Magic Circle added a Youth Theatre program in 2001. Our leading actors are drama camp volunteers our patrons serve on the season selection committee our board members build sets our playwrights costume shows our seamstresses direct shows our tech crews act our accountant will usher-for the love of theatre, we do what it takes for the show to go on! Volunteers still power Magic Circle Players, and we credit our longevity and success to our volunteers. The project was completed with hundreds of volunteer hours. In 2013, the Board of Governors launched a capital campaign and hired the same contractors to build an addition. Through an extensive fundraising campaign and the efforts of volunteers, a permanent home was built by Walker & Krill (local contractors). In 1974, after years of performing at the Armory, Arcadia Dance Hall, and the Junior High School, Magic Circle Players moved to its current location at 420 South 12th Street. The fledgling theatre group continued to thrive under volunteers who rose to the challenge of keeping their community theatre alive.
Howitzers were pushed to the far walls and covered with flats, and Bette directed most of the productions until 1966, when she moved to Denver. The Armory, on Townsend and 12th, was the inaugural home of Magic Circle Players. Bette named the newly minted, “Magic Circle Players,” because her philosophy was that a playwright, cast, crew, and audience form a circle and create the magic of theatre. Magic Circle Players’ story began in the summer of 1959 when Bette Dustin Spiro convinced a group of friends to put on a play. My husband, four of our six children, and I have been active in Magic Circle for 15 years. My Mom was cast in the 1962 production of I Remember Mama, and my Grandma Bunny took me to see my first Magic Circle Production, in 1984.
My maternal grandmother, Maggie, was the first one to introduce me to musicals I remember twirling around her kitchen, singing “Shall We Dance?” from The King and I. My story begins in Montrose and at Magic Circle Theatre. I am a fifth generation Montrose native and have managed Montrose’s own community theatre, Magic Circle Players, for 13 years.
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