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Branch Out Productions is a nonprofit community theatre company in Fredericton that describes itself as community theatre in its purest form. It stages full-scale musicals with big local casts, often around fifty performers per show, drawn from career-aspiring actors and casual enthusiasts alike. Recent productions include Shrek: The Musical, Footloose: The Musical, and The Sound of Music, staged at the Tom Morrison Theatre. Grid City Magazine has called it one of the city's most active community theatre groups, and its shows are a regular fixture of Fredericton's theatre season. What makes Branch Out distinct is the open door: auditions welcome all experience levels, and you do not have to sing or act to take part. The company actively recruits people to sew costumes, build and paint sets, and work backstage, framing every production as something the community builds together. It also runs children's programming and camps, which makes it a practical entry point for kids interested in performing. If you have ever wanted to try theatre as an adult without a resume of past roles, this is the group in Fredericton built for exactly that; watch their Facebook and Instagram pages for audition calls, which go out ahead of each production. For audiences, tickets to the musicals tend to be a family-friendly night out featuring familiar titles performed by neighbours, coworkers, and kids from down the street.

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