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Chanticleer Community Theater

After six decades, the Chanticleer Community Theaters is happy to be a part of the brand new Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center.  This valued community theater has shared its love and passion for music and the arts on stage since 1952.  Chanticleer Community Theater performs a wide repertoire of plays and programs to delight and entertain live theater lovers young and old.  The mission of Chanticleer is to provide an educational, entertaining, cultural, and historic experience for the greater Council Bluffs and Metro community through the performing arts.  Come and join us for shows filled with love, laughter, and fun!

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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Chanticleer Community Theater

December 11 - 20, 2020 

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a musical comedy with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The story is based on the "coat of many colours" story of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis. 

STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Chanticleer Community Theater

January 8 - 17, 2021 

Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this renowned drama follows troubled former schoolteacher Blanche DuBois as she leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her sister, Stella Kowalski, and her husband, Stanley, in New Orleans. Blanche's flirtatious Southern-belle presence causes problems for Stella and Stanley, who already have a volatile relationship, leading to even greater conflict in the Kowalski household.

THE MUSIC MAN - RETURN PERFORMANCE
Chanticleer Community Theater

March 12 - 21, 2021

When Harold Hill, a traveling con man, arrives in River City, he convinces the locals to start a band by purchasing the uniforms and instruments from him. His intention is to flee as soon as he receives the money. Librarian Marian Paroo suspects Harold is a fraud, but holds her tongue since her moody brother, Winthrop, is excited about the band. As Harold begins to develop feelings for Marian, he faces a difficult decision about skipping town.

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
Chanticleer Community Theater

May 14 - 23, 2021

A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder is a musical comedy, with the book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and the music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak. It is based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman.