Highbrow/Lowbrow: Blue Man Group Still Ahead of the Culture Curve
Highbrow/Lowbrow: A weekly update on Denver culture from deliciously fancy to wonderfully mundane STATUS: Highbrow WHAT: Blue Man Group I saw the original Blue Man Group ten years ago in Las Vegas and enjoyed the show, despite my severe aversion to audience participation. How was I to know? I was too teen cool at the...
Hindsight: Sense & Sensibility The Musical
– By Amy Spagnola and Jamie Siebrase If Jane Austen and Andrew Lloyd Webber had unprotected sex, the product of their passion would probably be Sense & Sensibility The Musical. An authentic albeit friskier (and abridged) adaptation of Austin’s age-old girl-meets-boy tale, Playwright Jeffrey Haddow and Composer Neal Hampton’s musical reimagining of the beloved classic...
Hindsight: SPANK! The Fifty Shades Spoof
The novels exploded, with word-of-mouth alone traveling so fast, even those not into the romance section, Fabio-style reads jumped on the book-wagon. And America is the place to splurge: when the consumers can’t get enough of a good thing, our gluttonous nation continues to please. In this case, with SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, a...
Behind the Curtain: ESosa’s Designs for ‘Sense & Sensibility The Musical’
“Choose love.” Enter into the romantic and comedic world Jane Austen invented of the Dashwood sisters: one woman who leads with her head (sense), and the other vulnerability for her heart (sensibility). Costume designer ESosa encapsulates these antithetical personalities as they quest for love in his costuming of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s musical adaptation...
HindSight: Catch Me If You Can
The fascinating story of Frank Abagnale, Jr., makes waves again; this time, for its performance factor. Based on the 2002 film and on the fascinating true story, Catch Me If You Can steps off the big screen and onto a big stage here at our very own Buell Theatre. And for those of you uncertain...
The Friday Experience: Germinal Stage – Part One
The Germinal Stage has been a constant stop for many who enjoy live theatre. With 100 seats their productions take the audience on an intimate journey, Ed Baierlein and Sallie Diamond have been an important reason for this. “On December 28th, 2012, the Germinal Stage sold it’s building at 44th and Alcott, which has been our...
Music Legend: Deborah Cox
While Jekyll & Hyde has left the (Denver Center for the Performing Arts) building, we were finally able to catch up with Deborah Cox, who plays the role of Lucy. Cox has been a long time favorite of ours, and we were honored to chat with the Grammy-nominated artist: 303 Magazine: You have an incredible...
Hindsight: Romeo & Juliet
We’ve all heard/seen/read the tale as old as time. And, like some tales go, this one never seems to get old. So, Denver Center Theatre Company has graced its audience with it again: Romeo & Juliet, playing The Stage Theater January 25-February 24, 2013. And see it again you most definitely should. This representation, modern...
Don’t Be Afraid of this “Virginia Woolf”…
Watching “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in the intimate Spark Theater, one word comes immediately mind, “marathon.” The beastly show is three acts with two intermissions and nearly three hours long. If you can’t fulfill dramatic gold in that time frame, one might worry that you simply don’t have the chops. But thanks to the...
Culture Editor’s Choice: (Romeo) & Juliet
Two star-crossed lovers are kept apart until Death intervenes. Think that sums up Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet? Think again. Yes, it’s been done before, and while we aren’t sure anyone can make us fall in love the way Claire and Leo did, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has a cast that is willing...
Must See: War Horse
Joey’s ears melted my heart. The way they wiggled, twitched and turned with astonishing vitality—well, it was all I could do to remind myself that it was not a living, breathing animal on stage. I thought that perhaps I would be disillusioned with the 120-lb-puppet. Instead, I fell desperately in love with the Handspring...
War Horse: An Interview with Andrew Veenstra
War Horse, the five-time Tony Award winner, is FINALLY coming to Denver. The play, based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, has been seen by over two million people around the world. And finally, finally, those of us here in Denver can see it too. War Horse tells the tale of a young boy, Albert, whose horse...
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