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Wow! That about sums up spring at the DCPA. There’s so much going on and it’s exhilarating.

First, our Board of Trustees just named Martin Semple as its next Chairman. Martin will succeed Dan Ritchie who vacates the seat at the end of June. Martin has been a Trustee for 10 years, and his love for the DCPA is as rich as his Irish accent!

Second, just as the current season nears its end, we are delighted to share our Broadway and Theatre Company lineup for 2017/18.

Touring titles include Waitress, Hamilton and Disney's Aladdin, while our locally-produced plays include Macbeth, four new plays and The Who’s Tommy. Subscriptions are at a record high thanks in part to the success of our current season including sold-out houses at The Book of Will and anticipation for the pre-Broadway debut of Frozen, which is on public sale May 1.

Third, we just wrapped up our most successful Saturday Night Alive, netting a whopping $1 million to support theatre education programs, which include two new opportunities for young audiences. We are one of three markets nationally to host In a Pickle, an immersive play for Pre-K students by England’s Oily Cart Company. Also on tap is a new Theatre for Young Audiences program for Pre-K through second graders. Set to launch this fall, we will greet 18,000 students at The Snowy Day and Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats, half of whom will attend on scholarship.

Fourth, we have just concluded another extremely successful Colorado New Play Summit featuring five new play readings and a 15% increase in attendance. One ingredient essential to the Summit’s success is our Women’s Voices Fund, a first-of-its-kind endowment to support women playwrights. The Fund gets a boost annually at our Women with Hattitude luncheon, which is coming up on May 4.

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The Illusionists — Live From Broadway is a sophisticated variety show that gives seven of the greatest magicians in the world 10 minutes each to blow your mind. And then, on to the next. “Most of our audiences love all seven of them,” says Director Neil Dorward. But should you not care for one, just blink and another will appear before your very eyes. The ensemble includes an escape artist, a mentalist, a daredevil and a deductionist.

The Illusionists is brought to you by the same creative team that just surprised Denver with the thrilling aerial spectacle Circus 1903 – The Golden Age of Circus. The Illusionists was (and remains) a simple performance concept that Dorward and Creative Producer Simon Painter modestly launched five years ago as a two-week run at the Sydney Opera House. It has since grown into a worldwide phenomenon that has played on Broadway and now has three current touring productions traveling the world, with stops including Canada and Russia.

There is just something we humans universally love about being fooled, Painter said. “That goes back to childhood,” he said, “that lovely age of innocence.”

But why do we so love to be fooled? That’s a bit like saying, “Why does a kid like Christmas?” Painter said. Both require a certain suspension of disbelief — and a healthy belief in magic.

“Our show is not really about figuring out, ‘Is it real or not real?’” he said. “It’s magic as an entertainment piece, as opposed to magic to move the Statue of Liberty from

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one place to another. There are things that people do in our show that are unbelievably remarkable. You won’t believe what you are seeing on stage.”

You might not realize this, Dorward said, but magic — much like the circus — started to go out of fashion in the 1980s and ’90s. “But magic is back,” Dorward said, “and I think we were a big part of bringing it back and making it cool again.”

They achieved that, he said, by not taking magic too seriously.

“This show has got lots of humor,” Dorward said.

“We have some hysterically funny magicians, and some beautiful magicians.”

While the Denver lineup is subject to change, Dorward called out South Korea’s World Magic Champion An Ha Lim, otherwise known as “The Manipulator,” and Dan Sperry, who is described as Marilyn Manson meets David Copperfield.

“I would just bring your whole family out to the show,” Painter said. “It is highly entertaining. It’s lots of fun, lots of laughter and lots of astonishing ‘wows.’ You will be definitely fooled. So come along.”

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There was nothing quite so appealing to the Victorians as tales of tragedy, gloom and redemption. Think Charles Dickens. But a less well-remembered though equally prolific writer by the name of Frances Hodgson Burnett, who grew up in England on a diet of Dickens, Walter Scott and Thackeray before emigrating to the United States, used that formula as the inspiration for much of her own literary work.

With a twist. She is mostly remembered today for three children’s books: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-6), which became a worldwide sensation that put her on the map; A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden, serialized in 1909 when Burnett was already 60 and published as a book in 1911.

Unlike the previous two works, The Secret Garden was tepidly received when it emerged and almost forgotten by the time Burnett died in 1924. So credit Marsha Norman (book and lyrics) and Lucy Simon (music) with rescuing the novel by using it as the basis for their 1989 musical of the same name.

The book deserved the rescue. It tells of the transformation of a selfish little girl, Mary Lennox, growing up overprivileged in India, who loses her uncaring parents to cholera and is sent back to England to live on the estate of a hunchbacked uncle, Archibald Craven. Craven is too involved mourning the loss of his wife to pay much attention to his son Colin, let alone the unexpected arrival of this niece. So Mary, once again, finds herself left to her own devices. But when she befriends her maid Martha, and Martha’s brother Dickon, Mary starts to see the world through different eyes.

When Mary discovers a sealed and dying garden that once belonged to Colin’s mother and decides to bring it back to life, other things begin to change as well. With Dickon’s help, she finds a path not only to her salvation, but also to her cousin Colin who, unfairly treated as an invalid since birth, is in even greater need of rescuing. Thanks to the shared experience of bringing a garden back to life, they discover all the good that awaits them in theirs: the joy of friendship, the value of the caring and kindness of others, and nature’s singular restorative power.

It is a sweet and hopeful story. Burnett’s novel focused on Mary, Colin and Dickon — and a little red robin that points the way.

But the musical, which added a chorus of ghosts and a complex musical score, evolved into a kind of chamber opera with a thriller backdrop. Its technical intricacy requires many skills. So where does the emphasis land?

“For me the emphasis has always been to keep it accessible,” replied Jenn Thompson, charged with staging this Denver Center production. “I haven’t done this show before, but I’ve done other technically complicated and large scale musicals. [The Secret Garden] could easily feel rather weighted down, and while I have no intention of dodging any of its darker themes — grief, death, abandonment — I’ve approached all aspects with an eye to letting the audience in. The theatre space is a great help. We perform on a thrust stage. That automatically pushes the actors into the audience’s orbit.” And, she added, the experience will be enhanced by “a big, beautiful live orchestra.”

“It’s a powerful story about rebirth and renewal, about creating a space to heal and grow. It’s also about forging family ties — found and biological. I wish to honor this message of reinvention.”

— JENN THOMPSON, DIRECTOR “This is a show that may be a little hard to penetrate,” she explained. “Some of the characters are in deep mourning, but anyone who has been through grieving knows that there are many colors to bereavement. It’s a lot more complicated than just being perpetually sad. These characters are looking to connect and they can only change by making themselves vulnerable to one another.

“It’s a powerful story about rebirth and renewal, about creating a space to heal and grow. It’s also about forging family ties — found and biological.

I wish to honor this message of reinvention. I’d love for the audience to see itself in these characters and be inspired by their fortitude in the face of great loss.

“My aim is to make a clear lane for the audience to go on this ride, for us to try and live inside these beloved and familiar characters and not present them but inhabit them. And, of course,” she underscored, “be entertained.”

SYLVIE DRAKE is a translator and contributing writer to culturalweekly.com, American Theatre magazine, and is a former theatre critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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Casting, which started in November, was an arduous process. “It’s far and away the most important thing I do,” Thompson explained. “Much of the success of the show rests on those decisions. Do-overs in casting are rare and can be very disruptive, so it’s crucial to get it right. I look for talent and skill, but also for people who inspire me to want to spend six weeks with them under close and sometimes stressful circumstances.

“I vet every actor I hire if I don’t already know them. Enthusiasm, professionalism, directability and a sense of humor always turn my head.

The same applies to the kids — though I might inquire about their parents as well, since they’ll be part of the company.”

Thompson critically chose Patricia Wilcox as choreographer, saying, “We’ve worked together on multiple projects. She’s a great partner as well as choreographer. My favorite designers, musical directors and choreographers always bow to story first. It’s great to have a team around you that shares your taste and whose opinions you trust, even when [these don’t] necessarily pertain to their area of expertise.”

But Thompson’s choices go beyond shared enthusiasms. The structure of The Secret Garden demands precision and shovelfuls of collaboration.

Colleagues she’s used to can provide it.

COSTUME COLUMN In The Secret Garden, spirits, or “dreamers,” narrate the story through songs. Traditionally, the dreamers are costumed in stark white. This is an important storytelling tool that helps the audience differentiate between the living characters in the piece and those who have passed on but are still present, helping young Mary as she acclimates into her uncle’s household after the death of her parents.

When Secret Garden is staged in proscenium that bright white design reads beautifully. However, costume designer David Toser quickly realized that stark white costumes in the DCPA’s Stage Theatre, in which the audience surrounds the stage in a semicircle, would have created a lighting nightmare for his colleague, lighting designer Phillip Rosenberg and a distraction for the audience.

“Our eyes would go to them immediately, regardless of if they were the true focal point of the scene,” said Toser.

The solution? Gorgeous layered costumes that will evolve when the character passes away. Party guests will start in colorful gowns overlaid with jewels. As they pass away throughout the course of the story, the layer will be removed to show a reflection of the first dress in a sepia tone. Take a careful look at the first iteration of each costume and see if you can find those moments of connection to their dreamer look.

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It’s not often you hear people talk about a play with the same kind of visceral enthusiasm normally reserved for, say, a big Broadway musical. But Colorado native Gene Gillette promises The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time “is going to blow you out of your seat, man.”

Curious Incident, winner of Best Play and four other 2015 Tony Awards, is one of the most widely praised and technically complex plays, well, ever — and one of the few to tour the country. A traveling production is the rare opportunity for heartland audiences to see a play staged to its full Broadway standards.

Gillette, who was born in Evergreen and grew up in Franktown, plays Ed, father to a 15-year-old boy named Christopher who is exceptionally intelligent but illequipped to interpret everyday life.

“Christopher has an extraordinary set of abilities, and this play is a fully immersive, deep dive inside his brain,” said Gillette. “Just seeing what that magical world looks like on a stage is pretty awe-inspiring. There are some amazing technical elements with the set and the sound and the lighting, but it’s really how they all physically interact with the actors that is so remarkable.”

The play, written by Simon Stephens and adapted from Mark Haddon’s best-selling 2003 novel, begins with Christopher falling under suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog. He then sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change the boy’s life forever.

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elements that make it possible for Christopher to fly or to stand in the middle of a bustling London train station.

Some sequences take place entirely in Christopher’s head.

“This is something that only theatre can do,” Gillette said.

Tony Award-winner Marianne Elliott directed the play for the National Theatre in London and then on Broadway, where it ran for almost two years. That’s an extraordinary achievement for a non-musical, although the expansive and fluid show functions in some ways like a musical.

“The secret weapon of this show is, to my mind, pretty simple,” wrote Chicago Tribune theatre critic Chris Jones.

“There is a fearless, laser-like focus on telling the entire story from Christopher’s point of view.”

Christopher’s dissociative disorder is never given a label.

“He is very good with math. He loves Sherlock Holmes.

And he loves his clinical, detached way of looking at the world,” Gillette said. “Solving the mystery of who killed the neighbor’s dog is very thrilling to him. But he also doesn’t like to be touched, which is very difficult for me, playing his father. He doesn’t have any friends. He enjoys being alone and he talks about how amazing it would be to be an astronaut and see the Milky Way. So he has a kind of bittersweet outlook on life.”

Elliott says Christopher is very much aware of how he, “as a tiny human, fits into the vast universe.” And that’s exactly why audiences so easily identify with him — even if they can’t fully understand how his brain works.

“This is a show about a boy enduring in spite of himself,” Elliott said.

Gillette understands his stage son better than most.

“Christopher has an extraordinary set of abilities, and this play is a fully immersive, deep dive inside his brain.”

— GENE GILLETTE, COLORADO NATIVE WHO PLAYS ED To play the role, Gillette looked primarily to his own father, who had his hands full with a teen Gene. He said performing back in Colorado, at the Ellie, is going to be a dream realized. “That’s the place, man,” he said.

“That’s the crown jewel, in my head. I cannot wait.”

Still, he thinks it will mean even more to his dad.

“I think I have heard my dad cry maybe two or three times in my life, and one of them was when I called him after I woke up from three weeks in a coma from cancer,” Gillette said. “This might be the next time. I think it’s going to mean a lot to him to be there.”

Some reporting for this story was by Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune.

To read the full story of Gene Gillette’s odyssey, go to denvercenter.org/news-center.

Adam Langdon, Maria Elena Ramirez in the touring production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Gene Gillette, Adam Langdon in the touring production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Photo by Joan Marcus.

At age 13, Christopher learned that his mother died. Gillette lost his mother to cancer when he was five, which led to a troubled adolescence. He credits theatre for helping him make it to adulthood at all. He said it was watching theatre at The Buell Theatre, located right next to The Ellie, where he will be performing in Curious Incident, that he found his direction in life.

“The first play I ever saw was the national tour of Biloxi Blues in 1986 at The Buell Theatre, and that changed everything,” Gillette said.

His seminal performances on Colorado stages included playing Hamlet at the Denver Civic Theatre, John Proctor in the Arvada Center’s The Crucible and a particularly chilling turn as a child killer in Curious Theatre’s death-row drama Coyote on a Fence. He won The Denver Post Ovation Award in 2008 for his darkly funny turn in Curious’ The Lieutenant of Inishmore as an alternately savage and sweet Irish madman.

Gillette’s biggest break came two years ago when he joined the national touring production of the National Theatre’s War Horse, also directed by Elliott. Gillette was recovering from his own near-death battle with cancer when he landed the role of Ed in Curious Incident. Gillette said if Ed were a real person, the two would probably be good friends.

“Ed is a guy you would want to watch a football game with,” Gillette said. “He’s a good dude. He runs his own company. But he has all kinds of challenges in his family. He’s got a lot of weight on his shoulders, but he’s doing the best he can.”

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FROZEN

The DCPA welcomes the preBroadway engagement of Disney Theatrical Production’s Frozen (Aug 17Oct 1), a new musical based on Disney’s Academy Award®-winning musical film. This Broadway-bound Frozen, a full-length stage work told in two acts, is the first and only incarnation of the tale that expands and deepens the indelible plot and themes through new songs and story material from the film’s creators.

Written by a trio of Oscar® winners, Frozen features music and lyrics by the creators of the film score Kristen Anderson-Lopez (In Transit, Up Here) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon, Up Here) and a book by Jennifer Lee (Wreck-It Ralph).

Frozen’s director is Michael Grandage, a Tony Award® winner and director of three Olivier-winning Outstanding Musicals (Merrily We Roll Along, Grand Hotel, Guys & Dolls). Tony winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, South Pacific, The King and I) is choreographer and Tony winner Stephen Oremus (Avenue Q, Wicked, The Book of Mormon) is music supervisor.

The design team includes scenic and costume design by Tony and Olivier winner Christopher Oram (Evita), lighting design by six-time Tony winner Natasha Katz (Aladdin, An American in Paris, once) and sound design by four-time Tony nominee Peter Hylenski (The Scottsboro Boys, Motown The Musical, After Midnight).

Don’t miss Frozen debuting in our own Buell Theatre before it joins Disney hits Aladdin and The Lion King on Broadway in spring 2018 at the St. James Theatre.

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Theatre Forward is pleased to partner with its member organization, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), as part of the Staging Success initiative supported by AT&T. The two-year program, started in 2016, will study four programs across the country to measure and evaluate the impact of theatre education on school engagement and participation.

The Staging Success program exposes Title 1 students to 21st century skills and tracks participation, school engagement, and students’ beliefs and attitudes over time.

The DCPA’s Education program will be in residence in Westminster High School’s intermediate and advanced theatre classes. The DCPA was selected to be part of this program because it provides enriching opportunities for students both to work with theatre professionals as well as to identify how artistic involvement and expression connect with academic and vocational engagement, which are vital for improving students’ critical thinking and communication skills. The Theatre Forward staff is eager to work with DCPA’s Dramatic Learning program on this project as it connects analytical and creative thinking, directing students to the pathway of higher-order thinking.

“Through AT&T Aspire, we are committed to finding creative solutions like these that blend the arts and our local community. We are honored to bring the artistic talents of DCPA to students and teachers to spark interest, creativity and success in the classroom,” said Roberta Robinette, PresidentAT&T Colorado.

“Theatre Forward is honored to have the support of AT&T to help demonstrate the impact of theatre education on at-risk high school students’ engagement in school. The work of our member theatres, including DCPA, is a testament to the unique collaborative approach which drives Theatre Forward,” said Bruce E. Whitacre, Executive Director of Theatre Forward.

Based in New York City, Theatre Forward’s mission is to advance American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres, including the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Theatre Forward aims to increase access and opportunity for all to experience theatre that builds community and sets the stage for individual achievement.

Theatre Forward supports educational access and opportunities throughout its network of 19 theatres at every grade level and beyond. It supports the development of 21st-century workforce skills, social emotional learning competencies and individual cultural/global competencies, and measurement and assessment design for programs with an emphasis on underserved and underrepresented youth and adults. Please visit www.theatreforward.org to learn more.

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Simon Painter, Tim Lawson, MagicSpace Entertainment present

Andrew Basso The Escapologist

Ben Blaque The Weapon Master

Kevin James The Inventor

Colin Cloud The Deductionist

An Ha Lim The Manipulator

Jeff Hobson The Trickster

Dan Sperry The Anti-Conjuror

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Hollie England Antonio Hoyos Claudia James Katie Jaime Stephanie Potteiger Kendrick Samuel David Yijae

Lighting Designer Jared A. Sayeg Paul Smith

Costume Designer Angela Aaron

Video Designer NICE Studios

Illusion Designer Don Wayne

Sound Designer Shannon Slaton

Illusion Director Mark Kalin

Associate Director Kirsty Painter

Associate Director/Choreographer Jenn Rapp

Resident Director Hollie England

Composer Evan Jolly

Additional Compositions Eddie Cole & Dustin Moore

Creative Director Jim Millan Director/Creative Producer Neil Dorward Creative Producer Simon Painter

Executive Producer Tim Lawson

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ANDREW BASSO (The Escapologist) is Italy’s star escape artist and is fast becoming one of the world’s favorite illusionists. His hero is Harry Houdini and his thrilling escapes take place under water, 150 feet in the air and everywhere in between. Explosives, water boxes, handcuffs, chains, padlocks, straightjackets, cars bursting into flames... his escapes place him within seconds of life and death and have audiences all over the world frozen in suspense and disbelief. You’ll never catch The Escapologist. He is definitively born to escape. www.AndrewBasso.com BEN BLAQUE (The Weapon Master) Born and raised in the mid-west of Missouri. Ben Blaque was introduced to magic, variety acts and live performance when he accepted a job working as a stage tech for the Kirby Vanburch show in Branson, Misssouri. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with magic and illusions and the live stage shows that he wanted to create an act for himself. As Protege to Kirby, they both decided to start with the crossbow act. Kirby made a deal with Ben if he learned the act that he would feature him in his show as a special variety act. After six years of performing in the Kirby VanBurch show and establishing himself in the crossbow performing world. He moved on to perform all over the United States, many beautiful countries and live TV shows including season 7 of “America’s Got Talent”, and NBC 2015 show “I Can Do That”.

JEFF HOBSON (The Trickster) is an actor, comedian, magician, and the only natural blond in the show. He’s been known as “the host of Las Vegas” for more than 15 years and is the epitome of glamour and showmanship. A veteran of more than 20,000 live performances around the globe, Jeff leaves audiences laughing long after the curtain goes down. Don’t be fooled by his innocent appearance – The Trickster will get you every time. www.JeffHobson.com KEVIN JAMES (The Inventor) is one of today’s most ground breaking and innovative illusionists. Some of his ideas have made it into the shows of Penn & Teller, David Copperfield and Doug Henning. He is an inventor and collector of the strange and unusual.

Performing on Broadway is a highlight of his career, right next to his performance at the White House. Kevin believes he has a solemn responsibility to remind people of that important sense wonder they felt as a child. Whether he’s holding a rose or swinging a chain saw, anything is possible with The Inventor.

AN HA LIM (The Manipulator) 2006 Korea Busan International Magic Competition 1st Prize. 2006 Italy Club Convention Manipulation 1st Prize. 2007 World Magic Seminar in Asia 1st Prize.

2008 World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas - Golden Lion Award. 2008 IBM/ SAM Joint Convention Stage Grand Prix. 2009 FISM WCM Manipulation 3rd Prix. 2009 Monte Carlo Magic Stars Special Guest Award.

DAN SPERRY (The Anti-Conjuror) With millions of hits on YouTube and hundreds of thousands of loyal online followers, Dan Sperry the AntiConjuror has become a social media phenomenon and one of the most sought after live performers working today. His totally unique style of shock illusion initially captured the imagination of his fans, it is his hilariously eccentric and shocking routines that have grown his popularity across the globe. From headlining sell-out tours to guest starring on popular TV shows, Dan Sperry blends a bizarre mixture of comedy magic and mayhem into an utterly original performance that is as unique as it is entertaining.

KATIE JAIME (Magic Assistant) Katie is positively charmed to be joining the world renowned cast of The Illusionists national tour. She is grateful to get her land legs back after recently stepping off Norwegian Cruise Line’s Breakaway in Rock of Ages as Waitress #1.

When she’s not performing, Katie is a personal trainer and group fitness instructor in New York. Regional credits: Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde, Sheila in A Chorus Line, Demeter in CATS (BWW Nom), Anita in West Side Story, and Velma Kelly in Chicago. Big thanks to Mom, Dad, Amber, Marie Stinnett, and friends for their support. www.katiejaime.com STEPHANIE POTTEIGER (Magic Assistant) Originally from Buffalo, Stephanie is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of The University at Buffalo with a BFA in Dance. Upon graduation she began her career with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines playing Amber Von Tussel in Hairspray. Following “shiplife” she continued her career on land with Spirit Productions performing in their shows in Reno, Myrtle Beach, Osaka, Japan and Beirut, Lebanon.

She recently made her television debut on NBC’s “I Can Do That.” Stephanie joined the cast of The Illusionists alongside Ben Blaque in Melbourne, Australia and has continued with this incredible show playing audiences all over the U.S, and Cancun. Huge love to my family and Wubbs for the endless support!!

HOLLIE ENGLAND (Resident Director/Dance Captain/Magic Assistant) World Tour, West End, NBC & ITV Special’s & “America’s Got Talent” companies of The Illusionists. Hollie graduated from Cambridge Performing Arts (Bodywork) in the UK with a full DADA scholarship, achieving distinction in her Musical Theatre National Diploma and winning the award for ‘Musical Theatre Student of the Year’. Favorite credits: Hans Klok (European Tour), Spirit of the Dance (UK Tour), Legally Blonde: Kate/ Chutney, Scrooge: Mrs Cratchit, 42nd Street: Peggy Sawyer, Snow White: Title Role, Dancing Queen: Title Role, Spirit of Christmas (US Tour). Hollie now resides in LA, where she created the ‘Booked It’ Day Planner for Performers. www.HollieEngland.com www.I-Booked-It.com

DAVID YIJAE (Magic Assistant) Raised in Staten Island, David “Xero” Yijae has been dancing for 19 years, specialing in bboying (breakdancing), gmynastics, and various other dance styles. Currently he is represented by MSA Agency. His past projects include commercials and print (Budweiser, Jolly Rancher, Reebok, Coach), Music artists (Ll Cool J, Miranda Cosgrove, Silento), and TV (HBO - “GIRLS, America’s Got Talent”, TRUTV - FAKEOFF, BET 106&Park, MTV). You can keep up with David on his new adventures via: IG: David.yijae28; Twitter: DavidYijae; Snapchat: dave.y28 SIMON PAINTER (Creative Producer) is a visionary creative producer and entrepreneur based in California. Originally from London, Simon started his career as a classical violinist but soon transitioned into producing and creating commercial theatre. During the last 10 years, Simon has been at the forefront of the live entertainment industry, having launched and managed major performance venues and conceived, created and produced acclaimed productions such as Adrenaline and Le Noir. The first show he produced, Le Grand Cirque smashed box office records at the Sydney Opera House selling over 40,000 tickets in 10 days. The Illusionists franchise followed, becoming one of the biggest magic shows of all time, playing in over 50 cities in 15 countries, including performances at London’s Hammersmith Apollo which was broadcast on ITV. The show has since expanded with the stunning sequel The Illusionists 2.0 and The Illusionists 1903 is set to debut in Australia in January 2015.

TIM LAWSON (Executive Producer) Australasian theatrical credits include Sweet Charity, Buddy – The Musical, Jolson, Spirit of the Dance, Oh! What A Night, Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol, It’s A Dad Thing!, Weary – The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop, Shout! The Musical, Brave Men Run In Our Family, Jekyll and Hyde, The Rocky Horror Show narrated by Richard O’Brien, A Chorus Line (and London Palladium season), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. With partner Simon Painter, credits include the international theatre and arena tours of Le Grand Cirque, Ariel Dreams, Adrenaline, Le Noir, The Illusionists, The Illusionists 2.0 and the upcoming The Illusionists 1903 – The Golden Age of Magic.

Collectively their network spans more than 120 cities through 23 countries. www.tmlenterprises.com NEIL DORWARD (Director/Choreographer). A top commercial theatre and TV director/choreographer; Neil’s worked on critically acclaimed shows around the world: Le Noir ,The Dark Side of Cirque (World Tour), Le Grand Cirque Adrenaline (Sydney Opera House), All Night Long (U.S/ European Tour), Rock Around the Clock (Monte Carlo), Spirit of Christmas (Kodak, LA), Man in the Mirror (European tour).

Neil proudly directed The Illusionists franchise from its debut, to the London’s Apollo theatre to Broadway. www.directordorward.com

teams for Primo, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

Notable projects include the national tour of Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury, The Who’s Tommy (L.A.), The Queen of Spades starring Placido Domingo (Teatro Real Madrid) and Rolling With Laughter at Her Majesty’s Theatre (West End). He is principal designer of USA International Ballet Competitions, held every four years, and his architectural designs are seen regularly in restaurants and exhibits.

Jared became the youngest member of the United Scenic Artists-Local 829 and serves as a trustee to the executive board. In memo-ry of Liz Stillwell. www.jaslighting.com ANGELA AARON (Costume Designer).

Angela Aaron began in Europe designing for fashion magazines and continues to work internationally designing costumes for wide variety of theatrical and commercial productions. Domestic TV credits include “America’s Next Top Model” and “America’s Got Talent”. Music videos in 2015 alone include Pitbull’s “Fireball” & Magic!’s 750+ million YouTube hit, “Rude”. Angela’s celebrity work includes Marilyn Manson, Michael C Hall & Aerosmith among others. Theatrical credits include The Illusionists, Illusionists 1903, Cirque Le Noir & the forthcoming Circus 1903. She loves working with talented teams of creative people while contributing to the visual aspect of a performance with her costumes.

JIM MILLAN (Creative Director) NYC Play Dead (Teller/Robbins) off Broadway. Mythbusters Live, which sold out across North America and Australia (ongoing). Jim collaborated with celebrity chef Alton Brown on his Edible Inevitable tour (ongoing). As a comedy writer/director he created SPANK! The 50 Shades Parody which has played in more than 200 cities/ 4 countries in the last three years. Director/producer of cult comedy legends The Kids in the Hall. Has directed comedy, plays, magic and musicals on five continents in 35 countries in 17 languages in his career including 150 premieres. Lives in Toronto with his wife Kyra and children.

NICE STUDIOS (Video Design) is a multi disciplinary design and production studio with locations in Los Angeles and New York. Founded in 2011 by award winning visual effects supervisor, Ian Noe, and Emmy Award winning animator, Gil Nevo, Nice Studios specializes in promotional videos as well as animated LED content design and high end print. Nice Studios has supported the entire Illusionists franchise including The Illusionists, The Illusionists 2.0, The Illusionists 1903 as well as Le Noir with print work, video and creative consultation. www.nice-studios.com

JARED A. SAYEG (Lighting Design).

His designs for theatre, opera and dance have been seen throughout the U.S., Broadway, Off-Broadway, the West End, Canada, Spain, Edinburgh and Las Vegas. Broadway/NY: The Illusionists (Neil Simon Theatre and U.S. tour), Gotham Glory (Carnegie Hall). He was also on the design

SHANNON SLATON (Sound Designer) has designed many national tours including: Elf, Bullets over Broadway, Shrek, Hairspray, The Producers, Kiss Me Kate, Noise/Funk, The Full Monty, Contact, A Chorus Line, Tap Dogs, Sweeney Todd, The Wizard of Oz, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Wedding Singer. He was also the Advance

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KENDRICK SAMUEL (Magic Assistant) Queens, New York native Kendrick “Kenny” Samuel is best known as dancer, performer, and creative artist.

Represented by MSA Talent Agency.

Kendrick has been featured in The Illusionists US Tour 2015/Broadway Tour 2015/Asia Tour 2016, and The Illusionists NBC Special in Los Angeles, California at The Orpheum Theatre.

His most recent credits include Assistant Choreographer on Mariah Carey’s #AIWFCIY Concert, Digicel, Rihanna MTV Video Music Awards, and more.

Kendrick is honored to work amongst a cast of so many talented artists that is The Illusionists! Check out more featured work on www.kendricksamuel.com and stay updated @kendricksamuel on social media handles. contact@kendricksamuel.com

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Sound on Wicked and the Production Sound for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and the US National tour.

Shows he has mixed on Broadway include: Man of La Mancha, Bombay Dreams, Sweet Charity, Jersey Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, Spring Awakening, Fela!, Anything Goes, Annie, Legally Blonde, and Cabaret.

EVAN JOLLY (Composer). Theatre includes: The Illusionists 2.0 (Sydney Opera House), Le Grand Cirque (Sydney Opera House); Big White Fog (Almeida, London); arrangements for The Genius of Ray Charles and Thriller: The Musical (West End, UK and US tours). Film and TV credits include Tonight Is Cancelled (Fastnet Films); Under The Skin (FilmFour); Cowboys In India (Channel 4); “Graham and Alice” (BBC). Video games (with James Hannigan) include Command & Conquer and the Harry Potter franchise.

EDDIE COLE, DUSTIN MOORE (Additional Composition).They Took Off, composer/producer/DJ duo of Dustin Moore (aka Neon Phoenix) and Eddie Cole. Credits include the 2008 hip-hop Grammy-nominated Nas album Untitled, the original The Illusionists show score, and many professional artist collaborations. Both are bred musicians: Moore’s mother toured as a rock/funk band-leader in the 1970’s; Eddie is the great-nephew to Nat ‘King’ Cole.

Their multitude of influences result in a self-designated sub-genre of Galaxy Music, encompassing elements of glofi, underground hip-hop, experimental electropop, and vintage jazz-rock.

ASIA LIVE NETWORK (Producer) creates, produces and presents the productions of Simon Painter and Tim Lawson across an ever-expanding network of more than 250 cities in 25 countries. Their shows have broken box office records many times over through many of these territories, including Sydney (Opera House), Broadway (Marquis and Neil Simon theatres), Mexico (Auditorio National) and London (Shaftesbury Theatre). In 2007, their first production, Le Grand Cirque at the Sydney Opera House, became the biggest-selling show at the iconic venue and led to multiple international productions. They repeated the success over the coming years with Aerial Dreams and Cirque Adrenaline, again launching at the Sydney Opera House followed by extensive international touring. Recognizing the absence in the market of a high-quality touring

magic show, the company created a production showcasing seven of the world’s best magicians: The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible, which has quickly become the most successful group magic show in the world, with pro-ductions playing simultaneously throughout the world and spawning TV specials on ITV UK and NBC. Following this unprecedented success, The Illusionists 2.0 — The Next Generation of Magic and The Illusionists 1903 — Turn of The Century were created to follow and tour internationally. Their critically acclaimed production Le Noir —The Dark Side of Cirque, has been setting imaginations and box office records on fire, with arenas and theatres transformed like never before, so audiences experience the jaw-dropping, daredevil talents of the world’s finest circus artists and acrobats in a 360 degree setting. Their latest production, Circus 1903 — The Golden Age of Circus, is enjoying a sold-out world premiere season in Australia prior to a U.S. and international tour.

MAGICSPACE ENTERTAINMENT (Producer). MagicSpace Entertainment is headed by Lee D. Marshall, Joe Marsh, John Ballard, Steve Boulay and Bruce Granath and has been producing and presenting national tours, Broadway shows, concerts and museum exhibits worldwide for more than 35 years. Consistently one of the top promoters in the world, MagicSpace Entertainment typically produces and presents more than 350 events worldwide per year. Recent Broadway credits include The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible (Broadway & West End), The Illusionists – Live On Broadway, The Illusionists – Turn of the Century, Donny & Marie – A Broadway Christmas, American Idiot and RAIN – A Tribute To The Beatles On Broadway and Alton Brown Live – Eat You Science on Broadway. National tour credits include The Illusionists – Live From Broadway, Lord of the Dance created by Michael Flatley, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage starring in Mythbusters - Unleashed, Alton Brown Live, Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis, Donny & Marie Christmas, RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles, The Magic of David Copperfield, Circus 1903 – The Golden Age of Circus, Brain Candy Live starring Adam Savage and Michael Stevens, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Chorus Line and national concert tours by Janet Jackson, Cher and Fleetwood Mac to name just a few. Touring museum exhibitions produced include Juas-

sic World: The Exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohsexhibition, Titanic: The Exhibition and Diana – A Celebration, St Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes exhibition. MagicSpace Entertainment has offices in Park City and Salt Lake City, UT. www.magicspace.net

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Creative Producer Simon Painter Executive Producer Tim Lawson Director/Choreographer Neil Dorward Creative Director Jim Millan Automated Lighting Programmer Christopher Osborne Production Manager David Simpson Lighting Programmer Christopher Boon Casey, Jonathan Edwards Producer Jonathan Sanford Associate Producer Hollie England Casting (Magician’s Assistants) Stuart Howard-SH Entertainment Orchestral Recordings Prague Symphony Orchestra Additional Guitars Luis Almau Additional Keyboards & Brass Evan Jolly Music Mix Simon Changer, Toby Wood Personal Wardrobe Designer for Jeff Hobson Yvonne Hobson

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Head Carpenter................................ Franco Castronuovo Assistant Production Supervisor....................Ken Olson Assistant Carpenter/Rigger.... Michael “Coach“ Taylor Head Electrician..............................................Ben Bearden Assistant Electrician....................................... Wes Jacobs Head Sound.................................................. Kenny Crayton Head Prop Person.......................................... Sam Weaver Camera Operator....................................... Terrence Adiko Camera Operator........................................... Josh Stewart Video Engineer................................................Ken Halliwell Wardrobe Supervisor........................ Sarah Jarrell Wade Insurance.................................................... Crane Insurance Merchandise................................................. Josh Markham

Members of Denver Theatrical Wardrobe, Wigs, Hair and Make-up, Union 719 Linda Ackerschott Carrie Breidenbach Vonnie Clough Janel Clough Craig Cory Cyndie Cory Laura Cotugno Steve Davies Anne Davis Carolyn Dore Deborah Guess

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TOUR DIRECTION THE ROAD COMPANY, Stephen Lindsay & Brett Sirota WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR, Clint Mitchell ASIA LIVE NETWORK Chairman/Executive Producer .................... Tim Lawson Managing Director/Executive Producer..................................

Andrew Spencer Financial Controller......................................Liam Gretgrix Producer/General Manager................Jonathan Sanford Casting Director.................................... Mathieu La Plante Associate Producer....................................... Sam Klingner Production Coordinator.................................Larissa Valls International Marketing....... AKA, Melbourne Australia Graphic Design........................................Gil Nevo, Ian Noe

Nice Studios LA MAGICSPACE ENTERTAINMENT Chief Executive Officer/Producer Lee D. Marshall Chairman................................................................. Joe Marsh President.......................................................John W. Ballard Chief Operating Officer................................. Steve Boulay Vice President, Marketing.......................... Bruce Granath Vice President Touring...................................Dave Stinson Tour Marketing.................................................. Kristy Maple Tour Marketing............................................ Grace Torreano Graphic Designer...............................................Katie Perhai Accounting....................................................... David Rooker Mary Deon-Roberts CREDITS Makeup provided by M-A-C. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Sydney Opera House, Gil Nevo & Ian Noe from Nice Studios, Clint Mitchell, Lee Marshall, Stephen Lindsay WARNING The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages.

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The twelfth annual Colorado New Play Summit went global in its storytelling while also becoming an intimate, heartfelt celebration of departing founder Kent Thompson (see sidebar).

The Summit has grown into one of the nation’s premier showcases of new plays. Under Thompson, the Summit has workshopped 50 new plays, leading to 29 fully produced world premieres as part of the DCPA Theatre Company’s mainstage season. Thompson has commissioned 44 new plays, almost half written by women.

“I feel like for the past 12 years, I’ve had a great opportunity to present many different windows on the world, from many different peoples’ viewpoints,” Thompson said.

This year’s Summit featured readings of five plays that spanned in time from 1931 to present day and traveled

the world from Brooklyn to Berlin to Beijing to Geneva to Georgia to a suburban Ohio fertility clinic.

Every year, two or more readings from the previous Summit go on to become fully staged plays on the Theatre Company’s mainstage season. This year’s featured productions were Tira Palmquist’s Two Degrees and Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will.

The annual late-night Playwrights’ Slam drew an eclectic group of writers sampling their developing works in a fun and supportive atmosphere while the third annual Local Playwrights’ Slam, held a week earlier, was curated by the Colorado chapter of the Dramatists Guild.

For the fourth year, winners of DCPA Education’s Regional High School Playwriting Workshop and Competition had their plays presented at the Summit.

This year a record four writers were showcased.

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PHOTOS: 1. Actor Jason Delane Lee (Two Degrees) and commissioned playwright Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami). 2. Curtain call for the cast of the featured play Last Night and the Night Before. (l-r): Tresha Farris, Jasmine Hughes, Valeka Holt, Olivia Sullivent and Brynn Tucker. 3. Playwright Eric Pfeffinger in rehearsal for the featured play Human Error. 4. Actors Brian Keane and Francis Jue in the featured play Manford at the Line, or The Great Leap. 5. Commissioned playwright Tony Meneses performs at the Playwrights’ Slam.

6. Actors Victor Slezak, Liam Craig and Rodney Lizcano rehearse Rogelio Martinez’s featured play, Blind Date. 7. The annual gathering of playwrights and supporters of the $1.3 million Women’s Voices Fund. Photos by John Moore (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7) and Adams VisCom (3).

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This year’s Summit drew more local audiences and national industry leaders than ever before, with 44 playwrights and 36 theatre organizations attending from at least 16 states. Visitors represented companies ranging from the Public Theatre in New York to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to the Banff Centre in Ontario to the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont.

Closer to home, guests included the Creede Repertory Theatre, Curious Theatre, The Catamounts, Athena Festival Project, Lake Dillon Theatre Company and more.

The five featured Summit readings: • D onnetta Lavinia Grays’ Last Night and the Night Before opens with a Georgia woman on her sister’s doorstep in Brooklyn, with her 10-year-old daughter in tow. The mystery for both the characters and the audience to solve is what trauma took place in Georgia that brought them here.

• R ogelio Martinez’s Blind Date centers on Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s first meeting at the Geneva Summit in 1985 to try to open up channels between the US and the Soviet Union.

• I n Eric Pfeffinger’s comedy Human Error, a couple goes to what they think is a routine appointment at their fertility clinic only to discover that their fertilized embryo has been mistakenly implanted into another couple. And it turns out they are polar opposites.

• R obert Schenkkan’s Hanussen is set in 1931 Berlin and introduces us to the brilliant mentalist Erik Jan Hanussen who captivates German audiences with his ability to read minds and his uncanny predictions of the future.

His reputation brings him to the attention of avid occultist Adolf Hitler, who does not realize he is a Jew. • L auren Yee’s Manford at the Line, or The Great Leap follows an American college basketball team as it travels to Beijing for a “friendship” game during the politically charged Cultural Revolution in 1989.

Audiences will be delighted to see American Mariachi (2016 Summit), The Great Leap and Human Error (2017 Summit), which have been selected for full development as part of the Theatre Company’s 2017/18 season.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SUMMIT SPONSORS: Producing Partners: Joy S. Burns, Terry & Noel Hefty, Karolynn Lestrud, Robert & Carole Slosky and Daniel L. Ritchie.

All 2017 readings sponsored by Sheri & Lee Archer in memory of Bob Davidson.

Contributing Partners: Jeremy & Susan Shamos.

A TRIBUTE TO KENT THOMPSON PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DCPA THEATRE COMPANY When Kent Thompson took over the helm at the DCPA Theatre Company, he staked claim to three issues that he felt needed to be urgently addressed: creating a vibrant new works program, achieving better gender parity, and commissioning and producing work by playwrights of color.

Right away he resurrected the company’s new works program, at the center of which were four to five commissions per season. He created the Colorado New Play Summit, a new play festival that has grown in stature to be one of the best in the country. He created the singular Women’s Voices Fund, which has generously supported the work of women playwrights and directors. And he has brought greater diversity to our stages, which have featured more work by Latino and African-American writers.

He also welcomed a number of large-scale musicals to the Theatre Company, including Sweeney Todd, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Sense & Sensibility The Musical. He fed us a steady stream of thoughtful plays, comedies, dramas, classics, new plays, and plays for youth and families.

Most of all, his assured leadership and expansive artistic vision have made the Theatre Company a relevant and vital part of so many lives here in Denver. We wish him the best and will miss him.

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MAMMA MIA! — A TRULY ORIGINAL MUSICAL

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As Creative Producer of MAMMA MIA!, my job started long before any script had been written. The story begins more than 25 years ago when I first met Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, the songwriting geniuses behind ABBA. I was working for Sir Tim Rice at the time, who was collaborating with Benny and Björn on his musical, Chess, and I was immediately smitten — after all, these were the men who had written “Dancing Queen,” one of the greatest pop songs of all time — but it was another of their songs, “The Winner Takes It All,” that first suggested to me the potential of an original musical using their compositions.

The lyrics revealed a roller coaster story of love and loss that struck me as extraordinarily theatrical, but how was I to bring this to life?

First I had to approach Benny and Björn, who were a little unsure of my intentions. I explained that the project I had in mind would focus on a new and exciting story; it wouldn’t be a tribute show or the “ABBA Story” but a truly original “book” musical. They weren’t 100% convinced.

So I sat on the floor of my apartment listening to ABBA late into the night. I may have driven my neighbors to despair but as time passed I became more and more certain of my idea. In 1995 my tenacity finally paid off.

Björn said, “If you can find the right writer and story, well... let’s see what happens….”

A year later I was on location with a film I was producing when the director mentioned Catherine Johnson. I was aware of her work as a playwright. We met in January 1997

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and soon I was confidently telling Björn that we had found our writer.

My brief to Catherine was that no lyrics could change, the story should be a contemporary, ironic, romantic comedy and that if she listened carefully to ABBA’s songs, she’d notice how they fell into two different generations: the slightly younger, playful songs like “Honey, Honey” and “Dancing Queen” and the more mature, emotional songs such as “The Winner Takes It All” and “Knowing Me, Knowing You”...and so the idea of a cross-generational love story was devised.

By the end of that year Catherine had finished the first draft of the script and I persuaded Phyllida Lloyd to come on board as our director. Her background was serious, legit theatre and opera, and her secret weapon was her “Dry Martini wit.”

It was unusual, if not unheard of, for three women to be the collaborative creative force. I think it readdressed the balance and had a great nurturing effect on the production. Appropriately, MAMMA MIA! features three strong women in the story. Their characters are completely different — slightly bossy, a bit chaotic, extremely practical, and very high maintenance! We have a lot of laughs about who is who in real life.

Suddenly it was time to give up my day job as a TV and film producer and prepare for the white-knuckle ride of making the dream a reality: money to raise, a theatre to find, artwork to create, ticket agents to seduce, deadlines

“The Winner Takes It All”…revealed a roller coaster story of love and loss that struck me as extraordinarily theatrical…

— JUDY CRAYMER, CREATIVE PRODUCER Our very first North American premiere was in Canada where we were booked for six months and stayed for five years. The first US tour opened in 2000 at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre. Having celebrated over 12 years and 5,000 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre, MAMMA MIA! transferred to the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway in late 2013. As of its final performance in September 2015, it was the eighth longest-running show in Broadway history.

And let’s not forget MAMMA MIA! – The Movie, which had had its worldwide premiere in London on June 30, 2008, rapidly making history as the highest-grossing movie of all time at the UK and Irish box offices.

One thing I’ve learned from 17 fun and frantic years of overseeing and coordinating the many productions of MAMMA MIA! is that the potential and possibilities are continuously exciting and seem to be limitless. Enjoy the show!

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to meet. It was the summer of 1998 and we had to open by April 7, 1999 or we’d lose Phyllida, who’d been booked to direct an opera in London. April 6 happened to be the anniversary, to the day, of ABBA winning the Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo” 25 years before. It seemed a good omen.

Although Björn was enthusiastic and shared the vision for the musical, Benny was a little more cautious and at any time both could have put an end to the project. It was a tense time, as their emotional backing as well as their creative input was very important. If they were going to trust me with their fabulous songs, I didn’t want to let them down. Benny and I agreed that on our opening night one of us would be able to tell the other “I told you so.”

By now we had a date for opening but we had no theatre. We’d been looking at smaller venues when suddenly the rather large and prestigious Prince Edward Theatre in London’s West End became available. But its sheer size meant that the scale of the production had to expand dramatically too, with cast, crew, set and budget all having to be reworked.

A lot of fingers were crossed for the big night.

And so...April 6, 1999, a night I will never forget — the world premiere of MAMMA MIA! The audience was charmed and one British critic wrote, “MAMMA MIA! could put Prozac out of business.”

Benny heartily accepted his defeat: with the entire theatre dancing in the aisles, he turned to me and said, “You can say it now.” I flashed back, “I told you so!”

COMING UP FROM CABARET:

DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY Brownie Wise, the American saleswoman who put the “social” in “networking” and revolutionized Tupperware sales with her “party plan” marketing system, would be impressed with Dixie Longate — a member of the illustrious “#1 Tupperware Seller in the World” Club.

Dixie, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, found all-new uses for the household standby, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and is taking the world by storm. After taking the party down under to Australia, Dixie finally returns to her second home at The Garner Galleria Theatre (Jul 19-Aug 6).

Join Dixie for her unique take on a good ol’ fashioned Tupperware party filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theatre stage. Loaded with laughs and the most up-to-date products available for purchase, audiences will be regaled as Dixie educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products.

Who knows? One day she may just follow in the footsteps of Brownie Wise and become Vice President of Tupperware — described as a simple and delicious system of gadgets with a dash of sassitude. Sounds just a little bit like Dixie to us.

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The arts help make Denver an amazing place to live and work by inspiring and motivating us and by creating a vibrant sense of community. The people at U.S. Bank value the power of the arts, and are committed to supporting the magnificent programs and spectacular performances at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA).

The arts educate, promote understanding, broaden our perspectives, enable us to share rich cultural experiences and provide an escape when needed. We are fortunate that the Denver arts community is a strong resource and is home to some of the nation’s finest theatres, museums and artists.

“At U.S. Bank, we invest our time, resources and passion to help build and support vibrant communities that allow every person to work toward their potential,” said Hassan Salem, President of U.S. Bank in Colorado and DCPA Trustee. “Our corporate giving and volunteer program is called Community Possible, focused on community investments centered on work, home and play. We are honored to support the performing arts and its vital role in making play possible for all those in the Denver community. We applaud DCPA for providing amazing performances, programs and outstanding arts education — whether it’s playwriting, acting, providing resources for teachers and classrooms, musical theatre or corporate training.”

Employee community involvement and guidance from community leaders weave U.S. Bank into the fabric of Denver’s neighborhoods. Every year employees volunteer their time to help local nonprofit groups, and members of the U.S. Bank board in Denver provide regular feedback on the bank’s current activities that helps crystallize the bank’s vision for the future.

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“One of the key attributes of the growth in Denver is the rich investment in arts and culture made over many years. The DCPA is a perfect example of the value of how a first-class theatre that draws some of Broadway’s biggest hits adds to our community.” said Darren Markley, Managing Director of The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank in Colorado. “We are privileged to host clients and prospects at the DCPA’s wonderful shows throughout the year and we always leave with a first-class experience of which we all feel proud. “ Let’s all continue to celebrate the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

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Our 37th annual Saturday Night Alive, driven by BMW of Denver Downtown, was one for the record books â&#x20AC;&#x201D; $1 million raised to support theatre education. The 800 guests were amazed at the fantastic fast-moving footwork of Tony-winning choreographer, Savion Glover, who not only wowed the audience, but also led an afternoon Master Class with 40 students.

Among the highpoints was an announcement by DCPA President & CEO Janice Sinden of a new Theatre for Young Audiences program for PreKsecond grade students. A Snowy Day will welcome 18,000 tiny guests this fall, made possible by proceeds from the fundraiser.

Complete with a surprise box sale, dinner by Epicurean Group, post-show entertainment by Wash Park and a silent auction valued at $400,000, the evening was a tremendous success. A special thanks to our dedicated committee (see photo #10), the Denver Center Alliance, our many sponsors and our generous guests.

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1. DCPA President & CEO Janice Sinden and DCPA Trustee and Silver Sponsor Margot Gilbert Frank. 2. Saturday Night Alive headliner Savion Glover teaches a tap Master Class to 40 students. 3. Incoming DCPA Chairman Martin Semple and wife Jo Ann with Platinum Patrons Kristin and Blair Richardson. 4. DCPA Trustee Roger Hutson and his wife Meredith (l), Director of Education Allison Watrous, DCPA Education students and DCPA President & CEO Janice Sinden (r) greet entertainer Savion Glover (far right). 5. Chip Horne with Corporate Co-Chairs Dr. David and Sylvia Young and Dr. Jan Kennaugh. 6. Edward Freehart, General Manager of Presenting Sponsor BMW of Denver Downtown and Gretchen Estes. 7. 2016 Saturday Night Alive Chair Claudia Miller, DCPA Chief Development Officer Deanna Haas and Jim Miller, Silver Sponsor with Polsinelli. 8. Event chairs, Roger & Meredith Hutson 9. Saturday Night Alive Gold Sponsor Kathie Finger mingles during the pre-show cocktail party. 10. (l-r) Saturday Night Alive netted $1 million in large thanks to its planning committee: Daniel Kopnisky and Stephen Edmonds, Patron Chair; DCPA President & CEO Janice Sinden; Steve and Susan Struna, Silent Auction Chairs; Dr. Reginald and Faye Washington, Corporate co-chairs; Meredith and Roger Hutson, Event Chairs; Sylvia and Dr. David Young, Corporate co-chairs; Lyn and Dr. Michael Schaffer, Vice Chairs. 11. Local band Wash Park keeps late-night guests dancing.

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Always Best Care’s comprehensive client assessment and care planning process focuses on the personal interests of each individual client. Its compassionate staff provides safe transportation, transfer assistance and companionship services that allow clients to maintain their independence. Customized outings to events at the DCPA, museum visits, art classes and other social engagements are important to preserve the quality of life that clients so enjoy.

“We feel that we share common goals and objectives with the DCPA and are proud to support their events and education programs,” says Erin Nichols, owner and president of Always Best Care Senior Services.

“It is important to us to maintain a connection to the community and to be culturally engaged. The Denver Center truly enriches the lives of our clients, their families and our staff.”

It is Always Best Care’s mission to provide high quality, clientcentered home care and to go beyond what is expected. The company wants to help families make informed decisions about senior care and guide them through the complexities of options to design solutions that are specific to their unique needs.

“Our caregivers are carefully screened and trained to provide professional and compassionate care,” says Nichols. “There is a lot of trust involved when you invite a stranger into your home to take care of you or your family member. We understand this and make every effort to let our clients know that they’re in good hands and receive the very best care.”

Over the recent years, Always Best Care Senior Services has expanded its network and is one of the largest and fastest growing senior care franchises in the Denver area. Three locations with more than 250 employees are serving Denver’s Front Range communities, including Denver, Englewood, Littleton, Lakewood, Boulder, Castle Rock, Broomfield, and surrounding areas. It also is one of the nation’s leading providers of non-medical home care and senior housing placement services.

In addition to the DCPA, Always Best Care is a proud supporter of the ALS Association, Central City Opera and Colorado Ballet.

LIFE IS A STAGE…. Enhance your next act with outstanding care from Always Best Care Senior Services.

For more information on how Always Best Care can support you or your loved ones, please contact us at 303.952.3060 or at www.alwaysbestcare.com/denverwest.

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DCPA TEAM DCPA Janice Sinden......................................................President & CEO Maggie Lamb.......................Executive Assistant to the CEO

BROADWAY & CABARET John Ekeberg........................... Executive Director Broadway Alicia Bruce......................................................... General Manager Alyssa Chacon............. Operations Business Administrator Abel Becerra.................................. Technical Director, Cabaret

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MARKETING, SALES & PATRON SERVICES Jennifer Nealson..................................Chief Marketing Officer Eric Boone...................................................Front End Developer Heidi Bosk......................... Senior PR & Promotions Manager Nathan Brunetti...................................................Digital Manager Flora Jane DiRienzo...............Director of Strategic Projects Casey Eickhoff....................................Senior Graphic Designer Brenda Elliott......................................Senior Graphic Designer Brianna Firestone............Director of Customer Experience Simone Gordon...................................................Project Manager Hope Grandon..........................................PR & Events Manager Jeff Hovorka............................. Director of Sales & Marketing Jennifer Kemps........................................Group Sales Manager Emily Kent..................................................Director of Marketing David Lenk............................................................. Video Producer

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Emily Lozow........................................... Marketing Coordinator Adam Lundeen....................................Marketing Technologist Kyle Malone.................................................................... Art Director Cassie McHale......................... Communications Coordinator Carolyn Michaels...........................................................Copywriter Cheyenne Michaels............................. Marketing Coordinator John Moore................................................Senior Arts Journalist Adam Obendorf........................................... Senior Art Director Allison Barber Pasternak..... Executive Assistant to the CMO Joseph Schurwonn......................................... Financial Analyst Jill Schwager.................. Audience Development Associate Rob Silk.........................................Director of Creative Services Suzanne Yoe............................... Director of Communications & Cultural Affairs THEATRE SERVICES Carol Krueger.................................. Theatre Services Manager Adam Alberti, Ethan Aumann, Nora Caley, Samantha Egle, Hadley Kamminga-Peck, LeiLani Lynch, Aaron McMullen, Gregory Melton, Douglas Murphey, Joyce Murphey, Margaret Ohlander, Valerie Schaefer, Mica Ward..................... Theatre Company House Managers TICKETING SERVICES Jennifer Lopez.........................Director of Ticketing Services Kirk Petersen...........................................Assoc. Dir. of Ticketing Services – Patron Relations David Smith.............................................Assoc. Dir. of Ticketing Services – Subscription Services Micah White..............................................Subscription Manager Jessica Bergin, Vincent Bridgers, Katie Clow-Pollard, Tristan Jungferman ................................Box Office Managers Billy Dutton..............................................VIP Ticketing Manager Malcolm Brown, DJ Dennis, Kevin Dykstra, Molly Dougherty, Amanda Gomez, Edmund Gurule............................................................Show Leads Kirsten Anderson, Rebecca Hibbert, Scott Lix, Gregory Swan........................Subscription Agents Román Anaya, Rena Bugg, Jennifer Gray, Roger Haak, Shari Hansen, Noah Jungferman, Alia Kempton, Daniel Lindsey, Gustavo Márquez, Cora Marsh, Lisa McClellan, Noah McDermott, Gunnar Reinig, Taylor Schulze, Jason Scoggins, Liz Sieroslawski, Hayley Solano, Jon Squire, Brad Steinmeyer, Tomas Waples, Cindy Yeast............................... Ticket Agents

SHARED SERVICES Vicky Miles................................................ Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Jeffrey.......................................... Director of Financial

Planning & Analysis Julie Schumaker.................Executive Assistant to the CFO ACCOUNTING Jennifer Siemers...................................Director of Accounting Michaele Davidson.......................................Senior Accountant Juliette Hidahl....................................................Accounting Clerk Kim Stewart........................................................ Staff Accountant HUMAN RESOURCES Regina Matthews......................... Director Human Resources Aubrey Antonsen.....................................................HR Generalist Brian Carter...................................Human Resources Manager Jamie Hawkins...................................................... HR Coordinator Jill Martinez..........................................................Payroll Specialist Monica Robles............................................Mailroom Supervisor INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Yovani Pina.................................... Associate Vice President of Information Technology Rick Bennett............................................................... Director of IT Jim Hipp................................................. Associate Director of IT Christopher Hoge.......................VoIP/System Administrator Paul Howell........................................................Help Desk Analyst Bobby Jiminez.........................Senior AudienceView Analyst David Tschan.............................................................. Director of IT John H. Voorheis............................ Manager of Infrastructure

THEATRE COMPANY ADMINISTRATION Charles Varin...................................................Managing Director Ryan Meisheid...........................Associate Managing Director Allison Taylor..................................................Company Manager

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Angela Schwiethale........................... Business Administrator Alie Quistberg...........................Assistant Company Manager ARTISTIC Nataki Garrett.................................Associate Artistic Director Charlie I. Miller................................Associate Artistic Director

Strategy & Innovation Douglas Langworthy..................................... Literary Director/

Director of New Play Development Chad Henry....................................................... Literary Associate Grady Soapes................................................... Artistic Associate PRODUCTION Jeff Gifford...............................................Director of Production Melissa Cashion....................Associate Production Manager Matthew Campbell.............. Assistant Production Manager Julie Brou...................Production & Artistic Office Manager Scenic Design Lisa M. Orzolek................................ Director of Scenic Design Matthew Plamp, Nicholas Renaud..............................Scenic Design Assistants Lighting Design Charles R. MacLeod...................................Director of Lighting Lily Bradford.....................................Lighting Design Assistant Reid Tennis............................................... Production Electrician Multimedia Topher Blair................................................ Multimedia Specialist Sound Design Craig Breitenbach...........................................Director of Sound Tyler Nelson.......................................................... Sound Designer Alex Billman, Frank Haas..............................Sound Operators Stage Management Christopher C. Ewing................ Production Stage Manager Rachel Ducat, Corin Ferris, Kristen O’Connor, D. Lynn Reiland, Kurt Van Raden...............Stage Managers Scene Shop Robert L. Orzolek, Josh Prues.................................Associate Technical Directors Albert “Stub” Allison, Louis Fernandez III.......................................... Lead Technicians Justin Hicks, Brian “Marco” Markiewicz, Wynn Pastor, Kyle Simpson Mike VanAartsen...........................................Scenic Technicians Prop Shop Robin Lu Payne.............................................Properties Director Eileen S. Garcia......................... Assistant Properties Director Jamie Stewart Curl, David Hoth, Georgina Kayes, Katie Webster..........................................................Props Artisans Paint Shop Jana L. Mitchell...........................................Charge Scenic Artist Melanie Rentschler........................................Lead Scenic Artist Kristin Hamer MacFarlane.....................................Scenic Artist Costume Shop Janet S. MacLeod..........................................Costume Director/ Costume Design Associate Meghan Anderson Doyle........ Costume Design Associate Carolyn Plemitscher, Louise Powers, Jackie Scott............................................................................Drapers Cathie Gagnon.................................................................First Hand Sheila P. Morris........................................................................... Tailor Kelly Jones.................................................................................Stitcher Costume Crafts Kevin Copenhaver............................Costume Crafts Director Chris Campbell.................................Costume Crafts Assistant Wigs Diana Ben-Kiki............................................................... Wig Master House Crew Doug Taylor*..........................................Supervising Stagehand Jim Berman*, Jennifer Guethlein*, Stephen D. Mazzeno*, Kyle Moore, Miles Stasica*, Tyler Stauffer*, Matt Wagner* (*IATSE Local 7 Stagehands)................................ Stagehands Wardrobe Brenda Lawson........................................Director of Wardrobe Maria Y. Davis, Taylor Malott............................Wig Assistants Robin Appleton, Amber Donner, Anthony Mattivi, Tim Nelson, Lisa Parsons Wagner, Alan Richards....................................................................... Dressers

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