50 Years To The Day Of Initial Release : CAU Captures The Indomitable Human Spirit In Its Fiddler On The Roof Performance
Fiddler On The Roof - a heartfelt story of exclusion and persecution that ends with renewed hope in the human spirit will be re-imagined by CAU Community Players. As Forbes just wrote in a recent post, even after half a century the human condition remains unchanged.
- (1888PressRelease) June 19, 2014 - Community Access Unlimited (CAU), a human services nonprofit serving people with disabilities, will once again stage a full theater production to be performed by the CAU Community Players, a combined troupe of people with disabilities who are members of CAU, CAU staff and actors from throughout the wider community.
The troupe will be performing "Fiddler on the Roof, Jr." June 27-29 at Jonathan Dayton High School in Springfield. As with the troupe's previous productions, "Fiddler" will feature a combined cast of people with disabilities and people without disabilities, as well as a message focused on the importance of the community in giving stability to an individual's life as reflected by the families and townspeople in Fiddler on the Roof.
CAU provides support programs and services to people with disabilities and youth served under the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to enable them to live independently in the community, in areas including housing, vocational and life-skills training, education, advocacy and recreation.
The CAU Community Players, the first of its kind in Union County, was formed to allow CAU members with disabilities to engage in the pleasures acting, singing and dancing side-by-side with people from the community. The troupe is representative of the unique extra steps CAU takes to fulfill its mission of enabling its members to live fulfilling and contributive lives in the community. Those extra steps in housing, training, education and advocacy and recreation collectively are the CAU Advantage that set CAU apart from other human services agencies serving people with disabilities throughout New Jersey.
"Fiddler on the Roof, Jr." will be shown Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 92, at 2:00 p.m. The show is supported with a grant from the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Members of the cast, including CAU members and participants from the wider community, will be available for interviews after the performance.
Background
"Fiddler on the Roof, Jr." is the fourth staging by the CAU Community Players, with each carrying a message of inclusion. The troupe's inaugural production in 2012 was "Suessical Jr.," a story of journey and acceptance - of Horton's journey through challenge and his discovery of love; of Jojo first being rejected but later celebrated for his creative thinking; of the struggle of the residents of the planet Who to be accepted despite their tiny size and of the bird Gertrude McFuzz to be loved despite her tail of just one feather.
That was followed in 2013 by "Beauty and the Beast Jr.," a tale of Belle's interaction with the other characters who are very different from her and her eventual taming of the Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince, a lesson of accepting and embracing those who are different.
Earlier this year the CAU Community Players staged their first original production, "The Tales of Beatrix Potter," a play written by 17-year-old John Patrick Munley, a young man with Asperger's syndrome, a component of the autistic spectrum, about the author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit."
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