Willy Wonka Comes To Greenwich

Arch Street Teen Center
100 Arch Street
August 4 – 7, 2010
7:30pm

Off-Beat Players Theatre Company Sets Production of Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka”

Off-Beat Players (OBP), the Greenwich-based theatre company that features performers with and without disabilities in fully staged theatrical productions, will perform Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” August 4 – 7 at the Arch Street Teen Center in Greenwich.  This is the 10th consecutive year that a Broadway-style show has been produced at the Center by teens and young people with and without developmental disabilities.

OBP employs a pioneering theatrical style, where productions are adapted to the specialized cast with no sacrifice in entertainment and production values. The theatre company often dazzles audiences with unexpected performances highlighting black light choreography and puppetry, set design and development, singing, dancing, elocution, teamwork, and other techniques that facilitate the integration of people with differing abilities.

Curtain time is 7:30 PM. Tickets are $15 and can be ordered online at www.offbeatplayers.org.

About Off-Beat Players:
Established in 2007, Off-Beat Players, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit charitable and educational organization based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The organization is a theatre company devoted to performers with wide-ranging abilities, and new participants are welcome. The company currently includes about 40 teens and young adults who come together each summer to raise funds, organize, recruit cast members, adapt, and produce theatrical shows.  A number of company players have worked and performed together since 2001 in shows performed at the Arch Street Teen Center, including “The Wiz”, “Grease”, “Nunsense”, and “Thoroughly Modern Millie”. Learn more about OBP at www.offbeatplayers.org.