Joslyn Players History

1999- Skits-O-Phrenia

2000-2001
November/December 2000 - The All Night Strut!
March 2001 - The All Night Strut! (Reprise)
March/April 2001 - The Cemetery Club

                                    2001-2002
                                    December 2001 - 70 Girls 70
                                    May 2002 - Driving Miss Daisy

     2002-2003                                                                       
October 2002 - Over The River And Through the Woods                                         →  
 December 2002 SECRETS Every Smart
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 February 2003 - But First...Sammy Shore
 March 2003 - Zorba The Musical
 May 2003 - Grace & Glorie

                                            2003-2004
 October 2003 - The Supporting Cast
 December 2003 - Applause
 January 2003 - An Evening With Beatrice Lillie
 February/March 2004 - Putting It Together
 April 2004  - After-Play

  2004-2005
 October 2004 - I'm Not Rappaport
 December 2004 - The Spitfire Grill
 January 2005 - The Heat Is On
 February 2005 - Blues In The Night
 April/May 2005 - The Waverly Gallery

2005-2006                                                                               
October 2005 - Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
December 2005 - Red, Hot & Cole
January 2006 - The Heat Is On
February 2006 - Dear World
April 2006 - Lettice & Lovage    
May 2006 - An Evening With Groucho                                                                                                  

2006-2007                                                                                    2007-2008
October 2006 -  The Tale of the Allergist's Wife                          Oct-Nov 2007 - Run For Your Wife      
Nov-Dec. 2006 - Swinging On A Star                                          Nov-Dec 2007 - TomFoolery
January 2007 - An Evening With Mark Twain                              Jan-Feb 2008 - On Golden Pond
February 2007 - A Grand Night For Singing                                March 2008 - Angel Street
March 2007 -  Annulla                                                                 April 2008 - Ladies At The Alamo
April 2007 - Second Summer

  Formed in 1999, The Joslyn Players are a company of actors, singers and dancers whose goals are to put on plays, musical revues and book musicals at the Joslyn Senior Center; as well as variety shows for assisted living facilities as part of an outreach program.  In its first year it produced one production called Skits-O-Phrenia.  In its second year, with the help of grants from the City of Indian Wells, Newman’s Own and El Paseo Bank, it produced the musical review, The All Night Strut! and the play The Cemetery Club. Both productions received critical acclaim and the latter was nominated for several Desert Theatre League Awards and won for Best Female Lead In A Comedy. The All Night Strut extended its run with a second show that sold out the entire weekend. 
    The next season, with the continued support of the City of Indian Wells, and the support of 1st Bank, they produced a Kander and Ebb musical, 70 Girls 70 and the drama Driving Miss Daisy.  Once again they received critical acclaim from both the Desert Sun and The Desert Post Weekly. 70 Girls 70 sold out several performances during its two-week run.  
     2002-03 was the first five-production theater season, beginning the tradition that the five consist of a comedy, a book musical, a trunk (imported) show, a musical revue and a drama.  Over the course of time, what was initially a banquet hall/auditorium has evolved into the Joslyn Center Theatre with the addition of sound and lighting systems, an extended stage, and risers and comfortable chairs for audiences.  The 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons generated a number of Desert Theatre League nominations and awards, the most notable of which was Best Overall Production of 03-04 for Joslyn's Production of Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together.
    2004-05 and 2005-06 continued what is rapidly becoming a tradition of pleasing audiences, critics, and our local theatre league.   Six shows were presented for the first time, The Heat is On being brought back for a one-week run by popular demand, and paving the way for six shows for 2006-07.
     The Joslyn Players have created a dramatic and musical theatre organization whose primary goal is to provide a forum for the development and performance of new and revived plays, musical revues and book musicals  which are performed predominantly by seniors 55 and older who are both professional and non-professional actors. They are based at the Joslyn Senior Center in Palm Desert and serve the entire Coachella Valley.
     On March 23 of 2008, the Joslyn Center Theatre was rededicated and renamed The Arthur Newman Theatre in tribute to long-time Board Member and Joslyn Players supporter Arthur Newman