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Professional Latin dancer and certified Zumba instructor Tabra Tacuri embraces the link between dance and fitness: her dance career with longtime partner Anthony—an award-winning dancer certified by the National Dance Council of America and Arthur Murray—has helped her maintain an enviable shape. Together, they lead others in slimming down while strutting their stuff on the dance floor with a combination of ballroom dance and dance fitness classes at Fit 4 Life Ohio. The pair leads group and private dance lessons in ballroom, Latin dance, and Argentine tango and works with betrothed couples to perfect their first dance for their big night. Shifting the focus to fitness, Tabra once again calls upon her Latin-dance training to help dancers of all levels shimmy their way to narrower waistlines during her high-energy Zumba and Zumba toning classes.
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Though its name may conjure fantasies about sprinting down crowded streets or bench-pressing buses stalled in traffic, Urban Active Fitness grants its members abundant space in which to spread out and follow their workout proclivities. At dozens of locations across the Midwest and South, members can sculpt their bodies in whichever manner they choose—from personal training with resistance machines and free weights to group classes in cycling, Zumba, and Pilates. A number of group classes draw on the gym's urban theme for inspiration. Urban Iron, for example, focuses on building muscles that resemble the cast-iron beams of skyscrapers, and Urban Yoga closely imitates the poses necessary to squeeze onto a subway train at rush hour.
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2015 PLC – Get out your calendars!!!Think of the Future! The 2015 Pacific Life Community faith and resistance retreat is going to be in the South Bay Area in California. Mark your calendars for Friday the 28th of February to Monday the 2nd of March. Honor the dream of a Nuclear Free Pacific!
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They may be money-makers, but are red light cameras really making streets safer?
One mayor in Warren County, New Jersey says no.
Pohatcong Township Mayor James Kern says he doesn't feel the cameras are making a difference.
Some people are not fans of red light cameras in New Jersey.
"They call them the scamras you know," said Gail Garabo, as she finished grocery shopping.
Garabo has been ticketed twice by the same red light camera at Routes 519 and 22 in Pohatcong Township, Warren county.
"They're more of a danger than anything else," added Garabo. "Because people have slammed on their brakes in front of me to stop because they are so worried about getting a ticket."
"There are some people that genuinely relive they work," said Kern. "And there are some people that don't genuinely believe they work and they're are some people who avoid Pohatcong all together because of the cameras."
Kern says he will not be extending the municipality's contract with the company that runs the program, American Traffic Solutions.
New Jersey State Senator Michael Doherty, and New Jersey State Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon also want to put the brakes on the program.
"A lot of the parties that are talking about how great this program is, they're actually making a lot of money off of this," said Doherty.
They say changing intersection markings would be as effective.
A report by the New Jersey Department of Transportation says the cameras are working, but more data needs to be collected before making a final recommendation.
American Traffic Solutions released a statement that says, in part: "Red-light safety cameras were deployed to change driver behavior and that's exactly what they've done. We look forward to continuing to work with the township through August of 2018 when the current contract expires."
Some are hoping the contract expires sooner than that.
"Who would like them?" said Garabo. "They're just one more thing to think about when you are trying focus on the road."
The pilot program study ends on December 16, 2014, unless New Jersey lawmakers decide to extend the study.
Pohatcong Twp. mayor ready to pull the plug on red light cameras
They may be money-makers, but are red light cameras really making streets safer?
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ScreenCamera is a video recording tool able to capture the current activity of your screen and save it to a file, as well as take screenshots. It comes in handy for all users who want to record online conversations, and video streams from YouTube or others websites.
It sports a clean and intuitive GUI that gives you the possibility to record or take snapshots of the entire screen or only the selected area. What's more, you make the program capture the region around the mouse cursor, or only individual windows.
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Gotta learn about that Ganking Tax.
If they want ganks so bad AND they're taking your jungle, you gotta get some creeps in. Doesn't matter if you push the wave, cause it'll help reset because the enemy pushed up so hard.
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I take xp so i hit lvl 2 faster and dominate lane
If you steal minions from lane, you are probably only hurting your team. Your time is better spent pressuring lanes or killing minions in the jungle. The only time I'll take minions is if someone has left lane/died, and even then its only last hitting and stalling the lane for my teammate. This makes people happy (except for the really retarded that don't understand that the exp/gold is completely wasted if you don't last hit) and makes it so that they are in a more advantageous position upon returning. Really. You screw your entire team by "taxing" people unless you are hardpushing with them to deny the enemy exp/gold.
To the real threads topic, I feel you. Luckily I have a high enough normal elo where I don't get those *******, but when I was but a wee lad, people like those crushed my balls man.
EDIT: Downvotes from the uninformed. You should NOT be taking minions from your lanes (unless you are running a really weird jungler like Tryndamere who is a hyper-carry). This only hurts you and your team, meaning you won't improve and you won't see your elo increase (also, normal elo does exist. If you aren't see gold/silver borders around teammates, that means you are having issues).
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Alexander Mendoza
Kristi Motyka
Godrick Scott
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|Alexa Vega
Austin O'Brien
Carlo Lorenzo Garcia
Nick Eversman
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Innocent, also known as Helix, is a 2009 American action drama film directed by Aram Rappaport, filmed in downtown Chicago, Illinois in one continuous take. There are no cuts in the filming. Innocent is one of the first ever feature length films to be shot in one take, and it is a kidnapping thriller that circumnavigates downtown Chicago on foot and by car.
Based on a true incident, Innocent is tale of five disparate lives that become entangled one cold Chicago morning. Told in real-time, Innocent is an action crime drama shot in one continuous take without any edits. Alexa Vega stars as a young woman abducted by two desperate urban youths (Austin O'Brien, Carlo Lorenzo Garcia). A street dweller, witnessing the dramatic events, is torn between becoming involved and remaining silent. Completing the cast of characters is a corrupt cop who too late realizes the implications of his self-serving motives.
- Alexa Vega - Ashley
- Austin O'Brien - Jae
- Carlo Lorenzo Garcia - Johnny
- Nick Eversman - Shane
- Circus-Szalewski - Bum
- Brook Toland - Punky
- David Hernandez - Ray Martinez
- Samantha Long - Kristi
Shooting took place in downtown Chicago around Lake Michigan.
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Why Are Ebola and so Many other Terrible Diseases Found in Africa?
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Among the greatest of the unwinnable debates among academics is the place of humans in nature. It is discussed around stumps in the field. It is discussed among philosophers. It is discussed with the knowing thump of a fist. It is discussed among each generation anew. We feel now, so separate, so different from them, the other species, the rest of life.
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Beginning Wednesday July 16, 2014 on WETA TV26 & HD, enjoy wildlife like you've never seen it before! Introducing two new PBS wildlife programs: My Wild Affair and Sex in the Wild and reintroducing NOVA: Australia's First 4 Billion Years. Tune into WETA TV26 & HD Wednesdays from 8-11pm for these exciting natural history shows. Read on for more information on each upcoming episode and when to watch!My Wild Affair airs Wednesdays at 8pmIn this four part series, hear extraordinary stories of the bonds between humans and their animal companions.Part 1 "The Elephant Who Found a Mom" airs on July 16 at 8pmDiscover the intense bond between Aisha, a baby elephant orphan, and Daphne Sheldrick, the woman who became her human foster parent. Daphne uses the lessons learned from Aisha's life to help her save more than 150 orphans over the next 40 years.Part 2 "The Ape Who Went to College" airs on July 23 at 8pmHear the incredible story of Chantek, the orangutan raised as a human child on an American university campus during the 70s and 80s. Taught to speak in sign language, he is now living among his own kind at Zoo Atlanta, although he describes himself as an "orangutan person."Part 3 "The Rhino Who Joined the Family" airs on July 30 at 8pmRupert is an orphaned black rhinoceros was brought up in the suburban family home of wildlife veterinarian Dr. John Condy. Rupert captured the hearts of the vet's four young children before his eventual release into the wild. Fifty years later, the children are searching for clues to their childhood friend's fate.Part 4 "The Seal Who Came Home" airs on August 6 at 8pmWitness the true story of Andre, a two-day-old wild harbor seal who, in 1961, was rescued from certain death by arborist Harry Goodridge. Over the next 25 years, Andre and Harry established a friendship that brought Andre into the world of humans without Andre's ever having to sacrifice his wildness.NOVA: Australia's First 4 Billion Years airs Wednesdays at 9pmOf all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of its origins than Australia. This four part NOVA miniseries, hosted by geologist Richard Smith, takes viewers on a fabulous adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today.Part 1 "Awakening" airs on July 16 at 9pmFirst stop in this road trip through time is Western Australia, around four and a half billion years ago, where we encounter the Earth shortly after its fiery birth. It's a violent, poisonous planet, but not all is what it first seems.Part 2 "Life Explodes" airs on July 23 at 9pmMeet Planet Earth's forgotten pioneers: the scuttling arthropod armies that invaded the shores, and the waves of green revolutionaries whose battle for the light pushed plant-life across the face of a barren continent. Revolution continued underwater as well, with armor-plated fish experimenting with teeth, jaws, sex and lungs.Part 3 "Monsters" airs on July 30 at 9pmCome face to face with the previously unknown reptilian rulers of prehistoric Australia. But reptiles didn't have the world all to themselves. Mammals like the enigmatic platypus lived alongside them, ready for their moment in the sun. And 65 million years ago, they saw that day arrive.Part 4 "Strange Creatures: airs on August 6 at 9pmIn the wake of the catastrophe—the asteroid impact 65 million years ago believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs--Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage in southern seas. This is a tale of calamity and conquest; how a conspiracy of climate, biology and geology shaped the Earth we now call home.Sex in the Wild airs Wednesdays at 10pmThis four-part series, presented by anatomist Joy Reidenberg and veterinarian Mark Evans, examines the reproductive behaviors and biology of four species — elephants, orangutans, kangaroos and dolphins — and takes an in-depth look at how these animals find and woo the opposite sex. It also explores how they mate, give birth and raise their young in extreme environments.Part 1 "Elephants" airs on July 16 at 10pmReidenberg and Evans follow Kiti, a pregnant female elephant, through the birth of her baby. In addition, Evans travels with a group attempting to control the elephant population (and learns how to produce a bull elephant sperm sample) while also maintaining genetic diversity, through chemical birth control as Botswana copes with increasing numbers of animals.Part 2 "Kangaroos" airs on July 23 at 10pmThe scientists chronicle the birth of a kangaroo joey and its development. The episode explores koala conservation efforts in Brisbane that use artificial insemination to boost the numbers of koala babies. Reidenberg visits a pioneering breeding program at the University of Adelaide to learn more about preservation efforts to save the extremely endangered southern brush-tailed rock-wallaby in South Australia.Part 3 "Orangutans" airs on July 30 at 10pmReidenberg and Evans travel to an orangutan sanctuary deep in the rainforest of Borneo to explore the reproduction challenges of one of humans' closest cousins — the orangutan. The team examines how the alpha male "kings" exert their power over other males and seduce females in their territory. Devoting a lengthy seven years to raising a single orangutan baby is key to the success of the species — similar to humans.Part 4 "Dolphins" airs on August 6 at 10pmIn this episode, Reidenberg travels to New Zealand to uncover the mating strategies and anatomies of dusky dolphins, who form mating groups that leap from the water in perfect unison. In a high-speed chase, males pursue females and rapidly mate with them — in just two seconds. Viewers can witness a dolphin birth and learn the difficulties of breastfeeding underwater.
This Saturday, WETA TV26 & HD has three wonderful films for WETA Movie Night. Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 action-packed romantic drama kicks off the night at 9:30pm. Then meet fantastic and inspirational athletes in My Way to Olympia at 11:30pm and get a different view of the world with Salt early Sunday at 12:30am. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) airs Saturday at 9:30pmThis is a romanticized account of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang from the 1930s. Excited by Clyde Barrow's outlaw demeanor, Bonnie Parker joins him in a crime spree across multiple towns. Soon the pair joins Clyde's brother Buck and his wife Blanche in a bank robbery. Will they get away with the heist? How long can they pull off this lifestyle? This movie is packed with drama, action, adventure, and romance. Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Gene Hackman. This film won the 1968 Oscars for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Estelle Parsons and Best Cinematography: Burnett Guffey. Also watch Sunday at 11:30am!
POV: My Way to Olympia airs Saturday at 11:30pmGerman director Niko von Glasow was born with severely shortened arms and along with his long list of award-winning films, he is the director of My Way to Olympia. Niko discovers a group of incredibly adaptable, determined, and optimistic people performing athletic feats sometimes more astounding than those of regular Olympic athletes. This film shares the stories of these Paralympic athletes and shows that Paralympic sports are less about disabilities than about being the best at something, which is the same reason every athlete in the world competes.
POV: Salt airs Sunday at 12:30amAward-winning photographer Murray Fredericks began making five-week-long, annual, solo camping trips to remote Lake Eyre and its salt flats in South Australia and has a plethora of remarkable photos to show for it. This documentary is the film extension of Fredericks' photographic work at Lake Eyre, interweaving his photos and video diary with time-lapse sequences. The content in t his film will peak viewers' ideas of time and space.
Monday at 9pm tune in for the first two episodes of Midsomer Murders season2! First at 9pm "Death's Shadow". Soon after successful theatrical director Simon Fletcher is diagnosed with a brain tumor, a property developer in the village is savagely murdered. Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Troy investigate the crime, trying to discover if it was motivated by ill-feeling in the village about his plans for property development or some longer buried secrets. Then at 10:30pm on "Strangler's Wood", the body of a young Brazilian woman is found strangled with a tie in a forest where three similar murders occurred several years before. Barnaby manages to solve both the new murders and the old ones, though not before the murder of yet another victim.
Tuesday at 9pm tune in for the first two episodes of Doc Martin season 2! First at 9pm "Old Dogs", Dr. Martin Ellingham is still as clumsy as ever when it comes to forming relationships with the opposite sex. Just when things are beginning to look rosily romantic between him and pretty school teacher Louisa Glasson, he makes a terrible faux pas. She can't forgive him for accusing her of failing in her dental hygiene regime. Then at 9:45pm "In Loco", Louisa is nervously awaiting an interview for promotion to head teacher of Portwenn Primary School, and she's anxious to make a good impression. But the odds seem to be stacked against her. Dr. Ellingham is on the board of governors, and she's not sure she can count on his vote.
Wednesday at 8am catch season 6 episode 1 of All Creatures Great and Small. In the episode, "Here and There", James meets Basil Courtney, a cowhand for a local farmer. Basil has worked in a circus, been a teacher, has knowledge of art and a nose for good wine! James is intrigued until he discovers that Basil has not been giving the farmer's calves their treatment and, as a result, they are showing no signs of improvement. Then at 9am stay on WETA UK for Born and Bred season 2 episode 1. In the new series sees a new set of problems for the father-and-son practice, and delves further into the lives of the villagers, including some highly amusing incidents.
Thursday at 10pm Dalziel and Pascoe begin the two part mystery "Secrets of the Dead". Watch part 2 next Thursday July 17 at 10pm! Dalziel is in the small Yorkshire village of Stenby, attending the funeral of Fran Lock, the district nurse. When the local solicitor is found murdered, Dalziel investigates (without the help of Pascoe, who is off to Florida tovisit his wife and daughter).
Friday at 7:30pm start the fantastic British comedy My Family from the very first episode! Dad, Ben is a dentist struggling to understand his wife Susan the terrible cook, daughter Janey the selfish shopping addict, youngest son Michael the brain, and eldest son Nick the lazy goof. Although loving and caring parents, Ben and Susan have a little trouble showing their children these true intentions since the kids are always up to something.
Saturday at 11am catch the first episode of the sci-fi, cult classic Red Dwarf! A radiation leak wipes out the crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf, leaving only one survivor – chicken soup machine repair man, Dave Lister. After three million years in suspended animation, Lister emerges to find he is the last human being in the universe but he is not alone. The crew begin to experience visions from their own future and Lister's appears to include being reduced to his component atoms by a rather large explosion.
Sunday at 8pm catch the WETA UK premiere of Brazil with Michael Palin. In episode 1, "Out of Africa", Michael Palin's Brazilian odyssey begins in the North East where modern Brazil was born. He starts in the city of Sao Luis before traveling down the coast to Recife and Salvador, dropping in on the vaqueros Brazilian Cowboys who work on vast cattle ranches. His travels also take him south to the stunning coastal lagoons of the Lencois Maranhenses national park. In Salvador he learns to drum with the famous Olodum School and has a lesson in how to cook Bahian-style before finding out what lies behind the beguiling moves of Capoeria dancers.
Check out description for this week's WETA Saturday Night Movies below! Tune into WETA TV26 & HD beginning at 9:30pm on Saturday for a night full of movies that are sure to excite and entertain.
Cool Hand Luke (1967) airs Saturday at 9:30pmIn this prison drama, Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. Jackson struggles to conform to rural prison life. Also airs Sunday at 11:30am!
POV: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs airs Saturday at 11:30pmA profile of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American social activist in Detroit who has spent much of her adult life fighting for civil rights and female equality.
POV: Good Fortune airs Sunday at 1amThis documentary investigates that international anti-poverty projects in Africa that may not be helping the people they're meant to. A plan to build modern housing in Kibera meets local resistance as residents fear that the project will benefit the well-connected, not them. In the west, neighbors worry that a rice farm's planned reservoir will cause their lands to flood.
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A Capitol Fourth: Tom Bergeron hosts a celebration of America's birthday, featuring fireworks and musical performances.
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America's Most Endangered Rivers for 2014 The annual America's Most Endangered Rivers® report is a list of rivers at a crossroads, where key decisions in the coming months will determine the rivers' fates. Over the years, the report has helped spur many successes including the removal of outdated dams, the protection of rivers with Wild… Read more »
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Says DCPA Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow Matthew Lopez: 'I think it's possible to get an audience to actually be OK with the potential for abject failure. Because they know there is also, then, the potential for great, exciting success.' Photo by John Moore
Matthew Lopez is one of the busiest writers in America. That he is making time to serve as the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' first-ever Playwriting Fellow for the 2014-15 Theatre Company season, he says, is a testament to Denver's growing importance on the American theatre landscape.
When Artistic Director Kent Thompson asked Lopez to accept this innovative appointment in August, Lopez said yes for one very straightforward reason: "The emphasis here on new-play development."
Lopez is the author of The Whipping Man, one of the most-produced plays in America last year, about a Jewish Confederate soldier who returns to his ruined estate just after the cessation of fighting in desperate need of medical help from his former slaves. Lopez is also the author of The Legend of Georgia McBride, a heartfelt comedy about a straight Elvis impersonator who delves into the world of drag performance out of his own brand of desperation – and finds that he likes it. He really likes it.
"It's everything," Lopez said. "It's the Colorado New Play Summit. It's the fact that last season, four of the plays from the Summit, including my own, made it into the following season. There is an aggressive push here toward being seen as a premiere theatre for new works. Toward being seen as a playwright's theatre."
Still, Lopez is one committed man. At present, he has four active commissions. That means four different theatre companies are expecting him to produce a new play for their right of first refusal. He will have two new plays produced for the first time in 2015. There is also the possibility of an innovative collaboration. He was a staff writer for one season on HBO's The Newsroom.
Oh, and he's also working on his first film: A little movie by the makers of 12 Years a Slave that would be produced by an up-and-comer named Brad Pitt. It's an adaptation of a Spanish novel called Your Face Tomorrow. "It's about a Spaniard living in London," Lopez said. "He gets involved with a company he thinks is a consulting firm; but it turns out they are doing really bad things in the world."
As is the case with many theatre, TV and film projects, writing something doesn't necessarily mean it will get made. But Lopez is writing his first movie as if it will. And those are just a few reasons Lopez's calendar would have probably preferred he had not also taken this six-month fellowship with the DCPA.
But he accepted the appointment with relish.
The fellowship calls for Lopez to spend one week per month in Denver serving as part of the Theatre Company's artistic team. Lopez will bring the playwright's voice into the production process for upcoming world premieres of Benediction and Appoggiatura. He will serve as the Playwright Host for the 2015 Colorado New Play Summit. And he will have input on the selection of the Theatre Company's 2015-16 mainstage season.
Most important to Lopez: Every monthly visit to Denver will include a visit to area schools.
Lopez also will be checking in each month with the DCPA NewsCenter for what will be a six-part series chronicling his visit to Denver. Each part of the series will tackle a different aspect of his fellowship.
Here are excerpts from our first interview with Matthew Lopez in Denver:
John Moore: When Kent Thompson first approached you with this fellowship idea, why was it intriguing to you?
Matthew Lopez: It came at a time when I found myself growing increasingly frustrated with the opacity of the way theatres around the country make decisions. As a writer, you submit a play for consideration, and you generally get the 'yay' or the 'nay' – but you are not often privy to the decision-making process. It starts to feel like it's just so random and ad hoc that you forget that there probably actually is a process. So when Kent offered me this fellowship, part of what was interesting was just being part of the artistic staff for a while. That means sitting in on meetings and working on play selection, both for the Colorado New Play Summit and for next year's Theatre Company season. It also means sitting in on marketing meetings and a host of different things. When does a playwright ever get to do that? So that was all really intriguing for me. It's like being offered a backstage tour of the inner workings of a company.
John Moore: So is that how the fellowship is actually proceeding?
Matthew Lopez: Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. The only thing I asked for was not to be given a commission to write a new play.
John Moore: I think a lot of people would naturally expect that a commission would be a part of a fellowship like this.
Matthew Lopez: Yes, but I have so many commissions right now that I would not be able to turn it around for years.
John Moore: So how are you going to make this appointment work with your busy schedule?
Matthew Lopez: Well, it is being scheduled within an inch of its life. Seriously. Before we agreed to definitely do this in August, we looked at what the DCPA's needs were for me; and we looked at what my needs for myself were. Then we looked at the calendar to see if it was in any way even feasible. And it turns out that it actually was. It was going to be a marathon for me, but I think it is worth it. I am really excited. Jamie Ann Romero and Ben Huber in the DCPA Theatre Company's "The Legend of Georgia McBride" in February 2014. Photo by Jennifer M. Koskinen
John Moore: Obviously you are high on the DCPA, especially after they staged The Legend of Georgia McBride last season.
Matthew Lopez: Which means they have excellent taste.
John Moore: Of course. So tell me what you see happening here at the DCPA that made this a company you wanted to do this with.
Matthew Lopez: It's the emphasis on new-play development. What's happening here doesn't usually happen at "institutions" as large as the DCPA. Institutions often coast. Look, they also do Hamlet at the DCPA. They do Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. So they are not ignoring the mandates of a major regional theatre company. They do both.
John Moore: But there is a lot of economic trepidation in the American theatre as a whole, which affects the ability of an institution to be consistent with its commitment to new work, including here at the DCPA.
Matthew Lopez: Yes, and that just proves that it's hard. That is not a mystery to me. I think audiences are trainable -- and I mean that in the most respectful way. There will be growing pains. But over time, if you get an audience accustomed to new works, they are going to become hungry for it.
John Moore: Another important factor is how you define new work. You mentioned Vanya. That may be the most-produced play in America this year, but it's still new to a Denver audience. So is the new The Unsinkable Molly Brown. This stage adaptation of Lord of the Flies. Appoggiatura. Benediction. One Night in Miami. The 12. I mean, other than A Christmas Carol, it's all new work by the DCPA Theatre Company this season.
Matthew Lopez: Yes, it is all new work to the Denver audience. For theatregoers at Curious Theatre, The Whipping Man was a new play, for all intents and purposes. And yet if it were to be done in New York again, it would be considered a revival. Still, there is a difference between the Vanya example and having the playwright there, embedded in your company, continuing to develop a new piece. Having a real relationship with the people who are bringing your story to life for the first time. I mean, let's be honest: Christopher Durang is not going to come to Denver to see this production of Vanya. But to me, there is something special about developing a relationship between an audience and an author in a specific town. For example: I don't have a relationship with New York City audiences. I've not been given the opportunity to have one. I have only had one production there. But I am beginning a real relationship with the Denver audience. My last visit to Denver, I walked through the plaza on my way to see Molly Brown, and one of the ushers said to me, 'Oh, you are that playwright!' That doesn't happen in New York. No one stops me in midtown Manhattan and says, 'Oh, you are that playwright!' By next year, Hartford Stage will have done three of my plays in five years. So I have a relationship with audiences in Denver and Hartford.
John Moore: Hartford is presenting the world premiere of your play Reverberation in 2015.
Matthew Lopez: Yes. Hartford audiences were introduced to me with The Whipping Man, and they got to know me a lot better during Somewhere. So they trust me. But Reverberation is a play that would keep even the most stout-hearted of artistic directors up at night deciding whether or not to do it. (Hartford boss) Darko Tresnjak is banking on the good will the community has for me and my work. Now, one of the things that I will say about plays like Vanya, The Whipping Man and Clybourne Park -- these plays that are ubiquitous in regional theatres around the country -- they do blaze a trail in some ways for audiences. For a lot of regional theatre audiences, if it ain't by Arthur Miller, it's a new play.
John Moore: Sometimes even if Arthur Miller writes it, it's a new play.
Matthew Lopez: True. And that's what I mean when I say audiences are trainable. When there is an openness, you can create in them the hunger for the high-wire act that is a new play. I don't run a theatre, so what the hell do I know? But I think it's possible to get an audience to actually be OK with the potential for abject failure. Because they know there is also, then, the potential for great, exciting success.
John Moore: With your schedule being so busy, I'm intrigued that so much of your fellowship is being dedicated to time teaching in area schools. I could see how if this gets to be too busy, the class time might come to be considered optional.
Matthew Lopez: It will never be optional for me.
John Moore: So why is that so important to you?
Matthew Lopez: First of all: My parents are both teachers, so I value education. I would have killed for an opportunity to attend a school like the Denver School of the Arts. When I was growing up, I didn't have access to anything like this. If I can be seen in any way as someone who is capable of providing mentorship or inspiration to these kids, then I am happy to play that role. Finally, I have been the beneficiary of a lot of kindness, and a lot of favors, and a lot of people who didn't have time to give me giving me time when I was coming up. I would be tempting fate by not giving it back to the next generation. I'd be the guy out on the deck of the Titanic talking about how there are no icebergs out there.
COMING NEXT, Part 2: Matthew Lopez visits Denver School of the Arts
Selected previous coverage of Matthew Lopez in Denver: Matthew Lopez named DCPA Playwriting Fellow for 2014-15 Matthew Lopez's trip down the straight and fabulous 2015 Colorado New Play Summit expands to two weekends 'Georgia McBride' team: 'Subtlety is our enemy'
Chris Page of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance performs "Motherless Child" at the Henry Lowenstein life celebration on Nov. 10. Photo by John Moore. Click here to see our full gallery of photos from the Henry Lowenstein celebration Henry Lowenstein's achievements in theatre and his lifelong commitment to equal opportunity were read into the official Congressional Record on Nov. 12 by Rep. Diana DeGette from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.
The rare honor came two days after Lowenstein was championed for consistently breaking down racial and societal barriers at a celebration in the Wolf Theatre at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center in Denver.
DeGette staffer Tricia Stevens read the Lowenstein proclamation to a crowd of nearly 400 who gathered on a frigid Nov. 10 evening to mark Lowenstein's significance to the world of theatre – and the world at large.
Lowenstein, who escaped the Nazis as a boy in the kindertransport of 1938 and went on to run the famed Bonfils Theatre in Denver from 1956-86, died Oct. 7 at age 89.
"Henry Lowenstein was one of Colorado's most respected and honorable residents," said Stevens, reading DeGette's words at the Mizel. "He is widely considered one of the most important people in the shaping of Denver."
DeGette hailed Lowenstein for consistently fighting against discrimination in any form. "Henry held a deep compassion for artists and for outcasts," the proclamation read. "This passion formed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, which shaped the artist he would become."
The celebration was a mixture of poignant anecdotes, jokes and performances co-hosted by John Ashton and Robert Wells. In a letter read by Ashton, Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock called Lowenstein a jewel in Denver's crown.
"Henry Lowenstein, without a doubt, was a giant in the Denver community in general, and in the arts community in particular," Hancock said. "His incredible love of theatre, his creativity and inspiring vision have set the standard for the high level of performances we enjoy today.
"Henry was resolute in his commitment to providing opportunities to those who crossed his path, and was an encourager of young people regardless of their race, their religion or their background. As the father of Denver theatre, he embraced thought-provoking pieces that caused the audience to consider the plight of others."
Denver First Lady Mary Louise Lee, who grew up seeing performances at the Bonfils Theatre, sings "Believe in Yourself" from "The Wiz." Photo by John Moore
Hancock's wife, acclaimed singer Mary Louise Lee, who grew up watching shows at the Bonfils Theatre, then sang "Believe in Yourself" from The Wiz. That theme resonated throughout the evening. International dance icon Cleo Parker Robinson delivered her rousing eulogy wearing colorful, sparkly shoes she once wore in a production of The Wiz. Why? "Because Henry made us believe in ourselves," she said.
Robinson's father, Jonathan Parker, was a prolific actor and crew member at the Bonfils, located on East Colfax Avenue and Josephine Street. But he was first hired as a janitor, and only after Lowenstein intervened and overrode internal objections from Bonfils patrons to whom it was unthinkable the theatre might hire a black man – even as a custodian.
"Henry made the Bonfils the greatest theatre on the planet because Henry made it our theatre," Cleo Parker Robinson said. "It belonged to all of us. Henry used art as a way of changing the world so we could see it differently and feel it differently and have the opportunity to experience it differently."
Cleo Parker Robinson refers to Henry Lowenstein as her godfather. Photo by John Moore
Robinson said without Lowenstein, there is no Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, "because the Bonfils made me who I am," she said. And since his death, "sometimes I have felt like a motherless child," she added as a way of introducing a dance she choreographed to the song "Motherless Child." It was performed by Chris Page, a member of her dance ensemble.
"I felt like I was a little lost at first without Henry," Robinson said. "But then I realized I will never be lost because Henry will always be our godfather, and he will always be a part of our hearts and lives."
Other speakers referenced many seminal chapters in Lowenstein's storied life: Growing up in Berlin with artist parents whose friends included Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, who wrote The Threepenny Opera largely on the Lowenstein family piano. How a curious young Henry peeked in through the painted windows of the Kit Kat Club that inspired the musical Cabaret. Being accepted into the Yale School of Drama masters program without having earned an undergraduate degree. That his sister, Karen, was a spy for the Allies in World War II. Being hired by the legendary Denver Post publisher Helen Bonfils to run her new crown jewel theatre in Denver on the same day in 1956 that she hired Donald R. Seawell to be her attorney. Seawell would go on to use Bonfils' inheritance to build the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Click here to see our full gallery of photos from the Henry Lowenstein celebration
By the time the Bonfils Theatre closed in 1986, it had been renamed the Lowenstein Theatre and had hosted more than 400 plays and sponsored dozens more in city parks. In retirement, Lowenstein opened and ran the Denver Civic Theatre, which is now the Su Teatro Performing Arts Center.
Along the way, Lowenstein provided opportunities for hundreds of artists. He launched careers. He encouraged women, gays and people of color. Anyone he ever considered oppressed, as he and his family were. For hundreds of thousands of Colorado audiences, the Bonfils served as their first exposure to live theater.
"One of Henry's greatest accomplishments was to provide meaningful creative opportunities to just about anyone he came into contact with," Ashton said at the ceremony. "He saw a spark in just about everybody -- and he knew how to kindle it."
Lowenstein also was hailed for taking programming risks, including the 1971 Denver debut of the gay-themed Boys in the Band.
"The number of people who came under the influence of Henry and his art is immeasurable," said his friend, Bruce Jackson Jr. "I don't think there is a place you can go in the American theatre where you can't find somebody who either knows, worked with or was influenced by something that Henry did."
Michael R. Duran said Lowenstein not only gave him his creative start out of college, he gave him his first professional opportunity to work as a set designer, properties master and director.
"Working for Henry was like a conservatory of learning," Duran said. "And when I went out into the world, he was my greatest cheerleader. So on a very personal level, I don't feel like I will ever lose him."
Actor Gwen Harris, who performed for Lowenstein at the Denver Civic and later became a regular performer for the DCPA's Theatre Company, flew in from Georgia. She remembered Lowenstein being deeply troubled by the true story of a Denver policeman who ran a stop sign and killed a friend of Lowenstein's -- and went unpunished for it. So Lowenstein rallied donnie l. betts (lower-case intentional) to direct a topical play called Split Second.
"He was just so focused," Harris said. "He came right up to me and said, 'I am telling you right now: You are doing the role.' And that was it. I did the role."
Lucy Roucis, who would make her way to Hollywood before being slowed by early onset Parkinson's disease, still calls Lowenstein "Uncle Henry." He gave Roucis her first – and last, she joked -- opportunity to direct. She remembered when she was assisting Lowenstein on a production of A Christmas Carol at the Denver Civic.
"The stage was high, but you could put your feet against the wall in the first row," she said. "So there I was with my notebook and my feet up when Henry came up to me and said, 'Have some respect! Put your feet down!' And I just said, 'Yes, sir.' And I put my feet down!"
Buddy Butler, a resident director at the Bonfils for 10 years, flew in for the celebration from San Diego, where he is now the Artistic Director of the Magic Carpet Theatre. He said Lowenstein can be aptly described in one word: Humanist.
"He was a man who cared and felt deeply for others," said Butler, who directed 35 productions at the Bonfils Theatre. He credited Lowenstein for colorblind casting, which didn't always sit well with all audiences.
"We mounted an integrated version of Guys & Dolls, and some people couldn't believe we were putting love relations on the stage that were mixed," Butler said. "Some people couldn't believe that black people were taking parts that weren't necessarily created for African-Americans. But Henry believed good theatre could be done by good people -- and that good people will always appreciate it."
And good people came – and appreciated -- Guys & Dolls, he said.
"Henry opened the front door, the back door and the side door. He had a vision to create a theatre that would embrace the entire city. Not just the white part; not just the Hispanic part; and not just the black part. Henry said, 'We are not going to be in the box. In fact: We are not going to have a box.' "
Deborah Goodman Lowenstein and Donna Smith. Photo by John Moore
Lowenstein's sons, David and Joshua, recalled a father who enjoyed backpacking, camping, fly-fishing and four-wheel driving. Who took his kids to rock concerts at Mammoth Gardens (now the Fillmore Auditorium) on East Colfax Avenue.
"At his commencement address at Colorado State University in 1986, Dad told the graduates to always question authority," David Lowenstein said. "I was proud of him -- and sort of surprised by his radical nature."
Lowenstein had two great loves during his life. First wife Dorie died of cancer in 1990 and was the namesake of the Dorie Theatre at the Denver Civic. He later married Deborah Goodman, a massage therapist from California who had no intention of ever marrying – and certainly not a man in the arts.
David Lowenstein called his mother a funny and improvisational woman who made for a wonderful partner for his father. "When she passed away, my father was a shell of himself -- until he met Deb," he said. "She not only loved and supported him -- she also got him to mellow out and relax."
The ceremony drew friends and colleagues from around the country. But former Rocky Mountain News theatre critic Thom Wise was most impressed by the attendance of Joyce Meskis. She is the owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store that now operates in the shell of what once was the Bonfils Theatre.
"Henry imbued in her a love of that building," Wise said. "That theatre is still standing today because of her. And so I just thought it was incredible that she made the effort to come out tonight."
Wells, who runs the Avenue Theater and sits on the board of the Town Hall Arts Center, played Jesus in a wildly popular Bonfils production of Godspell in the 1970s. "No matter who else did the job," Wells deadpanned "… Henry made sure it was done over."
Other performers included Robert Johnson, who sang "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin, and Mark Middlebrooks, who sang "The Colors of My Life" from Barnum.
At the end of the poignant program, Nyssa Lowenstein likened her grandfather's life, fittingly, to the act of producing a show.
"Henry Lowenstein was a groundbreaking performance that had a tough rehearsal process, an inspirational tech week, and a glorious run," she said. "And even though it has now closed -- the actors, the audience, the stage managers and stage hands, the box office and publicity, the boards and the critics, the directors, the choreographers, the designers and the crew will all talk about that show."
And if Lowenstein's life was a performance, Ashton said as a way of closing the evening, "then all I can say is … Good show."
John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the U.S by American Theatre Magazine in 2011. He has since taken a groundbreaking position as the Denver Center's Senior Arts Journalist.
Read our essay on the life of Henry Lowenstein Click here to see our full gallery of photos from the Henry Lowenstein celebration
Page to Stage is a series of free, monthly lunch conversations between host John Moore and members of DCPA Theatre Company productions at the East Colfax Tattered Cover.
Here, actors Sam Gregory, Kathleen McCall and Lesley Shires of the hit production of "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" talk all things Durang and Disney with Moore, the DCPA's Senior Arts Journalist and former theatre critic at The Denver Post.
This comic Chekhovian mash-up, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for best play and now the most popular play in America, erupts into chaos when two adult siblings receive a surprise visit from their Hollywood star sister and her hilariously mismatched boy-toy, Spike. It's the first time in the DCPA's 36-year history that the Theatre Company is staging a play by the absurdist comedy master Christopher Durang.
Page to Stage is part of the DCPA's CONNECT program, a series of community events designed to enrich your theatre experience and spark a conversation. It's free — and so is the parking! (Please note that Page to Stage has moved to its new home at the East Colfax Tattered Cover location).
Join us at noon on Jan. 27 for the next Page to Stage lunchtime conversation at 2526 E. Colfax Ave. Video by John Moore and David Lenk. Run time: 4 minutes. And, hey: Check out our new media outlet covering Colorado theatre at MyDenverCenter.Org
Performances run through Nov. 16
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Vanya: Opening night photo gallery Video: Watch a montage of scenes from the production Cold coffee, hot popcorn make for a good stew Durang strikes an unexpected peace with an indifferent Broadway Vanya ... is the most popular play in America Vanya: First rehearsal photos Vanya''s Lesley Shires donates hats to cancer kids at Children's Hospital Video: Eddie Lopez works out with Fox's morning 'Everyday' team Check out our Study Guide
Lesley Shires, right, with Colorado Children's Hospital media relations coordinator Melissa Vizcarra, left, and volunteer Erin McGonagle.
Vanya: Opening night photo gallery Video: Watch a montage of scenes from the production Cold coffee, hot popcorn make for a good stew Durang strikes an unexpected peace with an indifferent Broadway Vanya ... is the most popular play in America Vanya: First rehearsal photos Video: Eddie Lopez works out with Fox's morning 'Everyday' team Check out our Study Guide
Sam Gregory Eddie Lopez Socorro Santiago Lesley Shires
Celebration draws 1,500 to recall a singular friend in story and song DCPA president Randy Weeks dies at London conference Video: Randy Weeks honored with dimmed lights, moments of silence Randy Weeks photo gallery DCPA to celebrate Randy Weeks' life on Nov. 3 A look back at Randy Weeks' 'It Gets Better' video 'Pippin' dedicates entire tour to Randy Weeks
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. It's about adult siblings whose lives are disrupted by a visit from their Hollywood star sister ... and a boy named Spike. It plays through Nov. 16 in the Ricketson Theatre. Call 303-893-4100, or go to www.denvercenter.org. Video by John Moore and David Lenk. Run time: 3 minutes.
Sam Gregory's existential crisis doen't even hit its nadir when his Vanya is forced to dress as a dwarf for a costume party. Photo by Jennifer M. Koskinen Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: Ticket information Performances run through Nov. 16
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303-893-4100, or go to the Denver Center's web site at www.DenverCenter.Org
Previous 2014-15 "Meet the Cast" episodes: Charlie Franklin,Lord of the Flies Patty Goble,The Unsinkable Molly Brown Matthew Gumley, Lord of the Flies Paolo Montalban, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Linda Mugleston, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Donna English, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Eddie Lopez, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Burke Moses, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Beth Malone, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Ben and Noah Radcliffe, Lord of the Flies Socorro Santiago, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Lesley Shires, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Gregory Isaac Stone, Lord of the Flies
Luciann Lajoie is not the type of woman you would expect to become addicted to online dating. She's smart, outgoing, confident and, by any pop-culture standard of outward beauty, well ... a beauty.
It has been estimated that more than 40 million people have tried online dating in the U.S. alone. Lajoie is one of them. But Lajoie soon found herself going on as many as three dates in one night. As quickly as she lost interest in one, she was on to another. Along the slippery slope she met with disappointment, loneliness, danger … and plenty of comedy. Just no knight in shining HTML.
If online dating should have been easy for anyone, it should have been for Lajoie. But, she is here to say, "It's not so easy."
How did this happen?
When she was 4, Lajoie dressed in a Princess Diana wedding dress for Halloween. She moved to New York hoping to make it big as an actor, and came home to Colorado in her 30s and still single. That's when she set her sights on a different but presumably attainable dream: She started looking for the wedding ring and the Range Rover and the kids that tend to come with them, she said, "because that's what I thought was going to make my story complete."
Instead, her foray into online dating became a portal into what she calls a journey of self-discovery. It was Lajoie's mother who first suggested she start chronicling her experiences. Lajoie took that one step further by interviewing 150 other online daters and harvested stories spanning gay, straight, black, white, Mormon, Jewish and fetishists.
All that became the basis for Lajoie's continually evolving one-woman multimedia theatrical show called Date* -- a comic and human quest to find love online. And it reintroduces itself tonight at the Avenue Theatre for a three-week run again featuring Lajoie as the writer, star and self-producer.
Date* was first staged in 2012 as a co-production with Emily Tarquin and Charlie Miller of the DCPA's Off-Center @ The Jones – a kind of petri dish for developing new theatre works. Date* distinguishes itself from most one-actor monologues by fully incorporating Lajoie's interviews.
Lajoie's journey as a writer, she said, "was to finally tell the story I want to tell, and to let it get dark and messy if that's what it needs to be.
"I realized that if this is going to be an interesting piece of theatre, it has to be a hero's journey. And to be a hero, she has to struggle with something. It's great to have all these things happen along the way that are funny, but if there is not also a message to impart that you find to be extremely important, it's all for naught."
Date* was Lajoie's first attempt at playwriting, and she needed help. Off-Center's Tarquin was invited to a reading at Lajoie's apartment in 2011. In those early days, Lajoie was trying to write Date* as a traditional play with four actors. Tarquin disabused her of that notion.
"I told her I thought it should be a one-woman show," Tarquin said, "and that we'd just create a lot of work for Charlie."
She refers to Charlie Miller, the DCPA's resident projection and multimedia expert.
"Luci's story is so interesting, you really just have to tell it as it is," Tarquin said. "She writes herself so well, in fact, I think this might be one of the best one-woman shows I have ever seen."
Lajoie knows how she lucky she has been to cross paths with everyone in her story – online freaks, frauds, sweethearts and cons. And also creative drivers like Tarquin, Miller, Epstein and Pelz.
*Real Online Love Affairs (Off the Record)
Starring Luciann Lajoie
Curated by Off-Center @ The Jones
Co-created by Allison Horsely and Director Ashlee Temple
At the Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave.
Nov. 7-22, 2014
7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
Tickets: $26.50 for adults; $23.50 for students and seniors.
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Featured (videotaped) actors: Paul Blomquist, Gabriel Donaldson, Andrew Bueno, Edith Weiss, Chris Kendall, Jayce Smykil, Taurean Cavins-Flores, Brian Colonna, Patricia Dreier, Greg Nemer, Charley Cox, Erica Sarzin-Borrillo, Arthur Goodman, Patricia Goodman, Devon James, Karen Slack, Harlan Pelz, Erin Rollman, Emily Davies, John Fortmiller, Judy Phelan-Hill, Judy GeBauer, Hannah Duggan, Damon Guerrasio, Laura Lounge, Michael Collin
That was but one of many poignant remembrances peppered between showstopping musical numbers at a bittersweet public celebration on Monday afternoon for the President of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, who died in his sleep Oct. 9 while attending a conference of theatre presenters. He was 59.
It was delivered from the Buell Theatre stage by Jimmy Calano, who was Weeks' pledge son 40 years ago at the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Later, Calano asked Weeks to be the godfather to his own son.
"Although Randy was cheated out of his fair share of breaths, he took our breath away by the power of his friendship, by the way he made us feel special, and by how he flat-out took care of us," Calano told a crowd that was estimated at 1,500 by the city of Denver.
Video: Cast members from 'Kinky Boots' sing 'Give My Regards to Broadway' to honor the late Randy Weeks. To see our entire downloadable photo gallery from the Randy Weeks celebration, click here.
Attendees included family and friends; DCPA employees past and present; theatre audiences; more than 100 fraternity brothers; and members of the local and national theatre communities including theatre owners, producers, presenters, booking agents, press agents and representatives from both The Broadway League and the Independent Presenters Network.
Dean Singleton, chairman of The Denver Post and a member of the DCPA's Board of Trustees, said, "We have lost one of the greatest minds in theatre. Not only did Randy bring Broadway to Denver, but he made Denver the first stop for some of the greatest productions leaving New York. Randy had the unique ability to convince people that Denver was the right place for a first stop -- and he delivered."
In his 23 years as the Executive Director of the DCPA's Broadway division, Weeks presented more than 400 shows that served 11.6 million patrons. In his tenure, Denver hosted the launches of 10 national touring productions, including The Lion King, The Book of Mormon and, most recently, Pippin. Representatives from those shows and more flew to Denver to attend Monday's classy send-off. The program culminated with University of Northern Colorado freshman Abby Noble singing "One (Singular Sensation)" from A Chorus Line alongside nearly 30 members of the Denver School of the Arts' recent production of Hairspray.
Abby Noble of Grandview High School and the University of Northern Colorado, right, performing with students from Denver School of the Arts. Photo by John Moore. To see more photos, click here.
In May, Noble was named Outstanding Actress in a Musical at the Bobby G Awards, which honor achievements in Colorado high school theatre. The program was spearheaded by Weeks in 2012 and quickly became his greatest professional joy. He also served on the Friends Foundation at Denver School of the Arts.
Two of Monday's performers were DSA students Jimmy Bruenger and Madison Kitchen, who fell in love with Broadway musicals by watching productions that Weeks brought to the Buell Theatre stage. Monday's celebration afforded both the opportunity to perform on that same stage for the first time. Even in death, Bruenger said, Weeks was making dreams come true.
"When I found out we were being asked to perform here, I started hyperventilating," Kitchen added. "Both of us saw Kinky Boots here just last night. And so to be on that stage for the first time today? It's incredible."
Video: Bobby G Awards Outstanding Actress Abby Noble sings "One" with students from Denver School of the Arts.
The Pippin tour has recently bestowed upon Weeks what is believed to be an unprecedented honor: The entire tour has been dedicated to Weeks, who will now be acknowledged in programs in every city Pippin visits. The idea was suggested by Kathleen O'Brien, Weeks' counterpart with the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
"This has been the best tour-opening experience in my 27 years out on the road, and Randy is the reason," said Pippin national press rep Anita Dloniak, citing the camaraderie and professionalism he inspired in his staff. "And he throws the best parties," she added. Honoring Weeks, she said, was one way for the Pippin family to grapple and cope with their grief over his sudden death.
"He is just a wonderful force to be reckoned with," Dloniak said. "A giant ... but a gentle giant."
Nancy Gibbs attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver and has since produced many major theatricals including Wicked; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (the longest-running show in Denver theatre history); Traces; Next to Normal, and Peter and the Starcatcher, which launched its first national tour in Denver in August.
"Randy was a leader," Gibbs said. "Once he stepped up to the plate, he knocked it out of the ballpark."
David Turner, General Manager for The Book of Mormon, said it was Weeks who convinced producers that Denver was the only place for that tour to launch.
"Randy was the one who knew that the writers (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) were from here, and he really wanted us to make that connection," Turner said.
The Book of Mormon launch in Denver sold all 51,000 available tickets in less than five hours. Turner called that an "extremely important" validation of the show.
"For everybody who wasn't sure how The Book of Mormon would be received outside of New York, that was an incredible vote of confidence," Turner said.
Weeks was respected by his colleagues for his uncanny ability not only to maximize blockbuster, popular fare, but to predict the next big thing. One of the most poignant moments in Monday's celebration came when seven members of the 2013 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots took the stage to sing "Give My Regards to Broadway" in Weeks' honor. The show is currently playing in Denver through Sunday (Nov. 9).
"During a very early preview performance of Kinky Boots, Randy ran up to me at the intermission and said, 'Promise me this show will play Denver,' " said Kinky Boots' Hal Luftig. "To a producer with a show still in previews, that meant the world to me. And now, here we are in Denver, playing to packed houses every night."
Weeks also was credited for his willingness to take risks both large and small. Weeks could have responsibly passed on important, challenging musicals with questionable commercial road potential, like Next to Normal (about a mother's suicidal depression) and Spring Awakening (about 1890s German teens experiencing puberty in the complete absence of information). But when Weeks came across shows that had the potential to change audiences' lives, he felt a deep obligation to schedule them.
"He was so clearly willing to take risks here," said The Book of Mormon's Turner, "and over time, he developed an audience that was willing to take risks with him. That combination is very rare."
Actor Shannan Steele and director Ray Roderick banter with an aptly dressed Randy Weeks stand-in at Monday's celebration. Photo by John Moore. To see more photos, click here.
Added Ray Roderick, who directed large world premieres like I Love a Piano in the Auditorium Theatre and small cabaret shows in the Garner Galleria: "Randy saw the Denver community as one that was going to embrace good work no matter what it was. Denver is a very big demographic, and a very smart demographic, and Randy managed to please a lot of different kinds of people."
Weeks was remembered on Monday for far more than just his many professional successes. He was remembered as an uncommonly compassionate friend … and a most decidedly uncommon dresser.
Weeks was known for wearing argyle sweaters and golfing pants adorned with animal prints only Rodney Dangerfield could love. The sweaters were a tribute to his late mentor, Robert Garner. "But the pants were all Randy," said his longtime assistant, Claudia Carson, who directed the musical portion of Monday's celebration. Family members confessed that Weeks left seven pair of Brooks Brothers animal-print pants behind in his closet at home.
"We're going to miss Randy because he was always there with outstretched arms and a sweater that looked like something out of 1962 Paris Vogue," joked Kris Andersson, otherwise known as Dixie Longate, whose Dixie's Tupperware Party has played in the Garner Galleria Theatre four times. "It was so vogue that you probably wouldn't want to dress that way. You'd look at it and go, 'Really?' But Randy owned it."
Andersson's longtime manager Michele Helberg credited Weeks for "reinvigorating the Dixie brand" five years ago when he first brought the Tupperware Party to Denver. And Andersson credited Weeks for green-lighting last summer's mouthful of a sequel, Dixie's Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull and 16 Other Things I Learned While I was Drinking Last Thursday.
"He used his influence with other people in the industry to take a new artist and a new piece of work and move it forward further than if we had to do it on our own," Helberg said. "If it hadn't been for Randy and his Denver Center family, I don't think we would be where we are right now."
"Randy used to say, 'It's all about the fun,' " Andersson added. "We get to have fun every day of our lives, and a really big part of that is because Randy looked at our show and said yes. And then, when the opportunity came along to do the new show, Randy put tickets on sale before I had even written it. He had that much faith in me."
Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein are two other performers whose lives were forever changed when Weeks decided to move their two-woman sleepover Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women from the Avenue Theatre to the DCPA.
And here's the thing: "He picked up our show without ever even seeing it," Klein said. In those days, the title was truth in advertising: No men allowed.
"He had heard about it, and he knew that women loved it, and so he just said, 'Why aren't we doing this?' " Klein said.
That came as no surprise to Ekeberg, Weeks' protege and successor.
"Randy led with his heart, and he put his heart into everything," Ekeberg said.
Girls Only played at the Garner Galleria Theatre for two years and has now been seen by 250,0000 women … and a few men. "That's not something Linda and I could have done on our own," Gehring said.
Girls Only is currently playing in Rochester, N.Y., but the Denver-based duo came home for Monday's celebration. "We had to," said Klein. "We needed to grieve with our friends."
DCPA Chairman Daniel Ritchie welcomed Monday's crowd, and the master of Ceremonies was CBS-4 Critic-At-Large Greg Moody. Speakers included all three of Weeks' siblings -- Pam Weeks, Joel Weeks and Stephanie Gamble. Others included Al Nocciolino, representing the Broadway League and the Independent Presenters Network. He was with Weeks at the London conference. He told Monday's crowd that Weeks spent his final day shopping, and bought a deck of cards adorned with vintage fighter planes for his history-buff dad. That night, Weeks attended a performance of the controversial new play King Charles III in London's West End. Afterward, Nocciolino said, "Randy was holding court and telling everyone he had just seen the best performance he had ever seen."
Video: "I Love a Piano" performed by Shannan Steele, Lauren Shealy, Randy St. Pierre, Michael Gold, Sarah Rex and Jordan Leigh.
The musical program included performers from some of Weeks' favorite shows, including I Love a Piano and Forever Plaid. The first show Weeks ever presented in the Garner Galleria Theatre was Forever Plaid, and on closing night in 1992, cast members sang "Old Cape Cod" as a gift to him in honor of his New Hampshire roots. Michael Gold, Drew Frady, Randy St. Pierre and Scott Rathbun sang the song at Monday's celebration.
Shannan Steele credited Weeks for hiring local actors, citing the upcoming opening of Forbidden Broadway in the Garner Galleria Theatre, which has an all-local ensemble.
"I think most of my career wouldn't exist without his efforts and his vision for the local community," Steele said. "If you ever got to work under Randy, it was always a huge employment opportunity – and a huge artistic opportunity."
Gold, who performed in Roderick's I Love a Piano, has known Weeks since he joined the DCPA box-office team as a college student in 1978. "I remember seeing him run credit cards over carbon paper; it was that long ago," Gold said.
When Joel Weeks took to the podium at the Buell, he referenced Weeks' eulogy to his mentor, Robert Garner. "In it, he said, 'How can you know someone for such a long time and never fully comprehend how much they have become a part of your life?' " Joel Weeks said.
"My journey will be an amazing one if I can just try to emulate a fraction of what my brother was."
Ekeberg, the final speaker, said his boss' true strength lay in one-on-one relationships. "He made you feel special; he made you feel heard, and he made you feel important," Ekeberg said. To honor that spirit, he urged the crowd to heed the message of Pippin:
"Find the simple joys," Ekeberg said.
Our coverage of the death of Randy Weeks: DCPA president Randy Weeks dies at London conference Video: Randy Weeks honored with dimmed lights, moments of silence Randy Weeks photo gallery DCPA to celebrate Randy Weeks' life on Nov. 3 A look back at Randy Weeks' 'It Gets Better' video 'Pippin' dedicates entire tour to Randy Weeks
Video: Randy St. Pierre, Michael Gold, Drew Frady and Scott Rathbun sing 'Old Cape Cod.' MORE PHOTOS: TO SEE OUR COMPLETE GALLERY OF DOWNLOADABLE PHOTOS FROM THE RANDY WEEKS CELEBRATION, CLICK HERE. Memorial Contributions
Memorial gifts can be made to The Randy Weeks Memorial Fund for the Bobby G Awards, which supports the advancement of musical theatre for Colorado high school students. Please make checks payable to Denver Center for the Performing Arts and mail to: DCPA Development Office, 1101 13th Street, Denver, CO 80204.
Santiago talks about the meaning of her name, growing up next to Yankee Stadium, possibly holding the record for having played 13 different characters on NBC's Law & Order and why she gets the finger driving on I-25 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. It's about adult siblings whose lives are disrupted by a visit from their Hollywood star sister ... and a boy named Spike. It plays through Nov. 16 in the Ricketson Theatre. Call 303-893-4100, or go to www.denvercenter.org. Video by John Moore and David Lenk. Run time: 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
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Socorro Santiago plays a maid who can foretell the future -- and work a mean voodoo doll -- in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." Photo by John Moore Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: Ticket information Performances run through Nov. 16
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303-893-4100, or go to the Denver Center's web site at www.DenverCenter.Org
Previous 2014-15 "Meet the Cast" episodes: Charlie Franklin,Lord of the Flies Patty Goble,The Unsinkable Molly Brown Matthew Gumley, Lord of the Flies Paolo Montalban, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Linda Mugleston, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Donna English, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Eddie Lopez, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Burke Moses, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Beth Malone, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Ben and Noah Radcliffe, Lord of the Flies Lesley Shires, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Gregory Isaac Stone, Lord of the Flies
John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the U.S by American Theatre Magazine in 2011. He has since taken a groundbreaking position as the Denver Center's Senior Arts Journalist.
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In this ongoing series, we briefly introduce you to the actors performing in our plays in a fun way. Episode 71: Meet Lesley Shires of Fayetteville, N.C., an Army brat who plays the lovable aspiring actress Nina in the Theatre Company at the DCPA's new production of Christopher Durang's celebrated comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Shires talks about growing up in a military family ("all of the men in my life are military -- Special Forces, Green Berets, Special Ops -- but they are the nicest, sweetest men," she says -- and the nonprofit organization she created after her young niece was diagnosed with cancer. Hats for Zoe (www.HatsForZoe.Com) provides comfy, creative caps kids who have lost their hair. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. It's about adult siblings whose lives are disrupted by a visit from their Hollywood star sister ... and a boy named Spike. It plays through Nov. 16 in the Ricketson Theatre. Call 303-893-4100, or go to www.denvercenter.org. Video by John Moore and David Lenk. Run time: 3 minutes.
And, hey: Check out our new media outlet covering Colorado theatre at MyDenverCenter.Org
Lesley Shires plays a sweet, wannabe actress who is happy to be invited to her Pennsylvania neighbor's costume party -- even if it means dressing as one of the seven dwarfs in " Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." Photo by Jennifer L. Koskinen. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: Ticket information Performances run through Nov. 16
Ricketson Theatre
303-893-4100, or go to the Denver Center's web site at www.DenverCenter.Org
Previous 2014-15 "Meet the Cast" episodes: Charlie Franklin,Lord of the Flies Patty Goble,The Unsinkable Molly Brown Matthew Gumley, Lord of the Flies Paolo Montalban, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Linda Mugleston, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Donna English, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Eddie Lopez, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Burke Moses, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Beth Malone, The Unsinkable Molly Brown Ben and Noah Radcliffe, Lord of the Flies Gregory Isaac Stone, Lord of the Flies
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