Pelican Players

06/01/2026

Your Pelican Players Community Theater wants to meet you! Come to the Kings Point North Clubhouse on Wednesday, June 3rd from 11:00 until noon and meet some of our members. Our group presents live main stage shows, Readers Theater (live and on the radio), Cabaret Singer performances, Murder Mystery Dinner Theater and are involved in community events supporting Gannon University, The Literary Alliance and Twig Theater. We welcome new members to support all aspects of the theater - acting, backstage, sound and tech, set build, promotions, costumes and more.

Membership is $10 per year. Membership is open to all communities and not limited to Kings Point residents only. We support local students pursing the Arts through our Scholarship Fund, managed by Community Foundation, Tampa Bay. The North Clubhouse is at 1900 Clubhouse Drive, Sun City Center, FL.

Visit our website at www.pelicanplayersscc.org.

06/01/2026

05/31/2026

Mark your calendar and join us for a live Readers Theater performance!

🎫 Pelican Players Community Theater present - "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Matter of the Medium, Well Done".
📆 THU JUN 18, 2026
📍 Kings Point Veterans Theater, 1900 Clubhouse Drive, SCC
🕕 6:30pm, with doors opening at 6:00pm.
🎟 FREE! This is a complimentary performance to thank everyone for their support! BYO drinks and snacks and enjoy an evening of entertainment. All Pelican Players performances are open to the public.

About the show: It looks like Johnny Dollar is about to try his hand as a psychic investigator. Pat McCracken at Universal Insurance has invited him over to discuss a case involving a client of Tommy Green of Mid Eastern Life New York. The client, a sweet young thing by the name of Carol Sharp, lives alone in her New York Penthouse as a playgirl. Tommy holds a hundred and ten thousand dollar policy on her, straight life to benefit her mother and brothers on her death. But now she has instructed Tommy to change the beneficiaries. Thirty thousand to a guy named Tony Ricardo and the other beneficiary is a so-called medium Madame Cecilia. The last case of this happening ended up with the client dead and the medium being convicted of the murder.

05/26/2026

Listen to the newest Radio Readers Theater by the Pelican Players! This suspenseful tale will air on WSCQ 96.3FM Friday, May 29th! Tune in to your radio or listen at www.wscqfm.com. Director Jack Stevens has chosen a cast perfect for this performance. You won't want to miss it!

The story: Drowning in gambling debt, Joe makes a disastrous choice: he pawns his fiancée Molly’s engagement ring… then impulsively spends the money on a strange watch from a deeply unsettling pawnshop owner. Things go rapidly downhill when Joe discovers the watch can control time—and decides to use it to rob a bank. The robbery succeeds. The debt is gone. But Molly is gone and Joe still hasn't learned his lesson at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.

05/22/2026

The next Improv class is Tuesday, May 26th! Join Diane and others at 4:30pm in the East Social Room!

05/21/2026

Congratulations and best wishes to the cast of our summer play "Let's Murder Marsha", which runs from Friday July 24 thru Sunday July 26. The play will be directed by Kevin Steinke, with Gwen Brown as Assistant Director and Michele Horvath as Stage Manager.

The cast In order of appearance:

Marsha Gilmore - Donna Fiore
Bianca - Dawna Gantvoort
Persis Devoré - Julie Ramsey
Tobias Gilmore - Bob Horvath
Virgil Baxter - James Williams
Lynette Thoren - Jeanne Naish
Ben Quade - Pete Geller

About the play: A happy housewife named Marsha, hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries, overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the assistance of her next-door neighbor, she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion. When her own mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she is in on the diabolical scheme. When her maid’s date, a policeman, shows up to take the maid out, Marsha thinks he is on to her poisoning attempt. Well, finally, just when you would think all this would be cleared up, Marsha’s intended victims discover what she has supposed, and decide to teach her a lesson by actually pretending to be murderers.

05/20/2026

Our very own singer/songwriter, James Williams, has released a 10-song project entitled Heart, Soul and Mind. It is available on many music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. James's creative talents really shine through in his songs. Here is a list of the titles included in this release and a link to YouTube where you can hear them! Enjoy listening and share with your friends!

Heart, Should and Mind
Red Hearts
Kissed It Goodbye
Love Me Now
Safe in Love's Arms
Nice Town
Forget-Me-Nots
Where's the Love
Love Right Through it Again
A Saint was Saved

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxQz_UQmu60Jjt0s30PEgQ

James is a member of the Pelican Players Community Theater and contributes his many talents to our shows and has also served on the Board. We appreciate him and all he does for us!

05/17/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to see "Farce of Nature”! Special thanks from Director Paul Ansell, Assistant Director Michele Whelan and Stage Manager, Laurie Failing. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did bringing it to you! We had approximately 850 in attendance over the four shows and it shows just how much our community loves theater! The Pelican Players Scholarship Fund thanks you too! Your attendance provides us the means to fund our scholarship fund allowing us to donate more to our community and give more to local students studying the Arts!

A special thank you to our playbill advertisers, our local newspapers and radios and all of the Pelican Players member volunteers who contributed time and effort in making the show a success!

Here are a few more pictures from the show. We look forward to bringing you our next show "Let's Murder Marsha" July 24-26! There's always fun with the Pelican Players!

Photos by Janel Leino Hammel
www.pelicanplayersscc.org

05/15/2026

At the beginning of last night's performance of "Farce of Nature", a donation of $1000.00 was presented from the Pelican Players to the Literacy Alliance. Shirley Walker presented the check to Mario Gunawardena. Also present from the Literacy Alliance was Amber Smith. Other Board Members present included Ruth Lake, Barbara Boyle, Julie Ramsey and Kevin Steinke. At the promo table, Mary Banaszak led a group of members who shared information about our shows and what we do!

The show was so much fun and the audience really enjoyed the hilarity! Here are more pictures to enjoy! There are still three opportunities to see this funny show. Join us at tonight's performance starting at 6:30pm or Saturday at the 1:30pm matinee or evening performance at 6:30pm. Tickets are available at the door. Doors open half an hour prior to each show.

Photos by Janet Leino Hammel.