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Anastasiajourney to the past

Jan 29 – Feb 6, 2027 Heritage Center Theater Cedar City

A girl with no memory, a rumor the whole of Russia is chasing, and one last train out of Leningrad. Our largest cast in fourteen seasons — every one of them a neighbor.

The 2026–27 Season

Four productions

Tickets on sale soon

Presented with the Cedar City Arts Council

Anastasia

The Flaherty and Ahrens score, sung by a company of forty. St. Petersburg to Paris, on our stage. Directed by Julie Griffin.

Eight performances
Jan 29 – Feb 6, 2027 · Heritage Center Theater, Cedar City
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Anastasia production art

Title announced in December

CVCT Mainstage · spring production

Spring 2027

Our second mainstage of the year. The board picks the title in December and auditions follow in January — put your name on the list and you will hear it the same day we announce it.

Six performances
Spring 2027 · auditions in January
Title to be
announced

Running all year

The CVCT Academy

Ten workshops, one season

Open sessions through the season, taught by artists who work at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, at SUU, and in Iron County classrooms. Most are free, and every one has a scholarship.

Next session
TODO — the Academy calendar needs Julie's real dates
A CVCT workshop in progress

Room to grow

Season expansion · 2028

The next slot is empty on purpose

CVCT stages two productions a year today. The plan is more — a third mainstage, a youth production, and workshops running alongside them. This layout already holds them; the season just has to catch up.

Planned for 2028
Your third
production
goes here

About us

It started with a dreamcoat.

Est. 2012

In 2012 a man with a dream put up Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Cedar City. Fourteen seasons later, the dream is a standing invitation.

Cedar Valley Community Theatre is run by volunteers and paid for by ticket buyers. Our auditions are open — no appointment, no agent, no experience. The person singing next to you might be a math professor at SUU, a dental hygienist, a high school band director, or somebody who has never been on a stage before and decided that this year they would.

We've done Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors, Annie, Oklahoma!, The King and I, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Lately we've reached further — James and the Giant Peach, Bright Star, Matilda, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The building changes. The company doesn't.

What we're actually building is not a season. It's the reason a hundred people in a small town in southern Utah know each other's names.

The full CVCT company on stage at curtain call Company members mid-number
14 Seasons
46 Productions
900+ People on our stage
8 to 80 Ages who've auditioned
0 Auditions by invitation
2012

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — the maiden voyage.

2013

Hello, Dolly! and Annie. Half the current board met in these two casts.

2017

Oliver! brings Julie Griffin through the stage door. She never leaves.

2020

Matilda opens in January. Then the world closes. We keep the company on a phone tree.

2024

Bright Star and Once Upon a Mattress — our biggest audiences yet.

2026

The Academy launches. Workshops become a year-round program, not a one-off.

Our people

The nine who keep the lights on

All volunteers
JG Julie Griffin
President

Vocal coach and director. Came in with Oliver! in 2017 and stayed.

MA Matt Adams
Vice President & Treasurer

Teaches math at SUU. First show: Hello, Dolly!, 2013.

NB Noel Bauer
Event Coordinator

Ran spotlight for Annie in 2013. Fourteen productions since.

CM Caden Marshall
Marketing Director

Music directed The Pajama Game and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

JG Jennie Grimes
Cast Communication

Dance teacher at CVHS. Danced Limón under Risa Steinberg.

JG Jessika Grimshaw
Website Coordinator

Dental hygienist. Margo in Bright Star, Alice in Seven Brides.

SY Shellee Younkin
Grants & Sponsors

MA in Arts Administration. Choreographer and yoga teacher.

TA Torri Adams
Social Media

Dancing since she was three. Choreographs for USF Playmakers.

TW Trevor Walker
Event Coordinator

Teaches band and choir in Parowan. Nicely-Nicely in Guys and Dolls.

Support

A ticket covers the show. You cover the next one.

$25Friends of the Theatre
$50A child's scholarship
$100One costume
$500A set build

Online giving opens with ticket sales. To give now, email info@cvct.online and we will get it done.

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Auditions

Everyone who walks in gets heard

No appointment needed
Anastasia Monday Oct 12 & Tuesday Oct 13

Sign-ups open Monday, September 14. Which time you pick depends on your age, so we ask that first and then show you only the times you can actually take.

If none of them work, email us. We have never turned away somebody who wanted to be heard.

  • Sixteen bars of anything, or borrow one of ours
  • Sheet music in your key, if you have it
  • A list of dates you cannot rehearse
  • Nothing else. Not a headshot, not a résumé
When you audition By age
Children, 7–14 Mon Oct 12, 6:30–7:15 PM Little Anastasia and Alexei, double cast.
Teens & adults, 15+ Mon Oct 12, 7:30–9:15 PM Acting and ensemble roles.
Dancers, 15+ Video due Mon Oct 12, 9:30 PM Eight dancers, including one en pointe.
Pick your time when you sign up Sign up to audition
Movement call — everyone cast
Tue Oct 13, 6:30–7:30 PM
Callbacks, by invitation
Tue Oct 13, 7:30–9:30 PM

Grants & sponsors

Put your name on a season

All of it stays in Iron County
$250Program listing and a pair of opening night tickets
$500Program listing, lobby banner, and four tickets to every production
$1,000All of the above, plus your name on the show poster
$2,500Season sponsor. Named on every piece we print for a year.
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