The theatre features an orchestra pit and 66-foot-tall (20 m) fly tower with 29 lines of rigging to "fly" scenery and lights from overhead. Tobye Studio Theatre Blackburn Hall īlackburn Hall is a 318-seat proscenium theatre, with "European" style seating, meaning the aisles are located on the left and right sides of the auditorium.
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The Sugden Community Theatre building includes two main performance spaces, two sprung floor rehearsal halls, a music room and library, scenic and costume construction shops, plus ticket and administrative offices for the full-time staff. The program does not displace any existing teachers at the chosen school. The program teams with local businesses and private donors to present plays in schools which do not have any type of a theatre program. In the spring of 2007, KidzAct began an Outreach program. Scholarships to the program are available based on financial need. There is a full-time staff for KidzAct and contracted artist specializing in voice, dance, improvisation, and acting instruct nearly 1600 students in house. Children audition to be admitted to the production classes, which make use in applying what the students learn in the skills building sections of the classes. While TNP had traditionally produced a youth musical in the summer, an initiative was begun in the early 2000s to create a year-round educational theatre program featuring skills-building and production classes to children and young adults ranging from 4–18 years of age. KidzAct is the youth theatre and theatre education program of The Naples Players, founded in 2002. Thoroughly Modern Millie KidzAct (Teen Cast) 2009 The Players also present six KidzAct productions annually, as well as Readers Theatre, showcase classes, and special events such as their annual Front & Center Gala, held under the stars in front of the Sugden Theatre on Baker Plaza.
TNP's annual performance season includes six main stage and three studio productions of more than 260 performances per year. The Theatre currently plays to an audience of over 65,000 patrons and season subscription holders annually. Today, the company stages productions year-round, has a dues-paying membership of 500 plus, and features the talents of volunteer actors, directors, designers, and crew drawn from across Southwest Florida. The Sugden Theatre sits only two blocks south of Gulfview Middle School, where TNP staged its first production in 1953. Following an unprecedented fundraising campaign, and a partnership with the City of Naples in choosing a suitable location, over $6 million was raised to build the Sugden Community Theatre in downtown Naples on a site provided by the City, which was completed in 1998. However, as TNP entered its fourth decade of existence in the mid-1990s, the Kon-Tiki Playhouse began to suffer from a crumbling facade and mechanical breakdowns, and it soon became clear that a new location was necessary. Īs the years passed, both the membership and audience for the company grew.
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In 1985, TNP converted the now-demolished Kon-Tiki movie theatre on Goodlette-Frank Road. In 1975, they established a home base for the next decade when a 40-seat playhouse was opened at 2363 Davis Boulevard. The group performed where it could in its first 22 years of existence in the Naples area, from local schools and storefronts to homes. The company staged its first musical, HMS Pinafore in 1958. Its first production, I Remember Mama by John Van Druten, was staged in the auditorium of what is now Gulfview Middle School the night of March 20, 1953. The Naples Players Organization was founded on January 19, 1953.
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