Cappuccino Singers started in 1992 as a “stand n’ sing” troupe that would take the opportunity to sing anything choral. Over time this would include Broadway, light classical, jazz and light pop. As time passed and the company grew stronger, they branched out into more complicated productions by adding one or two small staged vignettes into regular shows. Eventually these vignettes extended to complete acts and eventually, Everybody Comes to Seymour’s opened on the stage - a complete musical.

The group has encouraged individuals to step outside of their comfort zone and try something they never thought they would do - anything from solos to writing or directing productions. In fact, there are a lot of people in Calgary who had their first stage experience with Cappuccino Musical Theatre.

All of the group’s musical productions, until very recently, have been original scripts either written or directed by members of the company itself. They frequently work with already popular melodies in a create-your-own-musical style that allows young writers, actors and singers to bloom. Over time this format was hard to maintain based on the creative demands, not to mention the challenge of finding producing a new musical every six months. This proved to be too much for the company, so they took a break to re-organize and re-structure before coming back to put on A Chorus Line in April 2005. Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods followed this success, and then the company returned to their roots in May 2006 with Eve, an original musical in a co-production with Broad Minds Productions.

Cappuccino Theatre is looking to continue their accomplishments this season with the upcoming April Production of Blood Brothers, a haunting, rag to riches tragedy of our times. A woman with numerous children to support, surrenders one of her new born twins to the childless woman she cleans for. The boys grow up streets apart, never learning the truth but becoming firm friends and falling in love with the same girl. One prospers while the other falls on hard times. But a price has to be paid for separating twins: the blood brothers are fated to die on the day they find out that they are related.