland Singers and Players has been creating theatre in Summerland for over 100 years. We used to be Gilbert & Sullivan fans, but that has changed. (Well, we’re still fans but casts of forty and full orchestras are getting hard to come by!
Productions
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1912 — Cousin Kate 1913 — The Mikado 1924 — HMS Pinafore 1925 — The Mikado 1926 — Yeoman of the Guard 1927 — The Gondoliers 1928 — HMS Pinafore 1929 — The Stoker, Iolanthe 1929 — Lucrezia Borgia’s Little Party 1930 — Pirates of Penzance 1931 — Riders to the Sea 1932 — The Peasant Cantata 1933 — The Fate of Wun Fo 1936 — Birds of a Feather 1936 — Love in the Ape House 1936 — Christmas Pageant 1937 — Sylvia (not the dog) 1938 — The Red Velvet Coat 1938 — Thank You Doctor 1938 — Heaven on Earth 1939 — Twin Beds 1939 — Jewels of the Desert 1940 — Noel Coward’s Ways and Means 1941 — Grand Concert 1941– The Laundry Mask 1942 — Salute to Russia (Music with a Russian backdrop) 1942 — Here Comes Mister Jordan (AKA Heaven Can Wait) 1943 — (War benefit, Salute to Russia) A Russian Praznick 1944 — Let Me Call you Sweetheart 1944 — A Murder has been Arranged 1944 — Indian Wedding Festival 1945 — Charlie’s Aunt 1945 — The Star of Hope Cantata 1945 — Alexander’s Horse 1945 — Down South, A plantation medley 1946 — The Romantic Young Lady 1946 — Carnival Passing 1946 — The Magic Christmas Tree 1947 — Trouble Shooter 11948 — HMS Pinafore 1949 — Pirates of Penzance 1949 — I Remember Mama 1950 — Iolanthe 1950 — Lonesome Like 1951 — Patience 1951 — Between the Soup & Savory 1951 — Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1952 (New Auditorium built) — Mikado 1952 — Pride and Prejudice 1953 — Blythe Spirit 1954 — Yeoman of the Guard 1954 — Dark Lady 1954 — The Chiltern Hundred 1955 — Ruddigore 1956 — The Gondoliers 1957 — HMS Pinafore 1958 — Pirates of Penzance 1958 –I Remember Mama 1959 — The Sorcerer 1959 — Trial by Jury 1959 –Tobiasand the Ange 1960 — Iolanthe 1963 — Fumed Oak 1964 — Me and my Shadow 1965 – Some Women were Talking 1967 – Centennial Concert 1969 — Pink & Patches
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1971 — Pirates of Penzance 1972 — Iolanthe 1973 — Princess Ida 1974 — The Gondoliers 1975 — HMS Pinafore 1976 — The Mikado 1977 — Yeoman of the Guard 1978 — Ruddigore 1979 — Sorcerer 1979 — Policeman’s Serenade 1980 — Pirates of Penzance 1981 — Patience 1982 — Iolanthe 1983 — Oklahoma 1982 — The Black Bonspiel of Wully MacCrimmon 1984 — A Summerland Review 1985 — The Great KVR Calamity 1986 — Move Over Mrs. Markham 1987 — Our Hearts were Young and Gay 1988 — Fools 1988 — The Foreigner 1989 — The Nerd 1990 — Daddy’s Dyin’(Who’s got the Will) 1991 — Wenceslas Square 1991– Arsenic and Old Lace 1992 – There Goes the Bride 1992– Emergency handbook (Persephone) 1993 (SOFT) Fool for Love 993– Blithe Spirit 1994 – 7 Stories 1994– O Zone festival 1996 – Marriage, Monks and Mayhem 1997 — Actors Nightmare & Sister Mary…1997 – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 1998 –The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe 1999 – Mixed Doubles 1999 – Bordertown Café 1999 – (Not just Another) Christmas Carol 2000 – O Zone festival 2000 – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 2 2001 – The Affections of May 2002 – The Gin Game 2002– The York Nativity Play 2003 – Mainstage 2003 2004– Nunsense 2005 – That Summer 2006– Nunsense II 2006 – Lettice and Lovage 2006– ‘Har’ The Pirate Play 2007 – Fools 2008– Jack and the Beanstalk 2008 – Love Letters 2008– The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 3 2009 – This Is A Play 2009– O Zone festival 2010 – Love Letters 2 2010– Nuncrackers 2011- Mesa 2012 – 100 Lunches 2012, 2013 – A Christmas Carol Dramatic Reading 2014 – Almost, Maine 2015 – Christmas Pudding April, 2016 – A Bench in the Sun 2018, 2019 – Murder on the Rails with Kettle Valley Railway Whimsy State, or the Principality of Outer Baldonia
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Summerland Singers and Players 
I am new to Summerland. I have done a lot of community theatre — acting, directing, producing. Is your theatre group still active? I would love to become involved.
We would love tomeet you. We are having a board meeting this coming Wednesday night (January 15) at 7:00 pm, if you’d like to come along. Or one of us could meet you for coffee and talk about what we’re up to. Our main project for 2020 is “Murder on the Rails”, a murder mystery done on the KVR train this summer.
Betty-Ann for SSP