Buena Vista Community Theatre brings Frozen to Alta this summer
Frozen will fill Alta’s Roxy Theater June 19-21, with local adults, teens and children led by Carrie Buddenhagen and Deb Peterson.
Buena Vista Community Theatre will bring Disney’s Frozen to the Roxy Theater in Alta June 19 through June 21, giving Buena Vista County families a full Broadway-style musical built around local talent. The box office opens June 4.
Carrie Buddenhagen and Deb Peterson are directing the production, which will feature area adults, teens and children in the story of sisters Anna and Elsa. Caitlin Wetter will play Anna, Kelsey Corlew will play Elsa and Zach Freking-Smith will portray Kristoff, anchoring a cast that also includes Olaf, Sven, Hans, the king and queen, Oaken, Pabbie, Bulda, the townspeople, the hidden folk and the snow chorus.
The show’s scale reaches well beyond the three leads. Buena Vista Community Theatre’s April audition notice called for adult and teen performers in a long list of roles, including Anna, Elsa, the King, the Queen, Pabbie, Bulda, Kristoff, Sven, Olaf, Oaken, Weselton, townspeople, hidden folk, the snow chorus and Oaken’s family and friends. Young performers from across the county will also be part of the staging through the Young Elsa and Young Anna roles, split among several children.
Frozen’s popularity gives the production immediate name recognition, but the appeal in Alta is as much about who is on stage as what is being staged. The story of two royal sisters, built around love, fear, self-discovery and the force of nature, became a cultural phenomenon through songs such as Let It Go and Do You Want to Build a Snowman? before moving from screen to stage. In Alta, the draw will be a familiar title presented by neighbors, classmates and fellow church and sports families rather than a touring company.
The Roxy itself gives the run added local weight. The theater opened before 1941, has been home to Buena Vista Community Theatre since 1991 and has also housed the Touch of Broadway troupe since 2001. That long partnership has made the building a steady arts center for Alta and the wider county, and BVCT has repeatedly shown it can mount large shows there. Its 2025 production of Matilda the Musical featured more than 30 adults, teens and children from eight area communities, a reminder that summer theater at the Roxy has become a countywide effort as much as a stage production.
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