Diana’s son, Gabriel, Ethan Peterson, died as an infant, yet he exists as a teenager. At least in his mother’s mind he does. She struggles to cope with her grief going from emotional highs and lows for years. Diana Goodman, Alena Watters, has become
They’re all there, Hamilton, Frozen, Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Cabaret and many more of Broadway’s most famous theatre productions come together or fall apart rather, in the production of ‘Forbidden Broadway, Merrily We Stole A Song’ currently playing at the intamate Garner Galleria Theatre in the Denver Center of the Performing Arts through June 29, 2025.
By the time intermission came around, the tears were already flowing. Wait, what? I thought this was supposed to be comedic play about a group of guys trying to win the title of “The Hot Wing King” in the annual “Hot Wang Festival” competition in Memphis, Tennessee. So why was the audience so emotional?
So how is a theatre play about printing press inventor Johannes Gutenberg supposed to translate into a successful broadway play? Good question. Maybe, not such a good idea. But playwrights , Bud, Brett Ambler, and Doug, Bryce Baxter, think it is, so with every penny they have they set about to write, produce and stage the play.
But who is this Dana Cimone? with the beautiful, voice who plays Dorothy in this current touring Broadway rendition of the play that changed Broadway forever and is currently playing the Buell Theatre at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through April 20, 2025.
Mean Girls is a must-see, laugh out loud, high-energy musical. It is a “cautionary tale” about discovering who you are while also trying to fit in. Can you really be your authentic self while pleasing others? Written by Tina Fey, music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and directed by Casey Nicholaw. It is a whimsical yet seriously relevant story now playing at the Denver Center of Performing Arts through March 5, 2025.
In the midst of all this a group of women and one man are organizing a secret meeting to discuss the emerging women’s suffrage movement and how they will participate as the East Coast Suffragists. When one of the women, Lauralee, who had been sent out to inform others of the meeting goes missing and presumed dead, the tenants of the boarding house where she lives are suspected of murder.
Everyone is concerned about Bobbie, her happiness, her future, her life. It’s her 35th birthday and all her closest friends are having a surprise birthday party for her but they all have the same thing, the same questions on their minds. Why isn’t Bobbie married? Isn’t it time for her to settle down, have kids, have the white picket fence and all the rest?
Oh, what a night it was. A night to remember. May 17, 2024. To say the excitement was through the roof would be an understatement. They came from throughout the state of Colorado. From both rural and urban communities. Entire families, teachers, friends, and fellow classmates traveled to Denver for the annual Bobby G Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in the production of high school musical theatre.
By Joe Contreras, Latin Life Denver Media, Informational text and bio by Denver Center for The Performing Arts/Applause Magazine. Photos by MeredithMashburn Photography It’s not…
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