COLORADO SPRINGS (April 19, 2012) – The Fine Arts Center’s Theatre Company will sweep you away to 1960s Baltimore with its season finale, Hairspray, a big, fat Broadway musical based on the John Waters’ 1988 film, May 10-June 3.

The 50’s are out … and change is in the air in this 2003 Tony-Award winning musical which has been delighting audiences across the country. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, “The Corny Collins Show.” Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, racially integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair? Hairspray contains music that will leave you dancing in the aisles.

Information: More information concerning individual tickets, discounted group sales, and the Curtain Call Society can be found at csfineartscenter.org or by calling the FAC Box Office at 719.634.5583.

See the rest of the press release here.

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman

Directed by Stephen Weitz

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself.

“A triumph…truth, purity, and simplicity suffuse [this] thoroughly engrossing new play.” —Washington Post

“Stunning…taut, shattering, yet delightfully exuberant…altogether fascinating.” —NY Newsday.

Gross Indecency is produced in partnership with the CU Boulder Department of Theatre and Dance

Featuring:

Chip Persons, Cole Cribari, Michael Bouchard, Daniel Leonard, Bob Buckley, Brendon Milove, Jim Hunt, Haydn Winston, and Sam Sandoe

Gross Indecency runs April 19 – May 5

Opening Night Celebration, Friday, April 20

Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 7:30pm, Sunday@ 4:00pm

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder

Tickets at 303.444.7328 or www.TheDairy.org

Thrifty Thursdays – All tickets $15 on Thursday nights!

Visit www.BETC.org for more information!

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson opened on Broadway to some of the highest critical acclaim of any show last season. Sadly, the theatre-going public (aka Moms and daughters coming straight from the American Girl Store Salon) didn’t listen to reviewers. Rather, they were duped by the brighter lights of such horrendous pieces of musical fodder as Spiderman: Turn Off the Lights as well as “Brand New” hits from a decade ago like Wicked: Which Witch is Which and Mo’ Mo’ Mia: Our Love/Show Will Never Die.

It’s understandable. At a time when a helpless and victimized American Public is staring down deep economic crisis, when the nation seems as divided as any since the middle 19th century, when our President can’t live up to the hype of his national messiah monicker, and when international issues with seemingly no clear answers permeate the news, the last thing upper middle class suburbanite theatre tourists want to see is a politically charged musical that explores our strange emotional connection to what is, arguably, the highest office on the planet.

Well, since you missed it in New York, now is your chance to see its Regional Premiere in Colorado. Ben Dicke, Director-Xanadu, Robbie Hart-The Wedding Singer, Neil Tilden-1940s Radio Hour, will produce the show at the Aurora Fox Studio Space from September 7-October 28… and he simply doesn’t care. Highlights of the show include an incredible emo (ask your 14 year old daughter what that means) rock score and as much political incorrectedness as you can cram into an hour and 45 minutes. And, it’s here just in time for elections.

So, whether you’re a bleeding heart, blue blooded Liberal Dem who shops at Whole Foods cause you read somewhere that it will save cross-bred pigs from being slit ear-to-ear by illegal immigrants in a western Colorado slaughter house or you’re a fifty-something, overweight Republican investment banker who just hired three illegal immigrants to flip four of your newly acquired bank owned properties in the south suburbs, you’ve got to get a ticket. Heck, you might even learn something about Populism.

Ben’s campaign for backing has begun on the newly popular website kickstarter.com. His hope is to raise $10,000 in initial funds (he’ll need almost four times that to produce the show well). His plan is to raise it in $25 increments as much as possible thereby getting a jump on pre-sales for the show. For a better look at Ben’s vision for the show, please check out: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/988700953/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson.

On April 27, Vintage Theatre opens its first production in their new home at 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, CO. The show, written by Amy Tan and directed by Craig Bond, plays April 27 – May 20th.  Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM.

Purchase tickets today!

Due to sell-out shows, Performance Now Theatre Company adds an additional performance of Camelot on Thursday, April 26.  Get your tickets now before they’re gone!

The popular musical Forever Plaid starring Adam Shelton as Jinx, Paul Jaquith as Sparky, Tim Kennedy as Francis and Ken Paul as Smudge opened April 13th and runs through May 13th at the John Hand Theater.  Shows are already selling out, so get your tickets soon!
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 6:30 p.m. and two Special Matinees April 22nd and May 6th at 2:30 p.m.!