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SShows with even a shred of staged violence have a pre-performance ritual labeled “fight call,” in which the performers who will appear in any fight scenes gather, typically within the half hour before the theatre doors open, to go through their choreographed paces. no matter how long the show has been running or how many times the actors have done it, it’s a tradition that errs on the side of safety, since once each night’s performance starts, it can’t stop for a retake, and the performers onstage have only each other to rely on. Though some palpable tension surfaces among the four rock legends who appear in the show Million Dollar Quartet, it never rises to the level of fisticuffs, let alone swordplay. But the lead actor/musicians in this historically inspired musical do gather

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Indeed, musical fellow-feeling is central to each night’s performance because the show recreates, in essence, a

historic impromptu jam session among four musicians at or near the start of their hugely influential careers: Elvis presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl perkins. The setting was Sun records, the small memphis studio where all four giants got their start under the tutelage of producer Sam phillips. And the occasion was a 1956 recording session for perkins, the rockabilly hit maker who wrote “Blue Suede Shoes” and “matchbox.” Lewis—who was still a year away from his first chart hit, “Whole Lotta Shakin’ going On”—was on hand as a session player on piano. presley, who had left Sun the

previous year for a major label and had made a hit record of perkins’ “Blue

Suede Shoes,” stopped by to listen in, then joined the band in the room.

And Cash, who’d had a country hit the same year with “I Walk the

Line,” was—depending on whose account you believe—either

hanging around the studio the whole time or present only

briefly, possibly as a matter of Sun records publicity.

Indeed, Sun’s phillips, who had an eye for a photo opportunity, glimpsed the history being made that day and quickly summoned a reporter from the Memphis Press-Scimi-tar. The next day’s paper printed a black-and-white photo of Lewis, perkins and Cash gathered around presley at the piano, and ran a story with the headline “million Dol-lar Quartet.” That may have been the last anyone heard about this unlikely rock’n’roll summit, except that someone at the studio had the foresight to keep the tape running. When the recordings surfaced decades later, they revealed a loosey-goosey mix of conversation, dish, and songs or parts of songs—some 46 tunes in all, more than half of them gospel songs, and two of them Christmas songs, as the session was held in early December. for the stage rendition, co-written by Sun records historian Colin Escott and writer/director floyd mutrux, the song list has been tweaked; there are just two gospel songs remaining, “peace in the Valley” and “Down by the riverside,” and the history compressed for dramatic effect. for in-stance, Cash, depicted in the show as a sort of wise elder brother, is shown announcing his departure from Sun records to go his own way—a break that wouldn’t happen for two more years.

But if the show is not a docudrama, it intends to capture the tight-knit feel of four colleagues feeling their way

through familiar tunes together, as well as showcasing their songs for each other. “I wanted the audience to be like a fly on the wall,” says Schaeffer. “I didn’t want the show to feel slick.” He credits music arranger/supervisor Chuck mead, a country/roots artist himself, with keeping the sound lean and mean. “none of the arrangements was souped up or sexed up,” says Schaef-

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fer. “it was just what those guys wrote and played.” The show breaks its you-are-there real-time conceit a few times: for flashbacks to fill in the backstory of the leads, and for a final-stretch “fantasy concert” imagining the four icons playing their hits together. But the key to acting verisimilitude as well as musical authenticity, Schaeffer says, has been finding the right talent.

“i’ve cast this show like no other show,” he says. “We’ve searched YouTube and looked at videos of

people; i’ve gone to the Elvis competition in Baltimore. We’ve also auditioned the show in Nashville and austin,” two music capitals teeming with young guitar-slingers and singers. he also rehearsed the show like no other, he concedes. “i’m used to rehearsing a show ten to six,” says Schaeffer, who’s directed the Broad-way runs of Follies and Putting It Together, “but we forgot that musicians don’t get up until 11 o’clock. They’re not used to a clock at all; the attention span and focus is a lot different from a traditional musical. So our first day ran ten to six—and then we never did that again.” The first order of business, Schaeffer recalls, was to “make the guys a band,” which involved music director Mead lead-ing the performers through jam sessions of familiar tunes, calling out titles and keys, not unlike the original 1956 gathering. it’s an approach that makes sense for a show in which the actors also are the musicians, and vice versa; creating a sense of ensemble among performers is always crucial in a live medium like theatre. When the action of the show happens to involve a lot of live music-making, it helps if they really look

like they’re playing off each other the way actual bands do. “When they do their instrumental breaks, they do them a little differently every night, so they’re always listening to each other, checking out what new thing carl [perkins] is doing,” Schaeffer notes.

On the other hand, Schaeffer wants to make clear, apart from the show’s final moments, Million Dollar

Quartet is designed as a story-driven show, not a concert. “i tell them they’re just living in that mo-ment,” he says of his direction to the actors, “because the studio is so small, they’re all trapped in this room together. There’s no-where to go. So when tension arises, it goes right into the music.” Though the Million Dollar Quartet tour now frequently plays music halls as much as theatres, and now has a sit-down produc-tion in Las Vegas, for Schaeffer what’s important is that “the show never becomes a machine, like some big musicals can turn into.” To that end, he and Mead “go and check on every single company” around the

country to preserve the show’s balance of intimacy and flash. and, of course, to make sure those guitar calls start on time. n

Rob Weinert-Kendt is a senior editor at american Theatre and has written about theatre and the arts for The New York Times, The Los angeles Times, Variety, The Guardian and The San Francisco chronicle.

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When all was said and done, c.S. Lewis could not really tell us where his faith took him after the death of his beloved wife Joy. his book, A Grief Observed, written after her death from cancer at 45, was a neces-sary release of terrible anguish for him, but he struggled with the faith issue. A Grief Observed is Lewis’ cri de coeur, his way of coping with that enormous loss. But it does not quite tell us where the broken pieces of the rest of him lay. Neither can William Nicholson. he based his award-winning play, Shadowlands, on the unexpected and unlikely encounter of this irish atheist turned ecumenical christian phi-losopher—with Joy Davidman, an american writer and poet born Jewish, turned atheist and finally christian, who looked Lewis up because she admired his writing. Their meeting led to a fascinating love story. it also does them poor service to describe these two remarkable human beings in such cursory fashion, so the description stops here. The deeper marvel is that they met at all, that they fell in love and that they married. By the time this all happened, Lewis had been a confirmed bachelor into his early 50s and Davidman, 17 years his junior, was a divorced american trying to establish a foot-hold in England. Neither of them expected to become the central players in such a grand romance and Lewis never dreamed that anything could change his life as radically as loving this woman did. You couldn’t make this up.

Nicholson didn’t have to. The twice Oscar-nominated screenwriter (once for the film based on his stage

version of Shadowlands) didn’t have to do much more than transform this deeply moving true story into a teleplay, stage and screenplay, basing a lot of the writing on Lewis’ own disarmingly frank observations. Lewis himself stated that he considered himself an entirely orthodox anglican to the end of his life, and we can only accept his word for it. But books such as his A Grief Observed do leave some room for doubt—his and ours. “The message that Nicholson shares with us is: when we open ourselves to great love, we open ourselves to great pain and therefore, open ourselves to the full measure of life’s ex-periences,” says christy Montour-Larson who staged the Denver center Theatre company production of Shadowlands. “Shadowlands is an unlikely love story about the magic of change. it asks the ques-tion: ‘how can Lewis reconcile his belief in a benevolent God’s heaven with the pain and suffering he experiences on earth?’ ” From a theatrical viewpoint, the answer is and should be unreachable because it ultimately doesn’t matter. conclusions will

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differ with every viewer according to how he or she receives the play based on personal experience or conviction. What matters is the humanity of the struggle.

“To me,” montour-Larson continues, “plays that help us understand what it means to be

a human being are the best kind of theatre. my two favorite quotes from the play that lift up this message are Jack [C.S. Lewis] saying, ‘I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change god. It changes me.’ And secondly: ‘Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore, only the life I have lived…’ ” So yes, it’s complicated. not only the is-sues, but also the influences that shape one’s response to them. no one comes to this subject naked, certainly not the playwright who has acknowledged a lifelong preoccu-pation with matters of faith, life and death. nicholson’s father, a methodist doctor, and

his mother, the daughter of a South African Jew, both converted to roman Catholicism when nicholson was seven. But his journey has differed from theirs. “I still considered myself a practicing Catholic as I began my university career, as a scholar at Christ’s College, Cambridge,” nicholson has stated, “but by the time I left, all that was left was the space in me that my faith had occupied for so long. much as I wanted to go on believing, it became clear to me that it’s we humans who make god, in our great need. god, if he existed, would have no need of humanity. But as all my writing demonstrates, the need or the puzzle or the hunger has never left me. “The title Shadowlands comes from C.S. Lewis himself, in one of the narnia books where he says, ‘we are in the Shadow-lands,’ ” he explained. “I liked the phrase, and of course the play is in part an explora-tion of fate and so that seemed to be a good one… because it’s also a play about pain

and grief and the word Shadowlands seems to encompass both of these.” (nicholson, who most recently wrote the screenplay for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, based on nelson mandela’s autobiography of the same name, has stated that he does not be-lieve in a life to come; yet, he adds, “I don’t reject it as an impossibility, but I think it’s unlikely.”) “regarding Lewis,” contributes montour-Larson, “he wasn’t interested in converting anyone. He did not quote the Bible, nor was he a fundamentalist. Yes, he was very conservative in some ways, but he was also very open and genuine. He relied on com-mon sense, ethics and imagination as a path to Christianity and he saw Christianity as

a hallway with many rooms. So, I think he would approve of Shadowlands.” Still, is the case being made in the play for the triumph of anything? If so, what? faith? Love? Both? neither? “I see Shadowlands as both a triumph of love and faith. In the beginning, Lewis lectures on the meaning of love and suffer-ing—yet he does not truly understand the depths of what he is saying—until he meets Joy.”

Since this is a play where nuances matter, do you think a woman would direct this play differently from a

man? “Directing is a subtle and complex art. There may be as many methods for direct-ing as there are individual artists,” montour-Larson offers. “I used to think that my being a woman should not make a difference in how I bring a story clearly, emotionally, evocatively to an audience. “However, my thinking is evolving on

this issue. I have heard feminine energy is about nurturing, receiving and being, and masculine energy includes protec-tion, giving and doing. If we open ourselves up, we have the power to work with both energies, but we can’t deny what we bring to the table. I see both of these ener-gies being important to

Shadowlands. Our story begins in 1950s Oxford with a foot in the 16th century. It is a masculine world of civilized routine. And then enters Joy: feminine, modern, bold and adventurous…”

A final question: does being a person of faith help to appreciate this play and its dilemmas? And if one is not,

does it diminish the play’s impact or even alter one’s interpretation? “I don’t think it matters either way,” says the director. “This play is about human beings experiencing love and loss. Everyone has a belief system, whether they believe in god or not, and that faith is a fundamen-tal part of the human condition. It’s just a question of what we put our faith in and how good the choices we make in doing that are. “Lewis conducted a series of BBC talks about Christian beliefs from 1943 to 1945. According to a survey of listeners dating to the 1940s, more than 50% of them identi-fied themselves as atheist. He had a special affinity for the arguments, sensibilities and perspectives of religious doubters and was even called ‘the apostle to the skeptics.’ Lewis’ life journey was to figure out the world and what faith meant. “I think we are all trying to do that in our own way.” n

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“Everyone has a belief system, whether they believe in God or not, and that faith is a fundamental part of the human condition. It’s just a question of what we put our faith in and how good the choices we make in doing that are.”

—Christy Montour-Larson, Director

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

Shadowlands is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

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

BY William Nicholson

DIRECTED BY

Christy Montour-Larson

PRODUCING PARTNERS

THE SPACE THEATRE • MARCH 28 – APRIL 27, 2014

Isabelle Clark

Denver Center Theatre CompanyResident Professional Theatre • Kent Thompson, Producing Artistic Director

Martin & Jo Ann Semple

WITHJohn Arp*, Stephanie Cozart*, Sam Gregory*,

Douglas Harmsen*, John Hutton*, Charlie Korman, Graeme Malcolm*, Kathleen McCall*, Michael Santo*

SET DESIGN BY Lisa M. Orzolek

COSTUME DESIGN BYAngela Balogh Calin

LIGHTING DESIGN BY Charles R. MacLeod

SOUND DESIGN BY Jason Ducat

DRAMATURGY BY Douglas Langworthy

VOICE AND DIALECT COACHING BY

Kathryn G. Maes Ph.D

CASTING BYElissa Myers Casting/

Paul Fouquet, CSA

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTIONJeff Gifford

STAGE MANAGER Rachel Ducat*

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CAST

C.S. Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRAEME MALCOLM*

Joy Davidman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KATHLEEN MCCALL*

Warnie Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN HUTTON*

Christopher Riley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SAM GREGORY*

Harrington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL SANTO*

Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLIE KORMAN

Alan Gregg/Doctor/Waiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DOUGLAS HARMSEN*

Nurse/Registrar/Woman in Tea Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPHANIE COZART*

Priest/Waiter/Dr. Oakley/Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN ARP*

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

JOHN ARP* (C.S. Lewis), STEPHANIE COZART* (Joy Davidman Gresham), LAWRENCE HECHT* (Warnie Lewis/Harrington/Priest/Waiter/Dr. Oakley/Clerk),

KYRA LINDSAY (Nurse/Registrar/Woman in Tea Room), MAX RAABE (Douglas), JEFFREY ROARK* (Christopher Riley/Alan Gregg/Doctor/Waiter)

Place & Time: Oxford, England in the 1950’s.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

Production Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTOPHER C. EWING*

Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACHEL DUCAT*

Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. PHOEBE SACKS*

Production Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PEARL KERBER

Associate Costume Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MEGHAN ANDERSON DOYLE

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

EXECUTIVE STAFF

KENT THOMPSON (Producing Artistic Director) is in his ninth season as Producing Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company. In Denver he directed productions of Just Like Us, Other Desert Cities, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Plainsong, Eventide, Amadeus, The Liar and Measure for Measure, among others. Two of Kent’s major accomplishments since moving to Denver have been the Colorado New Play Summit, a premier national festival for new American plays, and the establishment of the Women’s Voices Fund, an endowment that supports the development of new plays by women. Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 16 years. In 1991 Kent created the Southern Writers’ Project (SWP), designed to commission and develop new plays that presented 16 world premieres during his tenure. He served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and as its president for three years. He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others.

BRUCE K. SEVY (Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development) has directed such memorable Denver Center productions as When We Are Married, Heartbreak House, Mariela in the Desert, The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Doubt, All My Sons, Master Class, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Christmas Carol, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, Molly Sweeney, Amy’s View, Valley Song, Pierre, Dinner With Friends, and The Cripple of Inishmaan. As Director of New Play Development, he oversees both the artistic and practical components of DCTC’s successful Colorado New Play Summit, including commissions from outstanding American playwrights.

He has directed for Arizona Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Lark Play Development Center, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Pioneer Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space and Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. His popular production of 2 Pianos, 4 Hands has been seen at more than 20 theatres nationally, including DCTC’s successful 2003 production.

CHARLES VARIN (Managing Director) and his team are responsible for administrative, financial and business operations related to producing DCTC’s season of productions and other artistic and educational initiatives. Prior to DCTC Charles was General Manager for Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and also has worked at Glimmerglass Opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre and Florida Studio Theatre. Charles serves on the board of the Mile High Freedom Band and plays tuba with the organization.

JEFF GIFFORD (Director of Production) oversees everything you see on stage except the actors and is thrilled to be joining the Denver Center Theatre Company, leading such a fine group of artisans. Prior to DCTC, Jeff was the Production Manager at the Dallas Theater Center and South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA. Guiding world premieres to their first opening night is especially gratifying and Jeff has worked on more than 35 of them. Among his favorites are Dinner with Friends, The Violet Hour, The Beard of Avon, Mr. Marmalade, and the new musical FLY. Jeff holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

ARTISTIC STAFF

DOUGLAS LANGWORTHY (Dramaturg). At the Denver Center: Hamlet, Just Like Us, The Three Musketeers, When We Are Married,

Sense & Sensibility The Musical. Other Theatres: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival produced his adaptation (with Linda Alper and Penny Metropulos) of Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, and his translation of Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechuan. Target Margin Theatre produced his translations/adaptations: Medea by Hans Henny Jahnn, Goethe’s Faust, and the opera The Sandman with David Herskovits and Thomas Cabanis. Awards/Training: Elliot Hayes Award for Dramaturgy; National Theatre Translation Fund Award; John Gassner Award in Critical Writing. Yale School of Drama.

KATHRYN G. MAES Ph.D (Voice and Dialect Coach). At the Denver Center: Hamlet, black odyssey, A Christmas Carol, Jackie & Me, The Most Deserving, Just Like Us, Death of a Salesman, When We Are Married, Fences, The Three Musketeers, Heartbreak House, Great Wall Story. Other Theatres: Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre (Arthur Miller’s American Clock). Special/Training: Voice and Dialect Coach for numerous professional theatre companies in the United States, Head of Voice at the Denver Center Theatre Company and the National Theatre Conservatory 1989 to 1992. Ph.D. in Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh; Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England.

CHRISTY MONTOUR-LARSON (Director). At the Denver Center: The Giver, Well. Other Theatres: Curious Theatre Company (10 productions, including Good People, Time Stands Still, Red, 9 Circles, A Number), The Arvada Center, New American Theatre, Creede Repertory, Town Hall Arts Center, Phamaly, Rochester Civic Theatre, Duluth Playhouse, Dark Horse Theatre, Seven Devils Playwright Conference and Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (upcoming: This). Awards: 2011 Henry Award for Outstanding Direction. Also, Denver

Post Ovation, True West and Denver Examiner awards. Named Top Director by CBS Denver. Training: BFA, University of Minnesota, Duluth. MFA in Directing, Mason Gross School of the Arts - Rutgers University. Affiliate Faculty Member at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

ELISSA MYERS CASTING, Paul Fouquet, CSA. For PBS “Poisoner’s Handbook,” “Becoming Helen Keller,” and the mini-series “Mystery of Matter.” Other PBS projectsinclude “The Abolitionists,” “Dolly Madison,” “Alexander Hamilton,” “John and Abigail Adams,” “Benjamin Franklin” (Emmy Award), “Liberty” (Peabody Award), “God in America,” “People vs. Leo Frank,” “Louisa May Alcott,” as well as PBS “Great Performances” (Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting). Additionally three “Movies of the Week,” as well as five pilots. Feature films include Hank and Asha (Audience Award at Slamdance 2013) and The Union. Theatre includes seven Broadway shows, including Tony nominated Having Our Say, as well as 26 Off-Broadway shows. Regional theatre casting in the past two years includes Denver Center, Geva Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre, Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, George Street Playhouse, and Arizona Theatre Company. The office has so far received 16 nominations and has won three Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting.

DESIGNERS

ANGELA BALOGH CALIN (Costume Designer). At the Denver Center: Great Wall Story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Absurd Person Singular, The Miracle Worker. Other Theatres: The Whale, Trip to Bountiful, Crimes Of The Heart (South Coast Repertory); Sense And Sensibility (Milwaukee Rep); Comedy Of Errors (Chautauqua Theatre Co.); Pericles,

The Bungler, Cymbeline (A Noise Within Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Hollywood Bowl); The Winter’s Tale, Christmas On Mars (The Old Globe); The Importance Of Being Earnest (Georgia Shakespeare); The Constant Wife (Pasadena Playhouse). Special/Awards/Training: LADCC, Garland, Drama–Logue Awards for costume and/or set design, 16 feature films; resident artist–A Noise Within Theatre. MFA in set and costume design, Academy Of Arts, Bucharest Romania.

JASON DUCAT (Sound Designer). At the Denver Center: (20 productions/5 seasons) Jackie & Me; Death of a Salesman; Other Desert Cities; Grace, or The Art of Climbing; When We Are Married; Fences; Heartbreak House; Two Things You Don’t Talk About At Dinner; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Superior Donuts; The House of the Spirits. Other Theatres: The Brothers Size, 9 Circles, Astronomical Sunset (Curious Theatre); Macbeth, Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Marat/Sade, The Winter’s Tale (Purdue); Lab Coats on Clouds (Prague Quadrennial); The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). Training: MFA in Sound Design from Purdue University.

CHARLES R. MACLEOD (Lighting Designer). At the Denver Center: (300+ productions/30 seasons). Death of a Salesman; Jackie & Me; black odyssey; 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 Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, All My Sons, The Miracle Worker, The Three Musketeers, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, Noises Off; Lost Highway: The Legend of Hank Williams, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Betrayal, A Christmas Carol, Desire Under the Elms (Denver and Japan tour). For Girls Only: The

Secret Comedy of Women, Denver, Des Moines, Winnipeg, and Charlotte.

LISA M. ORZOLEK (Set Designer). At the Denver Center: (200+ productions/21 seasons) Jackie & Me, Death of a Salesman, Great Wall Story, The Liar, Superior Donuts, Othello, Well, The Voysey Inheritance, The Trip to Bountiful, Gee’s Bend, Third, The Pillowman, Living Out, After Ashley, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Boston Marriage, Visiting Mr. Green, Blue/Orange. Other Theatres: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Love...Perfect...Change, Five Course Love, Girls Only, The Taffetas, My Way (Denver Center Attractions); Twelfth Night, God’s Country (National Theatre Conservatory). Training: BFA in Scenic Design from Boston University.

PLAYWRIGHT

WILLIAM NICHOLSON (Playwright)William Nicholson was born in 1948, and grew up in Sussex and Gloucestershire. He was educated at Downside School and Christ’s College, Cambridge, and then joined BBC Television, where he worked as a documentary film maker. His plays for television include Shadowlands and Life Story. His first play, an adaptation of Shadowlands for the stage, was Evening Standard Best Play of 1990, and went on to a Tony Award winning run on Broadway. He was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay of the film version, directed by Richard Attenborough and starred Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. Since then he has written more films – Sarafina, Nell, First Knight, Grey Owl, Gladiator (as co-writer), for which he received a second Oscar nomination, Elizabeth: the Golden Age, Les Miserables, and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. He has written and directed his own film, Firelight; and four further stage plays, Map of the Heart, Katherine Howard,

The Retreat from Moscow and Crash. He lives in Sussex with his wife, the social historian Virginia Nicholson, and their three children.

STAGE MANAGEMENT

RACHEL DUCAT* (Stage Manager). At the Denver Center: black odyssey; The Most Deserving; A Weekend with Pablo Picasso; Grace, or The Art of Climbing; The Giver; Heartbreak House; Two Things You Don’t Talk About At Dinner; The Liar; Superior Donuts; The Catch; The House of the Spirits. Other Theatres: Twelfth Night, Treasure Island and Richard III (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Curious Theatre Company; Jersey Boys, Wicked, Dirty Dancing (Broadway in Chicago); Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Cleveland Play House, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre. Training: BA in Theatre Production from University of Delaware.

A PHOEBE SACKS* (Assistant Stage Manager). At the Denver Center: (11 seasons) World Premieres: The Legend of Georgia McBride; Sense & Sensibility The Musical; Ed, Downloaded; Great Wall Story; The Whale; Map of Heaven; Eventide; Sunsets and Margaritas; Inana; Almost Heaven; The Immigrant; Pierre; 1933. Other productions include: Death of a Salesman, Fences, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Ruined, The 39 Steps, Mariela in the Desert, Well, Glengarry Glen Ross, Gee’s Bend, Lobby Hero, Visiting Mr. Green, Copenhagen, King Hedley II, The Lonesome West, Dinner With Friends. Training: BA in Technical Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado.

ACTING COMPANY

JOHN ARP* (Priest/Waiter/Dr.Oakley/Clerk/Understudy). At the Denver Center: Other Desert Cities, When We Are Married,

Heartbreak House, The Taming of the Shrew, To Kill a Mockingbird, Othello, Garbo In My Eyes, Absurd Person Singular. Other Theatres: The Mousetrap, 1940’s Radio Hour, The Lion In Winter (Arvada Center); Around The World In Eighty Days, Ghost-Writer, The Ladies Man, The Imaginary Invalid, The Bad Man, Everything In The Garden (Creede Rep).

STEPHANIE COZART* (Nurse/Registrar/Woman in Tea Room/Understudy). At the Denver Center: 20 productions, including

Hamlet, Sylvia, Arcadia, Plainsong, Amadeus, A Flea in Her Ear, The Skin of Our Teeth, King Lear, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway: Lost in Yonkers (TACT), Seven Rabbits on a Pole (Urban Stages). Regional: The Syringa Tree (Portland Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Capitol Rep, Lizard Head Theatre). Other theatres include: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Adirondack Theatre Festival. TV/Film: “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Reflection.” Training: MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.

SAM GREGORY* (Christopher Riley). At the Denver Center: (over 40 productions) World Premieres: The Most Deserving, Plainsong, Eventide,

Two Things You Don’t Talk About At Dinner. Other Favorites: Hamlet, The 39 Steps, Doubt, The Voysey Inheritance, Ruined, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off, A Flea in Her Ear, Hotel on Marvin Gardens, You Never Can Tell, Tartuffe. Other Theatres: Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Rep, American

Players Theater, Eureka Theater, George Street Playhouse, O’Neill Theater National Playwrights Conference, Alabama/California/Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, Boulder Ensemble Theater Company, Paragon. TV/Film: “NY Undercover,” “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns.”

DOUGLAS HARMSEN* (Alan Gregg/Doctor/Waiter). At the Denver Center: Hamlet, Arcadia, Gross Indecency, The Pillowman, Amadeus,

A Flea In Her Ear, Copenhagen, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Racing Demon, Life With Father, Uncertainty, Season’s Greetings, Candida, Treasure Island, The Miser, The Elevation of Thieves, The Living, A Christmas Carol.

JOHN HUTTON* (Warnie Lewis). At the Denver Center: Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman, When We Are Married, To Kill a

Mockingbird, Superior Donuts, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, House Of The Spirits, Othello, Miracle Worker, Trip To Bountiful, Plainsong, Diary Of Anne Frank, Measure for Measure, Dirty Story, The Merchant Of Venice, Copenhagen, Betrayal, Uncle Vanya, Side Man and Grace, or The Art of Climbing. Other Theatres: A.C.T., The Goodman, The Old Globe, Center Stage, Curious Theatre, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Juncture, Lincoln.

CHARLIE KORMAN (Douglas). At the Denver Center: Ed, Downloaded; A Christmas Carol (four seasons). Other Theatres: Lumiere in

Beauty and the Beast, Matchmaker in

Mulan, TweedleDee in Alice in Wonderland (Kids Theatre West), Daddy Warbucks in Annie Jr. (Catchpenny Theatre). Training: Dance Conservatory of Denver, vocal training with Bob Downard.

GRAEME MALCOLM* (C.S. Lewis). At the Denver Center: Debut. Broadway: Equus, Translations, Aida, The King and I, M.

Butterfly (1st National). Off Broadway: A Dangerous Personality (Perry Street), Oroonoko (TFNA), Macbeth (NYSF), The Learning Curve (Beckett), Hapgood (LCT), Aristocrats & Prin (MTC). Regional: Absurd Person Singular (Barrington Stage), Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations (Arena), Safe in Hell and Pentecost (Yale Rep), Translations, Betrayal, and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (McCarter), Under Milk Wood (Hartford), Travesties (Long Wharf), Y2K (ATL). TV/Film: “The Blacklist,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Law & Order,” “Whoopi,” “Mr. Halpern & Mr. Johnson,” The Extra Man, National Treasure, Everything’s Jake, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, The Eden Myth. Narrator of over 400 Audio Books.

KATHLEEN MCCALL* (Joy Davidman) is in her ninth season at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Kathleen has been a professional

actress for over 25 years working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours, and at regional theatres throughout the country, as well as in television and film. She is an inductee of Marquis Who’s Who of American Women in the Arts and a 2013 Lunt/Fontanne Fellowship Recipient. Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. kathleenmccall.net

MICHAEL SANTO* (Harrington). At the Denver Center: Jackie & Me, Death of a Salesman, Glengarry Glen Ross, Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s

Labor’s Lost, Lips Together Teeth Apart, Taking Leave, The Living and Love, Janis. Other Theatres: Marin Shakespeare, American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Portland Stage Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.

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LAWRENCE HECHT* (Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pillowman, A

Skull in Connemara. Other Theatres: Red (Curious Theatre Company); Vigil (Cherry Creek Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); King Lear (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); How I Learned to Drive (San Diego Rep); Gross Indecency (Theatre on the Square); Shadowlands (Arizona Theatre Company); Hamlet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Sylvia (San Jose Rep); A Lie of the Mind, Night and Day, Buried Child (ACT, San Francisco); My Fair Lady (PCPA); A View from the Bridge (Berkeley Rep). Film: Scream. Special: Head of Acting, Denver Center Theatre Academy.

KYRA LINDSAY (Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman. Other Theatres: Harry

the Great, The Drowsy Chaperone (Creede Repertory Theatre); White Christmas (Starkey Theatrix); Annie Warbucks (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse); Taming of the Shrew, Love, Sex, and the I.R.S., Little Shop of Horrors (Shuler Theatre); Tomato Plant Girl (Denver Children’s Theatre); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Town Hall Arts Center); Nunsense, Baby (Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre).

MAX RAABE (Understudy). At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol (Colorado

Shakespeare Festival). Special/Training: Denver Center Theatre Academy, Colorado Shakespeare Festival School of Theatre, Dalcroze School of the Rockies. Max is in the third grade at Christ the King Roman Catholic School and enjoys lacrosse, skiing, and the performing arts.

JEFFREY ROARK* (Understudy). At the Denver Center: Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, To Kill A Mockingbird, Heartbreak House,

The Trip to Bountiful, King Lear, White Christmas, Gross Indecency, A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Merry Wives of Windsor, Dracula. Other Theatres: The Crucible, Evita, Big River, Jekyll & Hyde, Cabaret, Legally Blonde and Curtains (Arvada Center); An Ideal Husband (Papermill Playhouse); My Fair Lady, HMS Pinafore (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Sorrows of Stephen (Blue Heron Theater-Off-Broadway); Drood, Life is a Dream (Creede Repertory); The Doyle and Debbie Show, My Way (Denver Center Attractions). Training: BFA, Miami University, MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.

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The 1975-76 season on Broadway was one for the history books. meryl Streep earned her first Tony® nomination and Sondheim’s unique Pacific Overtures premiered on Broadway. But the most remarkable event that season was the nearly simultaneous creation of two of the theatre’s most enduring and innovative musicals. In the preceding year, while visionary director and choreographer michael Bennett was interviewing dancers and workshopping a new theatre piece that would become A Chorus Line, the equally visionary Bob fosse and legendary Broadway dancer gwen Verdon (his wife at the time) were approaching composer John Kander and lyricist fred Ebb (of Cabaret fame) to join them in creating a new piece too: the musical version of a 1926 play about an infamous dame who’d killed her husband.

fosse was an established Broadway director and choreographer at this point, with Pippin and Sweet

Charity to his credit and a corps of loyal dancers with whom he liked to work. Broadway veteran and Denver resident Candy Brown was one of them, and she attested that fosse adored his dancers and loved the actor’s craft. “He was very professional and detailed,” she said, “a taskmaster, but he asked no more of anyone than he asked of himself.” In January 1974, while Brown was dancing nightly in fosse’s Pippin on Broadway, she and 18 other dancers gathered for a late-night discussion about their lives and the challenges of being a Broadway gypsy. Those conversations were taped and eventually became the content of michael Bennett’s landmark A Chorus Line. Bennett’s project was an unknown quantity at this stage, however, a series of loose workshops with only the glimmer of becoming something bigger; so some participants defected to more secure gigs. Again, Brown was among them, leaving Bennett to join fosse’s Chicago, not knowing at the time that the switch would put her in the unique position of contributing to two of the most important musicals of the decade. “I felt a loyalty to Bob,” she said, “as Chicago would be my third project with him... not to mention the fact that no one knew if the michael Bennett workshop would even be a show.” In January 1975, with Kander, Ebb and fosse having completed a working version of Chicago, Brown and the rest of the cast arrived for the first day

of rehearsal. The cast worked through morning, broke for lunch and returned to the studio only to be told that fosse had taken ill and had to be hospitalized. “I went numb,” said Brown. “We all were in a state of disbelief.” Work on the show stopped as fosse suffered two heart attacks and underwent bypass surgery.

months later, the Chicago team reassembled. Though still suffering from depression, a

recovering fosse began to construct his iconic musical. “Every costume, every gesture, every bit of lighting, every word and moment were all woven together like fabric to

create the story,” said Brown, who played the role of June. Verdon played roxie Hart while Chita rivera, wildly popular since starring in West Side Story (1957), was roxie’s jailbird cohort Velma. mounting the show, like any other new musical, was tedious and trying. “The creative team was working very hard to make it good,” Brown remembered, “but there were a lot of teeth gnashing and hair graying.” Chicago opened on Broadway on June 3, 1975, to mildly positive reviews and enthusiastic audience response. fosse considered it a compliment that some took offense at his cynical take on the American justice system and the cult of celebrity. “When people walked out,” said Brown, “Bob got tickled because he figured that in order to be offended, they must have ‘got it.’ ” But when the Tony Awards came around, the unconventional A Chorus Line won them all. Chicago came away with nothing. In his review of Chicago’s 1996 revival, New York Times critic

Ben Brantley reflected that the 1975 production of Chicago had been, “in a sense, the evil twin of its rival musical, as acerbic and cold-hearted as the other was sentimental and warm.” The fact is that it was a show before its time and it had run up against michael Bennett’s unprecedented achievement. Chicago closed after 936 performances while A Chorus Line went on to become the longest-running American musical in Broadway history up to that time. Timing is indeed everything, but Chicago would eventually get its due. The 1996 revival was a resounding success, winning six Tonys and a grammy (for best cast recording), while the smashing film version, gloriously directed by rob marshall, won the 2002 Academy Award for Best picture and helped intensify the interest in the stage show.

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rado New Play Summit on Feb. 7. But for the people who showed up—and they came from everywhere—that was never going to be a problem. Avid consumers of new work, they arrived at this banquet to nourish both interest and curiosity. In addition to the five new plays that were read by actors at music stands, Denver Center stages deliv-ered fully staged productions of two plays that emerged from last season’s Summit: Matthew Lopez’s giddy The Legend of Georgia McBride and Marcus Gardley’s probing makeover of Greek myth in black odyssey. (For an added treat, in a more classic vein, a handsome production of Hamlet also was on view.) A brief rundown of the new plays read includes: • James Still’s Appoggiatura, an ever-shifting collage of a memorable first-time visit to Venice by three closely related people, each nursing a hunger and a hard-to-heal wound. This nostalgic exercise is laced with music, humor and tender intimations of immortality. • Wit marks Laura Schellhardt’s The Comparables, a smart, hard-shelled, high-heeled trip through the merciless machinations driving the rivalry in an all-female “boutique” real estate office. Shades of The Devil Wears Prada meets Glengarry Glen Ross. • Rap music is the link (and motivator) in Idris Goodwin’s Victory Jones and The Incredible One Woman Band as an aspiring musician tries to reconnect with her estranged and recalcitrant father; it’s an unsentimental riff that bears tortuous, engaging and unexpected results. • Anyone who saw Eric Schmiedl’s adaptations of Kent Haruf’s Plainsong and Eventide in previous Denver Center seasons would have to look forward to his adaptation of the third book in this

trilogy. The Haruf/Schmiedl Benediction presented another slice of life in Haruf’s fictional small town of Holt, Colorado, with its denizens reminiscent of a quieter if not simpler time. (A Colorado Our Town?) • And playwright Kirsten Greenidge jolts us with a trenchant awareness of the real lives behind the banality of those awful freeway accidents we hear about nightly on the local news. Her play Zenith reminds us of what it means to be human—pain, irrationality, messiness and all. The Summit would not be the Sum-mit without its late-night Playwrights’ Slam—that laidback shakedown by con-tributing dramatists and commissioned writers reading from works in progress, rapping their own doodles or opening a window into their private worlds. This year’s casual event gave us Eric Schmiedl sweetly looking back at grow-ing up with Granny; Kirsten Greenidge sharing an excerpt from a work in progress about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings in Paris; James Still read-ing from “When Lydia Hinkley Gives a Bird the Bird,” his comic take on the Minerva Society of 1859 and an irritating excess of literary nightingales. Cath-erine Trieschmann and Marcus Gardley, replete with invented drag queen names, delivered more flippant takes of their own on a variety of subjects. Karen Zacarías chose a more serious piece about her im-migration to the United States in the age of AIDS. Above all, the Summit provided ani-mated mealtime conversation and lively networking among the large contingent of industry guests, theatre profession-als, subscribers, trustees, playwrights, directors, foundation reps, members of the press and other enthusiasts, so many of whom hailed from other cities and states. The Summit remains a powerful highlight of the season and an energizing event for all lovers of theatre. n

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it’s All About the processThe ninth Colorado New Play Summit may

have started in a Denver Deep Freeze, but its sizzling energy melted snow, ice and coldSummit attendees line up in front of the Jones for the

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April Matthis & Tony Todd in a scene from Zenith.

Curtis McClarin in a moment from the reading of Victory Jones and The Incredible One Woman Band..

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Bruce Sevy, Tricia Moreland and Amelia Corrado at the Summit meet and greet.

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This Tony® Awarded Best musical tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their love of music. Over one fateful week, their friendship and collaboration evolves into a complicated romance, heightened by the songs they create together.

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Based on green Day’s grammy® Award-winning multi-platinum album, this smash-hit musical tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia—a quest for true meaning in a post-9/11 world that leads them on the most exhilarating theatrical journey of the season.

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second, DaVita is committed to improving the lives of patients, teammates (employees) and partners, and the communities in which it operates around the globe. Known as the Trilogy of Care, this vision for corporate social responsibility plays out in three parts: Caring for Patients, Caring for Each Other and Caring for the World.

Caring for Patients Over the past 13 years, DaVita has been able to provide resources to help patients maintain a good quality of life through im-proved clinical outcomes. DaVita also aims to give people with chronic kidney disease the information they need to make healthy choices and slow the progression of their disease.

Caring for Each Other DaVita’s award-winning training programs provide teammates with the opportunity to learn and grow, whether they are frontline contributors or seasoned leaders. To help teammates manage change in their personal lives, DaVita also created a wide range of programs to support them emotionally and financially.

Caring for the World DaVita supports nonprofit groups that are dedicated to community development and sending forth ripples of citizen leadership.

Since 2006, approximately 28,000 DaVitavolunteers have served more than 59,000 hours through more than 950 Village Service Days (community service projects) acrossthe U.S. Since 2007, Tour DaVita—an annual 220-mile bike ride—has continued to increase awareness about kidney disease and has raised more than $5 million in the fight against the disease. DaVita teammates have also given nearly $3 million as part of the “DaVita Way of Giving,” the company’s locally focused giv-ing initiative to help 501(c)3 nonprofit organi-zations across the U.S. grow and thrive.

Caring for Denver Since DaVita’s move to Denver in 2010, the company has been dedicated to engaging this unique community in ways that encourage innovation, creativity and service excellence in the areas of culture, education and health among others. DaVita is proud to support The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), which truly embodies the values of innova-tion and creativity—keeping the arts alive in distinctive ways to inspire a new generation of leaders. DCPA’s commitment to arts education is truly inspirational, and DaVita is grateful for its commitment to this community. n

To find out more about DaVita’s community engagement efforts, please visit www.DaVita.com/CommunityCare.

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As a community first and a company second, DaVita is committed to improving the lives of patients, teammates (employees) and partners, and the communities in which it operates around the globe.

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