Magic Circle Players
420 South 12th Street, Montrose, Colorado 81401
970.249.7838
H
istory is always in the making at Magic Circle Players...
Bette Dustin Spiro surprised her friends that summer day, 1959, when she announced, "We're going to do a play!" In August the troupe performed Green Grow the Lilacs at the new National Guard Armory, corner of Townsend Avenue and South 12th Street, which was to be one of many venues for half a century.
Magic Circle Players (MCP) took its name from early tourist literature, according Gerree Nash, one of the founding mothers of the group. "Montrose has always been surrounded by such beautiful land. People would come and visit and go see places like Telluride, Ridgway, Ouray, Grand Mesa and Gunnison. Montrose was in the middle of what was called 'the Magic Circle of Beauty.' so we thought that would be a good name for the theatre."