Chelsea Area Players

The seed for the Chelsea Area Players was planted at a cast party attended by several alumni of Chelsea High School musicals, many of whom are participating in productions to this day. As they reminisced into the night about past productions, their drive to get together again and put on another show grew. The first production, The Sound of Music , was produced on a shoestring budget under the auspices of the Recreation Council and would not have been possible without the support of Charlie Cameron. They opened on July 28, 1972 (you don't know hot until you've played a nun in a high school auditorium where the temperature and humidity are about 95 degrees). Despite the heat and budget constraints, they kept together, and the next summer, the Chelsea Players opened as a community theatre company with a production of Fiddler on the Roof .