Table of Contents
- Current and Upcoming Season (with links to reviews if available). [Seasons updated as necessary]
- Theatre Background and information
- Directions to venue, and parking advice
2016-2017 Season (partial)
- While the Lights Were Out (24 Mar – 9 Apr 2017)
- The Pillowman (21 – 23 Apr 2017)
- Into the Woods (5 – 21 May 2017)
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2017-2018 Season
- Old-Fashioned Melodrama: Ladies of the Line or Under the Station Tower (13 July – 6 August 2017)
- My Fair Lady (22 Sept – 8 Oct 2017)
- A Comedy of Errors (10 – 19 Nov, 2017)
- A Dickens’ Christmas Carol (1 – 17 Dec 2017)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (9 – 25 February 2018)
- Xanadu (6-22 April 2018)
- Sleuth (4 – 20 May 2018)
Theatre Background and Information
Every year, thousands of visitors to Cheyenne’s Frontier Days make a point to attend the Old-Fashioned Melodrama at Cheyenne Little Theatre’s Atlas Theatre in downtown Cheyenne. The Melodramas are boo-the-villain and cheer-the-hero events with deliberately over-the-top acting in the style of the early silent movies.
They have titles (and matching plots) such as Rocky Rhoades’ Rodeo Ride or The Bigger the Dastard, the Harder They Fall or Who Noosed the Moose?; Dirty Deeds at the Depot or Professor Mack’s Miracle Elixer; and The Treasure of Sara’s Padre or Peril at the Plains or Don’t Be a Freud, Just Lie Down on the Couch My Dear!
But the Cheyenne Little Theatre Players – a company of amateur actors – do much more in a year than the popular Old-Fashioned Melodrama.
In addition to a season of popular plays, musicals, and radio re-enactments, they also host yearly fundraising events such as the Zombie Fest, Mardi Gras Cabaret, Shakesfaire Cheyenne (making its debut in 2017, and hopefully an annual event) and the New Year’s Eve Drag Showcase.
The Atlas Theatre on Lincolnway/16th Avenue
The Cheyenne Little Theatre players split their time between two theatres during their theatrical season, which runs from late September to the end of May of the following year.
The Melodrama and about half their plays are performed at the Atlas Theatre in historic downtown Cheyenne (just a block away from the historic Cheyenne Depot) and the other half are performed at the Mary Godfrey Playhouse at 2706 E Pershing Blvd.
The two lower floors of the Atlas have table seating (and select shows actually do serve dinner), while the mezzanine has regular theatre seating. The Mary Godfrey Playhouse has theatre seating throughout.
Mary Godfrey Playhouse
The building housing the Atlas Theatre (221 Lincolnway) was built in 1888 as an office building, and converted into a theatre in 1908. Vaudeville acts played on the stage until 1929. It then became a movie theater until 1955 (“Theatre” = live theatre, “theater” = movie theater). After that it briefly became the Pink Pony Nightclub. In 1966 the Cheyenne Little Theatre group leased the building and changed its name back to the Atlas Theatre, specifically to host their Old Fashioned Melodrama. In 1971 they bought the building outright and it now hosts the Melodrama and other CLTP productions, and can be rented out for a variety of events. It seats 250 people.
The Cheyenne Little Theatre Players built the Mary Godfrey Playhouse in 1958. Originally it was a location for them to paint scenery; store props and costumes, and rehearse. The property was expanded to include a stage and a lobby, and the Mary Godfrey Playhouse was born in 1965. It seats 250 people. (Mary Godfrey, born in McCook, Nebraska in 1906, grew up in Cheyenne and married her husband, William Yaeger, in 1935.)
Here’s the locations for the 2017-2018 productions.
- Old Fashioned Melodrama (Atlas Theatre)
- My Fair Lady (Mary Godfrey Playhouse)
- A Comedy of Errors (Mary Godfrey Playhouse)
- A Dickens’ Christmas Carol (Atlas Theatre)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Mary Godfrey Playhouse)
- Xanadu (Atlas Theatre)
- Sleuth (Mary Godfrey Playhouse)
Into the Woods – final production of the 2016-17 season. Photo shows the rear of the Mary Godfrey Playhouse (with stage door and scenery door visible) from Pershing
Directions and Parking Advice
Atlas Theatre (221 Lincolnway)
The Atlas Theatre is located at 221 Lincolnway, just a block away from the historic Cheyenne Depot. There is parking on the streets if you arrive early enough (and if you’re staying at the Plains Hotel, 24 years younger than the Atlas Theatre building, on the corner of Lincolnway and Central, you can just walk over). However, the easiest thing to do is to park in the Jack Spiker parking garage at Lincolnway and Carey (enter on Carey).
Mary Godfrey Playhouse (2706 E Pershing Blvd)
From the landmark of the Historic Cheyenne Depot, turn right/east onto W Lincolnway for a few hundred yards, passing Central Avenue (one way south). The next road is Warren Avenue which is a one-way heading north. Turn left onto Warren Avenue and continue until you come to Pershing Avenue.
Turn right on Pershing Avenue and continue along Pershing for a couple of miles. Eventually you’ll come to a “traffic circle.” Follow the arrows to keep on Pershing (and look out for merging traffic). As you continue on Pershing you’ll pass the Department of Veteran Affairs and Brimmer Park on your left, before coming to Windmill Rd. You’ll be able to see the sign for the Cheyenne Little Theatre on your left across the street (see above image.) Turn left onto Windmill Rd, and take your first right into the parking lot of the Mary Godfrey Playhouse. There’s plenty of parking in the lot.
