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T H E D E N V E R C E N T E R F O R T H E P E R F O R M I N G A R T S
VOLUME XXV n NUMBER 4
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2013
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JACKIE & ME CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE
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In an effort to better serve you, our patrons, friends and family, The Denver Center recently conducted some research. We spoke to people who come to the theatre all the time, those who see an occasional show, and those who have never been here. We learned a lot. Most gratifying was the overwhelm-ing confidence you have in us. You told us: “It’s magic. It’s on a par with New York and London. It’s a reason to live in Denver.” We couldn’t elicit a negative response—and we tried. One item in our survey results caught me by surprise. Many of our audience members, even long-time subscribers, were unaware that we are a not-for-profit organization. The IRS defines a not-for-profit as an organization that puts any surplus revenues back into the
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CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZEThe creator of Cirque Dreams continues to make good on a promise to expand the Cirque genre—this time ringing in the Holidaze.by Sylvie Drake
A CHRISTMAS CAROLAs inspired as it is inspiring, this novellamade an adjective of the word Dickensian. On stage this story never loses its redemptive power, its scariness, its luster or its joys. by Marilynne Scott Mason
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Jackie & Me is a stage adaptation of Dan Gutman’s book of the same name that traces the unplanned emotional journey of young Joey Stoshack, as he tries to research a difficult class assignment. Joey may not be the best player on his Little League team, but a rare baseball card buys him the ability to go back in time and meet Jackie Robinson on the day he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Thrust into a racial pressure-cooker, Joey learns a lot—about patience, about courage, about grace from one of America’s legends. Applause thought you might like to hear what the story means to Steven Dietz, who adapted it, and Stephen Weitz, who staged it.
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“… before Jackie Robinson, you couldn’t dream.”
A playwright and a director talk about their intimate experiences with baseball and the stain of racism. Fortunately, there was Jackie Robinson—and now, Jackie & Me.
More than any other sport, baseball has a magic, a
mythology, a tradition that pervades our society.
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FIRST THE PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE…
I am standing outside a room where my son and daughter are talking about base-ball and race. I am eavesdropping.
My daughter is seven; my son is six. My daughter is white. My son is black—and has just arrived via adoption from Ethiopia six months earlier. We have introduced him to a sport called baseball, and he has started playing it. My daughter, the baseball histo-rian in our family, is telling him all about Jackie Robinson. As she speaks, I realize that our family is having its first conversa-tion about race.
“Jackie liked to play baseball, and he was black like you,” my daugh-ter is telling my son. “But if you
were black, you couldn’t play.” My son—who is only learning to speak English and knows nothing whatsoever about American history or professional baseball—stands his ground: “Why not? I play. I play ball.” “No, not in the majors,” my daughter says again, trying to teach him. “Before Jackie Robinson, you couldn’t play if you were black.” “I could play. I have mitt. I have bat. They not stop me,” says my son in his new language. Exasperated, my daughter finally says: “Yes, you could play the game. But before Jackie Robinson, you couldn’t dream.” After Dan Gutman saw Chicago Chil-dren’s Theatre’s beautiful and memorable production of Honus and Me, he was kind enough to offer me my choice of his other books [to adapt]. Since Jackie Robinson had long been a hero around my house,
Jackie & Me was an obvious choice. I am honored to tell this story. Robinson is an important historical figure—situated at the crossroads of sport, culture, politics and race—but he also was a man playing a game. A game that raised many of us. A game that connects us with our fathers and grandfathers. A game that puts history at our fingertips.
My own father never got to meet his African American grandson or see him play ball. But baseball con-
tinues to connect generations, across time. And because of pioneers like Jackie and Rachel Robinson, Branch Rickey, Larry Doby and others, baseball—well before Selma and Birmingham and the March on Washington—enabled (and forced) America to talk about race. Jackie Robinson’s courage enabled many boys and girls to dream. Including my own.
—Steven Dietz, Playwright
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I’ve been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember. As a boy, I sat in front of the TV writing letters to my favorite
Phillies players. I was thrilled when I got a return letter from Mike Schmidt and an autographed baseball card. They both hung on my bedroom wall through high school. Between the time of the old, gorgeous fields like Ebbets and Fenway and the new palaces like Coors Field, there was a generation of concrete cylinders they played baseball in—the ugliest stadiums ever. I grew up going to these ballparks such as Veteran’s Stadium in Philadelphia and Three Rivers in Pittsburgh. You could hardly see the field from inside the concourses of the stadium, so there was always an excitement as you came up your ramp to your section and looked down onto the field for the first time. This was always a magic moment for me as a child. I still relish the moment of
arriving at the ballpark. Looking out over the fresh cut grass, smelling the food, hearing the fans. This kind of magic is captured in Dan Gutman’s book and this dramatic adapta-tion. More than any other sport, baseball has a magic, a mythology, a tradition that pervades our society. Ruth, Mays, Mantle, DiMaggio, Griffey. The names are legend-ary, even for those who aren’t fans. As an ingrained part of our culture, sports have tremendous power, both good and bad, to affect how we perceive the world around us. It’s impossible to overstate what a transformative moment Jackie Robinson’s major league debut was for our country. One man stepping across the white chalk line of a baseball diamond forever altered the percep-tions of race. As we well know, Jackie Robinson didn’t end racism or racial tension, but his bravery opened a door for thousands of others to walk through.
This play allows us not only to meet this iconic figure, but also to experi-ence the moment through the eyes of
a young boy only beginning to understand how Jackie’s example applies to his own life. Jackie & Me is a delightful journey. In the literal sense, it documents Joey’s journey through time to meet one of his idols—a monumental figure in American history. At the same time, it’s also a journey of growth and understanding and empathy. The play opens with Joey not being able to get on
base and ends with him coming home, and that journey around the baseball diamond is a perfect symbol of the whole play. We have had a wonderful journey of our own, explor-ing these people and this story. Thank you for coming to share it with us.
—Stephen Weitz, Director
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W When Neil Goldberg was seven, his Mom took him to see The Miracle Worker on Broadway. What fascinated him most was not the play, but the three-dimensional design of Helen Keller’s house revolving on stage. “I came home and did two things,” Goldberg said on the line from his Florida headquarters. “I decided I wanted to learn more about set design—and I wrote my first Tony Award acceptance speech—which I still have to this day.” That conversation happened a few years ago, when Goldberg was touring Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, which was a hit in Denver and later on Broadway. Now Goldberg is back—as promised—with a different edition called Cirque Dreams Holidaze. With its dazzling costumes and a score that runs the gamut from jazz and ballroom to pop, Holidaze is described as an urban theatrical innovation that turns the ordinary on its head. Its one-of-a-kind artists breathe acrobatic energy into a “magical metropolis,” reinvent familiar objects, balance on wires and leap over tall buildings. Goldberg had been doing entertainment events for American companies since the late 1980s when IBM hired him to travel the world and find different talent to put together for an international conference. “The vocabulary was just supposed to be visual,” he explained. “Pure talent on stage. That’s when I became exposed to this whole Cirque genre.” The event, European in inspiration and highly diversified, was a success that made Goldberg realize he was on to something. His clients would give the show a name of their choosing, while his job was to deliver the goods. When staging one of these in Washington, DC, he was approached by the Bally’s Hotel chain. They hired his Cirque Ingénieux for the Bally’s casino showroom in At-lantic City. It wasn’t long before Goldberg moved from the boardroom to the greenroom. From his family’s background in textile produc-tion, he had acquired a knowledge and love of fabric and design. “By the age of 13 or 14 I knew the difference between yarn dyes, woven fab-rics, polyesters and cottons and how things are printed,” he said. Since then his 20,000-square-foot production facility in Pompano Beach, FL, has kept busy. It includes wardrobe and design shops, a gym and a studio “the size of any pro-
scenium stage, so we can block and train artists here…” He remains very hands on, not just in the scenic aspects of each show, but in all manner of design, which, he said, has been “my passion my entire life.” These Cirques have lots of action, no animals, no plot, plenty of music, singing, and lots of aerialists and contortionists from all corners of the globe. If your first thought is that this sounds a lot like Canada’s Cirque du Soleil, Goldberg insists it was not in his consciousness when he selected the Cirque moniker and style in 1991, even though Cirque du Soleil had made its first splash in the US as the surprise hit of the 1987 Los Angeles Arts Festival. How does Goldberg dispel comparisons? “We’ve stayed very true to the vision I created from the inception of this thing and that was to combine the European variety cirque talent with American Broadway theatrics—taking these shows and putting them into the format of tradi-tional Broadway musical theatre, with a prosce-nium, two acts and an intermission. “In a theatre with a proscenium stage you have the ability to become very engaged with the audi-ence. We always have kept the human element very real to the audience and to the experience. It’s not disguised with an overwhelming amount of technology and smoke and mirrors. I think audiences want to see and believe what they’re ex-periencing up close and personal. You don’t want to lose sight of what the artists really do.” n
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The creator of Cirque Dreams Holidaze makes good on a promise to expand the Cirque genre.
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“We’ve stayed very true to the vision
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American Broadway theatrics—taking these shows and putting them into the format of tra-
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with a proscenium, two acts and an
intermission.”
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It is said that Charles Dickens invent-ed Christmas—the way we celebrate it today, that is. That claim may be a trifle exaggerated, but surely in the English-speaking world the second most beloved story of Yuletide has to be A Christmas Carol. A tale for all seasons and a special joy in mid-winter.
Why are we here today, in this theatre, to watch this particu-lar drama, if not to celebrate
the season together, regardless of our creeds or cultures? For many of us, en-joying this inspired parable is a seasonal tradition. Whether we read it aloud to the family, view one or more film and TV version or, better yet, leave our homes to watch it unfold on a stage in the company of strangers (neighbors), the story holds a universal and timeless appeal. Dickens himself reached every heart in the theatre when he read it aloud to audiences in England and America. And he always did. Americans especially adored him. There are many anecdotes about people changing their lives upon reading or hearing this story—factory owners giving their workers better
working conditions and time off at Christmas, and even young people redi-recting their lives to the greater good. A Christmas Carol mirrors Dickens’ own passion for the season, his own enlightened religious convictions and his lucid social conscience. Most of all it reflects his profound humanity and his heroic confidence in the ability of a human being to change for the better. While Dickens was writing the Carol, there were nights when he couldn’t sleep. It’s been said that he wandered the bad by-ways of his smoky city all night, gesticulating wildly and mutter-ing to himself as he took on each of the characters’ parts. The next morning he wrote down what he had worked out the night before. It’s clear enough why these characters leap from the page—their author imagined them so vividly he seems to be alive in each.
A Christmas Carol pulsates with energy, wit and cleverly evoked tingles. The aptly named Scrooge
(an old-fashioned vulgarization of “squeeze”) may be a shrewd business-man, but he’s allowed his heart to shrivel up so tightly that all impulses
of joy and mercy have dried to a gray paste, turning his whole existence gray. “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. Scrooge! A squeez-ing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner,” writes Dickens. Even his physical features have frozen into a mask of avarice and bitterness.
But Dickens does not give up on him. Having all but sold his soul to Mammon, Scrooge is not be-
yond the saving reach of Dickens’ kind and scary spirits. These ghosts mock him with his own words, dazzle him with their light and evoke the ghastly loneliness of his misspent life. This unworthy old buzzard has one chance at reclamation—secured for him by his long-dead business partner, Jacob Marley. A ghost awash in the purga-torial pains of remorse, Marley ap-pears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve and foretells that three spirits will follow his visitation. He as much as says that these phantoms will rub Scrooge’s face in the truth until he confronts what he has become and determines to change. Why tell a ghost story at Christmas?
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Partly because, to Dickens, a life spent merely in the pursuit of money—without generosity
toward others—was a shadow life. After all, Scrooge spends most of the narrative invisible to the other characters, past, present and future. And then it would take an extreme visitation to shake up a man like Scrooge. Marley’s long, dense chains, his alarming pallor and his anguished screams and sighs frighten Scrooge out of his smugness, rendering him open to instruction. The ghosts who follow Mar-ley reveal to Scrooge the sum total of his life in the only ways he understands: his
past, just who he is and how he got that way; his present, in contrast to the happy lives of others he knows; his future, a death hopeless and unwept—the inevi-table end of an utterly futile life. The ghosts also are the metaphorical means of introducing a spiritual dimen-sion into the story. There’s more to life than meets the eye. The message might have been merely materialistic—about sharing material means. Instead, the ghostly presences represent the spirit in humankind that needs to love and be loved. Much is made of charity in the novella, but the word means more than just the giving of alms. “Charity,” from the Latin, caritas, means esteem, affection and, translated from the Greek agape, means disinterested and therefore selfless love. That is the foundation of Dickens’ thought.
It follows, then, that fellowship with others is another important spiritual issue for Dickens—as it is in all the
great religions. As the unhappy Marley puts it, “It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men…” And we all know what happens in Dickens’ world view to those who fail that requirement.
Because Dickens re-envisioned the season in an age of vast and hopeless poverty, he emphasized abundance and what it could accomplish. He had his tough-minded, socio-political intentions: He determined to startle his readers awake to the injustices all around them in all his writings. In A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge two ghastly children—Ignorance and
Want—whom Dickens believed (cor-rectly) would grow up to tear down the selfish hierarchies of English society. He wanted his countrymen to do something about those two offspring before they shredded the fabric of society and chaos descended. He didn’t want to overthrow his society; he wanted to rescue it from itself.
But if Dickens was a moralist, he was no Puritan. He took a generous delight in Christmas
merrymaking. His enjoyment of festivity sparkles in the Cratchits’ gin punch, the Fezziwigs’ ball, in the games at nephew Fred’s. He saw the humble “bounty” of the ebullient Cratchit family feast as an answer to the gloom and cold of winter as much as a rebuke to Scrooge’s and his ilk’s indifference to the poor. Feasting is celebrated throughout the story because, for Dickens, generosity and the merriment of the season were antidotes to the inward leanings of selfishness. They expanded the heart to include others and so were expressions
of inclusive cordiality and hospitality.
Finally, Dickens saw the innocent open-heartedness of merriment, gift-giving and hospitality as a
proper response to the original Christ-mas story. That is why the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to see the poor miners who labor in the earth, “but know how to keep Christmas” in their jubilant carol singing. The Ghost shows Scrooge sailors on a freezing sea and two old weather-beaten lighthouse keepers alone on their island, all singing their Christmas hymns and songs with ardent affection for each other, for home and for the season.
Each other. Home. The season. That is why we are here today with Dickens, Scrooge, and his haunt of ghosts, waiting to see the familiar tale unfold upon this glistening stage in each other’s neighborly company. And then, as we leave, to set us humming a lively Christmas carol. n
Marilynne S. Mason is a Denver-based arts journalist and critic who has written for various publications, most notably on staff for The Christian Science Monitor.
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BY Charles DickensADAPTED BY Richard Hellesen
MUSIC BY David de Berry
WITHColin Alexander*, Leslie Alexander*, Leonard E. Barrett Jr.*, Benjamin Bonenfant, Michael Bouchard,
Kathleen M. Brady*, Courtney Capek*, Stephanie Cozart*, Jeff Cribbs*, Jenn Miller Cribbs*, Connor Nguyen Erickson, Michael Fitzpatrick*, Michael Gaessler, Tanner Gardner, Douglas Harmsen*,
Edwin Harris, John Hutton*, Isaiah Johnson, Charlie Korman, Gabriel Koskinen-Sansone, Kyra Lindsay, M. Scott McLean*, Amelia Modesitt, Sam Modesitt, Gabriel Morales-Gonzalez, Tricia Moreland,
Leslie O’Carroll*, Mackenzie Paulsen, Philip Pleasants*, Max Raabe, Jeffrey Roark*, Christine Rowan*, Thomas Russo, Maggie Sczekan, Lauren Shealy*, Jake Walker, Christopher Wells
DIRECTED BY
Bruce K. Sevy
THE STAGE THEATRE • NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 29, 2013
SET DESIGN BY Vicki Smith
COSTUME DESIGN BYKevin Copenhaver
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Don Darnutzer
SOUND DESIGN BY Craig Breitenbach
MUSIC DIRECTION & ORCHESTRATIONS BY
Gregg Coffin
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTIONJeff Gifford
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Christine Rowan
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Christopher C. Ewing*
Denver Center Theatre CompanyResident Professional Theatre • Kent Thompson, Producing Artistic Director
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CAST
Ebenezer Scrooge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PHILIP PLEASANTS*Bob Cratchit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEFF CRIBBS*Fred, Scrooge’s Nephew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DOUGLAS HARMSEN*Subscription Gentlemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LEONARD E. BARRETT JR.*, JEFFREY ROARK*A Beggar Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TANNER GARDNERGhost of Jacob Marley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN HUTTON*Ghost of Christmas Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPHANIE COZART*Schoolmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JEFFREY ROARK*Schoolboys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CONNOR NGUYEN ERICKSON, MICHAEL GAESSLER,
TANNER GARDNER, EDWIN HARRIS, ISAIAH JOHNSON, CHARLIE KORMAN, GABRIEL KOSKINEN-SANSONE,
SAM MODESITT, MAX RAABETheir Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COLIN ALEXANDER*, LESLIE ALEXANDER*,
BENJAMIN BONENFANT, JENN MILLER CRIBBS*, MACKENZIE PAULSEN, MAGGIE SCZEKAN,
JAKE WALKER, CHRISTOPHER WELLSEbenezer the Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .THOMAS RUSSOFan, Scrooge’s Sister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AMELIA MODESITTEbenezer the Young Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SCOTT MCLEAN*Dick Wilkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GABRIEL MORALES-GONZALEZFezziwig. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL FITZPATRICK*Mrs. Fezziwig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LESLIE O’CARROLL*Hortense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATHLEEN M. BRADY*Fezziwig Daughters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KYRA LINDSAY, MACKENZIE PAULSEN, LAUREN SHEALY*Their Suitors . . . . . . . .BENJAMIN BONENFANT, MICHAEL BOUCHARD, CHRISTOPHER WELLSA Fiddler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DOUGLAS HARMSEN*Belle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COURTNEY CAPEK*Belle’s Husband. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JEFFREY ROARK*Ghost of Christmas Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LEONARD E. BARRETT JR.*Mrs. Cratchit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LESLIE ALEXANDER*Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KYRA LINDSAYPeter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GABRIEL KOSKINEN-SANSONEBelinda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TRICIA MORELANDEdward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAX RAABETiny Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLIE KORMANFred’s Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JENN MILLER CRIBBS*Topper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JEFFREY ROARK*The Wife’s Sister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTINE ROWAN*Fred’s Party Guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SCOTT MCLEAN*, LESLIE O’CARROLL*Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTOPHER WELLSWant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AMELIA MODESITTIgnorance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CONNOR NGUYEN ERICKSONOld Joe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN HUTTON*The Undertaker’s Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DOUGLAS HARMSEN*The Laundress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATHLEEN M. BRADY*
The Charwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPHANIE COZART*Merchants from the Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BENJAMIN BONENFANT,
MICHAEL BOUCHARD, JAKE WALKERStreet Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTINE ROWAN*Boy in the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL GAESSLER
ENSEMBLELondoners, Carolers, Fezziwig Party Guests and Phantoms
COLIN ALEXANDER*, LESLIE ALEXANDER*, LEONARD BARRETT JR.*, BENJAMIN BONENFANT, MICHAEL BOUCHARD, KATHLEEN M. BRADY*, COURTNEY CAPEK*, STEPHANIE COZART*, JEFF CRIBBS*, JENN MILLER CRIBBS*, CONNOR NGUYEN ERICKSON, MICHAEL FITZPATRICK*, MICHAEL GAESSLER, TANNER GARDNER, DOUGLAS HARMSEN*,
EDWIN HARRIS, JOHN HUTTON*, CHARLIE KORMAN, GABE KOSKINEN-SANSONE, KYRA LINDSAY, M. SCOTT MCLEAN*, AMELIA MODESITT, SAM MODESITT, GABRIEL MORALES-GONZALEZ, TRICIA MORELAND, LESLIE O’CARROLL*,
MACKENZIE PAULSEN, JEFFREY ROARK*, CHRISTINE ROWAN*, THOMAS RUSSO, MAGGIE SCZEKAN, LAUREN SHEALY*, JAKE WALKER, CHRISTOPHER WELLS
UNDERSTUDIESUnderstudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance
is made at the time of the performance.
COLIN ALEXANDER* (Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas Present), LESLIE ALEXANDER* (Mrs. Fezziwig/Hortense), CONNOR NGUYEN ERICKSON (A Beggar Child/Edward),
BENJAMIN BONENFANT (Schoolmaster/Ebenezer the Young Man/Belle’s Husband/Topper), MICHAEL BOUCHARD (Dick Wilkins), MATTHEW CAMPBELL* (Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come), JENN MILLER CRIBBS* (Mrs. Cratchit), TANNER GARDNER (Ebenezer the Child/Boy In The Street),
SAM GREGORY* (Bob Cratchit), EDWIN HARRIS (Ignorance), MIKE HARTMAN* (Scrooge/Ghost of Jacob Marley/Old Joe), AMELIA MODESITT (Belinda), SAM MODESITT (Peter),
GABRIEL MORALES-GONZALEZ (Ensemble), TRICIA MORELAND (Fan/Want), LESLIE O’CARROLL (The Laundress), MACKENZIE PAULSEN (Ghost of Christmas Past/Fezziwig Daughter/Fred’s Wife/The Charwoman), MAX RAABE (Tiny Tim), MAGGIE SCZEKAN (Martha), LAUREN SHEALY* (Belle/Fezziwig Daughter/The Wife’s Sister/Street Singer), SuCh (Ensemble),
JAKE WALKER (Fred/A Fiddler/The Undertaker’s Man)
Place & Time: London, 1840’s
There will be one 15-minute intermission.
Production Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTOPHER C. EWING*Assistant Stage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATTHEW CAMPBELL*, KURT VAN RADEN*Production Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ERIN E. RAMSEY Production Interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BECKY FRYBERGER, DAVIS HENSHAW, SARA E. SACHSRehearsal Room Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NINA BLUEWATERSChildren’s Performance Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREN FREEMANDance Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTINE ROWAN*
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
EXECUTIVE STAFF
KENT THOMPSON (Producing Artistic Director) is in his ninth season as Producing Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company. In Denver he directed productions of Just Like Us, Other Desert Cities, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Plainsong, Eventide, Amadeus, The Liar and Measure for Measure, among others. Two of Kent’s major accomplishments since moving to Denver have been the Colorado New Play Summit, a premier national festival for new American plays, and the establishment of the Women’s Voices Fund, an endowment that supports the development of new plays by women. Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 16 years. In 1991 Kent created the Southern Writers’ Project (SWP), designed to commission and develop new plays that presented 16 world premieres during his tenure. He served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and as its president for three years. He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others.
BRUCE K. SEVY (Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development) has directed such memorable Denver Center productions as When We Are Married, Heartbreak House, Mariela in the Desert, The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Doubt, All My Sons, Master Class, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Christmas Carol, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, Molly Sweeney, Amy’s View, Valley Song, Pierre, Dinner With Friends, and The Cripple of Inishmaan. As Director of New Play
Development, he oversees both the artistic and practical components of DCTC’s successful Colorado New Play Summit, including commissions from outstanding American playwrights. He has directed for Arizona Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Lark Play Development Center, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Pioneer Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space and Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. His popular production of 2 Pianos, 4 Hands has been seen at more than 20 theatres nationally, including DCTC’s successful 2003 production.
CHARLES VARIN (Managing Director) and his team are responsible for administrative, financial and business operations related to producing DCTC’s season of productions and other artistic and educational initiatives. Prior to DCTC Charles was General Manager for Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and also has worked at Glimmerglass Opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre and Florida Studio Theatre. Charles serves on the board of the Mile High Freedom Band and plays tuba with the organization.
JEFF GIFFORD (Director of Production) oversees everything you see on stage except the actors and is thrilled to be joining the Denver Center Theatre Company, leading such a fine group of artisans. Prior to DCTC, Jeff was the Production Manager at the Dallas Theater Center and South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA. Guiding world premieres to their first opening night is especially gratifying and Jeff has worked on more than 35 of them. Among his favorites are Dinner with Friends, The Violet Hour, The Beard of Avon, Mr. Marmalade, and the new
musical FLY. Jeff holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
ARTISTIC STAFF
GREGG COFFIN (Music Director and Orchestrator). At the Denver Center: Composer – Heartbreak House, The Taming of the Shrew, The Liar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mariela in the Desert, Othello, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pride and Prejudice, King Lear, Measure for Measure. Musical Director/Orchestrator – Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, A Funny Thing…Forum, A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Stratford Festival of Canada, CanStage, Tarragon Theatre, National Arts Centre (Canada); Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Indiana Rep, PCPA TheatreFest, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Utah, California, Alabama, Great River and Georgia Shakespeare Festivals.
KATHRYN G. MAES Ph.D (Voice and Dialect Coach). At the Denver Center: Jackie & Me, The Most Deserving, Just Like Us, Death of a Salesman, When We Are Married, Fences, The Three Musketeers, Heartbreak House, Great Wall Story. Other Theatres: Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre (Arthur Miller’s American Clock). Special/Training: Voice and Dialect Coach for numerous professional theatre companies in the United States, Head of Voice at the Denver Center Theatre Company and the National Theatre Conservatory 1989 to 1992. Ph.D. in Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh; Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England.
CHRISTINE ROWAN (Choreographer). At the Denver Center: Ensemble in Quilters; Fezziwig’s Daughter, Wife’s Sister, Street Singer in A Christmas Carol; Tessie in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; Essie in You Can’t Take
It With You; Philia in A Funny Thing Happened… Forum. Other Theatres: Reluctant Pilgrim - the Lesser Known Songs of Stephen Schwartz (New York Musical Theater Festival), FLOPZ (Joe’s Pub), Embrace! (Westside Theatre), Interborough Repertory Theatre, The Duplex, Don’t Tell Mama, Sacramento Music Circus, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Barter Theatre, Sierra Rep, Seaside Music Theatre, Theatre by the Sea, Ryman Auditorium, toured nationally. Training: New York University graduate, resides in New York City.
BRUCE K. SEVY (Director). See bio under Executive Staff.
DESIGNERS
CRAIG BREITENBACH (Sound Designer). At the Denver Center: Just Like Us, Sense & Sensibility The Musical, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mama Hated Diesels, Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, Quilters, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Noises Off, Third, A Funny Thing…Forum, King Lear, Amadeus, Crowns, The Clean House, Measure for Measure, A Flea in Her Ear, Fire on the Mountain, The Misanthrope, The Three Sisters, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Skin of Our Teeth, Betrayal, Spinning Into Butter, Dinner With Friends, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Project, The Little Foxes. Awards: 2008 Henry Award for Plainsong.
KEVIN COPENHAVER (Costume Designer). At the Denver Center: (23 seasons) Just Like Us, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, The Whale, Dracula, Mama Hated Diesels, A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, A Funny Thing…Forum, Living Out, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, Boston Marriage, Oedipus Rex, Dirty Story, Blithe Spirit, Lobby Hero, Blue/Orange, Almost Heaven, Scapin, The Miser, Jesus Hates
Me, Bernice/Butterfly, Pierre, Inna Beginning, Elevation of Thieves, Servant of Two Masters, Tantalus. Other Theatres: Smokey Joe’s Café, Love, Janis, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dream a Little Dream, Titus Andronicus, regional premiere Peter and the Starcatcher (UDF). Training: BA in Theatre Design, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali, Padua, Italy.
DON DARNUTZER (Lighting Designer). At the Denver Center: Just Like Us, When We Are Married, Heartbreak House, Mariela in the Desert, Fences, Mama Hated Diesels, Eventide, Quilters, Richard III, The Trip to Bountiful, Plainsong, Dracula, You Can’t Take It With You, A Funny Thing…Forum, A Christmas Carol and 40 others. Other Theatres: Broadway: It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues. Off-Broadway: Hank Williams: Lost Highway, The Immigrant, Almost Heaven: John Denver’s America. Lighting designs for: Portland Opera, Guthrie Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Alley Theater, Cleveland Play House, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. DAVID DE BERRY (Composer/Lyricist). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Composer/lyricist – A Cappella, Sisters: A Legend, original scores for Twelfth Night, The Good Person of Setzuan, All My Sons, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, ’Night Mother, The Time of Your Life (Sacramento Theatre Company); Composer – The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, The Glass Menagerie, King Lear, Betrayal, Our Country’s Good, The Recruiting Officer, Terra Nova, The Miser (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Romeo and Juliet (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival); M. Butterfly (Arizona Theatre Company). Actor
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, PCPA, Pennsylvania State Theatre, Charles Playhouse, Sacramento Theatre Company.
VICKI SMITH (Set Designer). Denver Center: When We Are Married, Fences, Heartbreak House, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Dracula, Mariela in the Desert, Mama Hated Diesels, Eventide, Plainsong, A Christmas Carol, 29 others. Other Theatres: Children’s Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Penumbra Theatre Company, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre Louisville, Repertory Theatre St. Louis, Geva Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and others. Awards: Bay Area Critics Awards – Kite Runner, Execution of Justice; Dramalogue Award – Cyrano; Colorado Theatre Guild Award – Mariela in the Desert; Ovation Awards – Pierre, I’m Not Rappaport; Prague Exposition 2007.
PLAYWRIGHT
RICHARD HELLESEN (Playwright/Adaptor). Richard Hellesen is pleased to be returning to the Denver Center Theatre Company, where his play Kingdom premiered in 1999. His other plays include Moonshadow, Once in Arden, the book for David de Berry’s musical A Cappella, and two recent works for Ford’s Theatre in Washington, One Destiny and The Road From Appomattox. Among his two dozen shorter plays are five finalists in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Ten-Minute Play Contest; his one-act Dos Corazones appears in the collection of Best Ten-Minute Plays for Two Actors by Smith & Kraus. His work for young audiences includes adaptations of The Emperor’s New Clothes and the novel Johnny Tremain, both for B Street Theatre in Sacramento, and
(with composer Michael Silversher) musical versions of The Wind in the Willows and Lois Lowry’s young adult novel Gathering Blue, as well as 11 school tour productions, for South Coast Repertory in Southern California. Nationally, his work has been seen at such theatres as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Sundance Children’s Theatre, City Theatre in Miami, Sacramento Theatre Company, and HERE in New York City, as well as The Shakespeare Company in Calgary, Canada. A member of the Dramatists Guild, Richard has received awards from the National Theatre Conference and PEN USA-West.
STAGE MANAGEMENT
CHRISTOPHER C. EWING* (Production Stage Manager). At the Denver Center: (28 seasons) Death of a Salesman, Sense & Sensibility The Musical, When We Are Married, Fences, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dracula, Mama Hated Diesels, Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, Quilters, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Noises Off, Plainsong, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Funny Thing…Forum, The Clean House, Gem of the Ocean, A Flea in Her Ear, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, John Brown’s Body, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, The Skin of Our Teeth, Almost Heaven. Other Theatres: Colorado Ballet, Denver Center Attractions, Bonfils Theatre. Training: BFA in Theatre Design/Technology from Loretto Heights College.
MATTHEW CAMPBELL* (Assistant Stage Manager). At the Denver Center: Just Like Us, Other Desert Cities, Romeo & Juliet, When We Are Married, The Three Musketeers, Heartbreak House, The Taming of the Shrew, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dracula. Other Theatres: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Arvada Center,
Cleveland Play House, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Holland, Michigan, Colorado Festival of World Theatre, Country Dinner Playhouse, Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, Omaha Symphony. Served as Assistant Professor of Technical Theater at Brooklyn College. Training: MFA, University of Iowa; BA, University of Northern Colorado.
KURT VAN RADEN* (Assistant Stage Manager). At the Denver Center: (30+ productions) Just Like Us, Romeo & Juliet, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Three Musketeers, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, The Taming of the Shrew, A Christmas Carol, The Liar, Superior Donuts, The House of the Spirits, Othello, Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, Noises Off, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Our House, Pride and Prejudice, Third, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1001, Season’s Greetings, Living Out, After Ashley. Other Theatres: 40 productions with The O’Neill Theatre Center (National Playwrights Conference, Cabaret and Performance Conference), The Great River Shakespeare Festival.
ACTING COMPANY
COLIN ALEXANDER* (Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Curtains, Miracle on
34th Street, Chess, Importance of Being Earnest, A Christmas Carol (Arvada Center); Scarlet Letter (PACE Theater); 1776 the Musical (Fine Arts Center); Sweet River County (National Tour); Marriage of Figaro, Merry Widow, Elijah (London). TV/Film: Emmy-nominated The Hiding Place. Awards: Silver Angel Trophy Winner, The Mark. Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK.
LESLIE ALEXANDER* (Mrs. Cratchit/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Sense & Sensibility, The Taming of the Shrew, A
Christmas Carol. Broadway: The Boy From Oz, Mamma Mia! Off-Broadway: The Audience (The Transport Group). Other Theatres: Fiddler on the Roof (National Tour); Steel Magnolias, A Murder Is Announced (Arrow Rock Lyceum); Hello Dolly! (Gateway Playhouse). TV/Film: “One Life To Live,” “Grand Theft Auto V,” “The One O’Clock.” Concerts: The Music of Jerry Herman. www.leslie-alexander.com
LEONARD E. BARRETT JR.* (Ghost of Christmas Present/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Legend of Sleepy
Hollow, Color Purple (Aurora Fox Theater); Beauty and the Beast, Man of La Mancha (Phamaly); Nunsense Amen, Ragtime (Boulder’s Dinner Theater); The Dresser, Angels in America (Bas Bleu Theater).
BENJAMIN BONENFANT (Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: When We Are Married. Other Theatres: Romeo and Juliet, The
Inspector General, Comedy of Errors, Our Town, King Lear, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, To Kill a Mockingbird (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); The Lion in Winter (Arvada Center); Red (Curious Theatre); Love’s Labors Lost, Salome, The Seagull, The Inspector General, The Bacchae, Our Town, Cyrano de Bergerac, Urinetown, Wit, The Grapes of Wrath, As You Like It Marisol (TheatreWorks); Elijah: an Adventure (Local Theatre); Ubu, Troilus and Cressida (THEATREdART). Awards: 2012 Best Supporting Actor in a Play (Red), Henry Award.
MICHAEL BOUCHARD (Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: The Cripple of Inishmaan
(Creede Rep), Camelot (Arvada Center), Bach at Leipzig (Boulder Ensemble Theater Company), Avenue Q (Vintage Theater). TV/Film: Charles Manson in CREEP! Awards/Training: Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts; 2009 Best Season by an Actor, Denver Post; 2011 Denver Post and Westword Best Supporting actor in a Comedy; 2012 Westword Best on Stage Couple.
KATHLEEN M. BRADY* (Hortense/The Laundress/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: (Over 100 productions) When We are Married,
Superior Doughnuts, Mama Hated Diesels, Well, Quilters, Trip to Bountiful, The Mad Woman, Blithe Spirit, Bernice Butterfly, A Skull in Connemara, The Show-Off, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, The Rivals, Misalliance, Taking Leave, Sylvia, Dancing At Lughnasa, Arsenic and Old Lace, Twelfth Night, Waiting for Godot, The Matchmaker. Other Theatres: PCPA/ Solvang Theatrefest (13 seasons), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Lone Tree Theatre. TV/Film: “Breaking Bad” (AMC), “The Cat Who Thought He Could Bark” (PBS), “Voice,” National Western Woman’s Museum.
COURTNEY CAPEK* (Belle/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol, Five Course Love. Other Theatres: The Spitfire
Grill, Lend Me a Tenor, Sylvia, Baby, Crimes of the Heart (Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre); Parade, The Robber Bridegroom (MSU). Awards/Training: Ovation Award nomination (The Spitfire Grill). BFA in Musical Theatre from Metropolitan State University of Denver.
STEPHANIE COZART* (Ghost of Christmas Past/The Charwoman/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: 20 productions, including
Sylvia, Arcadia, Plainsong, Amadeus, A Flea in Her Ear, The Skin of Our Teeth, King Lear, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway: Lost in Yonkers (TACT), Seven Rabbits on a Pole (Urban Stages). Regional: The Syringa Tree (Portland Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Capitol Rep, Lizard Head Theatre). Other Theatres: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Adirondack Theatre Festival. TV/Film: “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Reflection.” Training: MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.
JEFF CRIBBS* (Bob Cratchit/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Harker in Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville),
Jonathon in Wintertime (Guthrie Theatre), Orlando in As You Like It, Tony in You Can’t Take It With You (Great Lakes Theatre Festival), Lysimachus in Pericles (Shakespeare Theatre), Heart in Murder by Poe (Acting Company), Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Harry in Morningstar (Kansas City Rep), Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (Utah Shakespearean Festival), title role in Peer Gynt (Pneumatickal Theatrikal Troupe). Training: BS in Chemistry and MFA in Acting.
JENN MILLER CRIBBS* (Fred’s Wife/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Richard III,
Murder by Poe (The Acting Company); The Joy of Having a Body, In Darkness (Guthrie); Macbeth (NC Stage); As You Like It, Julius Caesar (NC Shakespeare); You Can’t Take It With You (Two River
Theater Company); The Tempest, Twelfth Night (Heart of America Shakespeare); The Mask of Zorro (Coterie); The Barbarians (Shapiro); Night (Connelly). TV: “3 Pounds.” Awards: 2007 Best of NC Best Actress Award (Macbeth), Patricia McIlrath Award.
CONNOR NGUYEN ERICKSON (Ignorance/Schoolboy/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol (three years). Other
Theatres: Miss Saigon. Training: DCPA theatre camps, piano, sports, robotics, 5th grader at Ricks Center for Gifted Children.
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK* (Mr. Fezziwig/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: 42nd Street (National Tour),
Beauty and the Beast (Atlanta TOTS), Gross Indecency (Off-Broadway and Theatre in the Square in S.F.), Richard III, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, King Lear and Othello (Great River Shakespeare); A Christmas Carol (Geva); Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Tempest, Forever Plaid, The Compleat Wks of Wm Shkspr (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Willamette Rep); Tommy, The Lion in Winter, Henry II (PCPA). TV/ Film: “Nash Bridges,” “Six Degrees,” Remission, Violin Case, Pearl, and Scary Lary (in production). Training: American Conservatory Theatre Masters Program.
MICHAEL GAESSLER (Boy in the Street/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Christian Youth Theatre: A Year with
Frog and Toad, Bye Bye Birdie, Wizard of Oz, Modern Millie. Parker Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof. Film: Play it Safe: Aiden’s Discovery. Vivando Films. Training: Benjy Dorbin Studios.
TANNER GARDNER (A Beggar Child/Schoolboy/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Medea (Denver School of the
Arts); Ragtime The Musical; Christmas Carol: The Musical (Arvada Center); The Music Man (Lakewood Cultural Center). Special/Training: Qualification for Junior Thespian Nationals, Denver School of the Arts Theatre major.
DOUGLAS HARMSEN* (Fred/ A Fiddler/The Undertaker’s Man/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Arcadia, Gross
Indecency, The Pillowman, Amadeus, A Flea In Her Ear, Copenhagen, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Racing Demon, Life With Father, Uncertainty, Season’s Greetings, Candida, Treasure Island, The Miser, The Elevation of Thieves, The Living, A Christmas Carol.
EDWIN HARRIS (Schoolboy/Ensemble/Understudy). At Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: School plays and choir. Training: Singing,
dancing and piano.
JOHN HUTTON* (Ghost of Jacob Marley/Pie Man/Old Joe). At the Denver Center: Death of a Salesman, When We Are Married, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Superior Donuts, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, House Of The Spirits, Othello, Miracle Worker, Trip To Bountiful, Plainsong, Diary Of Anne Frank, Measure for Measure, Dirty Story, The Merchant Of Venice, Copenhagen, Betrayal, Uncle Vanya, Side Man and Grace, or The Art of Climbing. Other Theatres: A.C.T., The Goodman, The Old Globe, Center Stage, Curious Theatre, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Juncture, Lincoln.
ISAIAH JOHNSON (Schoolboy). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Rising Star Baptist Church: Joseph, Wiseman, Shepherd and Jesus
(several Christmas programs), sang with the Angel Choir, sings with the Youth Choir, Mine Dancer; Singer with the Soar Choir (2012-2013).
CHARLIE KORMAN (Tiny Tim/Schoolboy/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Ed, Downloaded; A Christmas Carol (three seasons). Other
Theatres: Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Matchmaker in Mulan, Tweedle Dee in Alice in Wonderland (Kids Theatre West), Daddy Warbucks in Annie Jr. (Catchpenny Theatre). Training: Dance Conservatory of Denver, vocal training with Bob Downard.
GABRIEL KOSKINEN-SANSONE (Peter/Schoolboy/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: The Giver, Great Wall Story, A Christmas
Carol. Other Theatres: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie, Beauty & the Beast, Wizard of Oz (Catchpenny Kids’ Theatre). Training: Gabe is an 8th Grade Theatre Major at the Denver School of the Arts.
KYRA LINDSAY (Martha/Fezziwig Daughter/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Death of a Salesman. Other Theatres: Harry the Great, The Drowsy
Chaperone (Creede Repertory Theatre); White Christmas (Starkey Theatrix); Annie Warbucks (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse); Taming of the Shrew, Love, Sex, and the I.R.S., Little Shop of Horrors (Shuler Theatre); Tomato Plant Girl (Denver Children’s Theatre); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Town Hall Arts Center); Nunsense, Baby (Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre).
M. SCOTT MCLEAN* (Ebenezer The Young Man/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol,
Dracula, When Tang Met Laika, A Prayer for Owen Meany and Grace, or The Art of Climbing. Other Theatres: Sense and Sensibility (TheaterWorks), The Unexpected Guest (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), The Rover (New York Classical Theatre). Training: Graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the National Theatre Conservatory.
AMELIA MODESITT (Fan/Want/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol, The Giver. Other Theatres:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The Edge Theatre).
SAM MODESITT (Schoolboy/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Richard III (Colorado Shakespeare
Festival), A Christmas Carol (Aurora Fox Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The Edge Theatre).
GABRIEL MORALES-GONZALEZ (Dick Wilkins/Ensemble/Understud). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Miss
Saigon (Arvada Center); In The Heights, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Vintage Theatre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, West Side Story, The King and I (Town Hall Arts Center); The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee (The Turner Foundation); One Life, Two Cultures, Colorado Children, Dreams (Imagination Makers Theater); The Time Capsule (Colorado Rep). Training: Colorado Christian University, Los Angeles Film Studies Center, National Theatre Conservatory (Summer Intensive).
TRICIA MORELAND (Belinda/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Other Theatres: The Wizard of
Oz (National Broadway Tour); Evita and A Christmas Carol: The Musical (Arvada Center); La Bohème, Jane Eyre, The Sound of Music, Oliver!, Annie Warbucks, Gypsy, The King and I, The Mikado, Scrooge!, Seussical the Musical, Annie, The Music Man, Charlotte’s Web. Awards/Training: Tolman Productions “Entertainer of the Year” Award; Parlando School for the Arts, Denver Center Theatre Academy.
LESLIE O’CARROLL* (Mrs. Fezziwig/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: When We Are Married, To Kill A Mockingbird,
Reckless, Eventide, Plainsong, The Diary of Anne Frank, All My Sons, Wit, Life is a Dream. Other Theatres: Blithe Spirit, The Crucible, Moonlight and Magnolias, The Heiress, The Women (The Arvada Center); Noises Off, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Grapes of Wrath, Our Town (Theatreworks). Regionally: Northern Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, San Diego Rep, Missouri Rep. TV:”Breaking Bad,” “Footloose.” Awards/Training: Best of Westword Award, Denver Post Ovation Award; MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.
MACKENZIE PAULSEN (Fezziwig Daughter/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman, Romeo
& Juliet, The Three Musketeers, DATE*. Other Theatres: NYC: The Wild Party (The Culture Project). Denver: The 39 Steps, Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls (Town Hall Arts Center); Avenue Q (Vintage); Annie (PACE); A Christmas Carol (Backstage). Tour: Missoula
Children’s Theatre. NYU: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Evita, Such Foolish Affected Ladies, The Crucible, Starmites. Training: BFA in Theatre from New York University (Playwrights Horizons and CAP21).
PHILIP PLEASANTS* (Ebenezer Scrooge). At the Denver Center: Romeo & Juliet, The Giver, Heartbreak House, The Taming of
the Shrew, To Kill a Mockingbird, Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, Othello, Plainsong, The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, Noises Off, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Diary of Anne Frank, Third, A Funny Thing…Forum, Pure Confidence, King Lear. Other Theatres: Alabama Shakespeare Festival (20 seasons), Amadeus (Broadway, national tour), Treason (Off-Broadway), Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Huntington, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Cleveland Play House. TV/Film: “Another World,” “All My Children,” “Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys.”
MAX RAABE (Edward/Schoolboy/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol
(Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Special/Training: Denver Center Theatre Academy, Colorado Shakespeare Festival School of Theatre, Dalcroze School of the Rockies. Max is in the third grade at Christ the King Roman Catholic School and enjoys lacrosse, skiing, and the performing arts.
JEFFREY ROARK* (Schoolmaster/Belle’s Husband/Topper/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: To Kill A Mockingbird, Heartbreak House, The
Trip to Bountiful, King Lear, White Christmas, Gross Indecency, A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Merry Wives of
Windsor, Dracula. Other Theatres: The Crucible, Evita, Big River, Jekyll & Hyde, Cabaret, Legally Blonde and Curtains (Arvada Center); An Ideal Husband (Papermill Playhouse); My Fair Lady, HMS Pinafore (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Sorrows of Stephen (Blue Heron Theater-Off-Broadway); Drood, Life is a Dream (Creede Repertory); The Doyle and Debbie Show, My Way (Denver Center Attractions). Training: BFA, Miami University, MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.
CHRISTINE ROWAN* (Street Singer/Wife’s Sister/Ensemble). See bio under artistic staff.
THOMAS RUSSO (Ebenezer the Child/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: To Kill A Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, Eventide. Other
Theatres: Miracle On 34th Street (The Arvada Center); Full Monty, Wizard of Oz, Phantom, Peter Pan (Boulder’s Dinner Theatre). TV/Film: “The Big Green Rabbit” (PBS). Training: Student at Manhattan Middle School of Arts and Academics, Voice instructor Dana Vachharajani.
MAGGIE SCZEKAN (Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Phantom (Boulder’s Dinner Theatre); Grey
Gardens (Vintage Theatre); How to Succeed… (Performance Now); Measure for Measure, Spelling Bee, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins (Oberlin College). Opera: Elixir of Love, Così fan tutte (Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance); Marriage of Figaro, La cambiale di matrimonio (CU Boulder); Cendrillon (Oberlin Conservatory); Opera As You Like It (Central City Opera).
LAUREN SHEALY* (Fezziwig Daughter/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: The Doyle and Debbie Show; I Love You,
You’re Perfect, Now Change. Other Theatres: Curtains, Miracle On 34th Street, 1940’s Radio Hour (The Arvada Center). Off Broadway: Lingoland, How to Succeed In Business…. National Tour: South Pacific. Regional: Tick, Tick…Boom (Walnut Street Theater), Phantom (Barter Theater), Oklahoma (Westin Playhouse). Training/Awards: NYU, Tisch School of the Arts; named Westword’s Best Actress in a Musical for 2013.
JAKE WALKER (Chestnut Seller/Ensemble/Understudy). At the Denver Center: When We Are Married, Living History. Other
Theatres: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Arvada Center, Curious Theatre, Aurora Fox, Buntport Theatre, Paragon Theatre, The Avenue. Regional: Creede Repertory Theatre, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Unicorn Theatre, Coterie Theatre, Kansas City Rep. Awards: 2011 Henry Award Best Actor in a Drama (The Pride, Paragon Theatre), 2003 Best Actor in a Musical (Pinnoccio Comedia, Theatre for Young America).
CHRISTOPHER WELLS (Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Pirates of Penzance,
Crazy for You, Comedy of Errors, Almost Maine, Smoke on the Mountain (Colorado Mesa University); Greater Tuna, Once on This Island, Seussical the Musical, Rent, The Wiz, The Robber Bridegroom (Highland Community College); Cats, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol (Smoke and Mirrors Theatre). Special/ Awards: Finalist in Irene Ryan Acting Competition, KCACTF Region 5, 2011.
UNDERSTUDIES
SAM GREGORY* (Understudy). At the Denver Center: (40 productions) World Premieres: The Most Deserving, Plainsong, Eventide, Two Things
You Don’t Talk About At Dinner. Other Favorites: The 39 Steps, Doubt, The Voysey Inheritance, Ruined, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off, A Flea in Her Ear, Hotel on Marvin Gardens, You Never Can Tell, Tartuffe. Other Theatres: Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Rep, American Players Theater, Eureka Theater, George Street Playhouse, O’Neill Theater National Playwrights Conference, Alabama/California/Colorado Shakespeare Festivals Boulder Ensemble Theater Company, Paragon. TV/Film: “NY Undercover,” “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns.”
MIKE HARTMAN* (Understudy). At the Denver Center: (15 seasons) Death of a Salesman, Other Desert Cities, Irving Berlin’s White
Christmas, Great Wall Story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Superior Donuts, The Catch, Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, Glengarry Glen Ross, Plainsong, You Can’t Take it With You, A Christmas Carol, Funny Thing...Forum, King Lear, Season’s Greeting, All My Sons, Dirty Story, Grapes of Wrath. Broadway: Grapes of Wrath, The Kentucky Cycle, Sherlock Holmes. Other Theatres: cowboyily (Creede Rep), The Peoples Temple (Guthrie), Cleveland Play House (8 seasons), many other regional theatres. Training: BA Otterbein University.
SuCh (Understudy). At the Denver Center: Jackie & Me. Other Theatres: Celie in The Color Purple (The Aurora Fox). TV/Film: “McDonalds Music
Moment” Oct/Nov 2013, “American Idol” Season 11, 2012. Awards: 2013 Henry Award Winner for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, “Sugar Maple” single #1 on UK Soul Charts for 3 weeks in August 2013. www.iamsuch.com
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Scene ShopJosh Prues, Assistant Technical DirectorLead Technicians: Albert “Stub” Allison,Louis Fernandez IIIScenic Technicians: Mike Hamer,Justin Hicks, Brian “Marco” Markiewicz,Keli Sequoia, Ross WickProp ShopRobin Lu Payne, Properties DirectorEileen Garcia, Assistant Properties DirectorRoo Huigen, Lead Props ArtisanProps Artisans: Jamie Stewart Curl, CharlesDallas, David Hoth, Katie WebsterPaint ShopJana L. Mitchell, Charge Scenic ArtistMelanie Rentschler, Lead Scenic ArtistBrian Proud, Scenic ArtistPaint Intern: Darcey JamesCostume ShopJanet S. MacLeod, Costume DirectorCostume Design Associate: MeghanAnderson DoyleDrapers: Stephanie Cooper, CarolynPlemitscher, Louise Powers,Jackie ScottFirst Hand: Cathie GagnonTailor: Sheila P. MorrisStitchers: Kelly Jones, Teresia LarsenCostume CraftsKevin Copenhaver, Costume Crafts DirectorJudy Craigo, Costume Crafts ArtisanWigsDiana Ben-Kiki, Wig MasterHouse CrewDoug Taylor*, Supervising StagehandStagehands: Mariah Becerra*, AndrewHamer, Stephen D. Mazzeno*, MilesStasica*, Doug Taylor*, Matt Wagner*,Jim Berman* (*IATSE Local 7 Stagehands)Colin Riebel, Production ElectricianWardrobeBrenda Lawson, DirectorWig Assistants: Jocelen Barnett, Maria Y.Davis, Maggie LongDressers: Robin Appleton, Amber Donner,Amoreena Kissel, Tim Nelson, Lisa Parsons, Alan Richards, Brooke Vlasich
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A SALUTE TO OUR DONORS
We are proud of the fact that nearly 7,000 people make up our donor family. There are so many different ways that donors lend their support to The Denver Center. We would like to share a few of them…
Years ago I had the free-dom to choose where I wanted to live in the United States. One of the many factors I considered
in my decision was the importance, quality and
availability of live theatre. The DCPA met that require-ment for me and was a big reason that I chose to move to Denver. Because theatre is still something that I value highly, I feel it is important to support that through my attendance and a yearly donation.
I have enjoyed the DCPA for a long time, but until I joined the Marquee Club, I just didn’t seem to find the time to go to perfor-mances very often. My participa-tion in the Marquee Club not only
gets me great seats to a show, but it includes a donation to
support the theatre, and I am happy to provide that support. The DCPA and the Marquee Club have really expanded my horizons and introduced
me to many wonderful people who have become
close friends.
Because I volunteer as a Tour Ambassador, I see the skill and pride the DCTC craftspeople bring to our productions. As a long-time subscriber, I know the quality of the onstage productions, so to keep our theatre at the top, I am happy to add a little to my ticket prices as a donor.
Every Christmas my grandparents give their grandchildren $100 to donate to something that is important to us. I decided to donate to the DCPA because the arts hold a very special place in my heart. I am a dancer and I aspire to perform at the DCPA someday.
My mother shared her love of the theatre with me at an early age. After she passed, I wanted to find a unique way to honor her memory, so when I learned about the opportunity to “Name a Seat” at The Ricketson Theatre, I was delighted. Growing up close to Manhattan I was exposed to a cultural feast. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts provides the same wonderful opportunities that I now can share with my children and grandchildren. To this day, when I hear the conductor’s first tap, I remember my mother’s throaty, conta-gious laughter and feel her warm embrace. I am thrilled that my donation honors my memories of our time together at the theatre.
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VIP nights are our favor-ite evenings of the year. During the wonderful pre-show dinner, art-loving audience members get a chance to meet and converse, before seeing
wonderful Broadways shows. These events offer
not only an evening of great entertainment, but also include a donation to one of our commu-nity’s most precious assets: the DCPA.
We became Encore Society members by including DCPA in our Stansbury Family Trust with the goal of giving back to the Denver metro com-munity. This is our way of
“paying it forward” so that future generations will
have the experience of great theatre as we have had for many years.
A favorite quote I like is by none other than MLK...“Life’s most persistent and urgent
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ers?’” I have supported the Women’s Voices Fund for
over seven years. I love the mis-sion and the work. My mother, a single parent raising my brother and me, was the nucleus of our family. I want to be that to my family and the community and bestow the goodwill and compassion I was taught.
We have enjoyed the DCPA since we moved to the Denver area more than 20 years ago. We find the performances inspiring, enlightening and thoroughly entertaining. What we have re-ceived from the performances in our ten plus years as season ticket-holders is priceless, and it is our pleasure to give back as we realize the theatre cannot survive on ticket sales alone.
The DCPA has some fantastic educational programs for children and teens. My daughter Katie has enjoyed be-ing a part of the DCPA for several years. The teachers do a great job of making the students feel like they are a part of something special, and I am pleased to give
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With your help The Denver Center will continue to be a place where Broadway tours begin, a place where new plays and new musicals get their start, and a place where young people experience the magic of theatre at an early age and hold onto it for a lifetime.The DCPA is a not-for-profit orga-nization. Please join our donor family today.
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Your gift helps ensure that Denver is a place where young people have the opportunity to experience the magic of theatre and become the next genera-tion of theatre lovers. We will provide a card you can present to your loved one. Gifts of any size are greatly appreciated. Name a seat in The Ricketson TheatreHonor someone by putting their name on a seat in The Ricketson Theatre for $1,000. Payment plans are available and gifts support our new play fund.
Marquee Club member for a nightTreat them to a special night at the theatre with a dynamic group of active professionals that make up our Marquee Club. $250 gets you two tickets to an April 17 performance of Animal Crackers, open bar and hors d’oeuvres before the show, and a “Meet the Cast” party at Ocean Prime in Larimer following the show.
Treat them to a VIP eventWho doesn’t want to see Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins? You can see them all at our VIP event for Million Dollar Quartet on Sunday, March 9 at 12:30pm. Guests will enjoy a mimosa bar and brunch in the Seawell Grand Ballroom, followed by the performance in The Buell Theatre. VIPs will have the best seats in the house. $225 each.
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CCostumes from the Denver Center Theatre Company collection took to the runway October 23rd as volunteers and community leaders modeled the treasures at Theatre Threads, A Costume Runway Show. Event chairs John Farnam and Denise Bellucci announced net proceeds of $20,000 benefiting the Denver Center Theatre Company. Three hundred guests enjoyed the luncheon in the Seawell Grand Ballroom followed by the runway show featuring 20 costumes, all designed and hand-created by Theatre Company craftsmen. Participating models included: Jeremy Anderson. Jamie Angelich, Fiona Baldwin, Murri Bishop, Keri Christiansen, Sharon Cooper, BJ Dyer, Terri Fisher, Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons, Alice Foster, Roger Hutson, Carmel Koeltzow, Gayle Novak, Stacy Ohlsson, Loretta Robinson, Jackie Rotole, Judi Wolf. n
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Terri Fisher in her costume from Room Service, a 1995/96 season production.
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Daniel Ritchie, aka Lady Givesmore, took the opportunity to promote the upcoming world premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride. He also announced a gift to the Women’s Voice Fund. “I appreciate women more than I ever have before!”
Loretta Robinson in a princely costume from 1001, a 2006/07 season production.
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Judi Wolf in the devil’s wife costume
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Fidelity has a long history of community outreach and philan-thropic service in communities nationwide. Among its outreach initiatives, the company partners with numerous civic, charitable, arts and cultural organizations across the country, one of which is the DCPA, to support and strength-en arts education and appreciation. Sponsoring events such as VIP Evenings and the Student Matinee program gives Fidelity the oppor-tunity to give back to the Denver area community. Supporting both education and the arts is an ongoing commit-ment for Fidelity. To date, the firm has assisted more than 200 public schools across the country by helping update classrooms and other learning spaces, providing volunteer time, mentorship and special performance opportunities to students, and donating much needed resources including school supplies, computers and even new musical instruments. Fidelity looks forward to con-tinuing these efforts here in Denver and nationwide. n
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Denver’s premier shopping and dining district. Larimer Square and Larimer Associates, the Denver-based real estate investment and management firm that op-erates Larimer Square, takes great pride in supporting its neighbor, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). “Larimer Square has not only found a special organization to continue to sup-port, but it has found the perfect partner,” said Jeff Hermanson, Larimer Associates’ CEO. “It’s about creating a meaningful relationship on multiple levels with our different merchants and with all the dif-ferent programs and areas of The Denver Center.” Larimer Square and the DCPA share a strong commitment to the arts. The Square has distinguished itself from other districts by creating a place for indepen-dently minded shops and restaurants, giv-ing entrepreneurs the artistic freedom and support they need to make their business dreams a reality. At the same time, the Square offers a shopping and dining expe-rience that embodies and complements artistic and creative sensibilities.
“We are so honored to support the many talented, creative and entrepreneurial minds that fill the theatres of The Denver Center every night,” said Hermanson. “And I’d like to think that similarly we support the many artists on Larimer Square. Our chefs, cocktail mixologists and retail tenants are some of the most artistic in the city.” In addition to the DCPA, Larimer Square is a proud supporter of the Down-town Denver Partnership, the Larimer Arts Association, LoDo District, Art of Winter, Global Down Syndrome Founda-tion, We Don’t Waste, VOA and more. For the past 11 years, Larimer Square has hosted the Denver Chalk Art Festival, which benefits Larimer Arts in its mission to promote awareness and education in Denver. “Denver is in the middle of an entrepre-neurial and cultural transformation,”continued Hermanson. “It’s been amaz-ing to witness and an honor to be a part of this change with the Larimer Arts As-sociation and our partners at The Denver Center.” n
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The Legend of Georgia McBrideJan 10 – Feb 23 Ricketson Theatre
Elvis impersonator Casey, on the verge of unemployment, learns a lot about show business—and himself—when an opportunity he never expected comes his way. This world premiere is a saucy comedy with music and a great big heart.
ASL interpreted and Audio Described performance Feb 2 @ 1:30pm.
EvitaJan 15 – 26 Buell Theatre
One of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s earliest and most enduring musicals traces the life and rise to power of Argentina’s Eva Perón.
ASL interpreted, Audio Described and Open Captioned performance Jan 26 @ 2pm.
Looking ahead…
black odysseyJan 17 – Feb 16 Space Theatre
Myth, humor and modernity re-verberate in this world premiere as ancient Greek archetypes and new world African American culture collide in this update of Homer’s epic, tracking a black soldier returning from the Gulf War.
ASL interpreted and Audio Described performance Feb 16 @ 1:30pm
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Mamma MiaJan 28 – Feb 2 Buell Theatre
Producer Judy Craymer had to sell her flat to pay for the rights to convert ABBA’s songs into a musical. She was handsomely re-paid when the musical became the surprise hit of the 1999 West End season—and a worldwide smash hit was born.
ASL interpreted, Audio Described and Open Captioned performance Feb 1 @ 2pm.
HamletJan 24 – Feb 23 Stage Theatre
Proclaimed the “greatest play in the English language,” this trifecta of revenge, deceit and moral corruption escalates as the need to avenge his father’s suspi-cious death prompts Hamlet to contemplate action, inaction and the meaning of life.
ASL interpreted and Audio Described performance Feb 23 @ 1:30pm
Spark a dialogue today by participating in our free CONNECT program. Designed to enhance your theatre experience, the CONNECT program offers a variety of opportunities, including moderated discussions with the cast and creative staff, educational resources, tours, and other special events. For more information visit www.denvercenter.org/CONNECT
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T he Denver Post is proud to support The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), both through sponsorship of its acclaimed theatre productions as
well as with grant funding through Denver Post Community Foundation. Our partnership is founded on our mutual mission to improve and enrich the quality of life in our community. While the DCPA does that through the performing arts, The Denver Post does it through its Denver Post Community programs, which support nonprofit organizations and events in four focus areas: arts and culture, children and youth, literacy and education, and the provision of basic human services. During this season of giving, the Post focuses on basic human services by continuing its legacy of raising and distributing funds to local nonprofit agencies through Season To Share, a campaign of Denver Post Charities, a McCormick Foundation Fund. Did you know that right here in Denver there are:
• People who don’t have enough food to eat;• Children who lack the education to succeed in the future;• Families who have lost their homes and have nowhere to go;• Adults who can’t read well enough to find a job;• Folks who can’t afford basic healthcare?
Since 1992, more than $59 million has been distributed through Season To Share to help some of Colorado’s neediest citizens. All contributions are matched at 50% by the McCormick Foundation, and 100% of all donations (plus the match) go directly to Denver-area charities that help move people out of poverty. The Denver Post and the McCormick Foundation pay all administrative expenses. Last year, more than 6,400 generous donors contributed $1,850,000. With the match from the McCormick Foundation, grants totaling a record $2,775,000 were distributed to 67 local nonprofits including Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Food Bank of the Rockies, Goodwill Industries of Denver, Inner City Health Center, Volunteers of America and many more. Thanks to the generosity of thousands of donors and the hard work of the recipient agencies, millions of meals were provided, hundreds of nights of shelter were used and thousands of medical visits were completed last year. n
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Many have been helped, but more remains to be done. A donation of any size can make a difference. Will you consider making a contribution after the show?
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PHOTOS wITH SANTA AT THE ICE PALACE NOVEMBER 7 THROUGH DECEMBER 24 | GRAND COURT
Visit Santa and enjoy a magical snow and light show throughout
the holiday season at the Ice Palace.
TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 5:30 P.M. TO 7:30 P.M. | VALET CIRCLE
Join us for hot cocoa, kettle corn, entertainment by the Original Dickens Carolers
and more as we count down to the lighting of our 60-foot tree.
SANTA CLAwS & PAwS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 7:00 P.M. TO 10:00 P.M. | GRAND COURT
we invite you and your four-legged friends for photos with Santa.
CELEBRATING THE BEST OF THE SEASON
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A 720 acre non-profit refuge for over 300 Lions,Tigers, Bears, Wolves and other large carnivores thathave been rescued from illegal and abusive situations
Just 30 milesfrom Denver
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