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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 overwhelming 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-forprofit organization. The IRS defines a not-for-profit as an organization that puts any surplus revenues back into the

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Adaptor and director of this play share thoughts about why this morality tale about sports and the racial divide holds such appeal.

One guess: it’s about baseball—and the player who made a difference.

by Steven Dietz and Stephen Weitz

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CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE

The 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

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As inspired as it is inspiring, this novella made an adjective of the word Dickensian.

On stage this story never loses its redemptive power, its scariness, its luster or its joys.

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Christmas with the Children’s Chorale Saturday, December 14 at 2 pm Sunday, December 15 at 7 pm

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he Denver Center’s holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, returns to the stage for Denver Center Theatre Company’s 35th season with its signature opulence. Designed by resident costume designer Kevin Copenhaver, the large ensemble production is filled with lavish period pieces denoting an unmatched Victorian elegance.

The style of the era can be seen in both the men’s and the women’s costumes.

Dresses of the time were adorned with increased sleeve detail and included layers of starched petticoats creating full, heavy skirts. These would later lead to the development of the crinoline.

Ever dashing, the men’s fashion, particularly that of upper class gentlemen, followed the trend of earlier decades with full shoulders and chest, and tightly cinched waist. Shirts of linen or cotton were worn with wide cravats or neckties that offered several different looks.

Color, fabric and style all played a part in distinguishing the upper classes from the lower ones, which is particularly evident in the festive Fezziwig party, full of ornate details, lush fabrics and rich colors. Just watching this vivid and colorful merriment on stage will put you in the right mood and fill you with holiday cheer.

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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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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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am standing outside a room where my son and daughter are talking about baseball 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 historian in our family, is telling him all about Jackie Robinson. As she speaks, I realize that our family is having its first conversation about race.

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’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

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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. y own father never got to meet his African American grandson or see him play ball. But baseball continues 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.

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 adaptation. 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 legendary, 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 perceptions 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. his play allows us not only to meet this iconic figure, but also to experience 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, exploring these people and this story. Thank you for coming to share it with us.

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ackie liked to play baseball, and he was black like you,” my daughter 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 Children’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,

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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 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 traditional Broadway musical theatre, with a proscenium, two acts and an intermission.”

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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 Atlantic City. It wasn’t long before Goldberg moved from the boardroom to the greenroom.

From his family’s background in textile production, 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 fabrics, polyesters and cottons and how things are printed,” he said. Since then his 20,000-squarefoot 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-

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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 traditional Broadway musical theatre, with a proscenium, two acts and an intermission.

“In a theatre with a proscenium stage you have the ability to become very engaged with the audience. 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 experiencing up close and personal. You don’t want to lose sight of what the artists really do.” n

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As inspired as it is inspiring, A Christmas Carol never seems to lose its perennial appeal, its scariness, its burnished wonders or its joys.

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It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas—the way we celebrate it today, that is. That claim may be a trifle exaggerated, but surely in the Englishspeaking 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. hy are we here today, in this theatre, to watch this particular drama, if not to celebrate the season together, regardless of our creeds or cultures? For many of us, enjoying 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

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working conditions and time off at Christmas, and even young people redirecting 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 muttering 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.

Christmas Carol pulsates with energy, wit and cleverly evoked tingles. The aptly named Scrooge (an old-fashioned vulgarization of “squeeze”) may be a shrewd businessman, but he’s allowed his heart to shrivel up so tightly that all impulses

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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 squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner,” writes Dickens. Even his physical features have frozen into a mask of avarice and bitterness. ut Dickens does not give up on him. Having all but sold his soul to Mammon, Scrooge is not beyond 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 purgatorial pains of remorse, Marley appears 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.

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As the unhappy Marley puts it, “It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men…” 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 inevitable end of an utterly futile life.

The ghosts also are the metaphorical means of introducing a spiritual dimension 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. t 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.

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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 (correctly) 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. ut 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

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of inclusive cordiality and hospitality. inally, Dickens saw the innocent open-heartedness of merriment, gift-giving and hospitality as a proper response to the original Christmas 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.

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artly 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 Marley reveal to Scrooge the sum total of his life in the only ways he understands: his

And we all know what happens in Dickens’ world view to those who fail that requirement.

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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Denver Center Theatre Company Resident Professional Theatre • Kent Thompson, Producing Artistic Director

Steven Dietz From the book by Dan Gutman by

With Kristen Adele*, Aaron M. Davidson, Diana Dresser*, John M. Jurcheck, Timothy McCracken*, Leigh Nichols Miller*, Michael Santo*, Justin Walvoord*, William Oliver Watkins*, Ryan Wuestewald SCENIC DESIGN BY Lisa M. Orzolek

COSTUME DESIGN BY Meghan Anderson Doyle

SOUND DESIGN BY Jason Ducat

DRAMATURGY BY David Saphier

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Jeff Gifford

LIGHTING DESIGN BY Charles R. MacLeod VOICE AND DIALECT COACHING BY Kathryn G. Maes Ph.D

STAGE MANAGER Lyle Raper*

DIRECTED BY

Stephen Weitz

PRODUCING PARTNERS The Corley Legacy Foundation Keith & Kathie Finger

On Jackie & Me the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Production Staff is responsible for costumes, wigs, lighting, props, furniture, scenic construction, scenic painting, sound and special effects.

Jackie & Me is produced by special arrangement with DRAMATIC PUBLISHING, Woodstock, Illinois.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

THE SPACE THEATRE • NOVEMBER 15 – DECEMBER 22, 2013 2013/14 Season Partners

CAST Joey Stoshack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON M. DAVIDSON Jackie Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WILLIAM OLIVER WATKINS* Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL SANTO* Bobby Fuller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RYAN WUESTEWALD Mom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIANA DRESSER* Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIMOTHY MCCRACKEN* Mrs. Levitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KRISTEN ADELE* Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL SANTO* Leo Durocher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JUSTIN WALVOORD* Branch Rickey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL SANTO* Rachel Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KRISTEN ADELE* Ant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RYAN WUESTEWALD Dixie Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN M. JURCHECK Eddie Stanky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LEIGH NICHOLS MILLER* Pee Wee Reese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JUSTIN WALVOORD* Mrs. Herskowitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIANA DRESSER* Delivery Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIMOTHY MCCRACKEN* Policeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LEIGH NICHOLS MILLER* Ben Chapman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RYAN WUESTEWALD Babe Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL SANTO* Umpires, Little League Players, Students, Brooklyn Kids, Phillies Fans & Players, Ensemble: DIANA DRESSER*, JOHN M. JURCHECK, TIMOTHY MCCRACKEN*, LEIGH NICHOLS MILLER*, MICHAEL SANTO*, JUSTIN WALVOORD* UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

ANTHONY BIANCO (Joey Stoshack, Bobby Fuller, Ant, Ben Chapman, Pee Wee Reese), LAURENCE CURRY* (Jackie Robinson), JAMES O’HAGAN-MURPHY (Dad, Branch Rickey, Flip, Babe Ruth, Dixie Walker, Eddie Stankey, Policeman), SuCh (Mrs. Levitt, Rachel Robinson), ALLISON WATROUS* (Mom, Mrs. Herkowitz, Ensemble)

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

Production Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTOPHER C. EWING* Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LYLE RAPER* Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL BEHRHORST* Production Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KRISTEN LITTLEPAGE Fight Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leigh Nichols Miller* *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

executive staff

artistic and practical components of DCTC’s successful Colorado New Play Summit, including commissions KENT THOMPSON (Producing Artistic Director) is in his ninth season from outstanding American playwrights. as Producing Artistic Director of the He has directed for Arizona Theatre Denver Center Theatre Company. In Company, Cleveland Play House, Lark Denver he directed productions of Play Development Center, Kansas Just Like Us, Other Desert Cities, City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Company, Alabama Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Festival, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Night’s Dream, Plainsong, Eventide, Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Amadeus, The Liar and Measure for Theater Center, Pioneer Theatre Measure, among others.

Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Two of Kent’s major Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty accomplishments since moving to Space and Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Denver have been the Colorado New the Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque, Play Summit, a premier national and Utah Shakespearean Festival. His festival for new American plays, and popular production of 2 Pianos, 4 the establishment of the Women’s Hands has been seen at more than 20 Voices Fund, an endowment that supports the development of new plays theatres nationally, including DCTC’s successful 2003 production. by women.

Prior to moving to Denver he was CHARLES VARIN (Managing Producing Artistic Director of the Director) and his team are responsible Alabama Shakespeare Festival for for administrative, financial and 16 years. In 1991 Kent created the business operations related to Southern Writers’ Project (SWP), producing DCTC’s season of designed to commission and develop productions and other artistic and new plays that presented 16 world educational initiatives. Prior to DCTC premieres during his tenure.

Charles was General Manager for He served for eight years on Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY the Board of Directors for Theatre and also has worked at Glimmerglass Communications Group (TCG) and Opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre and as its president for three years. He Florida Studio Theatre. Charles has served on peer review panels serves on the board of the Mile High for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Freedom Band and plays tuba with the Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, organization.

The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among JEFF GIFFORD (Director of Production) oversees everything you others. see on stage except the actors and BRUCE K. SEVY (Associate Artistic is thrilled to be joining the Denver Center Theatre Company, leading Director and Director of New Play such a fine group of artisans. Prior Development) has directed such memorable Denver Center productions to DCTC, Jeff was the Production as When We Are Married, Heartbreak Manager at the Dallas Theater Center and South Coast Repertory in Costa House, Mariela in the Desert, The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Mesa, CA. Guiding world premieres to their first opening night is especially Meany, Doubt, All My Sons, Master gratifying and Jeff has worked on Class, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A more than 35 of them. Among his Christmas Carol, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, Molly Sweeney, favorites are Dinner with Friends, The Violet Hour, The Beard of Avon, Mr. Amy’s View, Valley Song, Pierre, Dinner With Friends, and The Cripple Marmalade, and the new musical FLY. Jeff holds an MFA from California of Inishmaan.

Institute of the Arts.

As Director of New Play Development, he oversees both the

Artistic staff KATHRYN G. MAES Ph.D (Voice and Dialect Coach). At the Denver Center: The Most Deserving, Just Like Us, Death of a Salesman, When We Are Married, Fences, The Three Musketeers, Heartbreak House, World Premiere 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.

DAVID SAPHIER (Dramaturg).

At the Denver Center: Denver Center Theatre Academy teaching artist. Other Theatres: Education Departments: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Famous Door Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre; Bonderman IUPUI/IRT Playwriting Symposium (assistant dramaturg); acting: Southwest Shakespeare Company (Hamlet), Actor’s Renaissance Theatre (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Dumbwaiter), The Coterie Theatre (Little House on the Prairie), Shadow Theatre Company (Macbeth), Old Victorian Theatre (Twelfth Night).

Training: BA in Drama and Dance, Colorado College; MFA in Theatre for Youth, Arizona State University.

STEPHEN WEITZ (Director).

At the Denver Center: Acting Othello, Richard III, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Romeo & Juliet. Other Theatres: Directing Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (Seminar, Bach at Leipzig, How the World Began, Gross Indecency, The SantaLand Diaries, Sunset Limited); Acting - Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Three Musketeers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labours Lost (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Doubt, Copenhagen,

CHARLES R. MACLEOD (Lighting Designer). At the Denver Center: (300+ productions/30 seasons). Death of a Salesman; Grace, or the Art of Climbing; Lydia; Love, Janis; When Tang Met Laika; 1001. Selected lighting designs at the DCPA include: The 39 Steps, Gross Indecencies: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Always…Patsy Cline, The Taffetas, DESIGNERS All My Sons, The Miracle Worker, The Three Musketeers, Ring of Fire: The MEGHAN ANDERSON DOYLE Music of Johnny Cash, Noises Off; (Costume Designer). At the Denver Lost Highway: The Legend of Hank Center: Ed, Downloaded; The Giver; Superior Donuts; Well. Other Theatres: Williams, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Off-Center (Cult Following seasons 1, Betrayal, Season’s Greetings, A 2, and 3), Denver Center Attractions (I Christmas Carol, Master Class, Desire Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! Under the Elms (Denver and Japan tour). For Girls Only: The Secret and Five Course Love), Curious Comedy of Women, Denver, Des Theatre Company (The Brothers Moines, Winnipeg, and Charlotte.

Size, A Number, Up, tempOdyssey), The Aurora Fox (Metamorphoses), LISA M. ORZOLEK (Set Designer).

National Theatre Conservatory Rep At the Denver Center: (200+ (Charley’s Aunt, Fahrenheit 451, Ah! productions/21 seasons) Death of Wilderness, As You Like It, Hamlet, a Salesman, Great Wall Story, The Tartuffe, Cloud 9, Macbeth, Harvey, Liar, Superior Donuts, Othello, Well, The Laramie Project, Working, The The Voysey Inheritance, The Trip to Elephant Man, Our Town, Othello, Bountiful, Gee’s Bend, Third, The God’s Country, Twelfth Night).

Pillowman, Living Out, After Ashley, Special/Training: Denver Center A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Theatre Company Costume Design Boston Marriage, Visiting Mr. Green, Associate 2006-present, BA in Blue/Orange. Other Theatres: A Theatre, University of Denver; MFA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, in Costume Design, University of Complete Works of Shakespeare Florida.

(Abridged), Richard II (Colorado JASON DUCAT (Sound Designer).

Shakespeare Festival); Love...Perfect...

At the Denver Center: Change, Five Course Love, Girls (20 productions/5 seasons) Death of a Only, The Taffetas, My Way (Denver Salesman; Other Desert Cities; Grace, Center Attractions), Twelfth Night, or The Art of Climbing; When We Are God’s Country (National Theatre Married; Fences; Heartbreak House; Conservatory). Training: BFA in Two Things You Don’t Talk About Scenic Design from Boston University.

At Dinner; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Superior Donuts; The House PLAYWRIGHT of the Spirits. Other Theatres: The Brothers Size, 9 Circles, Astronomical DAN GUTMAN (Author) was born in Sunset (Curious Theatre); Macbeth, a log cabin in Illinois and used to write Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare by candlelight with a piece of chalk Festival); Marat/Sade, The Winter’s on a shovel. Oh, wait a minute-that Tale (Purdue); Lab Coats on Clouds was Abraham Lincoln. Actually, he (Prague Quadrennial); The Princess grew up in New Jersey and, for some and the Pea, The Little Mermaid reason, still lives there. When he was (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); a young boy, Gutman didn’t like to Sideways Stories from Wayside School read, and his books are most popular (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). with reluctant readers today. You may Training: MFA in Sound Design from be familiar with his My Weird School Purdue University. series, The Genius Files series and the Baseball Card Adventure series Morisot Reclining, Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company); Our Town (TheatreWorks). Awards: 2012 CultureWest Colorado Theatre Person of the year, 2009 Boulder’s Daily Camera Eye Award, Best Actor (Hamlet).

or some of his other books for young readers such as The Kid Who Ran for President, The Homework Machine and The Million Dollar Shot. He lives in Haddonfield, N.J., with his wife, Nina, and their children, Sam and Emma. For more information about Gutman and his books, please visit his website www.dangutman.com STEVEN DIETZ (Playwright).

Mr. Dietz’s 30-plus plays have been produced at regional theaters across the United States, as well as OffBroadway. International productions of his work have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Russia, Slovenia, Argentina, Peru, Greece, Singapore, and South Africa. Recent plays include the widely-produced thriller, Yankee Tavern; the Steinberg Award finalist, Becky’s New Car; the Pulitzernominated Last of the Boys (produced

by Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago); and the Edgar Award-winning Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (from William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle). Other plays include Fiction (produced Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company), Shooting Star, Inventing van Gogh, The Nina Variations, Private Eyes, Halcyon Days, God’s Country, and Lonely Planet (PEN-USA Award for Drama). Mr. Dietz’s work as a director has been seen at many of America’s leading regional theaters.

He divides his time between Seattle and Austin, where he is a professor at the University of Texas.

Stage management LYLE RAPER* (Stage Manager).

At the Denver Center: 27 seasons as production stage manager until 2010. Other Theatres: PCPA/ Solvang Theatrefest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Berkeley Rep, Lizard Head Theatre, Shakespeare in Santa Fe and most recently, Lost Highway at the Lone Tree Arts Center. She currently serves on the advisory board of the Georgetown Festival of the Arts in Texas.

PAUL BEHRHORST* (Assistant Stage Manager). At the Denver Center: Reckless, The Catch, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Two Things You Don’t Talk About At Dinner, Other Desert Cities and Grace, Or the Art of Climbing. Other Theatres: Phamaly Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Avenue, Theatreworks, Curious Theatre, Aurora Fox. Awards/Training: Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award for special achievement in stage management, BFA in Applied Theatre Technology and Design, Metropolitan State University of Denver.

ACTING COMPANY KRISTEN ADELE*(Mrs. Levitt/ Rachel Robinson). At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Good People (Pagosa Springs PAC), Dividing the Estate (Arvada Center), A Raisin in the Sun (Clarence Brown Theatre), Myrna in Transit (Ensemble Studio Theatre), To Kill A Mockingbird (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Shadow Theatre), and Machinal, Fabulation, Fires in the Mirror, Homemade, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Rutgers Theatre Company). TV/Film: “Orange is the New Black,” “Blue Bloods.”

Training: MFA, Rutgers University; BFA, University of North Texas. www.KristenAdele.net.

AARON M. DAVIDSON (Joey Stoshack). At the Denver Center: Debut.

Other Theatres: Camelot and Miracle on 34th St (Arvada Center); Joseph and the.., Oliver, Carousel (West Virginia Public); Central City Opera, Latshaw Pops Orchestra (Tour), Pittsburgh Playhouse, Curious Theatre, Pittsburgh Pops, Aspen Music Festival, and RWS & Associates. Special/Training: As a musician Aaron has played nationally and internationally with bands at various venues including the Sundance Festival. BA, Theater, Point Park.

DIANA DRESSER* (Mom/Mrs. Herskowitz/ Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Other Desert Cities; Grace, or The Art of Climbing; The Giver; The Taming of the Shrew; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Other Theatres: Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women (Denver Center Attractions, Blumenthal Center for the Performing Arts); The Second Tosca, The Crimson Thread (Arvada Center); Frozen (Curious Theatre); The Underpants (Theatre Aspen); Bad Dates, Kimberly Akimbo (Creede Repertory Theatre); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Theatre de la Jeune Lune).

include Rep. Theatre of St. Louis, Geva Theatre, Capital Rep, Studio Arena, Alabama Shakespeare Fest, Portland Stage and many others. TV/ Film: “Law and Order,” “Delocated,” Fishing Naked, Small, Beautifully Moving Parts. Awards/Training: 2007 Drama Desk Award, MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.

LEIGH NICHOLS MILLER* (Eddie Stanky/Policeman/ Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, The Miracle Worker, A Trip to Bountiful. Other Theatres: Dividing the Estate (The Arvada Center), The Three Musketeers (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Henry IV, JOHN M. Part 1 (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), The JURCHECK (Dixie Walker/Ensemble) At Mysterious Mr. Love (Grant Humphrey’s Mansion), A Flea in Her the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Ear (Connecticut Rep), A Man for All John has been treading Seasons (Arvada Center), Yankee Tavern (Curious Theatre), As You Like the boards of Colorado stages for over a decade as a It (Sparrow Theatre), Cloud 9 and Macbeth (National Theatre member of the Artistic Company at Curious Theatre Company (Eurydice, Conservatory Rep), Death of a Salesman (Chautauqua Theatre Curse of the Starving Class, Take Me Company), A Midsummer Night’s Out, Becky Shaw), at the Denver Dream (Chautauqua Theatre Center as a Teaching Artist with Company). Training: MFA, National Living History, at the Colorado Theatre Conservatory.

Shakespeare Festival (Macbeth, Richard III), and many more. John and MICHAEL SANTO* his wife Courtney are the owners of (Coach/Flip/Branch Siddhi Urban Yoga in Denver.

Rickey/Babe Ruth/ Ensemble). At the TIMOTHY Denver Center: Death MCCRACKEN* of a Salesman, (Dad/Delivery Man/ Glengarry Glen Ross, Ensemble). At the Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Labor’s Denver Center: The Lost, Lips Together Teeth Apart, Taking Giver, A Christmas Leave, The Living and Love, Janis.

Carol, A Midsummer Other Theatres: Marin Shakespeare, Night’s Dream, Reckless. Other Theatres: Locally: God of Carnage, A American Conservatory Theatre, San Number and others (Curious); Twelfth Jose Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Night (Arvada & Colo. Shakes.); Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Noises Off (Colo. Shakes.); Veteran Affairs, and others (Stories on Stage). Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Alaska Repertory NY: Off B’way credits include The Dining Room, The Sea, Animal Farm, Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Composition (also Playwright), Troilus Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Portland Stage Company, and Cressida (NY Shakespeare Fest) Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. and many others. Regional credits

Tasmania, Australia). Training: MFA in Acting from University of Hawai’i, OSF Intensive.

JAMES O’HAGANMURPHY (Understudy). At the Denver Center: Just UNDERSTUDIES Like Us, Death of a Salesman. Other ANTHONY Theatres: RFK: A BIANCO Portrait of Robert Kennedy, Angels in (Understudy). At the America (Vintage); The 39 Denver Center: Death Steps (Town Hall); Crime and of a Salesman, Romeo Punishment (Boulder Ensemble); A & Juliet, When We Are Lie of the Mind (Paragon); Some Married, The Three Girl(s) (Edge), A Doll’s House (ByersMusketeers, Two Things You Don’t Evans House). Awards: 2011 Denver Talk About At Dinner, The Taming of Post Ovation nomination Best Year for The Shrew. Other Theatres: Twelfth an Actor, 2012 Marlowe Best Actor (A Night (Arvada Center, Colorado Doll’s House), 2013 Henry nomination Shakespeare); Richard III, Treasure (RFK), 2013 Westword Best Actor in a Island (CSF); Bach at Leipzig Drama (RFK).

(Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company); Much Ado About SuCh (Understudy).

Nothing (Oak Park Festival Theatre); At the Denver Center: WILLIAM OLIVER Hamlet, Tuesdays with Morrie, Three Debut. Other Theatres: WATKINS* (Jackie Sisters, Metamorphoses (Krannert Celie in The Color Robinson). At the Center); The House of Yes (Equinox Purple (The Aurora Denver Center: Theatre); The Chosen (Theatre Or); Fox). TV/Film: Ruined. Other The Zoo Story (PTP). Training: MFA, “McDonalds Music Theatres: The Red University of Illinois at Urbana/ Moment” Oct/Nov 2013 “American Blood of War, Champaign; BFA, Southern Oregon Idol” Season 11, 2012. Awards: 2013 BIOLIFE, Snakeskin Suit, Nodding University.

Henry Award Winner for Outstanding Off, Camp Logan (Off-Broadway).

Lead Actress in a Musical, “Sugar LAURENCE Regional: Lombardi (Cleveland Play Maple” single #1 on UK Soul Charts CURRY* House/Arizona Theatre), A Raisin in for 3 weeks in August 2013. www.

(Understudy). At the the Sun (Studio Arena), To Kill A iamsuch.com Denver Center: Just Mockingbird (Great Plains), Blues for Like Us (Movement an Alabama Sky (St. Louis Black ALLISON Coach); Grace, or The Rep). TV/Film: “NY 22,” “Nurse WATROUS* Art Of Climbing; Jackie,” “Law & Order,” “Law & (Understudy). At the Fences; The Madwoman; A Streetcar Order: SVU,” “Rescue Me,” Denver Center: Just Named Desire. Other Theatres: The “Canterbury’s Law.” Training: BFA, Like Us, A Christmas Brother Size, Collapse (Curious Webster University.

Carol, John Brown’s Theatre); Dancer in Rusalka (Opera Body, Scapin. Other RYAN Colorado); Pippin, Aida (Arvada Theatres: Girls Only (Garner Galleria); WUESTEWALD Center). TV/Film: “Assassins Code,” Astronomical Sunset (Curious (Bobby Fuller/Ant/ “Strangeland,” “Asteroid,” “Twitch,” Theatre); Savage and Limbo, Ben Chapman). At the “Art Zone.” Curry has danced American Notes, Crimes of the Heart Denver Center: Just internationally with Lou Bega Savage and Talley’s Folly (Sis Tryst Like Us (Colorado Jazz and more. He is now Artistic Productions); Equus and The Good New Play Summit).

Director of Moving Truth Dance Co. Doctor (NTC Rep); A Midsummer Other Theatres: Metamorphoses at Street Side Dance in Boulder CO. Night’s Dream, Wizard of Oz, (Aurora Fox); How The World Began Training: BA in Theatre and Dance Amadeus and Arcadia (PCPA).

(BETC Regional Premiere); Failure: A Performance from UNCO. Training: Eugene O’Neill Theatre Love Story, Jon (Catamounts); The Center - NTI; MFA, National Theatre Shape of Things, Art (AWS Theatre Conservatory.

Co.); Denver Stories (Curious); title role in Hamlet (Kennedy Theatre, Hawai’i); The Propagation of Light in a Vacuum (10 Days Festival:

JUSTIN WALVOORD* (Leo Derocher/Pee Wee Reese/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (US), Measure for Measure, The Madwoman, A Flea In Her Ear, A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Metamorphoses (Aurora Fox), The 39 Steps (Theatreworks), Second (NY), True West (Vermont Stage Company), Complete History of America (Oregon Cabaret Theatre), Pinocchio (Smithsonian Institute), Expedition 6 (Magic Theatre). TV/Film: Looking for Sunday, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” Training: MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.

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The Directors and Choreographers are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

The actors and stage managers employed in these productions are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

Backstage and Ticket Services Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. (or I.A.T.S.E.) Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE Member of the Colorado Theatre Guild

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The DCTC operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States; and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. The DCTC also operates under an agreement with Denver Theatrical Stage Employees Union, Local No. 7 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada.

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Years ago I had the freedom 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 requirement 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.

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…

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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 performances very often. My participation 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.

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.

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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.

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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, contagious 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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We became Encore Society members by including DCPA in our Stansbury Family Trust with the goal of giving back to the Denver metro community. 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.

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VIP nights are our favorite evenings of the year.

During the wonderful pre-show dinner, artloving 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 community’s most precious assets: the DCPA.

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ROBINSON A favorite quote I like is by none other than MLK...“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” I have supported the Women’s Voices Fund for over seven years. I love the mission 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.

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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 received 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.

ROCHE The DCPA has some fantastic educational programs for children and teens. My daughter Katie has enjoyed being 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 back to a program that gives so much.

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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 organization. Please join our donor family today.

Mail: Denver Center for the Performing Arts Attn: Development Office 1101 13th Street, Denver, CO 80204 Online: denvercenter.org/donate Phone: 303.446.4802

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JAN 16–MARCH 9 GARNER GALLERIA THEATRE

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CURRENT CONTRIBUTORS List Complete August 2013 Impact Creativity is an urgent call to action to save theatre education programs in 19 of our largest cities. Impact Creativity brings together theatres, arts education experts and individuals to help over 500,000 children and youth, most of them disadvantaged, succeed through the arts by sustaining the theatre arts education programs threatened by today’s fiscal climate. For more information on how “theatre education changes lives,” please visit: www.impactcreativity.org ($250,000 or more) The James S. and Lynne P. Turley Ernst & Young Fund for Impact Creativity Clear Channel Outdoor* CMT/ABC* ($100,000 or more) The Hearst Foundations

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Treat 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.

Who 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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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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Sponsoring events such as VIP Evenings and the Student Matinee program gives Fidelity the opportunity to give back to the Denver area community.

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During the 2013/14 season nearly 16,000 students will participate in 33 matinees. The company also is the presenting sponsor of The Denver Center’s popular VIP Evenings.

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arimer Square, recognized as Denver’s most “historic block,” also is popularly known as downtown Denver’s premier shopping and dining district. Larimer Square and Larimer Associates, the Denver-based real estate investment and management firm that operates 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 support, 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 different 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 independently minded shops and restaurants, giving 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 experience that embodies and complements artistic and creative sensibilities.

A proud sponsor of Denver Center Theatre Company’s 2013/14 Season

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“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 Downtown Denver Partnership, the Larimer Arts Association, LoDo District, Art of Winter, Global Down Syndrome Foundation, 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 entrepreneurial and cultural transformation,” continued Hermanson. “It’s been amazing to witness and an honor to be a part of this change with the Larimer Arts Association and our partners at The Denver Center.” n

Hamlet

Jan 10 – Feb 23

Stage Theatre

Jan 24 – Feb 23

ASL interpreted and Audio Described performance Feb 2 @ 1:30pm.

ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE MALONE

Ricketson Theatre

ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE MALONE

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The Legend of Georgia McBride 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.

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Looking ahead…

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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 suspicious death prompts Hamlet to contemplate action, inaction and the meaning of life.

ASL interpreted and Audio Described performance Feb 23 @ 1:30pm

Mamma Mia Evita Jan 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.

Jan 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 repaid 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.

black odyssey Jan 17 – Feb 16

ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE MALONE

Space Theatre Myth, humor and modernity reverberate 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

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 303.893.4100

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ART PARTNERS

The Denver Post MAKING A DIFFERENCE

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.

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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 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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To learn more about Season To Share or to make a donation: • Look for the daily donation coupon in The Denver Post • Call 800.518.3972 • Visit www.seasontoshare.com

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